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Vol. 15, No. 45

February 20, 2020

SBU Hospital marks 40 years of providing community health care

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Po’Boy Brewery Donates ‘Blessing Bags’ to Pax Christi

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Volunteers pack boxes of food and other supplies for Pax Christi Hospitality Center in Port Jefferson Photo by David Luces

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Rebecca Kassay, who runs the Fox and Owl Inn in Port Jefferson, praised Hassanin for her efforts to bring people together and help make a difference in the community. “It’s pretty incredible to see so many people in the community come together — it makes you

want to do more of this,” she said. “I didn’t know what to expect, if two or three people tried to do the same effort, it would have taken all day. With the amount of people we had, it took 45 minutes.”

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Wesam Hassanin, bar manager at Po’Boy Brewery in Port Jefferson Station, had an idea to bring community members together for a good cause. “I wanted people to come out for something positive,” she said.

The process began at the end of 2019, when Hassanin began spreading the word of what she had planned on social media and to local business owners. Her project was to create 100 blessing bags for the homeless. Over the past two months, Hassanin and others purchased a number of essential items to pack in the bags.

“I didn’t expect this, I think I posted once or twice about it on social media and we literally had everything we needed for the bags probably within three weeks,” she said. “I can’t believe the amount of responses we got.”

On Feb. 16, close to 30 people came out to assemble and pack bags at the brewery and send them to Pax Christi Hospitality Center in Port Jefferson. Among those who came out to help were customers, family members, friends and fellow business owners.

“I wanted to help local men and women in need, I reached out to [Pax Christi] and they

can I do to help these problems,” she said. “If I make these causes [in the community], I want to be a part of it.” The owner of the inn said this event motivated her to do more. “I volunteer at Hope House, so this inspires me to reach out to them more often,” she said.

Bob Rodriquez, owner of the brewery and Hassanin’s husband, was proud of her efforts to help the less fortunate.

“All the kudos goes to her,” he said. “She approached me with the idea and I said, ‘Let’s do it’ … We really have her to thank for setting this up and the homeless people [at Pax Christi] will have her to thank for the bags.”

Hassanin said she is already considering what she can do next to give back. “I wanted to do more [bags] but I didn’t want to get over my head, we thought 100 bags was a good number,” she said. “Maybe the next time we do this we’ll do more.”

The bar manager of the brewery said she hopes this will encourage others to pay it forward and give back. “It means so much that they all came out to help out, we couldn’t have done it without them, Hassanin said. “I want this to motivate other people to do something similar and wanted to show its possible to do something like this.”

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County

Suffolk Nonprofits Attempt to Galvanize LI Populace for Census It’s a once-in-a-decade request, and this year’s census could determine just how much local schools, governments and nonprofits get in aid from the federal government. Not to mention, this year’s count could determine if New York could be sending one or two less U.S. representatives to Washington out of its current total of 27.

It has enough officials worried that New York State is funneling money around to different counties to get people to fill in the survey.

Suffolk County is expected to receive $1.019 million toward its efforts. Officials have called for additional funds toward the census in this year’s budget, though most don’t expect the money to materialize before the census starts rolling in mid-March. New York State has made $20 million available of a total of $60 million to go toward engagement efforts in local municipalities. $15 million is going to the state’s 62 counties.

This year, galvanizing the populace to take the census has become a phenomenon, with players at the state, county and local level putting a heavy emphasis on this year’s survey.

On the line, advocates say, is a correct political representation on a federal level as well as $675 billion annually in federal funds for prioritizing road work, school aid, grants and Medicaid funding.

Due to the 2010 census, New York lost two congressional seats, and some have said this year’s count could lose the state one or two more. Local groups, both small and large, have the task of energizing enough people to gain an accurate headcount.

Like herding cats, that’s much easier said than done

Suffolk County Complete Count Committee was created in 2019 in part by the nonprofits Health & Welfare Council of Long Island and Long Island Community Foundation to generate engagement for those efforts.

Rebecca Sanin, president of HWCLI, said they have around 300 groups, including nonprofits, religious organizations, business organizations and governments, participating at least to some degree in outreach among 11 subcommittees. The nonprofit has also established guidebooks and graphics for everyone from immigrant leaders to hospitals to senior citizens.

“We’re really trying to build momentum, where the end is a 10-year funding impact to our region,” Sanin said.

The committee has become a hub for joining up the disparate groups looking to promote the census. The state has its own CCC, and other counties have been encouraged to create their own committees. County Executive Steve

of arguing that filling out the census will mean more funding for their school districts and how it will offer them better political representation.

The complete count committee has organized 13 total groups on the immigration subcommittee who have all pledged to move through these communities. The issue, she said, is money, compounded with the amount of ground these Despite the online component, cen- volunteers have to cover, with only the some $1 million to be spread amongst all of Suffolk. sus promotion still requires boots on Still, she’s optimistic these hard-to-count arthe ground eas will be more active than 2010.

