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S.C. artist on display at village library in Port Washington, for 25 years. When she wasn’t working with art students, she was busy raisThe latest art on display at the ing two children, Jackson, 18, Sea Cliff Village Library fea- and Maya, 16, and creating her tures calming own body of work. local scenes of Her artistic nature. The artist, process, Best said, Miranda Best, typically involves used various recreating photomediums, includgraphs, bringing ing acrylic paint them to life and and chalk pastels, focusing on creatto capture the viling pieces that l a g e ’s d ive r s e capture the expeexperiences and rience of being in vistas. a certain place, or “The images the memory of included in this that place. “All of exhibition, all the images begin made within the with an experilast few years, repence in a particuresent a shift in lar place — watchmy work away i n g f i r e w o rk s from naturalism explode, walking to a more expresthrough Sea Cliff, sive approach,” visiting the PlantBest said. “I’ve ing Fields Arboreb e c o m e m o r e MIRANDA BEST tum — recorded interested in the Sea Cliff artist through photograpower of markp hy, ” s h e e x making while plained. “Back in working with acrylic paint and my studio, the photos transform chalk pastel.” into drawings and paintings that Best, a Virginia native, has are pulsating with energy and lived in Sea Cliff for more than life force. While the photo 20 years, and has taught art at Paul D. Schreiber High School, CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

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Full STEAM ahead Glen Head Elementary School teacher Ryan Bridgwood taught first- and second-graders about becoming scientists, engineers and computer programmers during their first STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) session of the year. They learned about a rare glowing snail, without removing it from its habitat. Story, more photos, Page 3.

Glen Head artisan captures local beauty through her craft BY ANNEMARIE DURKIN adurkin@liherald.com

From her home workshop, a local artisan is creating unique and specialized decor inspired by the nature in her community. Carolyn DeCastri is a designer and craftswoman from Glen Head, specializing in interior design and redesign, who is currently creating decoupage shells decorated with flowers, geometric patterns and gold edges. DeCastri, 71, intricately cuts

out each piece of paper to make the designs that adorn her shells, each different from the last. She said her inspiration for the shells comes from her “deep appreciation for all creation, especially the vast diversity of flowers.” Decoupage is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf and other decorative elements. DeCastri collag-

es patterns directly onto oyster and scallop shells bought online, and then seals the edges with gold gilding paint. “I’ve been making decoupage shells that have very intricate patterns that take quite a long time,” she said. “There’s a lot of different decoupage shells available right now that people are creating, but I haven’t seen any that are anything like mine; they typically just put the paper on CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

ll of the images begin with an experience in a particular place — watching fireworks explode, walking through Sea Cliff, visiting the Planting Fields Arboretum — recorded through photography.

Community mourns the loss of Glen Cove boy BY JILL NOSSA jnossa@liherald.com

The Glen Cove community is mourning the loss of a 7-year-old boy, and praying for the recovery of his twin brother. The Landing Elementary School third-graders were involved in a horrific car accident on Sunday that claimed the life of Carmello Carter and his father, Troy Carter. Romello Carter and the boys’ sister, Tiara Carter, 11, are in the hospital after sustaining serious injuries in the accident that took place in New Rochelle. “Carmello was so kind and friendly,” his mother, Candice Edwards said. “Everybody loved him. He was such a good kid.” The crash, which happened around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, is being investigated by the New Rochelle Police Department. Troy Carter, 37, of Hempstead, and Carmello were pronounced dead at the scene, according to police. Romello and Tiara – who has a different mother than the twins – were taken to Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx. Edwards is grieving the loss of one son while the other is undergoing surgery for multiple internal injuries. On Tuesday morning, shortly after Romello went in for his first major surgery, she said she believes he’ll pull through. “He’s a fighter,” she said. “He keeps defying the odds.” She described her sons as best friends who shared a lot of interests and activities, from riding bikes and scooters around the neighborhood to playing Mincraft and Fort Nite with friends. They also both played in the Glen Cove Junior Baseball and Softball League and in the Glen Cove Junior Soccer League. Though similar, Edwards said, the boys also had different personalities, with Carmello being more cautious and reserved. Edwards created a GoFundMe campaign on Monday, which had raised more than $47,000 as of press time

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CARMELLO CARTER AT his second-grade graduation from Deasy Elementary School. Wednesday, to cover medical costs and funeral expenses. The outpouring of support underscores how much of an impact the boys have had on the community. “To know him is to love him,” Edwards wrote of Carmello. “He was a very loving, caring, polite, energetic, fearless, amazing little boy. He will forever be loved and missed. I truly believe he is no longer with us because God needed him for something better.” Carmello’s former teacher, Meryl Gordon, described him as a kind, happy and imaginative child who truly cared for others. “He made me feel loved by the way he treated me,” she

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said. “Not all kids can do that.” She taught Carmello for two years at Deasy Elementary School, starting in first grade and continuing through the hybrid year. “Having the same class for two years, through the pandemic and remote learning,,” she said, “it creates a special bond.” When she heard the news about his death, she contacted all of the parents of Carmello’s former classmates so that they would be prepared when they’re children returned from school. She said she has spoken to and FaceTimed with several and even visited with one. “His friends are so sad,” she said, “and sometimes it just helps to see a familiar face.” Third-grader Sarissa Yanes met the boys as an infant in daycare. “Carmello was my best friend,” she said. “We always played together. I already miss him.” Classmate Hendrick Diaz described Carmello as funny and playful, and said they shared many interests, including Roblox and soccer. “We were best friends for a long time,” he said. “I’m going to miss him so much.” Jennifer Cleary was Romello’s teacher for both first and second grades at Deasy Elementary School, and like Gordon, has been in contact with her former students. “He is the most lovable child you’ve ever met,” she said. “He wants to start each day with a hug and end every day with a hug. He’s a busy, active 7-year-old, so kindhearted. You just can’t help but love him.” The support of Edwards, she said, will help Romello. “She’s his biggest cheerleader. She works very hard and is a really good mom.” While she knows that Romello has a long road to recovery ahead, she said she believes he’ll pull through. “I feel it in my bones that he’ll be okay,” Cleary said. “He’s overcome so much already in his life and has always pushed through.”

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Keeping our loved ones healthy and out of harm’s way— especially the senior members of our communities — has always been a priority, but perhaps never more so than during the coronavirus pandemic. Throughout this unprecedented time we’ve faced new challenges, constant changes and a perpetual wave of questions. So the Herald Inside LI webinar “Keeping Your Loved Ones Safe” brought together a panel of local experts on Sept. 30 to help find answers. The webinar was produced by RichnerLIVE and sponsored by Glen Cove Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, Emerge, Harbor House, Oyster Bay Manor and Glen Cove Hospital Northwell Health. Dr. John Colletta, Dr. Usman Khan, Madeleine Moritz, Melissa Schumacher and Erika Weber gathered virtually to share their insights and expertise on topics ranging from safety protocols in hospitals and emergency departments to special precautions for patients with dementia in skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers. “We understand that it causes a lot of anxiety for people to come” to the emergency department, Colletta, the Glen Cove Hospital Emergency Department chair. “What we have seen is people are holding off on their medical care. They’re just not going.” No one should put off a trip to the emergency room, or even a regular doctor’s visit

and physical therapy and rehabilitation, he said. “A lot of families have put off coming to the skilled nursing facility after a stay at the hospital for fear that the nursing home has exposure and their loved one now, who was in the hospital, may be better off going home,” added Moritz, administrator at the Glen Cove Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation. Schumacher, director of business development at the Oyster Bay Senior Campus, noted that such fears have also extended to the assisted living world. At the height of the pandemic, she said, “unless there was a true crisis, families were holding off because of the fear of contracting Covid . . . in congregant living, but also the inability to visit their loved ones.” As the panelists reviewed the protocols in place at each of their facilities—whether they be for handling unvaccinated patients or those who have Covid, ensuring safe visits from family members, cleaning processes for high-touch surfaces, adapting social experiences for those in assisted living—the clearest takeaway was the importance of communication — of knowing where to go for the most current information and finding the right experts to ask. A replay of the Herald Inside LI webinar “Keeping Your Loved Ones Safe” is available now. You can find it at http:// www.richnerlive.com/insideli/.

