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Middle Country Central School District’s Unity Drive PreK/Kindergarten Center’s Cool Cats recently created Valentine’s Day cards for the children, families and staff members at the Ronald McDonald House of Long Island. Christine Carrion’s students, nicknamed the Cool Cats, were thrilled to use their creativity and honor the spirit of this day of love by showing their support for the children and

families currently residing at the Ronald McDonald House. On Valentine’s Day, a friend of the Cool Cats, Douglas Elliman of Douglas Elliman Real Estate, helped deliver these special Valentines to Ronald McDonald House, whose mission is to provide assistance and support to sick children and their families and to keep them together during their trying time.

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Broadway experience Members of Newfield High School wind ensemble recently attended the “Phantom of the Opera” on Broadway. The student-musicians went to see the world-renowned show the day after their successful pops concert. As the school year heads into the spring, the district’s talented musicians from both

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Learn about high blood sugar testing Dip a Stick for Diabetes will host a workshop and adult program at Starbucks in East Setauket March 7 to give people an easy and painless way to see if they could have high blood sugar. The workshop educates on symptoms of high blood sugar and demonstrates how to use a urine dipstick to test for it. Representatives for Dip a Stick for Diabetes will answer questions and give out kits to test for high sugar. The mission of Dip a Stick for Diabetes is to reduce the risk of diabetes complication by encouraging early diabetes diagnosis. Early diabetes diagnosis and normalizing blood

glucose levels are the best ways to minimize the risk of diabetes complications, according to the nonprofit. Demonstrations will be held between 10 a.m. and noon March 7. Starbucks is located at 246 Route 25A in East Setauket. For more information about the workshop visit www. dipastick.org. To host a Dip a Stick for Diabetes workshop at a specific location, contact Allison Beatty at 631-630-2262 or email at allison.beatty@dipastick.org.

Middle Country Public Library Sharing stories The Middle Country Public Library is launching a new project and invites the community to participate in Sharing Our Stories, an intergenerational oral history project. The project brings together senior citizens and teens in Middle Country to bridge the generation gap and strengthen connections among community members. The library is currently looking for local citizens that were born before 1955 and who are interested in sharing their notable stories and memories on camera. The MCPL Media Teens group will interview and film participants in the spring of 2019 about their life experiences for a special documentary film to be shown at the library in July. The project is made possible with support from the Kline Family Foundation. If you or someone you know is interested in participating, contact Jim Ward at 631-585-9393, ext. 273, visit the library online at www.mcplibrary.org or stop by any reference desk for an application.

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Legislators, task force aim to reduce plastics in Suffolk County BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM County legislators are looking to restrict the sales of several plastics, some harmful to health and others harmful to the environment. Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket), along with members of the Legislature’s Single-Use Plastic Reduction Task Force announced four policy initiatives intended to reduce plastic and polystyrene waste in the county at a press conference Feb.13. “Today we announce policies that will come to define our county’s environmental legacy for generations to come,” Hahn said in a press release. Hahn and the task force have outlined regulations directed at local businesses and the county. One of the proposed bills focuses on polystyrene, banning it in food service products including plates, cups, containers and trays. It would require businesses in the county to use biodegradable products, though the bill would exempt items used to store uncooked eggs, raw meat, pork, fish, seafood and poultry. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services classified styrene as a potential

human carcinogen and, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, polystyrene manufacturing process is the fifth largest creator of hazardous waste in the United States. Styrene has “recently been upgraded from a possible carcinogen to a probable carcinogen — a cancer causing chemical,” Legislator Sarah Anker (D-Mount Sinai) said. “Long Island has some of the highest cancer rates in the country.” Hahn said polystyrene and plastics are causing a waste management problem as well. “You see waste in waterways, on our beaches, on our roadways,” she said. A second bill would require single-use plastic beverage straws and stirrers to only be given in Suffolk County by request as a means of reducing plastic consumption. As an alternative to plastics, businesses would give customers biodegradable products, such as paper straws. There is an exception for those who have a disability or medical condition. Hahn and the task force also plan to prohibit the use of plastic products in all Suffolk County parks as part of their third initiative. Legislator William “Doc” Spencer (D-Centerport) supports the proposed bills.