Stony Brook University has been active in The census is meant to track everyone, intrying to get students signed up for the count cluding those undocumented immigrants, in but have also started concerted efforts to order to get a full understanding of total popuencourage indigenous groups, especially those lation, but in 2019 the potential for a citizenship living on Long Island’s South Fork, to sign on question to appear on the census created a tornafor the census. do of partisan bickering, with opponents saying Despite how seriously census takers have such a citizenship question would specifically been in requesting surveys, that still has not target Latino groups and incentivize them to not stopped multiple areas coming back with low respond to the census, thereby limiting the poresponse rates, some barely above 50 percent. litical capital such groups could wield. Officials In Suffolk County presentations to the com- said the pro-citizenship question was needed to plete count committee, some communities are enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965, designed shown as much harder to count than others. to help blacks overcome legal barriers to voting While much of the North Shore shows a re- during the Jim Crow era. sponse rate of 70 percent or better, a large area In November of last year, The New York in Huntington and Huntington Station, with siz- Times reported on disclosures from the White able minority populations, have a response rate House hinting that Republican strategists had of 60 percent, at worst. political reasons for encouraging a citizenship At www.censushardtocountmaps2020, requestion, that it would increase Republican insearchers have used previous fluence and political power census data to track which aronce totals for the census were eas showed lower census pardrawn by undercounting resticipation. idents in largely Democratic In Brookhaven, one area areas. with low turnout happens to be Judges ruled under Title around the hamlets of Ridge 13, which states the governand Upton and in Selden and ment can only use data from Centereach, especially in the area along Route 112 that has a — Martha Maffei the census for statistical purposes. Collins reiterated there previous response rate of only will be no citizenship question 60 to 65 percent. on this year’s census, and all There are portions of Long information is kept extremely Island with much worse representation. There are certain parts of West Babylon with a re- confidential and secure.

Yet the idea still lingers in the minds of some sponse rate as low as 0 to 60 percent.

SEPA Mujer, a nonprofit immigrants rights residents, and it is something census advocates advocacy group, has chapters in several of the said they have had to work around.

Sanin and Maffei said the citizenship quesareas that show low response rates, including Riverhead, Huntington Station and Patchogue. tion has undoubtedly had a cooling effect toMartha Maffei, the executive director of the ward the census, though to what extent is hard nonprofit, said they have formed coalitions at to gauge.

“We feel we are going from one attack to antwo of their three chapters specifically to energize the community for the census. Many of other,” Maffei said. “There is a lot of trauma in their organizers and members have advocated this community.”

The general distrust in government and in for local immigrants to take the census which comes with the task of convincing the immi- government systems is high, and trying to engrant community the information will not be courage people “living in the shadows,” as used against them by immigration enforcement. Sanin put it, is where much of the past year’s “It’s the principle that we count, and we efforts have gone. “Fear nurtures an undercount, should be counted,” Maffei said. and an undercount nurtures our continued ineqUsually, she said, organizers take the tack uity,” she said.

Though not all see the incentivized online component as a good thing. Sanin said there are many who have a general distrust of putting information online, due to the many examples of private companies being hacked to get access to a user’s personal data. There is also a large digital divide, and many still do not have easy access or understanding how to use the online component.

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

People will start to see this year’s census mailed out in mid-March, and the census process continues for the next several months. Stock photo

Bellone (D) was named to the New York State Complete Count Committee by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D).

“Suffolk County is not only the largest suburban county in the state of New York, but we have the fourth largest and hardest-to-count populations in New York state,” Bellone said during a 2019 meeting with the Suffolk Complete Count Committee. Approximately 40 percent of county residents live in hard-to-count areas, he said.

County officials have hosted census job fairs this year and last, with positions paying $17 to $23 an hour.

Governments at both county and town level have started putting notices of the census in official emails and releases. Brookhaven Councilwoman Valerie Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station) had been drafted to partner with the complete count committee. She said the town is working on a project with the tax receiver’s office to send out a reminder in the midyear tax receipts that goes out to every household in Brookhaven. They have also started to include information about the census in town programs hosted this year and had representatives from the census table at town events.

“Undercounting of communities can have a domino or ripple effect on community projects and issues for years to come,” the councilwoman said in an email. “A complete and accurate count of your community can result in improved infrastructure and schools, better community health and programs and much more.”

Steven Collins, who works for the U.S. Department of Commerce as a partnership specialist for the census in Suffolk, said the big game changer this year is the now-four different ways residents are going to be able to respond to the census. People can now respond over the internet, over the phone or using the usual mailed in paper survey. The fourth way is when all other options are exhausted, and when census operators have tried to reach an individual by several other means, an enumerator will knock on one’s door.

‘It’s the principle that we count, and we should be counted.’

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University

Stony Brook Hospital Celebrates 40 Years Above, employees who began at Stony Brook Medicine 40 years ago, wearing red flowers, were honored at the hospital’s celebration. Below, an attendee looks at a time line display. Photos from Stony Brook Medicine

BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Stony Brook University Hospital has come a long way in its four-decade history.

On Feb.14, past and current employees of SBUH gathered at the Medical and Research Translation building to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the opening of the facility.

The idea of the region’s academic medical center was an ambitious undertaking, beginning in 1973 when construction began.

Five years later, the two iconic hexagonal structures were completed. From there, a yearlong mass recruitment process began in which about 800 people were hired.

Many of the hospital’s first employees didn’t know what to expect or in some cases how to get there.

“They said you take the Long Island Expressway then go north on Nicolls Road and when you get to the Star Wars set you’ll know you’re there,” said Lawrence Hurst, professor and chair of the Department of Orthopaedics at the Renaissance School of Medicine.

Hurst came to SBU in 1979 with the intent of being the hospital’s firsthand surgeon.

“It was an exciting adventure, the opportunity to become the first in a specialty was something I couldn’t pass up,” he said. “I was lucky enough to take full advantage of it.”

Extensive logistical planning began before the hospital opened the following year.

“When we came here, there were no patients, no equipment, we had a very small group of physicians in the beginning, now we have over 500,” Hurst said.

As part of the celebration, hospital officials

showcased a video presentation highlighting the facility’s accomplishments throughout the years and included interviews with employees who shared their favorite memories.

