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Honoring those lost on 9/11

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ervice, character and commitment are the driving force of the Seaford 9/11 Memorial Committee, a nonprofit organization that each year recognizes Seaford High School students who manifest those key traits with the Patriot Award, in honor of the five Seaford alumni who died on Sept. 11, 2001.

The late Thomas and Timothy Haskell, classes of 1982 and ’85, respectively, Robert Sliwak ’77, John William Perry ’82 and Michael Wittenstein ’85 represent service, character and commitment.

And those traits also help describe one of Seaford’s leaders, Massapequa resident Tom Condon, who has devoted the past 20 years to honoring the lives of those fallen heroes.

Condon, 74, served in the Seaford School District for 48 years as an educator, guidance counselor, administrator and coach. He retired in 2017, but continues to work yearround, chairing the Seaford 9/11 Memorial Committee. For his nearly five decades of commitment to the district and two decades of volunteer commitment to the committee, the Herald is proud to name Condon its 2021 Person of the Year.

“Tom has always been kind of an adopted son of Seaford,” explained Brian Conboy, interim superintendent of the Massapequa School District.

Condon grew up in Massapequa, but attended St. William the Abbot School in Seaford until eighth grade, and had many friends from Seaford, he said. He attended Chaminade High School, in Mineola, graduating in 1965, and went on to St. John’s University, where he earned a degree in social science and education. Then, he said, he “lucked out.”“In a small job market at the time,” Condon recounted, “I was able to get a job at Seaford High School, which was a dream come true.”

He started as a social studies teacher and an assistant varsity football and track

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family to manage, with three children — eldest daughter Erin, their late son and younger daughter Maureen. Condon felt he was unable to adequately care for his family, he said.

Former Seaford High Principal Ray Buckley, who worked with Condon as a fellow football coach, recalled the Middle States Commission on Higher Education conducting an evaluation of the school.“It happened to fall on the one year he was principal,” Buckley said of Condon. “It was so taxing on him.” So after one exhausting year, Condon returned to his job as a guidance counselor.

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coach in 1969. By the mid-’70s, he had become a guidance counselor. In 1983, he was appointed Seaford High’s principal, but he and his wife, Peggy, had a young

In late September 2001, days after the attacks on the World Trade Center, Condon was coaching a football game when he was approached by Ken Haskell, a Seaford resident had lost both of his New York City firefighter brothers, Tim and Tom, on Sept. 11. Ken was looking for a way to remember his brothers and other victims.

Condon had known all five men. He was the Haskells’ and Sliwak’s assistant varsity football coach and had Sliwak in class, coached Perry in track and was his guidance counselor, and advocated for Wittenstein, who was active in school activities.

“Seaford is a small enough place where even if you’re not the guidance counselor for certain students or the coach or their teacher, you’re still familiar with them,” Conboy, a former 9/11 Memorial Committee member, said. “Tom’s familiarity with all the boys galvanized his effort. …

He’d do everything possible to remember them the right way.”

Buckley, Condon and another former principal, Pat Gallagher, met with the other Continued on page 4 Courtesy Bill Moseley

Tom Condon, 74, is the Seaford Herald’s 2021 Person of the Year.

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Two political groups faced off at the Wantagh Long Island Rail Road station on Jan. 9 at a Black Lives Matter protest in response to the violence at the U.S. Capitol that week.

Protesters marched to condemn systemic racism and double standards in policing after the Jan. 6 swarming of the Capitol by a mostly white crowd protesting the results of the 2020 presidential election. The Wantagh protest included members of the local activist groups Black, White, Brown United and Long Island Peaceful Protest.

“They want to take us back to a time when everyone else was under their boots,” Terrel Tuosto, 28, of West Hempstead, said of the demonstrators in Washington. Tuosto was one of the

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organizers of the Wantagh protest.

Tuosto had led a number of marches since George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer last May. Counterprotesters congregated across the street during the protest. Nassau County police separated the two groups on opposite sides of Railroad Avenue, in front of the LIRR platform.

Tuosto encouraged the group to ignore the counterprotesters.

“You don’t have to explain yourself to them or go back and forth,” he said.

“That’s what they want.”

The Wantagh Fire Department responded to a fully involved car fire on the Southern State Parkway near the ramp to the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway on Jan. 3.

According to officials, the accident involved two vehicles. The driver of one of the vehicles allegedly fled the scene after the accident. The driver of the second vehicle remained at the scene and sustained no injuries.

The second driver’s dog, who was an occupant of the car, sustained a minor injury to its paw.

Both state and county police arrived at the scene to conduct an investigation.

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Terrel Tuosto, 28, of West Hempstead, addressed protesters before the marched through Wantagh.

Assistant Chief Bill Stevens was the first to arrive on the scene and was the first to report the fully involved car fire to the rest of the department. Both cars were in a wooded area adjacent to the highway.

A crew from Engine 2, led by Captain Finocchio, began to address the fire.

Engine 4, led by Captain Mongiello, stretched a hose line to aid Engine 2.

Firefighters focused on suppressing the flame quickly without allowing for the fire to spread in the wooded area the car was in.

Beyond the minor injury sustained to the second driver’s dog’s paw, there were no injuries at the scene.

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One of the vehicles involved in the January accident.

Town earmarks CARES funds for libraries Hempstead Town Supervisor Donald Clavin announced in February that the town had approved more than $340,000 in grants to support several public libraries in the township. The Wantagh and Seaford Public Libraries were among the beneficiaries of the town grants.

The funds came from the federal CARES Act, which Congress passed and former President Donald Trump signed into law in March 2020.

Each library received more than $20,000 which paid for unbudgeted expenses incurred during the pandemic. Funding also helped facilities to provide essential programs and services to their communities amid the pandemic.

Most libraries continued to offer

services earlier this year with Covid-19 safety measures in place, including high-grade Plexiglas shields for the circulation and reference desks, personal protective equipment for staff and more.