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THE BASICS OF programming were explored during the first S.T.E.A.M. class of the school year at Glen Head Elementary School.

Glen Head students become S.T.E.A.M. experts In September, Glen Head School firstand second-graders became scientists, engineers, and computer programmers during their first S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) session of the year. Elementary S.T.E.A.M. teacher Ryan Bridgwood said, “Tasked with studying a rare, glowing snail, my students had to brainstorm potential ways to learn more about the exotic animal without removing it from its habitat.” He continued, “Discovering that some scientists construct models to further study animals and share their findings with others, we shifted our thinking to that of an engineer. Diving right into

their challenge, our engineers employed the engineering design process to construct a representative model of the snail using an introductory LEGO Robotics kit. Then to develop their models further and mimic this particular snail’s ability to glow, students began to explore the basics of programming.” The first- and second-graders were fully engaged as they simultaneously learned the basics of computer science and programming while getting to apply their learning immediately to a fun and relevant experience. Courtesy North Shore School District

STUDENTS STUDY A LEGO robotic snail at Glen Head Elementary School. THE STUDENTS WORKED in pairs during the lesson. STUDENTS LEARNED THE basics of computer science and programming during their first S.T.E.A.M. lesson.

Glen Head designer changes course CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE the shell and that’s it. Me, I sit down and can be working on them for hours.” DeCastri sells her creations individually, through her Instagram @designthroughredesign and word of mouth. “I only started doing this in August, but I’ve refined [my craft] and want each piece to be very different and unique, and I absolutely love doing it as well,” DeCastri said. “I’m not looking to be a big, big thing here; I have to keep my creative juices running all the time, which is very important to me, so this is a good way for me to do that now.” Before the pandemic, DeCastri specialized in furniture design, with a focus on restyling vintage pieces. She taught her community how to restyle furniture through programs at a number of Nassau libraries. When the pandemic broke out, DeCastri started working from home, eventually using her skills and creativity to sew 500 masks, many of which she gave away to people in her community. “I’ve been creative my whole life. Making art is my passion,” DeCastri said. “I can’t not find an outlet to constantly be involved with.” DeCastri hails from a family of artists: her mother an award-winning water colorist, and her sister, a multi-dimensional

Photos courtesy Carolyn DeCastri

CAROLYN DICASTRI, OF Glen Head, used a technique called decoupage to attach each element of a detailed shells, assembling a scene or pattern piece by piece. artist for over 60 years, specializing in media like oil paints and watercolor. “I don’t consider myself an artist,” she said. “I consider myself an artisan. Because I have family members that are

DICASTRI INTRICATELY CUTS out tiny pieces of paper to make the designs that appear on her unique shells.

DICASTRI SAID SHE has “lived many lives,” but wants people to know that it’s never too late to reinvent yourself and start new.

fine artists, I wouldn’t put myself in the same category as them, because what I do is so different.” DeCastri grew up in New Hyde Park, where, in high school, she took many art classes like fashion illustration, pattern making and more. To continue her education, she first attended Nassau County Community College, taking liberal arts classes before transferring to SUNY New Paltz, where she studied sociology. Because of family issues, DeCastri returned to Long Island before she could earn her degree. It wasn’t until she was in her 50s that she decided to go back to school to pursue a career in interior design and redesign. “I love redesigning anything, and in particular I really enjoyed redesigning rooms and living spaces,” DeCastri said.

“I’m able to look at anything and re-imagine it in my mind as something totally different.” She has lived in Glen Head for nearly 50 years, in a 1903 “money-pit” home (that she says she loves regardless), where she works on her craft and is an avid gardener. She has two children, Justin, 44, who is the head of cloud engineering at Google Cloud Financial Services, and Carina, 41, a special-education teacher in Queens. In sharing her story, DeCastri said she hopes to encourage others not to be afraid of changing course and let them know it’s not too late to live your dream. “You can always reinvent yourself,” she said. “One door might closed for you, but there’s so many other doors if you allow them to open,”

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produced for a hotel in Nuremberg where Hitler frequently visited, and the addition of a swastika that highlighted the hotel’s endorsement of the Nazi Party. This event will be held on Zoom; to register go to www.hmtcli.org.

Movie at the Library Gold Coast Public Library Annex, 50 Railroad Ave., Glen Head, 2 to 4 p.m. Watch “Queen Bees” (2021) at the library. After reluctantly agreeing to move to a senior’s home, a woman encounters a clique of mean-spirited women and an amorous widower. With Ellen Burstyn and James Caan.

Thursday, Oct. 14 Movie Showing: “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”

Saturday, Oct. 9 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.

Free Outdoor Vaccine Clinic The Locust Valley Library is holding a free vaccination clinic from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on the outside patio of the library. CVS will be administering free flu, pneumonia and shingles shots, as well as the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine and its booster shot. Residents can receive a vaccine only with an appointment, and must show a valid health insurance card to receive a shot. To make an appointment, register online at locustvalleylibrary.org.

Sunday, Oct. 10 Oyster Bay Market On Sunday between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. , you can shop for local, fresh products in the Town of Oyster Bay Municipal Parking lot on Audrey ave in Oyster Bay. Shop from dozens of local vendors for anything from fresh produce, to handmade jewelry and more. For more info, visit oysterbaymainstreet.org.

Pumpkin Decorating with Girl Scouts Oyster Bay Girl Scout Troop 211 will host a pumpkin decorating station at the Oyster Bay Market. Support a local farmer by purchasing a pumpkin to decorate, while supplies last, as the girls share creative ways to use and recycle pumpkins rather than discarding them.

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Collage Workshop: Symbolic Self Portrait

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Begining at 2 p.m. at the Oyster Bay East Norwich Library community room, enjoy a movie at the library. Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a message for him hidden in the city. He begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father’s closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his loss to a greater understanding of the world around him. The library is offering show times at both 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. For more information visit oysterbaylibrary.org.

Explore your inner self at Planting Fields, diving deep and looking inward to discover and express your visual language at a collage workshop led by Abby Youngs Weir, collage and creative artist. Begining at noon on Oct. 9, Youngs Weir will lead immersive art activities to discover your visual language and explore your creativity through an intrinsic lens. No artistic skill or art experience necessary, simply bring your open mind, willingness to look inward, curiosity, and expression of self through symbolic imagery. Admission is $40 ($32 for members). To register, go to plantingfields.org.

Monday, Oct. 11 Short Story Soiree Every Monday at 12:15 p.m., the Sea Cliff Library hosts a “Short Story Soiree,” in which participants meet online via Zoom to discuss a New Yorker short story.

