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TIMES of MIDDLE COUNTRY C E N T E R E AC H • S E L D E N • L A K E G R O V E N O R T H

Vol. 16, No. 52

April 8, 2021

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A small taste of history Middle Country Library’s bi-weekly history column

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New Village Congregational Church of Lake Grove Amongst the Middle Country Public Library’s many historical artifacts are a few that explain just how far the area has come from its pastoral roots.

The picture and story below comes courtesy of a collaborative effort among the librarian staff.

There were many pastors over the years, but perhaps none was more important than Rev. Otis Holmes, who before his retirement, expressed his wish for the church to have a parsonage built for future clergy and donated his land to be used for that purpose.

The Parsonage was completed in the spring of 1886. In 1927, George Gould and family donated a bell and the church members provided a belfry to house it.

The belfry was erected atop the structure pictured here, crowning the church we see at 2772 Middle Country Road in Lake Grove today.

In 1970, the Town of Brookhaven purchased the church building for $1 and restored it. Now operated as a museum, it is still the scene of an occasional summer or fall wedding.

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On March 27, 1815, New Village residents met at the home of Jeremiah Wheeler to establish a Congregational Church.

In 1818, a meetinghouse plan was drafted, and erected, on the north side of Middle Country Road. The building served first as a union church — one half owned by the Congregational society and the other half by the Baptist and Presbyterian societies.

Sunday mornings would find the worshipers seated on rough planks across sawhorses with no backs or cushions. Lunches were brought along to sustain them through the afternoon service.

Eventually the Presbyterians united with the church in Setauket, and the Baptists relinquished their claim. In 1845, the church was incorporated under the name First Congregational Church of New Village.

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Centereach High School’s Jonathan G. Mears has been nominated by the White House’s Commission on Presidential Scholars as a candidate for the United States Presidential Scholars Program.

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Cougars win it in shootout

BY BILL LANDON DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM It was Centereach attack Alicia Ciauri’s shot that found the back of the cage in the final minute of the 1st half that put the Cougars on the score board in a Div I matchup at home against William Floyd April 6.

Floyd struggled to stay up-field as Centereach tried to run out the clock hoping for the 1-0 win.

The Cougars would have to wait. Floyd managed to find the cage with less than 13 seconds left in regulation to tie the game 1-1 to force overtime. The contest was still

dead-locked as the 10-minute overtime period expired, forcing the best of 5 shootout to decide the win.

The Cougars made good in a matchup they almost squandered when Mia Juvelier drove here shot home in the shoot-out, followed by Lia McNally who scored and at cleanup was Reilly Schmidt whose shot rocked the box to win the game.

The win lifts Centereach to 5-5 in their division with three games remaining before post season play begins.

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Centereach Alicia Ciarui at home against Floyd.

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Give a hoot

Driving through our newspaper coverage areas, we’re surprised at the amount of roadside litter.

Fortunately, the warmer weather means various community groups coming out and cleaning up a plot of land or section of roadway. However, to quote an old Woodsy Owl ad from the 1970s, “Give a hoot! Don’t pollute.”

It’s not the responsibility of civic associations, businesses and chambers of commerce to clean up other people’s messes, even though their efforts are applauded. People need to be aware that littering is not cool and then be more mindful of how they dispose of trash.

Throwing garbage out car windows or tossing it wherever while walking is not being a responsible resident. Not properly covering cans where wind can pick up garbage in the container and send it rolling down the street also is not helping matters either.

Unfortunately, we live in a time when people think it’s OK to dump trash on the side of the road or in a park, too.

The current coronavirus pandemic has made the littering problem even worse. In an attempt to keep themselves and others healthy, people have been wearing masks and gloves. But for some reason, many of those people feel they need to discard the protective gear immediately. One of the memories that many of us will carry with us long after the pandemic is gone is how often we saw gloves and masks laying in shopping center parking lots.

Litter is not only unsightly, but it can also wind up in our local wooded areas and waterways where it can negatively impact wildlife. The debris can inhibit plants from thriving, too.

There will always be people who will mindlessly throw out garbage without a care in the world about where it winds up, as long as it’s not in their car or home. But when papers, cups, fast food bags and other items are just left in the grass or bushes, it almost provides an invitation for others to follow suit and carelessly throw unwanted items wherever they please.

Everyone is responsible to pick up after themselves. For our municipalities to clean up after residents means increased tax dollars.

Of course, that doesn’t mean we all can’t encourage our elected officials to rethink how often the departments of transportation clear the roadways and open areas of litter, if they do at all. Looking at our local roads, it’s clear that they need to be cleaned more often until all residents are playing their part in keeping their communities clean.

With Earth Day just a couple of weeks away, isn’t it time for North Shore residents to send a better message to those who visit here or think about living here? Let’s show we care about the place where we live and respect it, plus the environment. That can start today simply by ensuring garbage is properly disposed of even during times where it may feel inconvenient to do so.

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Yes. You read that right.

It’s no less verifiable than “a few bad apples.”

Both are gross assumptions, based either on blind trust or equally blind suspicion.