Some notable accomplishments included: doctors performing the first kidney transplant surgery on Long Island in 1981; the first Suffolk County police helicopter touching down on the hospital’s helipad in 1989; and in 1990, New York State designating the hospital a Level I Trauma Center. This past year, SBU opened the Children’s Hospital and MART Building.

In addition to the presentation, a time line and exhibit were on display throughout the building showcasing the hospital’s history.

Kenneth Kaushansky, senior vice president for health sciences and dean at the Renaissance School of Medicine, spoke about the reason he left San Diego to come to Stony Brook “I saw incredible potential when I decided to come here 10 years ago,” he said. “It had a good medical school and good health care facilities.”

Kaushansky said the further development of the medical school and the hospital over the years has been a “powerhouse.”

“We have become one of the best hospitals in the country, a premier health center,” he said.

Going forward, the senior vice president of health sciences said that SBU will continue to strengthen the hospital network throughout the Island and continue to advance the Renaissance School of Medicine.

“As technology improves, I believe the future of health care will be more geared toward tele-help, tele-EMS and wearable devices,” he said.

Carol Gomes, CEO of Stony Brook University Hospital, said she met many lifelong friends and colleagues when she began to work in the laboratory in 1985.

“I’ve been very fortunate to meet people along the way that have become great mentors to me,” she said. “I’ve been able to connect with them on a daily basis.”

Gomes said as she has progressed in her own career the hospital has done the same.

“We have continued to flourish as a health care organization,” Gomes said. “This celebration was a very special moment for me. I just think about the connections I’ve made over the years.”

The CEO of the hospital credited the facility’s staff.

“The employees are the lifeblood of the organization, they come to work every day,” Gomes said. “Our greatest strength is our staff.”

Gomes said if it weren’t for the staff, the hospital wouldn’t have had the clinical outcomes or the reputation for which it is known.

“Everyone has the same goal ... The dedication of the staff to our patients will always remain the same, it has been our one constant,” she said. “Stony Brook has been my home away from home.”

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Police Selden Man Arrested for Alleged Drunk Driving with Kid in Car Suffolk County police arrested a man Feb. 13 in Selden for an alleged DUI under Leandra’s Law with a 15-year-old child in the vehicle.

Police said a 6th Precinct officer observed a 2014 Honda Civic fail to stop at a stop sign and initiated a traffic stop at the intersection of Riviera Drive and Belair Road at around 9 p.m. When the officer approached the vehicle, he observed a 15-year-old boy in the front passenger seat of the vehicle. The driver, Jared Banfield, was arrested for DWI under Le-

Photos from Town of Brookhaven

From left, Councilmen Kevin LaValle and Neil Foley, guest speaker Derrick J. Robinson, Supervisor Ed Romaine, Councilman Dan Panico and Councilwoman Valerie Cartright.

Brookhaven Celebrates Black History Month

The Town of Brookhaven’s Black History Commission hosted its 29th Annual Black History Month celebration on Feb. 7 at Town Hall.

This year’s program included presentation of academic achievement awards to more than 77 top AfricanAmerican high school seniors from 14 school districts who achieved a cumulative grade point average of 90 or higher.

The commission also recognized its honoree and keynote speaker, Derrick J. Robinson, acting Suffolk County Court judge presiding over Drug Court and Mental Health Court. He is also president-elect of the Suffolk County Bar Association.

The theme of this year’s Black History Month celebration was African Americans and the Vote. The evening included musical performances by the Brookhaven NAACP, the Faith Baptist Church Choir and Taylor Niles, as well as a dance performance by Eugenia Woods.

Brookhaven Town Councilwoman Valerie M. Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station), the first woman of African American descent to serve on the Town Board, also serves as the Town Board Liaison to the Town’s Black History Commission.

The Black History Commission’s next event is the 6th Annual Juneteenth Celebration on Saturday, June 20.

andra’s Law. The 15-year-old was released to the custody of his mother at the scene.

Detectives charged Banfield, 35, of Selden, with aggravated driving while intoxicated with a child passenger 15 years old or younger (Leandra’s Law) and endangering the welfare of a child. He was held overnight at the 6th Precinct and was scheduled to be arraigned at 1st District Court in Central Islip Feb. 14. Attorney information for Banfield was unavailable.

— Compiled by Kyle Barr

Police Seek Man Who Allegedly Used Stolen Credit Card Suffolk County police said they are asking the public’s help to locate a man they say allegedly used a stolen credit card in Selden last year.

A man used a stolen credit card at Valero, located at 1274 Route 25, Nov. 20 at 11:20 p.m.

The credit card, along with other items, was stolen earlier that night from a vehicle in the Planet Fitness parking lot, located at 321 Middle Country Road in Selden.

— Compiled by Kyle Barr

Police said a man in this vehicle used a stolen credit card to buy gas. Photo from SCPD

Coast Guard Auxiliary to Host Boating Safety Course The Port Jefferson Flotilla of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is offering a Safe Boating Course. The completion of this course satisfies New York State and federal safe boating requirements.

The training course takes place Feb. 29 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Medford Ambulance Corps located at 1890 Route 112 in Medford. For more information visit www.

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Due to the new Brianna’s Law, which became active at the start of the year, all boaters under 26 years old are required to take a safety course. The age requirement will rise each year over the next several years until 2025, when people of all ages must take the course. Failure to comply could result in a fine between $100 and $250.

The course is also required for jet ski operators.

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SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to the LLC: 1070 Middle Country Road Suite 7-177, Selden, NY 11784.