“We see that these things are happening — I know with the plastic bag ban there was some push back,” he said. “But it is nice to be able to do something that will make a difference and that works.” In conjunction, the task force proposed a requirement that all future contracts with concessionaires at county parks include a restriction on the use of plastic and nonbiodegradable cups, utensils and beverage straws. Hahn and the task force advised the issue of waste produced by these products is a more urgent problem than some people realize, and the county needs to clean up its act. These bills are a continuation of Hahn’s and others countywide initiative to reduce singleuse plastic straws. One project, called Strawless Suffolk, started in July 2018 and looked for 100 seaside restaurants in Bellport, Greenport, Huntington, Northport, Patchogue and Port Jefferson to take a pledge to stop using plastic straws by Sept. 3 last year. Hahn cites some landfills on Long Island are almost at full capacity and said that it not just about recycling more, rather its reducing the use of plastic items and to reuse things.

“We as a society as a whole need to continue to research and study this issue and product,” she said.” To further decrease the use of plastic products, a fourth initiative will call to replace existing water fountains with new ones designed to allow bottle filling at county facilities that have 10 or more employees and in county-owned parks that have water dispensers. “People will be less likely to use plastic water bottles and will be able to fill their own reusable bottle if they bring with them to our county buildings, parks and beaches,” the Setauket legislator said. The two nonlocal laws in the initiatives package, the installation of water fountains in county facilities and the concessionaires requirement, could be passed as early as March 5, depending upon legislative discussion and a vote. The other two local laws that apply to businesses in the county will require a public hearing, but could end up as law as early as April 9. “Plastic waste has become a tangible threat to our $5.6 billion tourism-driven economy,” Hahn said. “We are Long Islanders, our identity is tied to the water.”

Brookhaven makes second attempt to woo Amazon with Calabro airport BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Most couples agree there’s nothing worse than receiving a breakup message on Valentine’s Day. Unfortunately, that’s the message New York City received Feb. 14 when Amazon said it would no longer build its next headquarters in Queens. Reactions from Long Island’s elected officials was swift. U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) said the blame rests on New York’s unfriendliness to business. “New York’s 1st Congressional District would be happy to be Amazon’s Valentine today and take these 25,000 great-paying jobs,” Zeldin said in a statement. “New York wouldn’t even need all the subsides if we didn’t have one of the worst business climates in the United States. We must level the playing field, reduce taxes and burdensome regulations, stop picking winners.” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), who were both heavily involved in the Amazon deal, also made public comments lamenting the loss. Meanwhile, Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) reaffirmed the town would welcome the retail giant with open arms. Now that Amazon is no longer courting New York City, Romaine offered to sign over the 795 acres of Brookhaven Calabro

Airport in Shirley if the corporation chooses Brookhaven as a site of their future headquarters. “We would close and give them the airport,” he said. “That’s a transfer of property. We’re interested in economic development.” The town had offered the airport to Amazon before they had originally settled on Queens. The supervisor said the same tax deal proposed by Cuomo is still on the table should the company want to come to the East End of Long Island. The state offered a total of $1.2 billion in refundable tax credits to Amazon, in addition to providing a $505 million capital grant to aid in building its new headquarters. With New York City also pitching in, the total aid package would have been at least $2.8 billion. Romaine said the Brookhaven Industrial Development Agency could make up the same amount of aid should Amazon rethink its plans and come back to Long Island. A representative from the Brookhaven IDA did not respond to requests for comment. The town supervisor was adamant the airport location was perfect for Amazon’s needs, boasting of its proximity to Sunrise Highway, the Long Island Expressway and William Floyd Parkway. The site is also a few miles away from Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Mastic-Shirley train station. He said the proposed location’s close proximity to the Hamptons, Shoreham and

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Wading River would be an extra incentive for those looking to make day trips. “They’re looking for a campus-life situation, and this would provide that,” Romaine said. “If they wanted to they could keep one of the runways for light aircraft. That is totally negotiable.” Despite the pushback the Queens Amazon headquarters received from residents and city politicians, Councilwoman Jane Bonner (R-Rocky Point) said Brookhaven residents are much more open to the idea of a company

like Amazon coming in. “We’re looking for corporate businesses that would create good-paying jobs,” she said. Romaine said he knows it’s a long shot, especially with Amazon saying in a Feb. 14 blog post it would not be conducting its new headquarters search again. Instead, the corporation would be looking toward northern Virginia and Nashville, Tennessee, for its new headquarters location. “I think it’s worth a shot,” the supervisor said. “Nothing ventured, nothing gained.”