The slogan “Defund the police” was thoughtlessly conceived and poorly constructed. So absurd as to arouse suspicion of the author’s actual intent.

It appears to have produced more police defenders than defunders.

The very prospect is absurd.

We need the police, and the police need funds.

Without an organization of welltrained, abundantly equipped and disciplined officers, our communities would surely turn into anarchy … a lawless, Mad Max chaos.

A police force is vital, and it’s no accident that we call it a ‘force.’

Sometimes force is required. Even force resulting in death.

We properly invest extraordinary power and authority in each officer to enforce our laws and civility.

These indispensable men, and now

women, are necessary in order to maintain safe conditions in our society.

We must give the police our support, trust and, yes, funding.

And, the public should make allowances for, and acknowledge that mistakes and misjudgments happen.

Law enforcers are humans with the frailties we all share.

An officer can confront a situation where rapid decisions and responses must be made without the luxury of deliberative time.

Police officers deserve both the benefit of the doubt and extra protection.

Assaulting or harming an officer each warrants an especially harsh consequence.

In return, we expect that the power and authority empowered in each officer be used in a fair, reasonable and judicious way.

Yes, defunding is foolish talk.

However, reforming, restructuring or renovating is not.

When an officer blatantly and deliberately abuses that sacred trust — the very authority vested in the police — by

breaking the law, especially, but not limited to, in a life-threatening way, a most serious crime has occurred.

Furthermore, when a police officer commits a felony that is covered up by another police officer, which may too often be the case, dual felonies have been committed.

It’s not camaraderie.

It’s not professional courtesy.

It’s complicity to a crime and should be punished accordingly.

We fund police to prevent crime, not to cover up illegal behavior behind a blue wall of silence.

As the face of the public, a police officer deserves extraordinary considerations and protections.

Conversely, officers who commit, aid or abet a crime, deserve harsh punishment for using or abusing the authority entrusted in them. Not merely suspension.

Not just forced retirement or termination.

Jail sentences.

Bruce Stasiuk Setauket

Outdated thinking ignores what we know about cannabis Gov. Andrew Cuomo [D] signed the Marijuana Regulation & Taxation Act into law March 31. The MRTA not only legalizes recreational marijuana, it restructures criminal penalties and regulates the drug as a controlled substance. It is long overdue legislation, and New York has now become the 15th state to legalize cannabis.

Much of the revenue generated will go back into communities who have been disproportionately impacted by the drug wars. This is part of the Community Grants Reinvestments Fund mandated in the bill. The fund will go to community organizations that provide job training and placement, reentry services after incarceration and adult education services. Money is set aside for studying long-term impacts of cannabis use, as well as funding for the state Education Department.

The MRTA begins to address the

racist systems that disproportionately impact Black and brown communities.

For Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes [D], who championed this legislation, that was the main point. Peoples-Stokes said in a recent interview on NPR, “I can assure you that it’s not important to me that people smoke it because I don’t think they should. But the fact of the matter is that they do. And they do it to the tune of multiple billion dollars a year in the state of New York. And at the same time, you know, the system has been incarcerating way too many people generationally and negatively impacting their lives. And so, for me, I saw it as an opportunity not just to legalize a product, to get access to revenue but legalize the product, get access to revenue and use it to reinvest in the lives of the people that had been destroyed due to mass incarceration.

Specifically, people of color. I mean, majority people in this country who smoke marijuana tend not to be people of color. But in terms of the who was criminalized, it generally was Black and brown people.”

There is talk of municipalities on Long Island “opting out” of this and attempting to prevent the selling of marijuana. This is outdated thinking that ignores what we know about cannabis. Alcohol and cigarettes are sold everywhere and are far more addictive than marijuana. Opting out would mean a loss of potential revenue on Long Island, which is ill advised as we struggle with deficit. I ask our local legislators to make decisions based on facts rather than feelings and anecdotal evidence. Long Islanders deserve to have the economic and racial justice benefits of the MRTA. Shoshana Hershkowitz South Setauket

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oodbye. It’s simple and direct. You’d think it’d be easy, like changing the channel with a remote control, closing a door or pushing the keyless start button on a car.

And yet, the art of hanging up the phone, which, technically isn’t hanging up the way we used to place a phone on the wall so much as it is pushing a red button, isn’t as simple and synchronous as it ought to be.

Sometimes it feels as if two people are preparing to turn the simultaneous keys D. None necessary to start some of the above top secret process,

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF with one of them ready to turn the key while the other slowly fishes through a messy drawer, chatting away about how pushing a button to start a car takes

us even further away from the days of using a hand crank to start a car or pushing the propeller around to start a plane engine.

When people want to disconnect, they have used variations of “see ya,” “I gotta go,” or, one of my favorites from my days covering Wall Street, “I gotta hop.”

As an aside here, Wall Street loved the “gotta hop” phrase almost as much as my math professors loved QED, Latin for “thus it is said,” at the end of a proof.

Anyway, I was never especially good at disengaging. It’s as if my brain decided, “You got what you needed, now, stumble through a labyrinth of unrelated ideas.”

I’ll give you an example.

“Okay, well, thanks for taking the time to speak with me,” I said.