“They might have lost some sort of benefit they’d given the community,” Clavin said. “No one in our town was spared from the impacts of this pandemic ... we are proud to be able to provide this funding to our neighborhood libraries so they can continue serving the residents of Hempstead Town.”

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Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin announced that the town would direct federal CARES Act funding to support local libraries.

February: Three of its scouts were among the first girls in the nation to achieve the rank of Eagle.

Amritha Jacob, of Bellmore, Julia Kirpalani, of Merrick, and Lea Feiner, of Levittown officially became Eagle Scouts at a special ceremony in February. The trio, along with Scoutmaster Mike Sarlo, received con-

County Legislature on Feb. 11.

Girls began joining Scouts BSA in February 2019. Since then, thousands have joined. Only about 6 percent of scouts achieve the Eagle rank.

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Lea Feiner, of Levittown, was among one of the nation’s first female Eagle Scouts.

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victims’ families in November 2001 to discuss potential options. The committee was created the following February.

“Being a guidance counselor for the majority of my career, you really get to know students because you have them for four years,” Condon said. “You get to know their parents, and you become deeply involved with their lives. You try to make a difference in the paths they take.”

Shortly after its formation, the committee created the Patriot Award scholarship, which has been presented to Seaford High students every year since 2002. The committee has given over $210,000 to 101 students who have displayed outstanding character.

All students are eligible, and OF the Patriot Award draws more applicants than any other scholarship at the high school.

The committee has also recognized more than 50 people who have made significant contributions to Seaford with the Honorary Patriot Award. The awards are given out at the annual Patriot Award dinner, usually held in June.

Condon manages some 19 subcommittees, comprising about 25 active volunteers in total, that take on projects that promote 9/11 education and remembrance. That includes the management of the memorial outside the high school, which in 2016 was updated with three artifacts from the World Trade Center, an “Always Remember” stone and a survivor tree.

A subcommittee also helped create a 9/11 Museum Brochure, intended for use by high school seniors on an annual visit to the World Trade Center site. The committee also organizes the annual 9/11 Memorial Candle Lighting Ceremony outside the high school, which this year was attended by over 2,000 Seafordites despite the pandemic.

His ‘countless hours’ Lynda Schachner, a longtime committee member who has worked with Condon for 20 years, said she has witnessed “his countless hours, year after year, spent working” as chair.

“He’s always had a vision for this committee: to never forget our fallen alumni of Sept. 11,” Schachner said. It was Condon who came up with the motto “Service, character and comTHE mitment.”

“This committee started as a way to honor our alumni, and has grown to encourage service, character and commitment from the entire student body and Seaford community,” Schachner said.

Seaford High’s Pathways to Service program, which offers students school and community service opportunities throughout their high school careers, was launched and funded by the Memorial Committee, as was the Memorial Brick Program, which memorializes individuals with bricks laid outside near the high school monument and generates funds that support the upkeep of the memorial. These are just a few of the committee’s

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“If you know him, he’s very, very exact about a lot of things,” Buckley, who now lives in Pennsylvania, said. “He has his finger on every pulse — he always knows what’s going on. With the committee, he’s the ringmaster of the whole operation.”

Former Seaford High principal Scott Bersin, who is now the assistant superintendent for curriculum, instruction and assessment in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, described Condon as “one of the most community-minded people you’ll ever meet.”

“He’s always thinking of how to help others,” Bersin said. “And he’s always thinking of how to do it really well, and really efficiently.

He’s never afraid to work hard to make things go smoothly.”

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Seaford High’s athletic director from 2008 to 2017, Condon would put in “probably more time than most full-time athletic directors,” Bersin said.

Next spring, the Memorial Committee plans to launch the Patriot Award Alliance, a mentorship program that will connect younger and older award winners.

Condon credits the Seaford community for the committee’s success. “The nature of the Seaford community is incredible,” he said.

“The district is so intertwined with the identity of the community. This entire effort is a tribute to the Seaford community. Had they not been so responsive when I first asked for help, I wouldn’t be doing this.”

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Condon spoke at the Seaford High School graduation ceremony on June 26.

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vendors. The chamber regularly hosted events and craft fairs at the LIRR station, but didn’t have nearly as many in 2020 due to the pandemic.

Around that time, the chamber announced they were also working on a beautification project along Merrick Road. Plans included the planting of flowers and a display of American flags by the “Welcome to Seaford” sign. All the plans were successfully completed by the end of this year.

Police: Youth pastor sexually abused teen A youth pastor was charged for allegedly sexually abusing a 15-year old girl in his Seaford home, according to police. He was arrested in March in his home on Seaman’s Neck Road.

Jesse Vargas, 37, met the victim in 2011 when she was 13 and he was working as a youth pastor at the Incredible Journey to Christianity retreat in Michigan, according to a police report.

On June 20, 2013, the report continues, he invited the then-15 year old to his home and sexually abused her.

Police arrested Vargas eight years later after a joint investigation conducted between the county’s Special

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The Seaford Chamber of Commerce in March announced it would bring back its craft and food fairs in the spring.

Victims Squad, the Hazelwood Police Department in Missouri and the Federal Bureau of Investigations Crimes Against Children Division. The investigation is ongoing.

Vargas is being charged with second-degree sexual abuse, a thirddegree criminal sex act and endangering the welfare of a child.

Detectives ask that anyone who may be a victim of a similar crime to contact Nassau County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244-TIPS, the Nassau County Special Victims Squad at 516-573-4022 or call 911.

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Jesse Vargas, 37 of Seaford, was arrested after he allegedly sexually abused a teenager.

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The Seaford Chamber of Commerce in March announced it would debut its first Maker’s Market at the Seaford Long Island Rail Road station.

