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Vol. 33, No. 4

December 19, 2019

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The school district presented Briggs’ family with a portrait of their husband and father. In addition, the corner of King Street and Bedford Avenue now contains the honorary street sign featuring Briggs’ name.

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Town

Local Students Band to Gather Fresh Food for Needy

BY LEAH CHIAPPINO LCHIAPPINO@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

A group of local teenagers have come together to form a local charity, which they have named Don8tions, in hopes of providing soups to families in need.

The group’s founding members consist of freshman twins Joshua and Zach Young, who both go to P.J. Gelinas Jr. High School, sisters Anna and Abby Morrongiello of Sachem and Meena Tommasino-Storz of Ward Mellville.

Meena and Anna are sophomores, and Abby is in seventh grade.

Having been family friends for years, they had been volunteering at Bethel Hobbs Community Farm in Centereach throughout their childhood, which donates food to local shelters.

Yet, the group wanted to do more. They visited The Children’s Community Head Start Birthto-Five Program in Port Jefferson and said they realized poverty and child hunger are not things to which our local area is immune.

“It was a really enlightening experience,” Zach said. “The kids often don’t get breakfast on the weekends because they don’t go to the program then. It’s not something that’s happening in some far-off country. It’s happening right here in our communities.”

From left, Joshua Young, Abby Ross and Zach Young work at Chocolate & Honey to raise money for their home-grown group Don8tions. Photo by Leah Chiappino

The teens soon realized some homeless do not have the opportunity to cook vegetables, even if they’ve been donated to them. On top of that, they wanted to provide healthy food to families who often can only afford less healthy food.

“We didn’t want them to have an idea that was our idea,” Josh and Zach’s mother Michelle Young said. “We gave them the tools and let them brainstorm. When you give kids a purpose, it’s so empowering. They really believe in what they’re doing.”

While the organization’s founding members originally wanted to prepare the soups themselves, it proved to be too complicated, so they have partnered with Centereach-based HeartBeet Farms to donate soups to Head Start. The teens hope to inspire other kids to get involved in community service as well as to eventually open their own plot of land to grow the vegeta-

bles needed to make soups.

“Our goal is to feed as many families as we can for as long as we can through the winter,” Zach said. Since the summer, they have been donating every week.

Chrissy Reilly, the health and nutrition manager at Children’s Community Head Start, said the kids were doing good work.

“The families gave great feedback. they really enjoyed all the soups and this allowed them to try new healthy options,” she said. “We were able to give them advice on how to make the soups full meals, such as pairing tomato soup with grilled cheese.”

Each member of their small organization seems to have found their role.

“I’m more of a social person, so I love to talk to people and get the word out,” Anna said.

Josh loves to cook, and it was his idea to

make the soups.

“If I can make it, at least I know I’m giving someone a nice meal,” he said.

Josh also designed the logo. Though Abby is only in seventh grade, she acts as the recording secretary for the group and writes down all of the statistics.

“My sister doesn’t like to talk a lot, so she writes,” Anna said.

Meena said she started volunteering with HeartBeet around two years ago, and after becoming affiliated with Don8tions, she and her small group have been looking to grow.

“The whole idea of Don8tions is to provide less fortunate kids and families in our communities with healthy, filling soups,” she said. “I really hope Don8tions can achieve this and help many more people.”

The kids currently work at Chocolate & Honey, a holiday concession stand in the Smith Haven Mall, and donate half of their profits to the cause.

They aim to raise additional funds through distributing a flyer at Nassakeag Elementary School, R.C. Murphy and P.J. Gelinas junior high schools and Ward Melville and Sachem high schools until Dec. 24. If customers present the flyer at the stand, they get free honey sticks, and a portion of the sales goes to the organization. For more information or to access the flyer, visit www.don8tions.com.

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Election 2020

Democrat Congressional Candidates Answer Constituents Questions

BY DONNA NEWMAN DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Three candidates have announced their intention to seek the Democratic nomination for the House of Representatives for the 1st Congressional District in 2020. They were invited to a Dec.12 meet the candidates night held by the Three Village Democratic Club. Club president, Virginia Capon, welcomed the audience and introduced the evening’s moderator Dave Calone, who was a candidate for the seat in 2016. Capon was pleased by the size of the crowd, which was approximately 120 people.

Questions were solicited from club members prior to the event.

The candidates are Bridget Fleming, Perry Gershon and Nancy Goroff.