Tuesday, Oct. 12 Haunted History: Age of the Witch Hunts The Bayville Public Library is hosting a talk that will focus on one of humanity’s oldest fears: witches. In this program, participants will discuss how witch-hunts started, why they took off in some areas and not in others and what it was like to be accused. These true historical stories will be presented by archaeologist Patty

Hamrick, in the library meeting room at 1:30 p.m. Registration for this event is online, at bayvillefreelibrary.org.

OB Mega Job Fair The Town of Oyster Bay will hold a free job fair begining at 10 a.m. at the town’s Ice Skating Center, located at 1001 Stewart Avenue in Bethpage. Employers from across Long Island will be seeking candidates for positions including entry and middle management level, licensed professional, hospitality and food service industries, banking, staffing and individuals with technical and IT experience. There is no charge for admission and parking is free. For more information, call (516) 797-4560 or email business@oysterbay-ny.gov.

Wednesday, Oct. 13 Gold Coast Warriors - Long Island’s Gold Coast Elite and the Great War Based on the newly published, “Long Island’s Gold Coast Elite and the Great War,” by Richard Welch, this program explores how the leading families of the North Shore, through a potent combination of ethnic background, social status, clear-eyed geopolitical calculation,and financial self-interest, mobilized to support the Allies at the outbreak of war in 1914.

Curator’s Corner: Tea Service from Hitler’s Hotel in Nuremberg Begining at noon, the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center’s Programming Director, Thorin Tritter will talk about a silver creamer that was

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The Glen Cove Senior Center Rose Shoppe Boutique is open Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Oyster Bay Town Board will meet on Oct. 19, at 10 a.m. The Locust Valley Boaard of Education will meet on Oct. 19, in the middle school/high school auditorium. The North Shore Board of Education will meet next on Oct. 21. Sea Cliff United Methodist Church’s thrift store is now open on Wednesdays, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

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MIRANDA BEST, A Sea Cliff native, creates expressionist works depicting the nature and experiences in the village. community come in and see the artwork opens up potential areas of dialogue. I think it’s part of the library’s job to keep that dialogue open, in a safe space where people can meet with friends or use it as a way to meet new people.”

BEST IS DISPLAYING her work in the library for the fourth time, challenging visitors to identify where in the community she found her inspiration.

The Sea Cliff library regularly features artwork displays, with a new featured local artist each month. The artists and their works are chosen by the Sea Cliff Arts Council, which aims to make the arts a prominent and vital presence in

the village, and supports and promotes the local art community. The library is at 281 Sea Cliff Ave. For more information, call (516) 801-3402.

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inspires the start of the work, the drawings and paintings take on a life of their own. The final works attempt to capture the memory of the place and the experience.” Best draws most of her inspiration from nature, and from her community. “I think [her art] is very thought-provoking, sometimes introspective — I find it somewhat soothing,” Sea Cliff Library Director Camille Purcell said. “Miranda does a lot of nature scenes, which is nice to have in the library. It’s a great way to ‘bring the outside in.’ “Although the library is very beautiful on the inside, we don’t have much light coming in through the windows because they’re stained glass, so to have that little bit of nature in here is great.” The pieces displayed throughout the library depict varying scenes of nature in Best’s abstract, expressionist style. One work features bright pink flowers surrounded by leaves of varying hue and texture, and another, her interpretation of water lilies in a nearby pond. This month’s exhibition is Best’s fourth at the library. “I think, historically, the library has been a place where communities gather, so displaying art is just another way to draw the community in,” Purcell said. “They may not necessarily check out library materials, but just to have the

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Nassau D.A. candidates trade accusations By James Bernstein and scott Brinton jbernstein@liherald.com, sbrinton@liherald.com

The race for Nassau district attorney has quickly become one of the most hotly contested in the county, with Democratic State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, of Long Beach, and Republican Anne Donnelly, of Garden City, trading blistering verbal barbs in a series of TV commercials. The spots, running on CNN and other cable networks, began three weeks ago, when Donnelly, a 3 0 - ye a r c a r e e r prosecutor in the Nassau district attorney’s office, aired one featuring a Syracuse woman, identified in the commercial as Jennifer P. The woman, Jennifer Payne, said her daughter’s killer was released without bail because of the state’s bailreform law, which Kaminsky voted for in the Senate. The State Legislature first passed the bailrefor m measure in 2019, restricting anne Donnelly, the the use of cash bail and pretrial detention in misdemeanor and nonviolent felony cases. It did, though, give judges discretion to assign bail in almost all violent felony cases and certain nonviolent cases, such as witness tampering, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. In Donnelly’s commercial, Payne holds a framed photograph of her daughter, Sarah Tombs, who was 22 at the time that she died. The man who allegedly shot her, Darien Shellman, then 24, a mall security guard who was a Navy veteran with no prior criminal record, was charged with second-degree (unintentional) manslaughter after, he claimed, his gun went

off when Tombs, his girlfriend at the time, grabbed the weapon and a bullet struck her in the head, killing her, according to Syracuse.com. Shellman had been held in jail on $75,000 cash bail or $150,000 bond following Tombs’s death in April 2019, but was released on Jan. 9, 2020, under the new bail-reform law, eight days after it took e f f e c t , a c c o r d i n g t o S y r a c u s e. com and CNYCentral.com. Under the original bail-reform law, unintentional manslaughter was among the alleged crimes for which defendants were automatically released. The Legislature amended the law in April 2020, a little more than three months after the measure took effect, to include a greater number of crimes fo r wh i ch b a i l could be assigned, including any alleged crimes in which someone had been killed, according to the Courtesy Anne Donnelly Brennan Center. Although bail Republican candidate. could have been reassigned in this case, it never was, and Shellman recently accepted a plea agreement for which he will serve no prison time, according to Syracuse.com. Kaminsky noted that the district attorney who offered the plea deal is a Republican. Kaminsky has repeatedly said he voted for the bail-reform bill, but was not a prime sponsor, and he did not write it, as Republicans, including Donnelly, have incorrectly claimed. He also emphasized that he voted for the amended law giving judges back the discretion to assign bail in crimes such as second-degree manslaughter. Kaminsky recently rolled out a commercial of his own, saying Donnelly had

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toDD KaminsKy, the Democratic candidate for Nassau County district attorney. “botched” a case involving a woman accused of plotting to kill her husband, saying Donnelly had lied to the judge in the case. At one point in the 2010 case against Susan Williams, a Garden City mother, a mistrial was declared after a taped phone conversation between Williams and her daughter was erroneously played for a jury. In the commercial, Kaminsky blamed Donnelly for the error, and said she had changed an agreement sent to the judge. Williams was ultimately found guilty in the case, but Kaminsky stressed that there “was a mistrial. That’s a serious thing.” Asked for a response, Donnelly wrote in an email, “It is no surprise that [Kaminsky] would lie about my unblemished record as a prosecutor. It is sad that Senator Kaminsky is embarrassing himself this way, and the voters always see through a politician’s lies.” So far in the campaign, Kaminsky has emphasized his law-enforcement background. In 2008, he joined the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn, and worked for six years as an assistant U.S. attorney.