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December 19, 2018 BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE MIDDLE COUNTRY PUBLIC LIBRARY John Hoctor, President 266 022119 4x tmc NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF Suffolk, NJCC-NYS COMMUNITY RESTORATION FUND LLC, Plaintiff, vs. Walter Raeder, Jill Raeder, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee’s Report, Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale and Amendment of Caption duly filed on January 3, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY on March 28, 2019 at 1:30 p.m., premises known as 5 Daell Lane, Centereach, NY. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York, District 0200, Section 566.00, Block 08.00 and Lot 016.000. Approximate amount of judgment is $575,462.14 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 29696/2013.

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Police seek man and woman for Setauket BJ’s shoplifting Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County police 6th Precinct Crime Section officers are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate the man and woman who allegedly stole food from a Setauket store. A man and woman allegedly stole food from BJ’s Wholesale Club, located at 4000 Nesconset Highway in East Setauket, Jan. 20 at around 10:10 a.m. Suffolk County Crime Stoppers offers a

cash reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with information about this incident can contact Suffolk County Crime Stoppers to submit an anonymous tip by calling 800-220-TIPS (8477) or texting “SCPD” and your message to “CRIMES” (274637). All calls and text messages are kept confidential.

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Police search for men in Setauket shoplifting case Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and 6th Precinct Crime Section officers are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate the men who allegedly stole items from a Setauket store last month. Two men allegedly stole clothing from Kohl’s, located at 5000 Nesconset Highway, Jan. 5, at approximately 8 p.m. The men fled the store in a white vehicle being driven by another man.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with information about this incident can contact Suffolk County Crime Stoppers to submit an anonymous tip by calling 800-220-TIPS (8477) or texting “SCPD” and your message to “CRIMES” (274637). All calls and text messages will be kept confidential.

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WMHO raises $5K for cancer research BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The Ward Melville Heritage Organization hosted A “Taste” of Stony Brook Village … Ladies Night In! Feb. 26 at WMHO’s Educational & Cultural Center. Gloria Rocchio, president of WMHO, said the organization reached the event fundraising goal of $5,000 for breast cancer research at Stony Brook Medicine. The night featured a fashion show celebrating clothing store Chico’s 25th anniversary in Stony Brook Village

Center, which was the chain’s first one in New York. The night also included music by Roberta Fabiano, food sampling, hair and virtual reality demonstrations, raffles, giveaways and raffle baskets. Members of Roseland School of Dance were on hand to teach attendees how to dance the Macarena and the cha-cha slide, too. Rocchio said WMHO raised $45,000 during its Walk for Beauty at the Stony Brook Village Center Oct. 21. She said the organization plans to present a check for $50,000 to Stony Brook Medicine in the near future. Photos below and above by David Ackerman; other photos by Rita J. Egan

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New iconography at Greek Orthodox church showcases faith and artistry BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The figures painted on the walls and ceiling of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Assumption in Port Jefferson inevitably draw the eyes up, ever up, past the icons of saints and religious figures to the top of the dome several stories from the floor, up to Greek letters surrounding an image of Jesus looking directly down on the pews below. Religious images and iconography glow in the soft light, which streams down from the apex of the chapel, images that, having started more than a decade ago, have been finally finished after years of painstaking work. Between the scaffolding used by the artists who were finishing up their work, images of St. Haralambos, the Nativity of the Theotokos, the baptism and the entrance of the Virgin Mary all adorn the walls, painted on fabric that is adhered to the wall, the kind of sight those of the 6th century must have had on the walls of nowancient Byzantine churches. High above the nave’s pews, only a few spots needed to be completed by Feb. 21: a handful of arches above the towering windows and the finishing of some icons. By the weekend, the chapel was completed. “I’m delighted to put on canvas the life of Christ and the saints, and it’s very enjoyable and rewarding,” said iconographer Dimitris Gkinos. He and most of the other painters, who work for the Greek iconography company, Alevizakis Icons, only speak a little English, but their words were translated by Father Demetrios “Jim” Calogredes,