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293 1/23 6x tmc NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUDGET VOTE AND ELECTION OF THE MIDDLE COUNTRY PUBLIC LIBRARY, TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a Special District Meeting of the qualified voters of the Middle Country Central School District at Centereach, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, will be held in the Centereach Building of the Middle Country Public Library, 101 Eastwood Boulevard, Centereach, New York, on Tuesday, April 7, 2020, at 9:30 A.M. prevailing time, for the purpose of voting upon the following items: (1) To adopt the Annual Library Budget for the fiscal year 2020-2021 and to authorize that the requisite portion thereof be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the Middle Country Central School District; and (2) To elect one (1) Trustee to the Middle Country Public Library to fill a five (5) year term commencing July 1, 2020, and ending on June 30, 2025, as a result of the expiration of the term of office presently held by Jacqueline Schott.

FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that for the purpose of voting at such meeting on April 7, 2020 the polls will open between the

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voter is eligible to vote at this vote/ election; if a voter is registered and eligible to vote pursuant to Article V of the Election Law, such voter is also eligible to vote at this election. All other persons who wish to vote must register. The Board of Registration will meet for the purpose of registering all qualified voters of the District pursuant to § 2014 of the Education Law on Tuesday , March 31, 2020 between the hours of 2:00 pm and 9:00 pm, prevailing time at the Library Building, 101 Eastwood Blvd., Centereach, New York and at the election/vote, at which time any person will be entitled to have his/her name placed on such register, providing that at the meeting of the Board of Registration he or she is known, or proven to the satisfaction of the Board of Registration, to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at such Special District Meeting for which the register is prepared, and that the register so prepared pursuant to § 2014 of the Education Law of the State of New York and the registration list prepared by the Board of Elections of Suffolk County will be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Board, and will be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District on each of the five (5) days prior to April 7, 2020 excluding Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm prevailing time; and FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that applications for absentee ballots for the election of Trustee of the Library, and for the adoption of the annual budget may be applied for at the office of the Clerk of the Board 101 Eastwood Blvd., Centereach, New York during regular business hours.

Such application must be received by the Clerk of the Board no later than 5 pm seven (7) days prior to the vote/election if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter or by 5pm on April 6, 2020 if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter. No

absentee voter’s ballot will be canvassed unless it shall have been received in the office of the Clerk of the Board not later than 5 pm on the day of the vote/election. A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots shall have been issued will be available in the Clerk of the Board’s office during regular business hours on each of the five days prior to April 7, 2020 except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.

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BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE MIDDLE COUNTRY PUBLIC LIBRARY John Hoctor, President 330 2/20 4x tmc LEGAL NOTICE TO THE TAXPAYERS OF THE SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a resolution was duly adopted by the Board of Fire Commissioners of the SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk, State of New York, on the 14th day of January, 2020, subject to a permissive referendum as provided for by Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law. An extract of the resolution is as follows: The SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT maintains a Capital Reserve Fund designated as the Capital Reserve Fund for Buildings and Grounds, Grounds Maintenance, Repairs and Capital Improvements known as Capital Reserve #1 under Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law in which account there is sufficient funds to accomplish the purpose hereinafter set forth; namely, the purchase of LED lighting fixtures for headquarters and Station 1, and it proposed to contract for such work in order to maintain the high stan-

dards of performance of the SELDEN FIRE DEPARTMENT in the discharge of its duties in preserving the lives and property of the residents of the community, and said work is deemed in the best interests of the residents of the SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT. The resolution further provides that there be transferred from the present Section 6(g) Capital Reserve Fund #1 of the SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT a sum not to exceed Fifty Thousand ($50,000.00) Dollars for the work, and the District Treasurer is authorized to effect such transfer from time to time to effect such work.

This resolution amends resolution adopted by the Board on July 30, 2019 by increasing the amount for the project from $25,000.00 to $50,000.00.

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Septic 1099 Forms Should Go to Contractors Not Residents

essentially a new tax is sure to both impact those who already participate and dissuade future participants.

What can be done? Bellone and his administration are Suffolk County has a water crisis. We must do all we can to working to come up with alternative structures for the SIP control our nitrogen waste to protect our drinking water, our program. Perhaps more can be done to clarify that transactions soil, our rivers and our bays. The county and many of our towns are between the county and the contractors to satisfy the IRS? have initiated rebate programs to encourage homeowners Or perhaps an offsetting tax rebate can be legislated? to install clean, nitrogen-removing septic Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-NY3) has systems. Suffolk County’s program, known written a letter to the IRS demanding they as the Septic Improvement Program, or by the reconsider the decision. But Congressman acronym SIP, has become a political football, Lee Zeldin (R-NY1) remains silent. Instead and it’s the public and the environment that are of joining Suozzi, Zeldin seems to support the losers. his fellow Republican Kennedy and once again ignores ways to save money for his SIP was designed to direct county payments constituents. directly to contractors, bypassing individual Does this surprise you? It should not, participants so their rebates would not be given Zeldin’s poor record historically on taxed as income. Suffolk County’s tax counsel environmental and financial matters. Or that delivered an opinion to the county attorney Zeldin has recently worked against New Yorkers ruling that 1099 forms from SIP should go to on the repeal of the SALT cap and on Trump’s contractors and not to consumers. This should retaliation against the state by suspending have been the end of the story.

By Perry Gershon New York applications to the Trusted Traveler However, Suffolk County Comptroller program. Zeldin’s Twitter feed offers perpetual John Kennedy (R), while engaged in a campaign against County Executive Steve Bellone (D) during praise of the president, attacks on our governor, but not a word the elections last year, disagreed with the tax opinion and on the septic taxation issue. Long Island needs representatives inquired of the IRS if county payments might be taxable to who will work for us — who have our back when the federal homeowners? Despite protestations from the county and government takes shots at us. Zeldin doesn’t fight for us. We have Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the IRS, always in need of a chance in November to show him how wrong that is.