“The chamber wanted to do something to get everyone out and into the community,” said Donna Jebaily, a member of the chamber’s board of directors, who is organizing the event. “We have a lot of crafters . . . and we have a lot of people with home-based businesses. We wanted to give those residents a place to sell their merchandise, and the community an experience outside with their neighbors.”

The Maker’s Market, held on certain dates in May, June, July, August and September, featured 20 to 30

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Racist text sparks controversy at Wantagh pizzeria All-girls team makes flag football league debut Fifth and sixth-grade athletes raced down a field at Cedar Creek Park in March, as part of a practice for the first all-girls team in the HTB Flag Football League.

The league — which opts for HTB, as opposed to the no longer accurate Hometown Boys — is a Seaford-based youth flag football league that accepts athletes from across Long Island and New York City.

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HTB, which formed in 2003 under the late John Marshal, a coach from Bellmore, accepted students from kindergarten through high school last spring.

Brothers Wayne and Roger Raso currently operate the league.

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The first all-girls team in the HTB Flag Football League practiced at Cedar Creek Park in March.

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of Wantagh.

Hawkins went back into the pizzeria and demanded an apology. In a since-deleted video she posted on her Facebook page, Hawkins was seen confronting the owner of the pizzeria and demanding that he do something about the racist text.

Organizers from two local activist groups, Long Island Peaceful Protest and Black, White, Brown United organized the protest to demand that the business undergo sensitivity training and take more steps to ensure that such an incident doesn’t happen again.

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Protesters gathered outside of I Love Pizza in Wantagh in early April.

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Walgreens distributes J&J vaccines to district employees About 140 employees of the Seaford School District were able to get the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccination in April at a pop-up site set up by Walgreens at the Seaford Manor School.

Administrators, teachers, clerical workers, custodians, teachers’ aides and others got the one-dose inoculation, thanks to Noelle Bloom, a Seaford parent and a pharmacist at Walgreens who coordinated the event.

Early last month, the district sent a survey to employees to see who still needed vaccinations and set up appointments for everyone who expressed an interest. Then a team from Walgreens set up the site in the school’s backyard and vaccinated employees.

The sidewalk and street outside of I Love Pizza in Wantagh became a hotbed of political ire on April 3 when protesters gathered to denounce the way the business handled an incident in which a delivery driver called a Black customer a racial slur.

Lashae Jerry, 25, of Wantagh, and her mother, Monique Hawkins, were in Wantagh Park on March 27 when they ordered from I Love Pizza. It took their order roughly two hours to get to them, so they decided not to tip. In an expletive-ridden text, which Jerry shared with news outlets, the delivery driver wrote, “Black Lives Matter, but URS [sic] doesn’t,” called her the N word and told her to get out

“I had made attempts prior to getting the vaccination, but there wasn’t really anything opening up close to me,” said Hope Morreale, 51, of Seaford, a teacher’s aide at Manor.

Morreale said that her anxiety was mounting because she didn’t know when she would be able to get inoculated, but then she heard about the district program. “The process could not have been easier,” she said. “I felt really blessed to get vaccinated right in the school district where I work — especially when I hear about how far some people have had to travel to get to their appointment.”

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Seaford School District employees received the Johnson & Johnson vaccination at a pop-up site.

Seaford’s valedictorian, salutatorian selected When asked what helped them cope and succeed in spite of the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, Seaford High School’s 2021 Valedictorian Julia Gambino and Salutatorian Kaylee Sanderson had the same answer: each other.

Students at the high school didn’t return to their classes in person, full time, until April 21 — much later than many of their peers across Long Island, as well as Seaford’s elementary and middle schools. But Gambino said she and Sanderson were close friends outside school and stayed in touch while in quarantine.

Both were in the school’s Advanced Placement Capstone course, an interdisciplinary program that involved taking a preliminary class, called AP

Seminar, as sophomores, before they took on research projects as juniors that culminated in 5,000-word papers and 20-minute presentations.

Students worked independently, on their own timeline and mostly with their own resources When asked about their greatest obstacles as they ascended to the top of their class, Gambino responded: “We’re both overachievers and meticulous about everything we do. We had to learn to be OK with making mistakes and learning from them.”

Both students gave speeches at the graduation ceremony in June.

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Seaford’s 2021 valedictorian and salutatorian were Julia Gambino, left, and Kaylee Sanderson.

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Seaford rallies for county title

Essential Quality wins Belmont Coming off the only defeat of his career, finishing fourth as the Kentucky Derby favorite, Essential Quality got redemption when he edged past intense pacesetter Hot Rod Charlie down the stretch for a thrilling 1 1/4-length victory in the 153rd running of the Belmont Stakes on June 5.

Sent off as the 6-5 betting favorite, Essential Quality triumphed for the sixth time in seven starts and provided trainer Brad Cox and jockey Luis Saez with their first career Triple Crown wins. Owned by Dubai-based Godolphin Stables, the Tapit colt completed the famed 1 1/2-mile “Test of the Champion” in 2:27.11 and paid $4.60 to win. Preakness winner Rombauer finished a distance third.

“With the Tapit on top we really thought he would get the mile and a half when given the opportunity,” Cox said. “We always thought he had the ability. After the Derby, you just have to see what it takes out of them. It’s a demanding race as well as the Belmont.

We were watching him for a week or so. We put our heads together and felt like if we we’re going to keep him in training we might as well run him.”

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Essential Quality, right, with jockey Luis Saez aboard, overtook Hot Rod Charlie to capture the 153rd running of the Belmont Stakes.

senior outside hitter Nicole Karaman said of the team’s positive mindset in spurring the turnaround. “It was a team effort to pull through and win those last three sets.”

Seaford quickly seized control after winning the third set, jumping out to a 12-3 lead in the fourth set. The Vikings then grabbed a 17-4 advantage in the decisive fifth set. The comeback was a collective team effort led by sophomore middle hitter Sarah Lochner and freshman outside hitter Carey-Jean Federico, who recorded 15 and 10 kills, respectively.