Bridget Fleming (D-Sag Harbor) is a threeterm Suffolk County legislator representing District 2. She was first elected to the Town of Southampton Town Board in a special election and went on to win a full term a year later. Prior to that she served as a prosecutor in Manhattan for nearly a decade, eventually specializing in fraud in government programs. In her opening remarks she said she saw a clear path to victory next November.

“I have run and won, again and again,” Fleming said. She noted she has 10 years of experience delivering for this district — and her record speaks for itself.

Perry Gershon, of East Hampton, was a mortgage broker for commercial properties until he divested from his company in 2017 to run for office. In 2018 he won the local Democratic nomination for Congress by being the top votegetter in a field of five. Gershon lost to incumbent Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) in the general election, garnering 47.4 percent of the vote to 51.5.

Gershon thinks he stands the best chance to win this time because of his previous campaign.

“The hardest part of running for office is getting out the electorate,” Gershon said. “I’ve done it. We built up energy — we inspired volunteerism.” He believes his first experience will be invaluable.

To Nancy Goroff, Suffolk is home. She has lived and worked in the district for 22 years.

She raised her children in the Three Village area. Her research and teaching at Stony Brook University have created lots of connections, both academic and governmental. Goroff feels she can bring a new perspective to Congress by offering innovative solutions. A scientist, she said constituents can have faith she’ll make

Moderator Dave Calone with candidates Perry Gershon, Nancy Goroff, Bridget Fleming and Three Village Democratic Club president, Virginia Capon. Photo from Three Village Democratic Club

decisions based on science and facts.

“We deserve better,” Goroff said. “[It would be good] to live in a world where government actually tries to solve people’s problems.”

The candidates fielded a question about the elimination of student loan debt.

Gershon said, “The system is broken.

[There should be] a trade-off of public service for debt assistance.”

Fleming said, “If you can refinance a car or a home, why not student loan debt?” She created a program while in law school at the University of Virginia offering loan forgiveness

in exchange for public service.

Goroff said, “Make education as accessible as possible. Where [students] go should not be limited by parents net worth.”

Another question asked if the candidates would trade a border wall for protection of the Dreamers.

Fleming wanted more details. “We do need firm rules at the border that must be fair and humane. We need a comprehensive solution to immigration issues,” she said.

Goroff said, “We need secure borders, [but]

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Town Task Force Says New Legislation Needed to Tackle Homelessness in PJ/PJS

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM As members of the Brookhaven Town’s Quality of Life Task Force walked in to the Comsewogue Public Library Dec. 17, looking to talk about the homeless issue, they were each greeted with a poignant reminder, a shopping cart laden with items, of containers and blankets, sitting in a handicapped space closest to the library’s main doors.

At the area surrounding the railroad tracks in the Port Jefferson area, men and women sleep outside even as the months grow colder. They sleep on benches and on the stoops of dilapidated buildings. Village code enforcement and Suffolk County police have said they know many of them by name, and services for them have been around, in some cases, for decades.

Still, homelessness in the Upper Port and Port Jefferson Station area continues to be an issue that has vexed local municipalities. On both sides of the railroad tracks, along Route 25A, also known as Main Street, residents constantly complain of seeing people sleeping on the stoops of vacant buildings.

But beyond a poor sight, the issue, officials said is multipronged. Dealing with it humanely, especially getting people services, remains complicated, while an all-encompassing, effective solution would require new efforts on every level of government.

Phase two of the task force, officials said, will mean coming out with a full report that includes recommendations, to be released sometime in 2020. Likely, it will come in the form of proposed state legislation regarding access to sober homes, bills to allow assistance in homeless transport, increased sharing of information between departments and municipalities, increased law enforcement activity, and revitalization efforts by both village and town while concurrently tackling quality of life issues.

Efforts by the town

At the Port Jefferson Station/Terryville Civic Association meeting Dec. 17, members of the town’s task force, along with other local legislators, talked with residents about their findings.

The task force came into its own last year after a video of two homeless people having a sexual encounter on a bench in Port Jeff Station exploded in community social media groups like a bag of popcorn heated over a jet engine. The task force has brought together town, police, village, county and other nonprofit advocacy groups to the table, looking to hash out an effective response.

Town Councilwoman Valerie Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station) said much of the first phase of the task force has been collecting data, although some items still remain up in the air.

Vincent Rothaar, of Suffolk County’s Department of Social Services, said there have been

hired director Frances Pierre, would not dismiss any offer from any municipality of additional transportation services.

“We’re up to working with any government entity for the transport of a homeless person to one of our shelters,” he said. “We’re adamant of not just working with the Town of Brookhaven, but working with every municipality in Suffolk County.”