“You’re welcome. Have a good afternoon,” he responded.

“Right, afternoon. That’s that time after noon. Makes sense, right?” Wait, why are you still talking? That’s not even vaguely insightful.

“I suppose that’s correct,” he replied, not wanting to be rude.

“Well, anyway, it was good talking with you.

I wasn’t disappointed.” I wasn’t disappointed.

First, that’s a double negative, and second, who cares whether you’re disappointed? Does that suggest you had high expectations, low expectations or no expectations? More to the point, what’s your point?

“Glad to hear it,” he sighed.

“Well, anyway, I should let you get back to work. I have a lot of work this afternoon, too. I’ve got to write a column about people who can’t get off the phone quickly when the conversation has ended.”

“Sounds like an opportunity for personal growth,” he replied.

“Oh, I get it. That’s clever and quick. Okay, so, I hope to talk with you again some time.”

“We’ll see.”

“No, wait. I’m sorry. It won’t always be like this.” Oh, no. I’ve polluted the water for future conversations. Say something clever. Hello? Say

something! Maybe the line has gone dead. That might help. “Are you still there?”

“Yes,” he said. “But, you know, I should get going.”

“Yeah, me, too. Have a good ...”

“Afternoon? Yes, thanks. See ya!”

I have been on the other end of social interactions that won’t, or don’t, seem to end.

One of the challenges of mask wearing is that the usual nonverbal signals, like pursing my lips, twitching, or exhaling slowly, aren’t visible to the person talking with increasing urgency at me.

People sometimes seem to hit the “play” button on their monologue, sharing the quirks they find so charming about their children, as if their children are the first ones in the history of the planet ever to own a dog or to eat a grilled cheese.

Nodding and trying to feign interest, I wonder how I can disconnect without being rude.

Then, it dawns on me to borrow from my Wall Street friends.

“Hey, that’s really interesting. You know what? I gotta hop.”

Also, little did we know how many changes we would witness and endure in an industry that had not been much altered since Ben Franklin and his partner bought the Pennsylvania Gazette in Philadelphia almost 300 years ago. Under their management, it became the most successful newspaper in the colonies. They printed words on paper by setting hot type then, and printers were doing the same right up to the decade just before we began. At that point, a huge change was taking place. The industry was switching over to what was called, “cold type,” meaning words printed by a typesetter, a kind of massive electric typewriter.

In the world, the Vietnam War had finally ended, the oil crisis that had cars lined up at gas pumps for miles and high interest rates were all giving way to Ronald Reagan, the return of the Iran hostages, and the United States of America became “the shining city on the hill.”

After three years in publishing, we won the top prize in the New York Press Association Better Newspaper Contest. Women poured into the workplace, many providing second incomes, successful equal-pay-for-equal-work court challenges were won and it was the beginning

of desktop computers. We got our first, an Apple, to manage subscriptions in 1982.

By the end of the decade, the Berlin Wall came down, the Cold War was declared ended, we had started a second paper to the east and a third paper to the west just before the Crash of ’87, and we rented more space in our office building.

As we slid into the 90s, the Gulf War seemed easily won, cable TV broke through, President Bush (41) was not reelected and we were into the Clinton years. By then the prices for computers had come way down and we owned more than a dozen, then two dozen. Our staff, too, had expanded as the national and the local economies recovered and bloomed. We bought out the Port Jeff Record and preserved its name and legacy by calling our combined Port Jefferson papers the Port Times Record.

Then it was the end of the century, indeed the end of a millennium, and we were into the Bush-led (43) administration, thanks to the Supreme Court. Before we had a chance to recover our equilibrium from Y2K, we tragically suffered 9/11/2001. They closed the banks that day, a brilliantly sunny Tuesday,

and I was locked in for hours because I had been there early to pick up our loan for the purchase of the Three Village Herald.

By this time, radio, television and cable had all been elbowed aside in the communications and news world to admit the internet, and our website was born to augment our, by then, six newspapers from Huntington to Shoreham/ Wading River. America elected and then reelected its first Black president, who gave us Obamacare. For our part, we started making inroads on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube on behalf of our readers and advertisers.

Then we had a new president, who had never run for office before, and the cover blew off the ball of news coverage as passions became heated and epithets flew. In his last year, the pandemic arrived, sowing chaos on the world. We also made a full length movie, a historic narrative called “One Life to Give,” and it won acclaim. Now atmospherics are calmer with a seasoned politician as our current president, and we are all together watching to see where our lives and our news media will next go.

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ho would have thought that we would be marking our 45th anniversary in the middle of a pandemic? Given all that has transpired in the world over these intervening years, we shouldn’t be so surprised at this unparalleled event.

On April 8, 1976, we published our first issue, and it was a good size.

We had attracted a bit of attention. We were a handful of women starting a second newspaper in town.

Between Someone mentioned at you and me the time that we didn’t

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF stand a snowball’s chance in hell of surviving. Little did we know, inside our innocent bubble of optimism, that he was right.

Here we are then, your weekly snowball, bigger now with six hometown newspapers, a website of about 150,000 visitors, social media platforms, and a lot less innocence.

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