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Seaford rallied from two sets down to edge West Hempstead in the Nassau County Class B girls’ volleyball championship match Nov. 10 at LIU.

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MacArthur returns to title game It wasn’t easy, but MacArthur once again played for the county football championship.

James Napoli scored his second touchdown of the game with just over two minutes left and Vincent Fundaro made two key defensive plays in the waning moments as MacArthur advanced to its third straight Nassau Conference II title game with a 21-18 win over Mepham Nov. 13 at Hofstra.

Ryan Muller rushed for 78 yards and threw for 108 for the Generals, who trailed late. Mepham carried an 18-13 lead into the fourth quarter and was poised to put the game away with a 1st-and-goal at the MacArthur 9 with just over nine minutes left. Pirates’ quarterback Nick Honerkamp gained five yards over two rushing plays and Dominic Novello was stuffed at the line of scrimmage on third down before Dylan Dunn lost five yards on a hit by MacArthur’s Matt Clarkson for the turnover.

But the Pirates got the ball back six plays later when sophomore defensive back Devin Greene intercepted a long pass at the Mepham 35 with 2:44 left.

MacArthur had just one time out left and would need a big defensive stop to stay alive. It came quickly. On the next play, on a fake handoff, the ball popped

With its season — and school sports history — on the line, the Seaford girls’ volleyball team dug in at crunch time to capture the Nassau County championship over West Hempstead.

After dropping the first two sets of the Class B finals and nearing the wrong end of a sweep, Seaford won the remaining 4 points of the third game to seize control of the match. The Vikings dominated the rest of the way en route to a 22-25, 23-25, 25-21, 25-13, 25-7 victory at LIU Post on Nov. 10 to bring home the program’s first county title in two years.

“We took a second to relax and breathe and play how we always play,”

loose. Fundaro immediately pounced on it.

“I was like, ‘Oh my God, the fumble’s right there, I gotta go get it,’’’ Fundaro recalled. “I got it and I’ve never been so happy in my life.”

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Senior Vincent Fundaro had a key fumble recovery late in its semifinal playoff win over Mepham.

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The Seaford Manor and Seaford Harbor Parent Teacher Associations reserved Adventureland, in East Farmingdale, for Seaford School District elementary school students for a spring family event in late May. The annual event was the district’s most successful one yet, with lines of students and their parents stretching through the parking lot.

A survey was distributed to parents to see if they would feel comfortable gathering at the amusement park. The community gave an “overwhelming response,” officials said.

And after mask restrictions for fully vaccinated people began to ease earlier this month, the excitement about the event grew. More people expressed interest and bought ride

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District PTAs take over Adventureland

Seaford man’s radio collection on display in Wantagh

bracelets.

Vanessa Krussman, of the Seaford Harbor PTA, said she couldn’t help but notice the happiness and energy among the participants.

“Just being outside, being a bit more comfortable and with people you know ... it’s just the whole community coming together,” Krussman said. “We began planning this a year ago, as we always plan in advance, but back in March, when there were still a lot of restrictions and vaccines were new, we didn’t know what to expect.”

Part of Michael Katz’s collection of more than 200 vintage radios – which included 135 wood radios and 90 others – were on display at the Wantagh Public Library in May. Katz, 70, gave the Herald a tour of the exhibit in May, which focused on shortwave portable radios from the 1950s to the 1980s.

“Before the wall came down, you couldn’t get these,” Katz said, referring to the Berlin Wall and gesturing to a row of Russian Army radios from the early 1980s.

He bought the radios on eBay, but if he had displayed them in the U.S. before 1989 — the year the wall fell — he could have been branded a spy and possibly arrested, he said.

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Seaford School District students went for a spin on the Musik Express at Adventureland.

“They couldn’t sell these to us — we were the enemy,” Katz said. “So I think they reverse-engineered their radios and sold them to Europeans for a cheaper price.”

Katz grew up in Brooklyn, and had an American Zenith table radio. He said he grew fascinated with playing around with the controls. Katz moved to Seaford 30 years ago to raise a family with his wife, Elizabeth. Now a CPA with a private practice, Katz has two daughters, Sheryl, 28, and Melissa, 23.

His collection will once again be displayed at the Wantagh Public Library next month.

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Michael Katz, 69, of Seaford, is a vintage radio collector.

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Vessel capsizes amid boating safety press conference MacArthur advances to county finals For the fourth time in six seasons, MacArthur advanced to the Nassau County softball finals in June.

The fourth-seeded Generals limped into the playoffs on a sevengame losing skid but got three wins in the Class A tournament to reach the best-of-three championship series against No. 2 Mepham. In June, MacArthur got a pair of two-run homers off the bat of junior Chiara Nappo

Two Seaford residents were rescued from the water off Wantagh Park on June 16 after their 14-foot Capri sailboat capsized.

Joan Imbro and Robert Diehlmann were unharmed, and had to laugh when they were pulled to the Wantagh Park dock: Ironically, the Nassau County Police Marine Bureau had come to their rescue during a news conference about boating safety.

County Executive Laura Curran and County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder appeared at the Wantagh Park marina for a conference on boating safety procedures. Just before Ryder spoke, an ambulance appeared at the scene to respond

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and solid pitching from sophomore Taylor Brunn to defeat No. 8 Long Beach, 6-3.

MacArthur began the postseason with a 2-0 victory over No. 13 Bethpage on June 7 as Brunn allowed only three hits and struck out nine.

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MacArthur sophomore Taylor Brunn opened the playoffs with a three-hit shutout over Bethpage.

to the emergency call.

“This is not staged,” Ryder said at the press conference. “We’re pulling two people from the water right now.”

Roughly 100 feet behind him, a Marine Bureau boat had pulled the sailboat in.