There he became acting deputy chief of the Public Integrity Section. He had been an assistant district attorney in the Queens County D.A.’s office, prosecuting domestic violence cases, robberies, shootings and other violent crimes. Donnelly resigned from the Nassau County district attorney’s office to run for the top job, as she was required to do, but she has emphasized her extensive law-enforcement background. She was most recently deputy chief of the office’s Organized Crime and Rackets Bureau. She was also liaison to the Nassau County Correctional Facility. She formerly oversaw public corruption trials as acting chief of the public corruption bureau, once served as the deputy chief of the economic crimes bureau and was a senior trial assistant in the rackets bureau, as well as a felony-screening supervisor. In the most recent financial filing, Kaminsky said he had raised $1.7 million for his campaign. A spokesman for Donnelly said she had raised more than $386,000. Both Kaminsky and Donnelly said they planned to run more TV commercials in the coming weeks.

Publication: Nassau is America’s safest county Nassau County has been named the “Safest Community in America” by U.S. News & World Report for the second straight year. The publication’s ranking is based on crime, public safety capacity and injuries. Individual metrics on which counties were assessed included violent crime rate, property crime rate, vehicle crash fatality rate, the share of public safety professionals within a population, and per capita spending on health and emergency services. Crime in Nassau has continued to decline to historic lows in recent years, down 10.5 percent over the past year and 36 percent over the past decade. Over the last 12 months, homicides have dropped 22.2 percent; bur-

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Hofstra’s first woman president is inaugurated By ANDREW GARCIA agarcia@liherald.com

Hofstra University inaugurated its ninth — and first woman — president on Oct. 1 in grand fashion. Dr. Susan Poser now leads the institution — she first assumed her duties on Aug. 1. This is Poser’s first foray into guiding a university as a president. She was previously the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois Chicago, a Carnegie Research One university with 16 colleges, including seven health science colleges and more than 35,000 students, from 2016 to 2021. Poser joins a tighter-knit community at Hofstra, with roughly 10,000 students. Poser succeeds Stuart Rabinowitz, who retired this year after serving as president for 20 years. Under his lead, the university grew to include schools of medicine, nursing and physician studies, engineering and government, putting Hofstra on the map as an internationally competitive institution. Celebrations leading up to the inauguration were held throughout the week in the form of symposia that looked toward the future of education at Hofstra. From “Building and Bridging Our Future Together” to “Innovative Experiential Learning Opportunities in Engineering and Computer Science,” each featured experts in their respective fields lending their advice to fellow professionals and students alike. A keynote address by New York Times columnist and best-selling author Charles Blow kicked off the week. Throughout her two months at her post so far, Poser has also made her presence known on campus. She has often been seen touring around, stopping to chat with groups of students. After the singing of the Hofstra alma mater “Blue and Gold” by the Inauguration Vocal Ensemble, as well as welcomes from several of the university’s student and faculty leaders, Poser was congratulated by three close friends and colleagues. “To me and many others, [Poser] has always been a light from which many have been lit — a shining light that no one would dare, or could, dim,” said Daniel Dawes, director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine and a professor of law, policy and management. Dawes is one of Poser’s former students. As a first-generation immigrant student at the University of Nebraska, Poser, then a professor, took Dawes under her wing, he said. He was a young, anxious student who was 1,400 miles from home, but felt welcomed and accepted by Poser in the intimidating environment of law school. “I, for one, am frankly jealous of you all, because you get to bask in the warm glow of her light,” Dawes said. “But I’m also immensely excited to watch Hofstra shine brighter than ever before.” Barbara Wilson began a new position at the University of Illinois around the same time that Poser did, and their careers flourished together. In 2016, Wilson became the executive vice president for academic affairs, and the two worked

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hand in hand over five years on academic affairs. This year, Wilson was named the president of the University of Iowa a short five months after Poser received her promotion at Hofstra. “During the time we were in these positions, we navigated some sticky state politics; we managed a financial crisis in the state of Illinois that underfunded higher education pretty significantly; we managed the onslaught of Covid-19 and the challenging racial and equity issues, particularly after the murder of George Floyd,” Wilson said. “It was not an easy time. “Everyone that worked with Susan could see that she was destined to be a president,” Wilson said. “There is no shortage of persons who want to be the president of a university,” said Harvey Perlman, a professor of law and former chancellor at the University of Nebraska. “My experience, however, tells me there is a much smaller number of persons who want to do president of a university. “You have chosen wisely,” Perlman told the Hofstra community. “You have a new president who wants to do president, not just be one.” In her address, Poser reflected on Hofstra’s history of independence and innovations in education and student relations. “What a time we are living in, and what a time for higher education,” Poser said. “The pleasure of our renewed togetherness is real, but it cannot mask the challenges ahead.” Before Covid, the challenges were already apparent, she said: There were fewer high school graduation expectancies, skepticism about the value of a college education and new world of students who have always lived in a digital environment. “How we address these changes over the coming years will determine Hofstra’s future and the future of our students,” Poser said. “The idea of the pandemic as a portal or gateway serves as a useful metaphor to frame the challenges that we in higher education have before us,” Poser added. “If the pandemic is a portal, how will Hof-

DR. SuSAN PoSER was inaugurated as the ninth and first female president of Hofstra University on Oct. 1. CloSE CollEAGuES of Poser’s spoke at the inauguration, including Harvey Perlman, former chancellor and law professor at the University of Nebraska.

stra walk through it? What will we take, and what will we leave behind? What world are we ready to fight for? What kind of university and community do we want to imagine on the other side?” At UIC, Poser oversaw many accomplishments, including the acquisition of the John Marshall Law School as the first and only public law school in Chicago. She also focused on supporting faculty and enhancing diversity through several initiatives, including the creation of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence. She played a key role in creating two new cultural centers on campus, one focused on Arab American students and another on students with disabilities. Before becoming provost at UIC, Poser was the dean of the College of Law at the University of Nebraska from 2010 to 2016, the associate to the chancellor from 2007 to 2010 and a law professor for more than 15 years. While dean, the College of Law moved up 35 points in the “U.S. News & World Report” rankings. Poser grew up in New York City and majored in ancient Greek at Swarthmore College, graduating with honors. She earned a law degree and doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.

Before starting her academic career, she clerked for the Dolores Sloviter, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia and served as the Zicklin Fellow in Ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Poser is also a recently appointed member of the Long Island Association Board of Directors, which will allow her to further engage with the Long Island community. Poser is married to Dr. Stephen DiMagno, an organic medicinal chemist, and they have two adult daughters. “I am so optimistic that if we come together, with pride and purpose,” Poser said, “we can do these things. Hofstra is beautifully positioned as a university — small enough to offer every student the opportunity to know their professors, participate in a wide variety of activities and influence their surroundings, and large enough to offer an array of academic and career opportunity for undergraduate, graduate and professional students. If we have the commitment, the discipline and the energy, we will prosper as never before.”