Perry Gershon is a national commentator on business, trade, funds, said yes, why not?

The ruling was issued earlier this month. So now policy and politics. A congressional candidate for New York’s 1st unsuspecting homeowners are receiving 1099 forms reporting District, he holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale and a master’s in unforeseen additional taxable personal income. What is business administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Legislator Tom Muratore attended a community forum in his district hosted by Suffolk County Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart Feb. 18 . The meeting was held at the Selden Fire Department.

The purpose of the forum was to keep the public informed and updated on current crime trends, statistics, and topics pertaining to public safety and the police. Also in attendance was the inspector of the Sixth Precinct, Patrick Reilly.

Muratore had an opportunity to address the community members in attendance.

“Having been in law enforcement for over 35 years, I understand how important it is to keep the lines of communication open between the police and the people they serve,” Muratore said. “Public safety is a number one priority to maintain a good quality of life for our residents. I thank Commissioner Hart for coordinating this event in our district.”

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Perspective Your Turn Series on Brexit: Prime Minister Boris Johnson Gets It Done A Brit Reviews the UK’s Eventual Withdrawal from Europe

BY JOHN BROVIN DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Part 3 of 3 When I started this series in March 2019, I wanted to give U.S. readers a Brit’s inside view on Brexit. The term has now become such common currency over here, rather like the Latin phrase “quid pro quo,” that all I need explain is that Brexit refers to Britain exiting the European Union, which it duly did Jan. 31 of this year. On the same date the U.S. Senate rejected further witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump (R). It was hardly a red-letter day for western politics.

After publication of the first two articles, I was approached by residents of all age groups at the Stony Brook railroad station, in a deli, at a mall, in a coffee shop, at a party, even at an outdoor art show. Everyone expressed an intrigued interest in Brexit and, it’s fair to say, concern for my English home country. What on earth was going on? Why indulge in such potential self-harm?

When I left you with my June article, the United Kingdom and EU had agreed on another revised exit date, Oct. 31, but with no parliamentary majority the way forward was still far from clear. “Will there be a general election, second referendum, another EU extension or a hard no deal?” I asked.

It came to pass there was a general election Dec. 12 and a further EU extension to Jan. 31, with no second referendum or precipitous hard deal (to date). With the U.K.’s withdrawal from the EU, what happened in the interim?

A third prime minister in three years

For a start, on July 24, Boris Johnson achieved the prize he had wanted from his days as a privileged aristocratic youth at Eton College and Oxford University: the prime ministership of the U.K. After being elected as leader of the Conservative Party (also known as the Tories), he took over from the hapless Theresa May (C) who was unable to deliver on her promise to leave the EU after three years in the hot seat.

Brexit had thus claimed another victim, making Johnson the third prime minster since David Cameron (C) fell on his sword after a dismal and inept Vote Remain campaign during the June 2016 referendum.

Without a working majority, Johnson was confronted by a parliament determined to ensure that if Brexit happened there would be no hard deal. The new prime minister even tried, unsuccessfully, to suspend parliament for five weeks in an effort to stifle debate and ram through the withdrawal agreement by Oct. 31. Queen Elizabeth II was inadvertently embroiled when she dutifully signed the prorogation request of Johnson, who made the flimsy pretense of needing time to prepare for the Queen’s Speech, but the U.K. Supreme Court ruled otherwise. I suspect Her Majesty was not amused.

There was clearly a power battle being fought between parliament and the prime minister, reminiscent of the current war of attrition between Congress and Trump.

The generally pro-Brexit Tory Party, with its band of rabid hardliners, was armed with the 52-48 percent Voter Leave victory of the 2016 referendum. Amid calls from the Brexiters for “democracy” to be respected and with a definite all-round war weariness in the nation, it was clearly going to be difficult for the main opposition parties — Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish National Party and the Greens — to overturn “the will of the people.”

At one time, the charismatic speaker of the House of Commons, John Burcow, even invoked an arcane 1604 parliamentary principle to stifle a government motion. (Think about it, that’s 16 years before the Mayflower landed on our shores.) However, the opposition could not find agreement among themselves for a unified approach, even with voting support from 21 Tory rebels. This rump included former Chancellor of Exchequer Philip Hammond, Father of the House Ken Clarke and Sir Winston Churchill’s grandson, Nicholas Soames. Incredibly these respected establishment figures were thrown out of the Tory Party in petulant retribution. You see what I mean about parliamentary drama.

With time running out, the EU begrudgingly extended the Oct. 31 deadline to Jan. 31 after a last-minute fudged agreement with Johnson over the vexatious Irish border backstop question.

December general election

Parliament was still in deadlock, but eventually a general election was called for Dec. 12. Campaigning on a resonating “Get Brexit done” ticket, Johnson won a huge working majority of 80 seats to break the parliamentary impasse. His Conservative Party brushed aside the Labour Party and Liberal Democrats, also Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party. Labour, in its worst general election result since 1935, ignominiously saw the demolition of its “red wall” in the industrial north of England, the traditional home of socialism. The Lib-Dems, under Jo Swinson, went all out with a remain message. Yet this bright young leader couldn’t articulate on the stump the benefits of staying

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in Europe and she even lost her own parliamentary seat.