Top, the church nave seen from the back of the pews; inset, iconography painted for the Greek Orthodox Church of the Assumption in Port Jefferson. Photos by Kyle Barr

who has seen the iconography go up since he came to the church in 2009. The iconographers hired to ﬁnish the chapel’s paintings are a mix of artists from all over, including the U.S. and Serbia, but mostly Greece. “I am from Serbia, and I wanted to become an artist and then an iconographer,” said Dragomir Djekic. “I ﬁnished college in Belgrade, Serbia

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SBU forum broaches segregation, housing, education inequality on LI BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM While de facto segregation among Long Island’s school districts and housing has been entrenched for decades, there is a growing academic movement to bring people closer together. As part of the forum, “Housing and Racioeconomic Equality” Elaine Gross, president of the Syosset-based advocacy group ERASE Racism, which co-sponsored the event, along with professors from Duke and Johns Hopkins Universitys discussed the history of racism and segregation in the U.S. and how it has affected public housing and education. Gross argued that there is racial segregation and inequality crisis in housing and public education on Long Island. “There are folks that think that things are fine how they are,” she said. At the forum hosted at the Hilton Garden Inn at Stony Brook Univesrity, Gross argued that there is severe government fragmentation on Long Island, which in turn makes it easier for racial discrimination in housing and public education. Nathan Connolly, a history professor at Johns Hopkins University, said we have to rethink what we know about segregation. “We are under the impression that segregation ended due to a combination of moral arguments, like [Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s] I Have a Dream Speech, and that segregation was too expensive to maintain,” he said. “Segregation is profitable,

and it didn’t end — it is still ongoing.” Connolly added due to many Jim Crow era policies, white supremacy has been baked into our political and governing structure. “In the 1920s people began to institutionalize groups like the Ku Klux Klan,” Connolly said. “They had chapters in cities like Detroit, Chicago and Washington, D.C.— it was a dominant force of political organization.” In many ways, the experts argued Long Island, in terms of its development of housing, is the perfect picture of what structural racism looks like. Gross stated some towns and school districts on Long Island are more segregated than others, showing areas like Levittown, whose black population has only risen 1.2 percent since 1947. At an ERASE Racism forum in December, Gross provided data from New York State Department of Education that shows a school district like Port Jefferson is made up of 80 percent white students, while in a district like Brentwood close to 80 percent of students are Latino while 12 percent are black. The panelists argued this racial steering of populations dates back to the time of the Great Depression. “[There was] a notion that anything that allowed unregulated movement of people would lead to economic instability,” Connolly said. “You had to generate a way to keep everyone in place, while at the same time ensuring broad economic growth.”

One way this was done was through redlining, or the denial of services to different races through raising the prices on services, or in this case, homes. Connolly said by removing these people’s options in moving around or getting a loan with a low interest rate it meant they couldn’t own homes and couldn’t accumulate equity, which in turn generated a racial wealth gap. Gross mentioned examples of this racial steering on Long Island. Three years ago in Commack, African American renters asked about vacancies at an apartment complex. They were told there were none. When white individuals asked, they were shown the vacancy, given applications and were encouraged to apply. ERASE Racism, along with the nonprofit Fair Housing Justice Center, took property owners Empire Management America Corp. to court, arguing it had violated the Federal Fair Housing Act and the Suffolk County Human Rights Law. The duo reached a successful settlement of $230,000 and required changes to the rental operations at the apartment complex. Kim Manturuk, associate director of research, evaluation, and development at Duke University provided possible solutions to segregation on Long Island. “Adapt a metropolitan approach, that has these cross district governing bodies that try to simplify, organize together things like education, infrastructure development among

other things,” she said. Though she cautioned that even when you have these procedures in place, it’s no guarantee that you get the desired results, and they need to find ways to make desegregation profitable. She mentioned in her own community of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, they have something called the Penny for Housing Fund. “One penny of every property tax dollar collected in the entire county goes into a housing fund. We use that money to incentivize developers to build housing that has an affordable housing component that cuts races and ethnic lines,” she said. If developers want to build a housing complex in the North Carolina county, they would have to set aside 10 percent of the apartment to families that are making 80 percent below the median income in the area. Gross said the change needs to begin on the local level. She stressed the importance of building diverse communities. “We need educators that buy into this change,” she said. “Also students — educating them about our history, one that is not heard about in schools.” Gross said it will take a collaborative effort to show that something like this can work. “People don’t believe — it is hard to dispel myths to them in the face of facts,” she said. “Unless they can see it and see the students and the community thriving, they won’t buy into it.”