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‘Women supporting women’ BY JILL NOSSA jnossa@liherald.com

Several dozen women gathered on the outdoor back patio of The View Grill on Sept. 30 for a fundraising brunch benefiting breast cancer research and support. The Glen Cove Women’s Golf Club 9 Hole Golf League raised more than $5,000 for the Manhasset Women’s Coalition Against Breast Cancer, an organization that supports women who develop breast cancer. “Some of things they do include driving people to the doctor, babysitting and grocery shopping,” Corinne Kaufman, a cochair of the event, said. “Helping the organization is very satisfying.” According to Kaufman, the league raised $5,000 through its fundraiser two years ago, but did not hold the annual event last year due to the pandemic. She was hesitant to take it on this year, but other members helped persuade her to move forward. “I had discouraged doing it this year because businesses had been wiped out,” Kaufman said, “but we persevered, and topped what we made in 2019.” This year, she said, gift certificates worth $4,500 were donated by a number of local businesses, and more than $5,000 worth of raffle tickets were sold to league members and their friends and families. Sharon Cirlincione, another event cochair, has been a member of the league for eight years, and has volunteered to help with the fundraiser since 2013. Until last month, she lived across the street from Glen Cove Golf Course, on Lattingtown Road, and stored the baskets and raffle donations in her basement. When Cirlincione joined the league, she began what became a tradition: She gets donations from her brother, who designs big and tall menswear, and fills bags with gag gifts for those who don’t win a raffle prize. “We also throw in a small gift card,” she said. “Everybody gets something. Nobody goes home empty-handed.” The league has 46 members who get together to play a round of golf on Thursday mornings from April through October. “The women have become my family and friends,” Cirlincione said. “Everyone gets

along beautifully. There’s competition, but it’s a friendly competition. We all root for each other.” Bernadette Dougherty, a director of the breast cancer coalition, attended the brunch, and said she was grateful for the support. “It’s a fine group of women to work with,” Dougherty said, “and this is so great, because it’s women supporting women.” She explained that the coalition is an all-volunteer nonprofit that helps people all over Nassau County and in parts of Suffolk County. “We provide outreach services to those who have been diagnosed with breast cancer,” Dougherty said. “Those services help them navigate the whole process.” Everyone the organization helps is assigned a care coach to work with, she said, and the coalition offers various programs, from recuperative ballet and other exercise classes to meditation and seminars. More than $1 million has been raised for the outreach services, which benefit more than 150 women each year. The organization also raises money for research. Over the past 25 years, it has awarded nearly $5 million in research grants. “We have a whole research group that will take proposals from different hospitals,” Dougherty said, “and they look at each of their proposals for research.” The coalition partnered with Memorial Sloan Kettering on a small research grant focused primarily on women under age 40 with cancer, who tend to have different fertility issues and concerns, she said. The coalition has not been able to do as much fundraising over the past year and a half as it usually does, and even had to cancel its largest fundraiser, an annual Ladies Night, planned for this month. “With the [Covid] surge, people are uncomfortable, and many attendees are immunocompromised,” Dougherty said. “It just doesn’t make sense. But that’s why it’s so great that we have groups like this that raise money and help us through these hard times.” For more information on the coalition or to donate, go to manhassetbreastcancer. org.

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Howard Weitzman, Nassau County’s comptroller from 2002 to 2009 who was known for challenging establishment politics through the power of the audit during this time in office, died Sept. 27 of a rare blood disorder called amyloidosis. He was 75. Born in Brooklyn in 1945, Weitzman was known as a loving husband to his wife of 52 years, Suzanne, and father to their daughter, Catherine Diamond, and sons Peter and Matthew Weitzman. Howard Weitzman was raised in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn and later Laurelton, Queens. He attended Brooklyn Technical High School and went on to graduate from Queens Colle ge with a de g ree in accounting, becoming a certified public accountant. Weitzman was said to have “reveled” in his role as “Nassau’s fiscal watchdog” when he was comptroller. He was also known for his personal approach to politics, holding town hall meetings in houses of worship and schools to meet with constituents from across Nassau to hear their concerns. His local approach to county politics stemmed from his time

as a trustee and mayor of Great Neck with eliminating special districts] are Estates from 1989 to 1995. He and his not large when divided by each home . . . wife had lived there for 35 years before in these times of extreme fiscal pressure on Nassau County taxpayers, all moving to Roslyn in 2013. As comptroller, Weitzman was relent- savings are worth pursuing. The outdatless in pursuing investigations of Nas- ed patchwork quilt of special districts is no longer viable in this day sau’s many special districts, and age when they cost resiincluding sanitation and dents money without providwater districts. In all, Nasing any benefit.” sau has more than 200 such Weitzman was first electdistricts, and Weitzman said ed comptroller in 2001 on a he was convinced they were ticket with Tom Suozzi, then key to helping rein in govan up-and-coming political ernment overspending. leader who had previously “Nassau residents can served as the Glen Cove pay two or three times as mayor and is now a U.S. conmuch for the same service gressman representing the depending on the district in 3rd District. They were which they live,” Weitzman Howard Weitzman swept into office following said in a published report in years of fiscal mismanage2010. “Our audits unveiled millions of dollars of waste by some ment at the county level, with a clear mandate to eliminate waste and abuse. special districts, and a general lack of Weitzman lost the comptroller’s post accountability, transparency and overto Republican George Maragos in 2009. sight.” Eliminating many of the special dis- Illness was said to have hindered tricts, Weitzman contended, could save Weitzman’s campaign. He then chaltaxpayers tens of millions of dollars lenged Maragos in 2013 and was again defeated. annually. In 2016, Weitzman was appointed to Speaking with the Herald in 2008, he said, “While the savings [associated the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, a

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The Mill Neck Family of Organizations’ Apple Festival—an annual tradition on Long Island since the 1950s—is set to proceed this year on Oct. 9 and 10 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mill Neck will present the “Best of the Festival” as a Drive-Thru Grab & Go, making it safe and easy to take home longstanding fall favorites during current Covid-19 concerns. Get your items on-thespot or pre-order online. Selections include the top three New York State apples: Honeycrisp, Snapdragon and Jonagold, and two sizes of boxed pre-

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RESIDENTS TOOK TO the Laurel Hollow Village beach on Sept. 24, where they cleaned their oyster cages, measured their homegrown oysters and sent them off to the Town of Oyster Bay designated Spawner Sanctuary in Cold Spring Harbor.

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The Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor Protection Committee recently closed out their 5th successful season of planting resident-raised oysters in the bay, an initiative to improve the local water quality, enhance the marine habitat and sustain the local oyster population. Young children, grandparents and everyone in-between went to Laurel Hollow Village Beach on Sept. 24 where they took to the beach cleaning their oyster cages, measuring their homegrown oysters and sending them off to the Town of Oyster Bay designated Spawner Sanctuary in Cold Spring Harbor. In all, roughly 100,000 were released into the sanctuary at this year’s event. “We received the oysters in June and grew them through the season, measuring them every two weeks, cleaning the cages, and ensuring their health,” Deborah Perrone, of Laurel Hollow, said. “Some years are worse than others — one year we had a 50 percent mortality rate [among the oysters], but this year was a really good year. We actually had a very short season [because] everything has been affected by Covid, including when we got our oysters. We had phenomenal growth, despite that, which was great.” Since 2017, hundreds of local volunteers have been raising oysters in community oyster gardens, with hopes of contributing to a cleaner water supply and the restoration of the natural habitat in the bay. Excess nutrients and sediment from human activities negatively affect water quality by disrupting the balance needed to support a healthy ecosystem; through filter-feeding, oysters remove nutrients from the water by consuming and assimilating the nitrogen and phosphorus from what they eat (algae, for the most part)