The main opposition winners were the Scottish Nationalist Party, under Nicola Sturgeon, which swept Scotland. Watch out for a possible future referendum for Scotland to leave the U.K. and become a member of the EU. Richard Tapp, of Burgess Hill, West Sussex, added in an email, “Besides the Scottish Nationalists, the pro-EU parties in Northern Ireland also did well, at the expense of the pro-Brexit Democratic Unionist Party whose leader in Westminster lost his seat to the nationalists of Sinn Fein who campaign for a united Ireland — and so remain in the EU.” Johnson had targeted the disaffected, forgotten part of the nation — the provincial middle class as well as the working class — with a Trump-like populist message, just as the new prime minister had done beforehand with the referendum. The general election was a damning indictment of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party, both for his far-left policies and his “sit on the fence” approach to Brexit.

Interestingly, there are concerns in the U.S. about the Democratic Party following the Labour/Corbyn route to self-destruction in the next election with a progressive socialist agenda. James Carville, President Bill Clinton’s (D) 1992 election-winning strategist, was particularly animated on the subject in the Financial Times and on “Morning Joe,” referring to the unelectable Corbyn by name.

Brexit is done

And so, with no obstacles in his way, Johnson “got it done” by signing a withdrawal agreement with the EU, meaning Britain officially left the union at the end of January after almost a half-century of membership. Brexit is now fully owned and controlled by the prime minister and his Conservative Party, with the background help

of Dominic Cummings, the architect of the Vote Leave campaign’s victory in 2016.

The coverage on BBC World News in Brussels revealed genuine European regret at the loss of Britain as a vital contributing member to the EU, including politicians from Poland and Sweden. Yet the expected party atmosphere in the U.K. didn’t materialize because the country was still split right down the middle — and it was raining on Farage’s celebration parade outside the Houses of Parliament. Financial Times columnist Simon Kuper had a perverse explanation for the low-keyed reaction: “On Jan. 31, many Brexiters spent their ultimate moment of triumph attacking elitist traitors instead of celebrating.” This revenge, he said, “is so much of the point of populism.”

Those Brexit voters expecting a brand-new dawn, with a return to the glory days of the British Empire free of the EU yoke, will have to wait until at least Dec. 31 this year for all kinds of trade, security and legal negotiations to be agreed before the cord is cut.

During this transition period the U.K. will continue in the EU’s custom union and single market, while still complying with EU rules (but without any more say in the lawmaking process in the European Parliament). Johnson has indicated there will be no extension, leading to the nightmare scenario of a possible no deal commencing Jan. 1, 2021. It will not be an easy negotiating ride.

I’m still of the view that a people’s referendum should never have been considered by Cameron on such a critical and complex matter, which will affect generations to come. His irresponsible bet was compounded by the Brexiters never explaining the downsides — and dangers — of leaving Europe, including diminished influence on the world stage. Already China is waiting in the wings.

Michael Hanna, of Hassocks, West Sussex, echoed my thoughts in an email on the night of Jan. 31: “In about two hours time Boris and his Gang will tear us out of the European Union on the say so of just 17.4 million, a mere 37 percent of the electorate. This is politically the saddest day of my life. For the last 47 years we have been members of the great European family of nations to which we should naturally belong.

This has given us huge benefits which the Tory government is knowingly throwing away.”

With thanks for their on-the-spot observations to my British friends Roger Armstrong, Chris Bentley, Mike Hanna, Martin Hawkins, John Ridley and Richard Tapp.

John Broven, a member of the TBR News Media editorial team, is an English-born resident of East Setauket, who immigrated to the United States in 1995. He has written three award-winning (American) music history books and is currently editing the first book on New York blues.

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Don’t Eliminate Bail Losquadro Calls on State to Increase Road Funding Reform, Fix It

Sometimes change can take a bit of time.

Months after state legislators moved to eliminate cash bail for low-level crimes, issues with the law, plain for all to see, have created another partisan fight in Albany. Democrats have said they wish to take a closer look at the criminal-justice reform measures originally passed as addenda to the state’s 2020 budget.

Republicans, despite knowing the bill was coming down the pike for months since it was passed in the middle of last year, started calling for complete repeal at the outset of the law being enacted.

They should have given input earlier.

We agree that taking a closer look at this law is a necessary measure and, while it shouldn’t be repealed, it can be made stronger with revisions.

We understand the basic intentions of the bail reform law. In the past, many who were arrested for allegedly committing a low-level crime were unable to make bail, while others with fatter wallets could simply walk out and continue with their lives until their trials.

Those who couldn’t afford to pay up and had a job would lose days at their workplace and potentially could lose the job itself. Pretrial incarceration can also be detrimental regarding child custody. Of course, sticking a person in prison for extended periods may even incentivize innocent people to take a plea deal just to get out, now with a crime on their record. And despite bail bond companies cries of loss of revenue when it comes to a suspect’s stay in jail, the costs are on the taxpayers.

Several local Democrats have asked to revise the law, including state Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) and state Sen. Jim Gaughran (D-Northport). Englebright’s focus is on barring dangerous criminal defendants from being released. We agree.

There needs to be some kind of direction for judges to hold those who can be a danger to others, whether they are repeated arsonists, stalkers, domestic or child abusers or have stacks of DWI arrests.

Republicans and Democrats need to take things a step further and review the more-than 400 offenses — most misdemeanors and some felonies — that enable one to be released before trial without paying bail. There are differences between acts such as gambling offenses, unauthorized use of a credit card and bribing a witness compared to the reckless assault of a child, committing a hate crime or vehicular manslaughter.

Those who have had their mugshot taken time after time also should be treated with more scrutiny than a first-time offender.

But Republican calls for a complete repeal do not help engage with what has long been a broken and lopsided system, that obviously benefits the rich above the poor.