Suffolk County asks the question: what to do about marijuana legalization? BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM When it comes to legalizing recreational marijuana, the debate continues in Suffolk County. More than 100 people filled the Suffolk County Legislature chambers Feb. 25 for a public hearing on the legalization of recreational marijuana and its potential impact. The over two-hour meeting fueled a contentious debate between attendees, with supporters pointing to the tax revenue the county could gain from possible legalization and the health benefits attributed to marijuana. Opponents argued that it is a quality of life issue and their view of the plant as a gateway drug, supporting the idea of the county opting out. County legislators in the health committee held the hearing to gather input from the community as New York State inches closer to legalization. Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) expressed his support for legal recreational cannabis in his inaugural address in early January. John Durso, president of Local 338, a union that represents close to 300 workers in the NYS medical cannabis industry, said he supports

legalization and views it as a potential source of economic development in the county — if done right. “As we got to know more patients, caregivers and medical professionals, we learned even more about the benefits of medical cannabis,” Durso said. “In easing symptoms for those who are ill or those who suffer from chronic pain, [it gives them] the ability to live more fulfilled lives.” Durso added the legalization of cannabis is an opportunity to expand beyond the five percent of the New York population who are currently enrolled in the state program and allow more to benefit from its effects. Kim Laube, executive director of nonprofit social services organization Human Understanding and Growth Services, said instead of focusing on just one drug we as a county need to address all drug use for the sake of children. “When it comes to the young developing brain there are no such things as safe drugs,” Laube said. “Schools across Long Island are fighting this — I just don’t think we are ready today to allow this to come [into the county].” At first, her stance was a strong no for

recreational marijuana, but now with legalization potentially on the horizon she hopes it can be delayed as long as possible. “Let’s think of how we can build our drug prevention infrastructure,” she said. “Let’s ensure before we roll this out that every youth has access to prevention as much as they have access to drugs.” Troy Smith, deputy director of the Empire State NORML, an advocacy group for the regulation and safe sale of marijuana, said he is not advocating for legalization, rather regulation to an existing industry and safe access to the plant. “I would like to urge you all to just say ‘no’ — don’t opt out,” he said. Smith said many law-abiding citizens partake in the consumption of marijuana, and legalization would lead to the existing business being regulated better so customers are protected. He also added by opting out the county would forfeit tax revenue and benefit drug dealers and criminals. David Falkowski, owner of Open Minded Organics in Bridgehampton, which grows industrial hemp and sells CBD oil, echoed Smith’s sentiments of not opting out.

“If by chance the county feels like it needs to opt out, I just ask them that this decision is not left up to a small board of temporarily appointed representatives and that it goes to a referendum vote,” he said. His sentiments was followed by loud applause from pro-legalization supporters. Some residents expressed concerns about quality of life and potential second-hand smoke hazards. If the county chose not to opt out, one resident asked representatives to outlaw and prohibit smoking in multiple unit-dwelling buildings to avoid the issue of people getting a contact high. For Kimberly Miller of Deer Park, marijuana isn’t all about getting high — it is more personal. As a recovering alcoholic and sexual assault survivor who suffers from depression, anxiety and PTSD, Miller said, for her and others like her, microdosing marijuana fills the gap traditional medicine doesn’t provide. “Today I’m here asking you to fill one last gap for me,” she said. “Legalize and regulate marijuana, like you do with alcohol and tobacco. Let me buy it from a reputable business and let me pay taxes on it. Build some commerce. It’s a win-win for both of us.”

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School districts, tighten your belts

In her role as professional Zeldin scolder, Shoshana Hershkowitz, in The Village Times Herald Feb. 14 edition [“Rhetoric flies in the face of Jewish values”] sanctimoniously shooting way before aiming, actually slammed Rep. Lee Zeldin [R-Shirley] for being in the forefront of a bipartisan, well-deserved condemnation of Rep. Ilhan Omar [D-Minnesota]. Readers, familiar with the congresswoman’s anti-Semitic comments, might be wondering exactly how Zeldin’s actions betrayed “the character of our district … and … Jewish values.” On Jan. 29, Zeldin began a Twitter exchange with Omar critiquing her appointment to a committee with oversight of United States foreign policy. Her response fell well below Shoshana’s criteria of applying “intellectual rigor” and engaging in “meaningful dialogue.” Omar taunted, “It’s gonna be fun watching him lose his marbles.” It was then, Zeldin brought to light 2016 Omar’s requesting leniency for nine Minnesota immigrant men accused of trying to join the Islamic State terror group.