Diehlmann, 65, said he had been operating the vessel in the vicinity of the Bellmore Channel when it overturned. He and Imbro then fell into the water. The Marine Bureau was dispatched to the site and they were safely brought aboard Marine 1. Their sailboat was towed into the marina.

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Joan Imbro and Robert Diehlmann, of Seaford, spoke to the media after they were rescued by the Nassau County Police Marine Bureau.

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Seaford Saturday Nights offer a sense of normalcy Community members gathered one Saturday night in June for the kickoff of the Seaford Chamber of Commerce’s annual Seaford Saturday Nights series.

Food trucks and vendors lined the Seaford Long Island Rail Road parking lot for the event, which ran from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. It featured music by the cover band Our Generation and children’s activities.

The event as the brainchild of chamber members Donna Jebaily and Celia Hanney in 2019. While Jebaily focused on getting the food trucks and vendors, Hanney was responsible for arranging the band and setting up the sound system.

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Seaford residents Grace Bennett and Phillip Cohen danced to the band Our Generation.

Recovering local finds solace in home decor business Nicholas Sarnelli, 32 of Wantagh, who lives with his father on Jerusalem Avenue, uses flea market items and antiques as the subjects of his artwork. He sells home decor sold through his business, Out of the Dark Into the Light.

Sarnelli started crafting lamps and other interior decor around Halloween 2018, after a friend showed him an image of a lamp made from a Crystal Head vodka bottle shaped like a skull.

By that winter, he had produced several lamps using old bottles.

In November 2018, Sarnelli was diagnosed with Stargardt macular dystrophy, which causes degeneration of part of the retina that is responsible for sharp vision.

He can still see clearly now, he said,

but he struggles to make out small words.

Shortly after he was diagnosed, Nicholas said, he fell back into drug and alcohol addiction, which he had struggled with for 15 years.

As soon as he was released, he said, he turned his focus to his business. His garage became a studio, and he found solace in creating intricate art pieces.

Now, two years sober, Sarnelli has focused on the shop, and has been a vendor at many craft fairs in Bellmore, Long Beach and Massapequa.

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Nicholas Sarnelli, of Wantagh, in his garage studio. Diagnosed with Stargardt disease in 2018, he makes home decor using antiques.

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Wantagh native earns silver for diving at Tokyo Olympics Wantagh native Andrew Capobianco and his Olympic diving partner, Michael Hixon, earned a silver medal in men’s synchronized 3-meter springboard diving at the Tokyo Olympics on July 28, with a total score of 444.36 points.

The pair finished just behind the Chinese duo of Wang Zongyuan and Tie Siyi, who won the gold medal with 467.82 points.

Capobianco, 21, also qualified for the semifinals of the individual 3-meter springboard diving event at the Olympics, where he placed tenth.

“He has exceeded all of our expectations,” Andrew’s mother, Darlene Capobianco, said in an interview with the Herald. “We knew that he had the talent and the will and the drive, but

once you get on the stage, everything changes. He was surrounded by other divers who have already won medals and won the Olympics.”

It was Capobianco’s Olympic debut. He got his start in diving at around age 9, and won his first Nassau County championship as a seventhgrader. He left Wantagh to head to Indiana with his family at 13.

In August, Capobianco received a key to the town from Town of Hempstead Supervisor Don Clavin for his achievement.

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Capobianco, 21, left, and his partner, Michael Hixon, 27, celebrated their win in the men’s 3-meter synchronized diving finals in Tokyo.

YEAR IN REVIEW OCTOBER

Former Seafordite dedicated his life to preserving history Given all he has done for the Seaford community, there is no questioning Stanton Bahr’s dedication to the hamlet.

Bahr, a former Seaford resident, died of natural causes on Sept. 21. He was 95.

Bahr was known in the community for founding the Seaford Historical Society and the Seaford Historical Museum in 1976, which he described

Seaford community memorializes lives lost on 9/11 A bell tolled 11 times at Seaford High School as a crowd honored the lives of the 2,977 people who died on Sept. 11, 2001.

Family members of the victims and local religious leaders took turns sounding the bell in front of the school, each strike representing the death of an individual or members of a group. Five Seaford High School alumni died in the attacks: Robert Sliwak (class of 1977), John William Perry (’82), Thomas Haskell (’82), Michael Wittenstein (’85) and Timothy Haskell (’85).

The bell was also sounded in memory of all victims of 9/11, first responders and rescue workers, all veterans and members of the U.S. armed forces, all victims of Covid-19 and the Seaford

as “a 10-year labor of love,” according to Historical Society President Judy Bongiovi. Bahr, who attended Seaford schools, served as the society’s president from 1970 to 1976.

Under Bahr’s direction, the historical museum opened in July 1976.

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Charles Wroblewski, left, Stanton Bahr and Judy Bongiovi have served the Seaford Historical Society.

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community, as well as the hope for world peace.

The ceremony, organized by the Seaford 9/11 Memorial Committee, began with a presentation of the flag by the Nassau County police color guard, escorted by the Nassau County Police Pipe and Drum.

The Seaford, Wantagh and Freeport fire departments were represented in the guard.

The ceremony also acknowledged three Seafordites who served in Afghanistan.

On Sept. 14, a federal judge in upstate New York temporarily blocked enforcement of the state’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, and ruled against their employers’ denial of religious exemptions.

The ruling came a day after a federal judge in Brooklyn refused to suspend the mandate, responding to a suit filed against the state by a Seaford resident and other nurses earlier this month.