New York should look toward New Jersey, whose bail reform, enacted in 2017, was supported by none other than Republican Gov. Chris Christie. Even their rollout wasn’t completely clean but statistics have shown crime has gone down, and offenders are no more likely to skip out on court dates than they had been in previous years.

The New York reform bill started on the right track, looking out for those who were unable to pay bail, but it needs closer scrutiny. A closer look is needed to give judges more leeway to keep those who are a danger to the public off the streets and, on the other side of the issue when it comes to deciding on a bail amount at arraignment, to take into consideration not a person’s flight risk but their income and severity of the alleged crime.

It should be noted that taking a closer look at this law will take time and, while Election Day 2020 is looming in the background, decisions on such a bill where lives are at stake shouldn’t be rushed to appease some voters.

I am incredibly honored to have been elected by my colleagues as president of the Suffolk County Highway Superintendents Association. This two-year term coincides with the start of my new four-year term of office as superintendent of highways for the Town of Brookhaven.

The purpose of this organization is to promote the free exchange of ideas between members of our industry and, perhaps most importantly right now, advocate for state and federal infrastructure money on Long Island, specifically for Suffolk County.

We are at a pivotal point in New York state. Our road system is in desperate need of additional funding to bolster the local investments made by our municipalities.

With our chronically underfunded infrastructure, it is no coincidence that our state continues to lose population to other parts of the country. Brookhaven, Babylon and many other towns across Long Island have significantly increased our local share of funding for road work; it is high time for the state to do the same.

While the governor and state legislature seem to announce major projects for New York City and other parts of the state every year, Suffolk County and other suburban parts of the state are left fighting each year just to maintain funding levels that are far too low.

Unfortunately, this year was no exception.

In the governor’s State of the State address, he announced $6 billion in capital funding for an expansion of Penn Station and another $300 million to “reimagine” the Erie Canal. While every project proposed holds benefits, where are the transformational projects for Long Island, for Suffolk County, for the townships here fighting to keep pace with stagnated infrastructure funding? The latest press release from the governor’s office references the nation-leading infrastructure investment they are proposing. This funding, statewide, does not even equal resurfacing the total lane miles of road in the Town of Brookhaven.

We all know that high profile projects make for good headlines. A new bridge, a new train station or a rebuilt airport all serve

the needs of a large portion of the population, that much is obvious. What is lost in the glitz and glamour of those ventures is that the residents who use them still have to traverse woefully underfunded local infrastructure to get to these new facilities.

The mechanism by which aid is distributed to municipalities by New York State is called the Consolidated Highway Improvement Program (known as CHIPS).

The base allocation stands at $483 million statewide and has not been adjusted — for inflation or otherwise — in many years. I am calling on the governor and state Legislature to, at minimum, double this allocation to provide local departments of public works the funding we so desperately need to improve local roads.

For years my colleagues and I have been advocating for exactly this. The time is now for our representatives to deliver for Long Island.

Daniel Losquadro (R) Town of Brookhaven Highway Superintendent

A Thank You for TBR’s Readers’ Choice Award On Feb. 5, Leah Dunaief, publisher of Times Beacon Record News Media, presented the TBR 2019 Readers’ Choice Awards to scores of winning local businesses and professionals from the North Shore of Long Island.

Winning this award was doubly meaningful for us, as winning was based solely on the write-in votes of loyal customers and clients for each of the businesses. The

event clearly demonstrated TBR’s support and commitment to community, business, and our shared values and goals. Not only did the award winners get to meet their fellow professionals and business owners, we all felt valued and appreciated as an integral part of our larger community. It was a wonderful and rewarding experience, and we at Ecolin Jewelers want to extend our heartfelt thanks to all of you who voted for us.

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Zeldin Needs to Answer to Constituents

This week, Congress is on recess. These are considered “state work” periods, where members of Congress come home to their district, and meet with constituents to address concerns and issues they may have.

Unfortunately, Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) has not scheduled any town halls for this recess, and has not held any for the past three years. This means that the many questions I have over his recent votes will not be heard or addressed in a public forum.

I would like to know why Zeldin voted against removing the deadline to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, a key piece of legislation that would enshrine equality in our Constitution. I would like to know why he voted against the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, which protects workers rights to form a union at their workplace.

I would like to know why he voted against the Protecting America’s Wilderness Act,. I would like to know why he voted against emergency supplemental appropriations for our fellow citizens in Puerto Rico. I would like to know why he voted against the resolution that condemned the Trump administration’s harmful cuts to Medicaid.

These are just a few of the votes that Zeldin has cast since returning to Washington last month. And unfortunately, constituents will not be able to demand an answer, as we will again be denied a public town hall.

Aside from these troubling votes, the biggest question that I have for Zeldin is why he refuses to do his job and honor basic representative democracy by holding publicly announced forums where constituents are free to ask questions, and

receive answers. I would like to know why our member of Congress has provided us with fewer opportunities for representative democracy than many of his counterparts around the country. This is an injustice to the taxpayers of this district and to representative democracy itself.

Perhaps Zeldin is afraid of the angry voters that will confront him in this type of setting. That is understandable, but it is not an excuse to shirk his responsibility. Public service, especially in politics, is not for the faint of heart.

If Mr. Zeldin is too frightened to face the people whose taxes pay his salary, perhaps it’s time to replace him with someone who will.

Shoshana Hershkowitz South Setauket

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Opinion

Recognizing the Stresses Beyond Our Control

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he could feel the tension mounting.

She had been down this road, or, more specifically, on this runway, numerous times before.