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This year, more than ever, Long Islanders are about to find themselves in a jam when it comes to taxes. It’s been a little more than a month since employees received their 2018 W-2 forms. While that extra $20 or maybe $60 in each paycheck felt great to pocket in January 2018 due to passage of President Donald Trump’s (R) Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, it probably doesn’t feel quite so good now. Thousands of middle-class residents are facing a sobering reality upon calculating their 2018 tax returns. Many are finding out their anticipated tax refund has turned into an IOU to Uncle Sam. It’s in part thanks to the elimination of several federal deductions of moving expenses, home equity loan interest or, particularly, the $10,000 cap on state and local taxes deduction. It’s the SALT cap that is playing a major factor in reducing or elimination people’s anticipated federal tax return. The average property taxes for Suffolk homeowners is $9,333, according to a 2017 analysis by ATTOM Data Solutions. It’s even higher for many property owners along the North Shore in Setauket, Huntington and Smithtown. Now, there’s nothing to help offset Suffolk’s high taxes. For the average Suffolk homeowner, 60 percent of their annual tax bill is due to educational costs, according to the 2017 study. Or, more than half can be attributed to your local school district’s tax levy and annual budget. As many North Shore residents come to the realization their property taxes alone exceed the SALT deduction limit of $10,000, school districts are starting to unveil their first drafts of the 2019-20 budgets. While most districts, if not all, anticipate a proposed budget that stays within the state-mandated 2 percent tax cap, any increase in taxes no matter how marginal will continue to put an increased burden on residents. It is an undeniable truth that providing our children with a good, solid education in a safe setting is of the utmost importance. We must beg the question — is there some way to do it in a more cost-effective manner? We’re not asking school administrators to cut corners but think creatively when drafting their 2019-20 budgets. Whether the state-mandated tax levy cap is 1.83 or 2.58 percent, we’re asking you to think of cost-saving measures — for example, collaboratively purchasing goods and services cheaper in bulk — to help keep the school taxes increases far below that cap. If we were to think of the state-mandated tax cap as a ceiling, we want to ensure there’s adequate space or gap between the budget’s ceiling and the annual increases. Everyone has to pull together to keep living on Suffolk’s North Shore affordable, one part of which is keeping taxes as low as possible. As school district taxes make up the largest portion of our taxes, we have to ask districts to please tighten your belts a little more and keep those tax levies low.

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Rep. Omar deserves bipartisan rebuke Within that context, he tweeted, “Those poor innocent ISIS fighters & Palestinian terrorists right? Give me a break! That’s a problem no matter your religion or gender Ilhan. Your anti-Semitic & anti-Israel hate is strong & wrong & those terrorists have US blood on their hands as well.” In a subsequent interview, Zeldin stated, “I’ve been in the military now for over 15 years. … I would lay down my life overseas and in the Middle East, not just for American freedom, but to protect an innocent Muslim.” Far from “hateful rhetoric,” that’s the kind of selflessness found in “There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” [John 15:13]. Isn’t that a core principle found in most faiths? Twelve days after Zeldin’s initial callout of Omar’s anti-Semitic leanings, he was joined by 25 members of the Democratic Caucus. They circulated a letter asking their leadership to condemn anti-Semitism citing “recent rhetoric from certain members within our caucus.” Rep. Max Rose [D-NY] added, “Congresswoman Omar’s statements

are deeply hurtful to Jews, including myself.” He continued: “At a time when antiSemitic attacks are on the rise, our leaders should not be invoking hurtful stereotypes and caricatures of Jewish people to dismiss those who support Israel.” On Feb. 11, the Democrat hierarchy, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi [D-California] joined a growing bipartisan condemnation of Omar with a statement that read in part: “Congresswoman Omar’s use of antiSemitic tropes and prejudicial accusations about Israel’s supporters is deeply offensive. We condemn these remarks and we call upon Congresswoman Omar to immediately apologize for these hurtful comments.” So, Zeldin and Pelosi found common ground in a well-deserved bipartisan rebuke to Omar’s “anti-Semitic tropes” and prejudices. And that’s “not in the best interest of constituents in the district”? What a tragic day that would be for CD1. Jim Soviero East Setauket