Diane Bono of Seaford, fellow Syosset Hospital nurse Michelle Melendez, of Wheatley Heights, nonprofit civic group We The Patriots USA Inc. and a Syracuse hospital worker, Michelle Synakowski, filed a civil suit

YEAR IN REVIEW SEPTEMBER

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An American flag hung over Seaford High School during the memorial ceremony on Sept. 11, courtesy of the Seaford Fire Department.

on Sept. 2 in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. The plaintiffs sought to block the state-issued mandate requiring all health care workers to obtain at least one Covid-19 vaccine

by Sept. 27 as the mandate allegedly violated their First Amendment rights and religious freedoms.

A ruling by Judge David Hurd in U.S. District Court for the Northern District in Utica appeared to achieve nurses’ goal by temporarily blocking the state Department of Health from requiring health care employers to deny religious exemptions for the jab.

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In mid-September, a Seaford nurse’s request to suspend the Covid-19 vaccine mandate was blocked.

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Legionnaires’ outbreak hits Wantagh-Levittown border One 96-year-old man died after contracting Legionnaires’ disease following an outbreak on the WantaghLevittown border.

Roughly 10 people within a onemile radius of the intersection of Wantagh Avenue and Old Jerusalem Road fell ill with Legionellosis. They ranged in age from 35 to 96, and were identified throughout October.

Legionellosis is caused by a type of bacteria called Legionella, which are found naturally in the environment and transmitted by aerosolized water.

People can contract the disease when breathing in a mist or vapor that contains the bacteria.

There were confirmed cases of the disease at St. Joseph’s Hospital, in Bethpage, and NYU Langone Hospital

Long Island, in Mineola. The WantaghLevittown cases occurred during a statewide uptick in cases.

Contact tracing took place within the limited number of people diagnosed to determine the source of the infection. Further, the county conducted an investigation to determine the source of the infection.

Mary Ellen Laurain, spokeswoman for the Department of Health, said she could not provide the details of the county’s investigation, but said all samples that were tested for the bacteria came back negative.

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The cluster of Legionnaires’ disease cases were within a one-mile radius of the intersection of Wantagh Avenue and Old Jerusalem Road.

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Covid-19 vaccine eligibility expands to Seaford kids Seaford children became eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot in October.

The vaccine’s approval for children ages 5 through 11 was followed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s endorsement last week.

The vaccine was found to be 90.7 percent effective in preventing the

virus in children in that age group, according to data from the FDA. Dr. Adina Geller, a pediatrician at ProKids Pediatrics, a division of Allied Physicians Group in Levittown, recommended everyone who is eligible to get the vaccine.

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Man pleads not guilty after sharing sexually explicit photos A Seaford man accused of sharing sexually explicit images and videos of more than a dozen underaged MacArthur High School alumnae to a pornographic website pleaded not guilty on Dec. 16.

Patrick Carey, 20, was arraigned at the Nassau County Courthouse in Mineola in December before Judge Robert Bogle. A press conference led

by Assistant District Attorney Melissa Scannell followed.

Approximately 11 women contacted the Nassau County Police Department from Jan. through Sept.

2021 after they discovered images of themselves on a pornographic website, according to the indictment.

Carey allegedly pulled images of as many as 50 women from their social media accounts and edited the photos to show the women performing

sexual acts. The photos were taken when the women were in high school and middle school, the indictment states. The photos contained personal information, including full names, addresses and telephone numbers.

He also encouraged other users on the website to harass the victims, including sending them “lurid images, videos and sexual threats.”

All 50 women targeted had allegedly attended General Douglas MacArthur High School in Levittown alongside Carey.

Carey was arrested on Sept. 5 and was indicted by a grand jury on Nov. 23.

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Patrick Carey, 20 of Seaford, pleaded not guilty after allegedly editing and sharing photos of women on a porn website.

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The facility would provide health care services including cardiology, digestive health, oncology, women’s health, cancer care, dermatology, neurology, endocrinology, lab services, pain management, pulmonary care, non-invasive surgery and urology. The facility was projected to open in 2022, but a new timeline has not yet been established.

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Mount Sinai South Nassau submitted an appeal to the Town of Hempstead’s Board of Zoning Appeals in December to create a 60,000-square-foot multi-specialty healthcare center in Wantagh, according to hospital officials.

The Oceanside-based hospital plans to invest $35 million in a four-story building at 2020 Wantagh Ave., a former Verizon facility now owned by the hospital.

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Q. I just rented a retail space, and I’m planning changes with my architect. The architect says I have to “upgrade” the restroom to handicapped-accessible, which will cost at least $8,000 and maybe more, depending on whether the old pipes can be reused where they are. I don’t understand why other stores around me have original restrooms but I have to change mine. We were only moving a couple of walls and installing a new ceiling. Can you tell me if the architect is right about the change?

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A. You would think the answer is an easy one, that it would be either yes or no. Unfortunately, the answer is that the decision in these matters is discretionary, left to the plans examiner, who either strictly interprets the code and the federal and state laws based on the Americans with Disabilities Act (which was signed into law by onte eeper President George H.W. Bush in 1990), or determines that the physical upgrade of the restroom isn’t necessary. The law states that businesses with 15 or more employees must comply, but is overridden by the fact that establishments cannot discriminate against people with disabilities, patrons or employees.

I once had a meeting at which the attorney for my client was challenging my advice to our mutual client that an upgrade — a renovation — would be necessary. The attorney appropriately pointed out exactly the same argument that you’re making, that nobody else has had to upgrade, and therefore you shouldn’t have to, either. My guess is that your neighbors may have been in that location for many years, and as long as nobody brings their location up to an official, we leave well enough alone, or that the official interpreted that the upgrade wouldn’t be necessary. I’m willing to bet that your neighbors, for the most part, moved in without anyone filing anything formally, with plans and permits, so the proprietors think they have no issue to deal with.

You, on the other hand, operating honestly and legitimately, probably feel that even though you can’t discriminate against a person with a disability, you’re being unfairly discriminated against.

Although I agree that you are being unfairly judged differently than your neighbors, your architect and any licensed professional, including the attorney, swore to uphold the laws of the state they practice in. If officials choose not to investigate every location, that is the governing bodies’ choice.