Flying didn’t bother her. She had taken many flights before she met her husband.

Since they’d been married, they had also taken trips each year.

That’s when the trouble started. He didn’t blame her, D. None but as someone who of the above shared his feelings and wanted to help

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF him when she could, she often felt at a loss as this moment approached.

She looked at the stranger next to her, eager to encourage a new person to enter the

dialogue and distract him from his frustration.

At first, the stranger didn’t engage in conversation, preferring to read his book and to look through the movie offerings on his phone.

The ride around the airport took a while, as the plane stopped a few times to let other flights land.

Unable to break the ice with the man on the other side of her, she turned to her husband and hoped the game they’d developed might help.

“Hey,” she said, “how long do you think it’ll take this time?”

He grumbled something between his gritted teeth.

“Well,” she said, not bothering to ask him to repeat himself when she felt that the words were less relevant than the angry emotion that built up inside of him. “I’m going with eight.”

“Eight?” he spit back at her incredulously.

“No way! It’s going to be at least 12.”

When the plane stopped and the Jetway came out to meet it, the man started his

stopwatch, holding it up so she could see.

After three minutes, the passenger on her other side, who had heard the abbreviated conversation and could feel the tension rising between them as the man glared, unblinking, at the front of the plane and all the passengers between him and the next step on his trip, decided to break the frustrated silence in their row.

“Are you guys guessing how long it’ll be before you get off the plane?” he asked.

“Yes,” she sighed, grateful for the relief from watching and taking care of her husband.

A flight attendant made an announcement.

“Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, we’re waiting for a gate attendant to fix the lock on the other side. It should only be a few minutes,” she said.

The man near the window shook his head.

The woman shrugged at what she hoped was her new ally.

“Well, we’ll just start now,” she offered, as she set her own stopwatch on her phone and encouraged him to follow the new timing.

“You see,” she said, “he gets angry when people aren’t ready to go after the plane lands.”

He turned away from the front of the plane long enough to explain himself to the stranger near the aisle.

“They turn off the seatbelt sign and people don’t get their luggage,” he snarled, gesturing with his palm at all the offending passengers between the door to the rest of his travels and the seat that barely contained his irritation.

“Look at them, sitting there. It’s going to take each of them a while to get off. They have to find their bags, pull them out and get off the plane.”

The stranger offered the weary wife a supportive look. She appreciated the gesture, even as she made sure all her items were ready to go.

“These things are beyond your control,” the stranger offered.

“That’s true, but it still bothers him,” she sighed as she held her bags tightly in her hand.

overheard saying that they didn’t want to get married or to have children were dismissed as simply being odd. Looking back on it now, it took courage to make either declaration in most of the 20th century.

Welcome to the 21st century, where marriage is considered something of a quaint option. Living together? How romantic! Been together 10 years? You must like each other. Have two children together? How nice. No one thinks to call them by a derogatory name. There is no shame in their unmarried parental state. Oh, decided to marry after these many years? Lovely. Your younger daughter can be the flower girl, your son the ring bearer.

In fact, according to the NYT article written by Hilary Sheinbaum, we’ve gone even further from the centuries’ old norm. Many women are opting out of relationships and finding they prefer to be single, is the latest word on the subject. “Instead of moping over singledom or aggressively trying to find partners with arbitrary deadlines in mind, they are declaring to be happily unmarried and proudly find solace in living solo,” she said. This is despite the many dating apps, matchmakers

and sometimes astonishingly frank and graphic love advice out there in magazines, books or Google. And despite raging hormones.

“When you’re not seeking partnership, you are in a very relaxed calm inner space and generally more comfortable with who you are,” said Carla Manly, a clinical psychologist who specializes in relationships and self-awareness and was quoted in the Times.

“A lot of times in relationships, you need to make sacrifices. You don’t have any sacrifices to make when you are on your own. You make all the decisions,” said Genesis Games, another therapist.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as recently as 2016, 110.6 million U.S. residents at least 18 years old were unmarried. That is about one-third our population. Women made up 53.2 percent of that number. Many of them might agree with that sentiment.

So, being the self-proclaimed expert on the subject, how do I feel? Yes, being in complete control of one’s own life, at least as far as relationships go, has its satisfactions. It makes for a wonderfully selfish existence. Best of all, however, is to have a choice.

A Rush into Marriage No More

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his coming Monday my husband and I would have celebrated 57 years of marriage. Except we won’t because he died 32 years ago, just shy of our 25th anniversary.

This means that I have been unmarried longer than I was a wife, which makes me something of an expert-of-one on the subject of marrying or being single. It also explains my riveted reading of “They’re More than Happy Not to Get Married,” in the Sunday Styles section of this past week’s New York Times. Say, what?

First, we ought Between to consider how you and me the idea and institution of marriage

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF have incredibly changed over the last century. Indeed, we have lived through a

marriage revolution. I was 22 when I became a bride, considered young today. At the time, my mother told me just before the ceremony, as she was helping me get into my gown, that “I had just missed being an old maid.” After all, she was entitled to that perspective since she married in 1925 at 17.

There was never any question that I would marry. Pretty much all of us in my class expected to marry shortly after graduation. The only question was whom we would marry, and the answer was usually whoever we had been dating — usually chastely — for the preceding couple of years. And we certainly wanted to have our children before we turned 30 and, as women, our reproductive prospects began to dim. One close friend even married before senior year ended and was already pregnant as she crossed the stage to receive her diploma from the college president.

It was the same expectation for men. My husband-to-be was in his last year of medical school. Yup, time to get married. We followed the script, set down by our respective parents and society. The one or two people we

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