Where dogs are not allowed — and allowed It seems that the general public needs another reminder that dogs are not allowed at West Meadow Beach. During a recent picture-perfect Saturday, I encountered several families walking their dogs on Trustees Road. If you have ever been to West Meadow Beach, you know it is impossible to miss the many “ No dogs allowed” signs. All the families acknowledged that they did in fact see the signs. They just choose to ignore the rule/law. One man told me to “mind my own business and to keep walking.” Then taunting comments followed asking if I was the “dog police — go ahead and arrest me.” Another person walking commented to them as well, and they turned and left. One couple just kept walking their large dog. It doesn’t matter if you feel the rule/ law is annoying and you feel your dog deserves a walk on the beach. There is

a set rule that all dogs are not allowed. Meaning, your dog is not the exception to the rule. For information: West Meadow is a wetland reserve. As far as I know, all North Shore beaches have the same “no dogs” rule. Certain South Shore ocean beaches during the off-season allow dogs. Even better news is that right here, in the Three Villages, we have three amazing places to bring your dog for a beautiful and longer stroll. They are: 1. Avalon Park in Stony Brook village with wonderful trails, farmland and vistas. 2. Frank Melville Memorial Park, including the ponds and Bates House, with 24 acres of beautiful trails including one along the bay, and a paved trail around the pond. Lots of other dogs to meet, too. 3. The Greenway Trail of more than

3 miles, end to end, of safe and quiet strolling. Again, lots of dogs and happy families walking them. If you and your dog want to get out of town, there is Blydenburgh County Park in Smithtown. They have a dog park where your pet can run free in a fenced-in area. I encourage all people who come upon a person blatantly ignoring the rules of West Meadow to politely encourage them to walk their pet at one of the above mentioned locations. To simply walk by them, without bringing attention to the fact that they are being disrespectful, is encouraging them to continue this rude practice. Also, where is the beach warden? I thought we had a paid public servant of the beach living in a beautifully renovated beach cottage? Susan Blake Setauket

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Opinion

To wave or not to wave, that is the question

ait, was that at me? How am I supposed to know? She’s still waving. I could wave back, but what if she’s waving to someone else. Should I put my stupid hand in the stupid air and risk the possibility of looking stupid? Yes, this happened to me many times during my adolescence. How was I supposed to react when someone I kind of knew, D. None or maybe wanted of the above to know, was waving in my direcBY DANIEL DUNAIEF tion? Sometimes, I pretended I didn’t see the person waving, while

I casually looked around to see if anyone near me was responding. I probably looked like I had a neck twitch, as I scanned the area to see if it was safe to wave. These days, the waving conundrum has taken a different form, especially after we moved away from the tristate area. It appears that the Northeast and Southeast have different rules for waving. In the Northeast, we wave when someone we know well walks by us in the car. If they don’t see us, perhaps we offer a quick and polite tap on our horn, just to let them know we saw them and we’ll likely text or email them later. If someone we’re pretty sure we don’t know waves, we immediately assume that someone else is the recipient of their gesture — they have a small dog on the loose and we better slow down, or their children are playing a Nerf gun game and might dart into the street. If they continue to wave, we squint for

a while, trying to ﬁgure out if maybe they’ve lost weight. It could be they’re someone we might have met casually at one of our kids sporting events, or they want us to sign a petition, or even buy a product we’re sure we don’t need because we can’t stand all the crap we already have in our own house. Of course, if we have our defensive curled upper-lip action going too quickly, we might scare away our son’s teacher, our daughter’s assistant coach or a new neighbor who has introduced herself to us four times. In the Southeast, however, the rules are different. Most of the people in the passing cars wave when I walk the dog. Yes, we have a dog and, no, you can’t pet him even though he’s pulling as hard as he can to get to you because I have to bring him back inside so I can do some writing. I’ve stopped trying to ﬁgure out the source of the amicable gesture and I wave back. My son, who sometimes accompanies

me on these dog walks, wondered, “Hey, do you know that person?” He is still playing by the rules of the Northeast. I explained that I wave at every car, even the likely empty parked vehicles in case someone is sitting in them, because that’s what you do here. I told him I’ve conducted my own experiment, where I don’t wave and I see what happens. More often than not, the person slows down and waves even more vigorously, as if to say, “Hey, I’m waving here. Now it’s your turn.” Kids in the modern era seem to have solved the waving problem. They do a quick head nod, which could be a response to a similar gesture from someone else or it could be a way of reacting to music no one else hears. Then again, they’ve probably ﬁgured out how to make a thinner, acne-free virtual version of themselves wave at cartoon versions of their friends.