Your architect is only trying to do what is right under the law.

Coincidentally, that very morning, when the attorney was making the case that others were not in compliance, there was an incident in lower Manhattan in which an attorney had his heels slashed by a homeless man on a subway platform, and was instantly debilitated. I pointed out to the attorney that that poor guy was now disabled, and that we humans are all vulnerable, by age or accident, and need to be considered. He answered, “You should have been an attorney.”

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he Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa., set off a cascade of worldwide catastrophes over the subsequent two decades — the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and many other terrorist attacks, in multiple countries. September 2001 seems like a lifetime ago, but for those old enough to remember that terrible year, it remains a haunting memory, a fever dream that we try to lock in the backs of our brains but is ever-present.

For those of us in Nassau County that day, we could only watch in horror as grayblack smoke plumes spiraled out of the twisted, crumbled remains of the twin towers upward into an otherwise perfect azure sky. The plumes were visible from points across the county.

Shortly after the attacks, people started to gather on the beach in Lido and at the Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick — the highest point on the South Shore — to watch the billowing smoke, staring silently in stunned disbelief.

The United States homeland was under attack for the first time since World War II, and at that moment, we had no idea who the invader was, or the future suffering in distant lands that the attacks would bring.

It was all incomprehensibly terrifying.

In a front-page story in the Heralds’ Sept. 13-19 issue, “Terror at the Towers,” reported by Scott Brinton, Carrie James, Laura Lane, Jeff Lipton, Larry Maier and Cindy Roth, this is how we described the scene: “A wave of fear and despair raced across [Nassau County] Tuesday morning

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’m really scared. It’s so scary if we have something of a World War III. I’m really, really scared. roLLen CaJoLes after terrorists slammed two hijacked jetliners into the World Trade Center, sending the Twin Towers crumbling into Lower Manhattan.

“In the afternoon, surviving victims of the attack filtered into Nassau by Long Island Rail Road, like refugees from a war zone. Many, who were still shaking dusty, white debris from their clothes, were not from the area but had taken the first train they could out of the city and gotten off at the first possible stop.”

We sent our reporters to the train stations to meet the survivors of the attacks.

Sylvia Melendez, who worked in Lower Manhattan, described the chaos after the towers crashed to the ground. “The rush of clouds of debris forced everyone out into the streets,” she said. “Everyone was running away.”

Here in Nassau, people were glued to their TVs and radios, watching and listening, hoping for the best but fearing the worst. “I’ve been listening all morning,” Luisa DeGirolamo, who worked at La Margherita Pastry Shop in Bellmore Village, said. “I’m devasted. I can’t get over it.”

Rollen Cagoles, of East Meadow, said, “I’m really scared. It’s so scary if we have something of a World War III. I’m really,

really scared.”

Many parents rushed to their children’s schools to pick them up and take them home, fearful of further attacks. “A lot of people came and pulled their kids out because they didn’t want them to be in a place with a large group of people,” said Pat Brace, PTA president of Bowling Green Elementary School in East Meadow.

“They thought they would be a target.”

Nassau police doubled patrols around municipal buildings, schools, houses of worship and transportation lines. Police also diverted westbound traffic away from New York City. Motorists who had to travel major throughfares were advised to stay home.

The military closed down the airspace over Long Island, with unlighted F-16 fighter jets streaking overhead above John F. Kennedy International Airport into the night of Sept. 11 to 12.

Nearly 500 Long Islanders died in the attacks at the World Trade Center or later succumbed to 9/11-related illnesses. Each one was a life extinguished too soon. We must remember all of them — their essential goodness, their essential humanity.

In the coming days, there will be solemn ceremonies in remembrance of the dead.

Consider attending one to show your support for the victims, or stop and pause for a moment at 8:46 and 9:04 a.m. on Saturday and reflect on or say a prayer for the victims. In this way, you will help to keep their memories alive for generations to come. “Never forget” should never become a trite slogan. It should be a motto by which we live.

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A letter to Governor Hochul To the Editor: Congratulations and good luck to Gov. Kathy Hochul. She has been thrust into a role that is critical to the 19.45 million people who live, work and play in the Empire State. Here on Long Island, we are especially hopeful for her good work.

The challenges on Long Island are many. Our aging infrastructure needs serious attention. As the nation’s first suburb, we are living with an antiquated system that requires an upgrade. Our increasingly overburdened roadways, bridges and tunnels are dismal.

The environmental infrastructure is failing.

Drinking water has challenges, including the quality and quantity. Surface water contamination is rampant from nitrogen and other pollutants entering our creeks, bays, harbors and the Long Island Sound. Our air is polluted with toxins too small to see with the naked eye. We are vulnerable to sea level rise, climate change and the inevitable next big storm. The fact is, we aren’t ready.

Our environment is too important for the noaction tendencies of the past to continue. Our

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Opinion columns We publish three columns every week.

Columns represent the views of the writers themselves, not of the Herald. Each writer works independently and chooses his or her own subjects.

Among our regular contributors are the Heralds’ executive editor, Scott Brinton, and the Nassau Herald’s former executive editor, Randi Kreiss, both of whom have won numerous awards for their opinion writing. We also feature columns by prominent political figures, including former State Assemblyman Jerry Kremer, who is now a consultant. And we regularly invite guest columnists to offer their views.

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hen talking with my grandkids about returning to school this fall — to the building, with other kids, not the dining room table — I was reminded of a school day of my own years ago.

“Bobby.” I heard my name called on the second-floor landing of A. B. Davis High School in Mount Vernon, N.Y. The caller was Mr. Leone, Joseph Leone, my biology teacher and college adviser. “Why haven’t you signed up for ALAn the SATs?” he asked. sinGer Neither of my parents had attended college, my mother had died eight years earlier, and my father, a vacuum cleaner salesman, had his hands full with two active kids. When I think about the controversies surrounding school openings this fall, I think, too, of the critical role of teachers in the lives of their students.