into their tissue and shells. “If you’ve never seen oysters filter water, it will blow your mind,” Perrone said. “They put two fish tanks next to each other, one with oysters and one without. In both tanks there was contaminated, cloudy water and within an hour the tank with oysters was crystal clear. It is amazing.” The continued success of commercial shellfishing in Oyster Bay remains a concern for town and village governments, due to threatened water quality from development and other activities in the harbor and its watershed. At the beginning of the second half of the 19th century, the shellfish in the hamlet were plentiful and supported four major oyster harvesting companies and independent baymen. By 1960, the oyster populations began to dwindle. The Flower and Sons Company began a shellfish hatchery to replenish the harbor stock. Today, Frank M. Flower & Sons, Inc. shellfish company, along with more than 80 independent commercial baymen, annually harvests up to 90 percent of New York’s oyster crop from the Oyster Bay/ Cold Spring Harbor estuary. The garden program provides local property owners with the training, equipment and ongoing support necessary to successfully “garden” juvenile oysters in floats off their property (a bulkhead or dock) or on community floats. The orientation and training covers a review of the historical, ecological, economic and cultural value of shellfish and shellfish biology. Juvenile oysters, or “seed” are acquired from Cornell Cooperative Extension or other New York State Department of Environmental Conservation approved sources. The oysters, measuring between 6-17 mm, are grown in cages in NYSDEC approved areas. Each shellfish gardener is given a maximum of 1,000 shellfish that will be grown out in two cages.

nology, Engineering, Arts and Math fields, and for girls and women to be empowered to find great success in fields that are traditionally male dominated. “We are grateful to McDonald’s in Glen Cove for this generous opportunity to raise funds for Girls Rising,” Ellis-Henderson said. “We recognize and appreciate the great work they do to help better our community.” McDonald’s is located at 193 Glen Street in Glen Cove. Diners are invited to eat indoors or place orders at the drive-through.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PROPOSED LOCAL LAW A-2021 INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF BROOKVILLE BOARD OF TRUSTEES NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held before and by the Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of Brookville, Nassau County, New York on Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. at the Village Hall located at 18 Horse Hill Road, Brookville, New York 11545. The hearing will be on whether to enact proposed Local Law A-2021, entitled “Cannabis Dispensaries,” which will opt the Village of Brookville out of allowing, licensing or establishing retail cannabis dispensaries and/or on-site cannabis c o n s u m p t i o n establishments within the Village of Brookville. This law is subject to a permissive referendum. A copy of the proposed Local Law A-2021 is on file at the Village Hall located at the Village Hall located at 18 Horse Hill Road, Brookville, New York 11545, where it may be reviewed between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. during usual business days until the time of the hearing.

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LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will be held as to the following matter: Agency:Zoning Board of Appeals, Village of Sea Cliff Date:October 19, 2021 Time:7:00 pm Place:Village Hall, 300 Sea Cliff Avenue, Sea Cliff, New York Subject:Application of Karla Dixon, 46 18th Avenue, Sea Cliff, New York, to install air conditioning equipment in a front yard, where Village Code §138-416 prohibits an accessory structure in a front yard. Premises are designated as Section 21, Block 155, Lot 555 on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map. Application of Vivian Parisi, 60 Park Place, Sea Cliff, New York, to construct a first and second story addition, with an open porch, which construction requires variances of the following Village Code sections: (a) 138-405, in that the lot coverage will be 30.87%, where a maximum of 30% is permitted, (b) 138-408, in that the porch will be located 10.36 feet from the northern front property line and 15.32 feet from the eastern front property line, where a minimum of 20 feet is required, (c) 138-411, in that the southerly side yard setback will be 2.01 feet, where a minimum of 10 feet is required, (d) 138-413.1, in that there will be an encroachment into the height-setback ratio, where no such encroachment is permitted, and (e)

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS INC. VILLAGE OF BROOKVILLE NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK SEALED PROPOSALS will be received by the Village Clerk of the Village of Brookville, at the office of the Village Clerk, located at 18 Horse Hill Road, Brookville, Long Island, New York,11545, until 11:00 o’clock a.m. (Prevailing Time) on October 21, 2021 at which time, they will be publicly opened and read aloud and the contract awarded as soon thereafter as practical for:

SNOW REMOVAL VILLAGE ROADS 2021 CONTRACT NO. SR2021 Instructions to bidders, specifications, proposal sheets and form of contract may be seen or procured at the office of the Village Engineer, LiRo Engineers Inc., Consulting Engineers, 235 E. Jericho Turnpike, Mineola, Long Island, New York on and after 12:00 o’clock noon, October 7, 2021. A nonrefundable fee of ($50.00) dollars made payable to the Village of Brookville will be required for a copy of the plans, specifications, proposal and form of contract. Each proposal must be accompanied by either a certified check on a solvent bank or trust company or bid bond from a surety company acceptable to the Village, in an amount equal to $500.00, made payable to the Village of Brookville as assurance that the Contract will be executed if awarded to such bidder. The Contractor will be required to comply with the provisions of the Labor Laws of the State of New York. Worker’s Compensation and public liability and property insurance will be required. The successful bidder will be required to enter into a contract for the performance of the work in accordance with a schedule of rates. The Board of Trustees reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive any informality in any bid and to accept such bid or bids as the Village Board deems most favorable to the interest of the Village after all bids have been examined and checked. BY ORDER OF THE VILLAGE BOARD Village of Brookville, New York Winsome Citarella Village Clerk DATED:October 7, 2021 Brookville, New York 127807

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ctober is a unique month. It’s time for apple picking, watching the trees change color and, if the weather permits, taking long car trips to interesting places. Depending on where you live, it’s also the time for candidates for public office to make their final arguments as to why you should vote for them on Nov. 2. And if you live in Nassau County and are a registered voter, you’re seeing that lastminute blitz to make sure you show up on Election Day. JERRY Unlike years when we elect a KREMER president, in politics this is considered an off year, with most of the campaigns involving candidates for local office. The biggest races in our county are for county executive, district attorney and comptroller. County Executive Laura Curran is favored to be re-elected, due to her professionalism and support from both political parties. That leaves the contests for district attorney and comptroller.

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The hottest competition will be for the office of district attorney. Mailboxes all over the county are being flooded with materials promoting the candidacy of State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach, and Anne Donnelly, a Republican and an assistant D.A. This one campaign could wind up costing the candidates as much as $6 million, and possibly more. Having once represented the South Shore of Nassau County in the State Assembly, I have gotten to know Todd Kaminsky, and have watched his political career rise rapidly. Our career paths are somewhat alike. I started out as a city attorney in Long Beach, and he started out as a federal prosecutor. I prosecuted local slumlords, and as a federal prosecutor he was given the opportunity to prosecute high-profile criminals. In my late 20s, I got a chance to run for the State Assembly, and he got his opening to run for the State Senate. To the benefit of Long Island taxpayers, Kaminsky has been a hard-working legislator who has been a leader on criminal and environmental issues. He was the principal sponsor of a law to take pen-

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sions away from corrupt elected officials. He has gotten tougher drunken-driving laws and battled opioid manufacturers and doctors who dispense drugs too freely. During my time in Albany, I passed many laws in similar areas, and like Kaminsky was the leader of the Long Island legislative delegation in Albany. I applauded his decision to run for district attorney, because he has been a strong voice on so many issues of concern to the public. The State Senate leaders turn to him for advice on criminal and environmental law issues. He is responsible for the $3 billion environmental cleanup bond that will be on the ballot in 2022. Donnelly, who claims that Kaminsky was the “author” of the bailreform law, has criticized him. I know for a fact that he was not its author, and he has battled his own party on this issue. Politics is a tough and unforgiving business. If you stay in one elected position for a long period of time, you are accused of being part of the “establishment.” If you run for higher office a few years after getting elected to a different job, you are accused of being too “ambi-

eciding who leads Nassau County is a great reason to go to the polls next month.

tious.” I had the chance to run for statewide office twice, but a family tragedy prevented that from happening. I know Kaminsky’s opponent to be a long-term veteran of the D.A.’s office. In the end, it will be up to the voters to decide whom they want for district attorney. There is another countywide contest on the ballot, for the important job of county comptroller. While the public focus has been on the D.A.’s race, the job of keeping an eye on taxpayers’ money is also crucial. Former Republican State Sen. Elaine Phillips is challenging Democrat Ryan Cronin for that position. I have worked with Phillips, and found her to be an excellent public official. This will be another important choice for Nassau County voters. I hope they won’t decide to skip this year’s election, because any election, whether for dogcatcher or president, is important. If you stay home on Election Day, you get the kind of government you deserve. 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.