President Johnson: a Civil Rights hero

efore February’s Black History Month moves away for another year, I would like to share with you the exciting story I read in Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book, “Leadership: In Turbulent Times,” with lessons from four presidents as leaders: Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson. Now you might be thinking that’s not the sexiest subject to be writing or reading about, but in her storytelling hands, it is a page turner. We all know too well that Johnson, the Democratic vice Between president, became president when you and me John F. Kennedy BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. At that time, Kennedy’s progressive legislation was totally bogged down in Congress, going nowhere. What might not be so well known is that LBJ, as he was fondly known, was a “master mechanic” of the legislative process for he had come of age in politics in Congress. “It was his ﬁerce resolve

not simply to dislodge Kennedy’s stalled agenda but to realize a society built on racial and economic justice far beyond the [FDR’s] New Deal and [Kennedy’s] New Frontier,” Goodwin wrote. Taking advantage of the short burst of sympathy and support that he expected to realize from the nation, Johnson, a Texan, wanted to get the contentious civil rights bill, designed to end segregation in the South, enacted. “We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for 100 years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter, and to write it in the books of law,” he told Congress in his address to the nation on Nov. 27, 1963. But ﬁrst he needed some congressional momentum to oil the rails and cleverly called for Kennedy’s tax cut to pass. Less divisive than the issue of civil rights, the bill had passed in the House after 13 months but was opposed by Virginia Sen. Harry Byrd, a conservative Democrat and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Conservatives then adamantly believed in a balanced budget. The idea of tax cuts came from liberals. Johnson was able to work out a deal with Byrd. If he could get the proposed budget down below $100 billion in 1965, Byrd would bring the bill to the ﬂoor for a vote. With great effort, Johnson did, the bill was voted on and the Revenue Act of 1964 was passed into law on Feb. 26, barely three short

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months after the assassination. Now came the bigger challenge: civil rights. Once the tax cut bill passed, promising more revenue from increased business that could be spent on social services, Lyndon Johnson focused his attention and his legislative expertise on securing the mandate of law for civil rights. To say the least, Southern Congressional Republicans, many of them Johnson’s friends, adamantly opposed his effort. He liked to tell them his personal story about his longtime black employees, his housemaid and butler, Helen and Gene Williams, and his cook, Zephyr Wright. Each year Johnson asked them to drive his extra car from Washington, D.C., back to Texas, a threeday journey. One year Johnson asked Gene to take along his affectionate beagle as well. It was then that Johnson learned how difﬁcult such a trip was for those of color: almost no places on the road to stop and eat, almost no bathrooms in which they were allowed, few places to sleep. “A colored man’s got enough trouble getting across the South on his own, without having a dog along,” Gene explained. Now, all these years later, the winner of the best picture at Sunday’s Academy Awards, “Green Book,” tells us the same story about traveling through the South in the 1960s with its unjust system of segregation. Johnson knew his passionate advocacy for this bill would separate him from the South and from

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his Southern friends and colleagues. Johnson confronted those in Congress with how wrong segregation was and tirelessly worked the legislative system for passage of his bill. He challenged Virginia’s deﬁant Judge Howard Smith, a Democratic congressman and chair of the House Rules Committee by resorting to the discharge petition, a rarely used procedure, to blast the bill out of committee with the help of a majority of representatives. He rallied those outside the House to pressure their elected representatives to free the bill. The strategy worked, as leaders all over the country organized to do just that. Once out of committee, the House passed the strongest civil rights bill since Reconstruction. Next came the Senate. Johnson took on Richard Russell (D-Georgia), Senate leader of the Southern opposition, in a pitched battle that proved history is the result of individuals in the right place at the right time. Only a son of the South could have persevered at that juncture. Johnson managed, with the help of Republicans, and especially Senate minority leader, Everett Dirksen (R-Illinois), to break the Southern-led Senate ﬁlibuster. The bill then passed in the Senate. On July 2, Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. He ended by saying, “To the extent Negroes were free, really free, so was I. And so was my country.”

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