That certainly was the case for me.

Mr. Leone wasn’t alone in affecting my life for the better. I was going to drop out of college after my first year not only because of the cost, but also because I

questioned why I was there. I entered to be a minister, but had become disillusioned with organized religion. My college adviser, Mildred Martin, helped me sort through the financial and philosophical questions and urged me to appeal my financial aid award, and I continued as her student.

Other teachers stand out as well. Miss Calabrese and Miss King, in elementary school, “Pop” Phillips in high school, Mark Ebersole in college, and Kay Moore and Robin Williams in graduate school.

The past year of living and learning with Covid in our path and in our shadows revealed the inequalities of access to teachers like the ones I’ve known. When teachers are diverted from their main responsibilities, teaching and advising, they can’t fulfill their roles to the fullest. It is especially difficult for them to be effective when students lack access to broadband and Wi-Fi, a quiet place to study, and supportive adults to help them with difficult assignments.

A distinguished psychologist once said that we human beings are the “teaching species.” All species must learn enough to leave the nest, but humans turned teaching into a “calling,” a vocation dedicated to preparing the next generation

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was going to drop out of college after my first year. I questioned why I was there.

Letters looming issues need real solutions, not lip service. We need to address the Island’s solid-waste crisis, illegal dumping and the associated increases in disposal costs.

Hochul hasn’t been handed the reins of the state at our finest hour. New Yorkers suffer with an unsustainable tax burden that’s accelerating the exodus of high-net-worth people, employers and job creators. The growing disparity in income and wealth, an increasing immigrant population and the associated educational and health care challenges are monumental. And our young workforce and empty-nesters are leaving because of a lack of affordable housing.

Leaders in the past have forsaken us in favor of book deals, their own selfish agendas and their next election. Indeed, some are in prison for their bad behavior, but the reality is, the good people of New York have been sold out, and that’s why we require Hochul’s earnest leadership.

We have hope in her vision, fortitude and ability to make the really tough decisions. We’re counting on her. Most important, please know that we are here for you, governor. Long Island and the state of New York have immense resources, none greater than their residents.

There will be vocal naysayers who attempt to stop Hochul from addressing these vexing challenges. There are people who talk a lot, and there are people who get stuff done. To Hochul, I say this:

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Robert A. Scott, Ph.D., is president emeritus of Adelphi University; the author of, or contributor to, 18 books and monographs; and the author of hundreds of articles on higher education and social issues. His latest book is “How University Boards Work” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018; Eric Hoffer Prize awardee, 2019).

Special features The op-ed, or opposite the editorial, page features a weekly Framework photo, which is chosen by our photo editor. The Framework offers a creative, at times humorous outlet for our photography staff. In this spot, we also publish photos sent to us by readers featuring them on vacation, reading the Herald at various international landmarks. We call it Herald Around the World.

At times, a correction might appear on the op-ed page. We strive each week for the highest standards of accuracy and accountability.

When we make mistakes in our reporting, we believe we must own up to them and correct the record.

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Letters to the editor

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Cuomo should be impeached To the Editor: Re Robert Rosenberg’s column “History repeats itself in Albany — again and again” (Aug. 26-Sept. 1): I agree with Rosenberg’s opinions, and would add that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo would indeed get the last hurrah and make “the State Legislature and state government look like a ship of fools” if it gave him a free pass on the nursing home deaths scandal and his subsequent cooking of the books to make it appear less egregious than he would have had us believe. Interestingly, Gov. Kathy Hochul revealed immediately that these deaths were undercounted by some 12,000.

By ordering nursing homes to accept Covid-19 patients, Cuomo, threatening owners with penalty if they did not comply, exposed many more confined elderly to the virus, potentially causing their deaths. With all due respect, I consider manslaughter to be an even more serious

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to the nation. They believed that education should be public; is critical to democracy because it prepares an informed citizenry, able to ask questions; is important because it prevents aristocracy and promotes meritocracy; should be free from religion and ideology; should be equal and equally available to all citizens; and is a public investment that is worth the cost.

While the ideals of the Founders foundered on the compromises made to create a republic, they nevertheless created within the Constitution the mechanisms for correcting early mistakes and providing the means for continuing the pursuit of a “more perfect union,” which we have shown the ability to do.

As we help our kids and grandkids, or relatives or neighbors’ kids, prepare for a new school year, let us acknowledge the noble profession of teaching, perhaps by remembering our own teachers, and do what we can to fulfill the Founders’ aspirations for true equality of education in America.

Please be the latter. Be bold. We heard you say you’d “fight like hell for New York,” and that’s exactly what Long Island needs.

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with knowledge, skills and values. As a result, teachers have a moral, social, civic and historical responsibility for not only educating each new generation but also, in this way, creating the future.

We must remember the vocation, the calling, of teaching. As the historian Jacques Barzun said, “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

At the beginning of our nation, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson stated that public education was at the heart of democracy.

“The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it,” Adams wrote. “There should not be a district of one mile square without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.”

Jefferson expressed similar sentiments. It is unfortunate, therefore, that some local school boards see teachers simply as employees, instead of as those who inspire discovery and awaken students’ imaginations, as Mark Van Doren and Robert Frost said.

But while the Founders argued that schooling was a local responsibility, they were adamant about the public benefits

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crime than the sexual harassment charges that forced Cuomo’s resignation.

Given the present state of affairs, it is now the State Legislature (and, ultimately, the State Senate) that is on trial, and it remains to be seen whether playing politics will take precedence over what must be done in the name of justice. How can

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anyone trust Cuomo now? He contends that he will not seek future political office, but only impeachment would close the book on that possibility, definitively and conclusively.

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