Really, what’s up with the whole world?

ave you noticed that the seams don’t meet the right way and the doorjamb is wobbly? Our house is unstable. The beams of this great edifice called America are slightly off plumb in a number of disturbing ways.Nothing at all is exactly as it was before the pandemic overwhelmed the United States. In small ways and profound ways, cultural and political forces are impeding the ordinary progression of life in America. But then, what’s ordinary? Most of us have given up RANDI on the concept of KREISS going back to “normal,” and what passes for normal these days is disquieting. It isn’t just the pandemic, as if one could write off a highly infectious novel virus that swept around the world, killing 700,000 people here at home. It is how the pandemic was handled from the time it was discovered, then covered up, then ignored, then addressed with inoculation and medical efforts that ranged from inadequate to state-of-the-art medicine. I just checked in to the CDC website and

saw that they have now broken-down categories of information into: What We Know and What We Are Still Learning. That’s good. The fact that there is a learning curve in science seems to have challenged the efficacy of the coronavirus vaccines, which by any reasonable account have been remarkably successful in saving lives. We are in a world where scientists are vilified for not having all the answers, the president is begging and bribing folks to take a shot that will keep them out of the hospital, and large swaths of people are bonding online and deciding that it is safer to throw away our protective masks, refuse the vaccine and embrace bizarre and debunked remedies for this deadly disease. With some few exceptions, there is no excuse for refusing a mask and a vaccine. Using horse de-wormer instead of monoclonal antibodies? It’s kind of like what Justice Potter Stewart said of pornography: I know crazy when I see it. The problem is that those of us who have followed the science and had the vaccine, and perhaps the booster, by now can feel safe, but not completely safe. If we have young children or grandchildren, we

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see those who refuse the vaccine as a direct threat to the health of our family. As we re-emerge into the world, the places we go are all changed. How did the “office” disappear in two years? Transportation is different from what it was, with some mask rules and some vaccine requirements on planes and trains. Some travel, like cruises, requires not just the time and money, but a willing suspension of disbelief. If you can’t bear cooking one more meal at home and venture out, chances are the server and possibly the chef are new hires. The workforce is sliced and diced, and not many people are fully trained for the jobs they are doing. If you talk to a friend of the heart for more than hi-and-how-are-you, chances are you’ll get into your mutual stress levels and anxiety. The psychiatrists don’t have enough hours for the people who need help, because we all need some help right now. If you live in a community or apartment building of some kind, then you know about improvement projects being delayed because the painter shows up but there’s no paint. My son finally got his

he places we go are all changed. How did the ‘office’ disappear in two years?

new roof, but the roofer had no gutters to install. Costco is out of toilet paper again. There are people who don’t have enough food, who can’t get to work, who have no health care and who don’t have proper shelter. We are living in a country that desperately needs new bridges and tunnels and roads. There is a good a plan to rebuild and, at this moment, it may not get passed by Congress. Not because we don’t need it. Not because most Americans don’t support it. But because the government is paralyzed by partisanship and ignorance and fear. This morning I read in The Washington Post that in Anchorage, Alaska, people attended a public hearing on mask wearing with yellow Stars of David on their arms, equating the mask requirement to Nazi-era restrictions on Jews in Germany that led to the Holocaust and the death of some 6 million people. I am worried for us. Most disturbing is the elevation of lies for personal and political gain. For me, there is some comfort in bearing witness to this time. We must keep talking and writing, acknowledging the losses and summoning the strength to tighten the floor joists and secure the roof. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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ispanics are Nassau County’s fastest-growing ethnic population, County Executive Laura Curran noted in mid-September, the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated each year since 1988, and before that as Hispanic Heritage Week, beginning in 1968. From Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, we recognize the many rich cultural and economic contributions of Hispanic people to the United States. The celebration was first signed into law as a week by President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat, and expanded to a month by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. In 2016, the Herald explored Hispanic immigration to our region in a series, “The Changing Face of Long Island,” and we wrote this in a December editorial that year: “There is much talk about how Long Islanders are leaving for elsewhere because of the high cost of living. The Island, however, actually saw a net gain in population because of immigration. Suffolk’s population remained largely unchanged between 2000 and 2012, while Nassau’s increased by roughly 78,500 people, according to census data. “Immigrants have been arriving on Long Island for more than six decades, but the pace of immigration has accelerated within the last 10 years, with an average of 20,000 Long Island immigrants annually receiving citizenship. “Immigrants, it appears, are bypassing the big cities and settling in the suburbs. That’s a good thing for Long Island.” We should now add this: There is a false impression that most Hispanics are immigrants. While that might have once been true, it no longer is. Most Hispanics in the

United States were born here and are American citizens, having become deeply ingrained in the fabric of American society. According to the New American Economy Research Fund, a bipartisan, nonprofit immigration advocacy group, there are 58.8 million Hispanic Americans in the U.S. Just over two-thirds of them — or 39.2 million — were born here, while 19.6 million were born outside the country. Combined, Hispanic immigrants and U.S.-born Hispanics now comprise 18.1 percent of the U.S. population. By 2050, the Hispanic population in the U.S. is expected to double, to 106 million, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates. In 2017, Hispanic households earned more than $1 trillion and paid some $252.2 billion in taxes, including $165.9 billion in federal income taxes and $86.3 billion in state and local taxes, the NEA Research Fund found. At the same time, today’s most recently arrived Hispanic immigrants are better educated than those who landed here only a decade ago. Between 2005 and 2010, only 15.1 percent of Hispanic immigrants held a bachelor’s degree. Between 2012 and 2017, 28.5 percent did, roughly in line with the overall U.S. population. Despite all of this, Hispanics are frequent targets of discrimination. A recent report by the Hispanic Marketing Council noted, “Fifty-five percent (but only 15 percent of non-Hispanics) said Latinos encounter frequent discrimination, while 67 percent of Hispanics strongly or somewhat agree that as a group they are discriminated against more than other ethnic minorities.” In particular, we must recognize that

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LETTERS HealNY brings needed funding To the Editor: I recently began a statewide “HealNY” tour of the state as we begin delivering the first funding from a $1.5 billion pool to combat the opioid epidemic. The funding — which will go to all 10 regions of the state — comes from different settlements that the state attorney general’s office negotiated following a March 2019 lawsuit against the various manufacturers and distributors responsible for the opioid crisis. While the tour will stop in dozens of counties throughout October, all 62 counties across the state will receive funds from the various settlements. For more than two decades, New Yorkers have experienced the dire and deadly effects of opioids. As we embark on this tour, we are ensuring every county gets financial help to recover from the devastation that opioids have

America’s Hispanic population is not monolithic — it is diverse, with a variety of cultures according to people’s countries of origin. A Mexican American, an Argentine American and a Dominican American might share the same Spanish language, but their cultures of origin are very different. We saw the issue recently play out in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film adaptation of his Broadway sensation “In the Heights,” a musical that speaks to the hopes and dreams of Hispanic people living in the close-knit New York City neighborhood of Washington Heights, overlooking the Hudson River, in view of the George Washington Bridge. The film, released on HBO Max, was widely praised for its artistry, but criticized because it failed to include darkskinned Afro-Latinos, who comprise a significant portion of Washington Heights’s actual population, among the film’s leading characters. That is, the film treated Hispanics as members of a single culture. Miranda took to Twitter to acknowledge the psychic pain the film may have caused, writing, “I can hear the hurt and frustration over colorism, of feeling still unseen in the feedback … Without sufficient dark-skinned Afro-Latino representation, the work feels extractive of the community we wanted so much to represent with pride and joy. In trying to paint a mosaic of this community, we fell short.” There is a lesson here that all of us can take away: We must see Hispanic Americans as individuals, each with his or her own heritage that contributes to the American landscape, including here in Nassau County, one of the most diverse places in the nation.

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lthough I was raised in the United States as a Hispanic immigrant, born to immigrant parents, I have long been blasé about Hispanic Heritage Month. As a kid, I would stare curiously at the school calendar marking this month-long celebration and shrug it off as just another quirky, throwaway American holiday, like Groundhog Day or National Ice Cream Sandwich Day. Interesting to some, peculiar to many, and something that I didn’t particularly care for. JUAN Perhaps it was the odd proposiLASSO tion that somehow, some way, you could condense the cultures and national histories of more than 600 million people under a catchall term like “Hispanic heritage.” It’s true that there is some measure of shared experience, some invisible thread linking us Hispanics (for lack of a better term) together in this country we call home. I’ve been fortunate enough to spend the better part of my young adult life standing shoulder to shoulder with a diverse crowd of Hispanic community leaders and intellectuals, including academics, student leaders, attorneys and a

legislator. Each of these movers and shakers, with his or her own story and cultural identity, is proudly committed to improving the lives of fellow Hispanic Americans. So you would think that, over the years, I would have shed my small-minded childhood indifference and come to have a deeper appreciation, even love, for this time to recognize the contributions of Hispanic Americans. But I haven’t. I still don’t relish this special month. I don’t have anything against Hispanic Heritage Month. I simply don’t understand the meaning of the term “Hispanic heritage.” The conventional definition of “Hispanic” is broad enough to encompass people who trace their roots to Latin America and Spain. The term came into wide use in the 1970s, when there were issues with the U.S. census, and Hispanic organizations and leaders sought a term to identify the growing minority residing coast to coast. Hispanic was chosen as an imperfect but useful messenger to signal to those in the halls of power, and to neighborhoods across the U.S., that we were here, too, we mattered, and we were here to stay. So this celebration, too, was a push for such visibility and inclusion. The month

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he term leaves the misguided impression that we have a fully integrated history.

LETTERS inflicted on them. The funds we are infusing into New York today and going forward will be used to invest in prevention, treatment and recovery. While no amount of money will ever compensate for the millions of addictions, the hundreds of thousands of deaths or the countless families torn apart by opioids, this money will be vital in preventing future devastation. Opioid manufacturers and distributors were responsible for heavily marketing opioids to doctors, hospitals, health-care systems and others, which led to the over-prescription of the drugs across New York and the rest of the nation over the last two decades. The manufacturers included in our state lawsuit include Purdue Pharma and its affiliates, as well as members of the Sackler family (owners of Purdue) and the trusts they control; Janssen Pharmaceuticals and its affiliates (including its parent company, Johnson & Johnson); Mallinckrodt LLC and its affiliates; Endo Health Solutions and its affiliates; Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and its affiliates; and Allergan Finance LLC and its affiliates. The distributors named in the complaint were McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health Inc., Amerisource Bergen Drug Corporation

was intended to validate the reality that we Hispanic Americans have, since the beginning of America’s founding, added to the rich and diverse tapestry of the democratic experiment, anchoring us as members of the American popular concept of “the people.” As President Lyndon Johnson declared, “The people of Hispanic descent are the heirs of missionaries, captains, soldiers and farmers who were motivated by a young spirit of adventure, and a desire to settle freely in a free land … This heritage is ours.” And yes, that much is true. Hispanics have fought and continue to fight in the nation’s wars, contribute to its art and culture, and sit in the highest offices of political power as proud citizens and servants. But when examined more closely, the term “Hispanic heritage” brings with it a mess of ambiguity and confusion. The term leaves the misguided impression that Latin America has a single, fully integrated history tracing its beginnings to Spanish and European colonialism. Using this as the starting point for our story overshadows the bigger picture. Multitudes of people from Europe, Africa and Asia collided with multitudes of others from pre-Columbian societies, not knowing that they would be caught in a

whirlwind of encounters, battles and unions that would dynamically entangle different people from vastly different regions and histories. This, in turn, sowed the seeds for cultural innovation and diffusion that would sprout into modern-day countries and societies unlike anything the world has ever seen. Latin America, therefore, has no definitive maker’s mark etched into its diverse past, no single heritage. For the sake of becoming a distinct, recognizable cohort in American demographics, we have regrettably traded away a part of reality we so-called “Hispanics” understand all too well but often fail to articulate. We are not one singular, panethnic group. According to Pew Research, most Hispanics prefer to use their country of origin to identify themselves. Yet despite my serious qualms, I do now see the wisdom in devoting a monthlong celebration to exploring the unique complexity of our Latin American identities, and celebrating Hispanics who have and continue to serve the U.S. as one nation, one people, yet with feet still firmly planted in the pride and love of their distinct cultural histories. All that I’d recommend is that if Americans are to get the most out of this month-long celebration, they start to think of us beyond the term “Hispanic.” Juan Lasso is editor of the Valley Stream Herald.

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and Rochester Drug. LETITIA JAMES State attorney general

Is congestion pricing the answer? To the Editor: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s proposed congestion price tolling is politically sensitive. Congestion pricing may not kick in until January 2023. Final details of who will pay still need to be established. Elected officials will lobby for discounts or exemptions for police officers, firefighters, teachers, low-income workers, outerborough New York City residents, seniors, the physically disabled, small commercial delivery drivers, users of electric vehicles or other special niches. These discounts or exemptions will likely be adopted to placate the constituents of elected officials running for reelection in 2021 or 2022. You can’t capture five years of toll revenues, estimated to be $1 billion per year (leveraged to raise $15 billion in support of MTA’s $51

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billion 2020-24 five-year capital plan), when you implement the program three years or more after 2020. The late start for implementation, a downturn in the economy, more people telecommuting full- and part-time, and a series of discounts and exemptions to tolls could result in billions of lost

anticipated revenue. LARRY PENNER Great Neck Larry Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office.

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The problem with, and promise of, Hispanic Heritage Month

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