County offers more collaboration

The difficulty comes in trying to get services for the homeless population comes down to two things, officials said. One is the individual’s or group’s willingness to be helped, the other is the way the county manages the homeless person once they make it into the system.

The difficulty is enormous. Cartright said she has personally talked to individuals multiple times over a year before they even give a hint of wanting to be put in the system.

Town Councilwoman Valerie Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station) and PJ Village trustee, Kathianne Snaden, at the town’s Quality of COPE officer for the Suffolk County Life Task Force’s first public meeting Dec. 17. Photo by Kyle Barr police 6th Precinct, Casey Hines Berry, said the police have stepped up foot and approximately 48 street homeless, but he was not bike patrols in the station area, the village sure if that was 48 outreaches to a single individ- and the Greenway Trail, along with talking to ual multiple times. increasing communication with local businesses That is not to say the homeless population in and shelters such as Pax Christi. the town’s District 1 and PJ Village is stagnant.

“As we were able to determine who were the Much of them are transient homeless, said PJS/T individuals committing crimes, we could detercivic president, Sal Pitti, who is an ex-city police mine who were the individuals who need housing, officer. Especially since Port Jeff contains the who have housing, who are refusing housing,” LIRR Station, those who sleep under a tent one Berry said. “We did this by collaborating all our morning may be gone the next day. different resources within the community.”

“It’s not just an issue that’s affected District She said there have been more arrests, spe1, it’s an issue that’s affected the entire town, is cifically 362 from May 2018 to current date, affecting the entire county” Cartright said. “A lot compared to 245 from the previous time period. of the legislation we’re putting forward is not just The disparity of those numbers she attributed to affecting District 1.” warrants identifying more people in the area who Cartright has said that several months ago she may be wanted for previous citations, especially stood out by the side of the road with a homeless in quality of life matters such as public urination couple that after weeks of talks and persuading fi- or open containers. She added there is no gang nally agreed to go into a Suffolk County housing activity in Port Jefferson Station, only gang-affilprogram. The county had called a cab to pick up iated people living in the area. In May this year, the couple, and the councilwoman described how police arrested one young man of Port Jeff Station the people had to figure out what they were go- for an alleged conspiracy to murder two others in ing to bring with them, going down from several Huntington Station. bags between them to one bag a piece.

But police are not allowed to simply arrest After calling the cab company, Cartright said people who may be “loitering” on the street withthe car had apparently got turned around, think- out due cause, she said. If a person is standing on ing they were in Port Jefferson instead of Port Jef- private property, it’s up to the owner to call police ferson Station. To get the homeless couple their to ask them for help getting them to move on. In ride, she had to make Suffolk County call up the cases where homeless may be living on property company again. such as the LIPA-owned right-of-way, it’s up to Cartright has made efforts to use town-owned that body to request help removing them. buses to help transport homeless individuals in Police know many of the stationary homeemergency situations but was stymied by other less on a first name basis. Getting them to come members of the Town Board and officials in the in to an emergency shelter or through DSS syscounty executive’s office, who said it was both tems is the difficult part. Many, officials said, unnecessary and not in the town’s purview. simply have difficulty trusting the system — Rothaar said DSS, especially its recently or can’t — such as the case when a homeless,

nonmarried couple cannot go into services together and would rather stay together than be separated and have help.

Rothaar said the DSS offers much more than emergency housing, including medical assistance, financial services, along with child and adult protective services.

He said department workers often go out to meet homeless individuals over and over. Each time they may bring a different individual, such as a priest or a different social worker, as if “we keep going out to them again and again, they might respond.” He said they have conducted 18 outreaches in the Port Jeff area since 2018 and have assisted 48 people.

“If we continue to reach out to them, they have come into our care, for lack of a better term, to receive case management services,” he said.

Port Jeff Station/Terryville Chamber of Commerce vice president, Larry Ryan, said the best way to give homeless access to care is to be compassionate.

“People have to be willing to accept help,” he said. “You can offer it all you want but if that person’s not willing to take help, or use the services being provided for them, your hands get tied.”

That sentiment was echoed by Pax Christi director, Stephen Brazeau, who said he has seen DSS making a good effort, especially when the weather gets cold. He added that one must be cautious of thinking someone you meet on the street must be homeless.

“You always need to be there, need to always be available when that ‘yes’ comes,” Brazeau said.

Alex DeRosa, an aide to Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket), said the county has already passed legislation, sponsored by Hahn, to allow police a copy of the list of emergency homes that was originally only kept by DSS. There are more than 200 supportive housing sites in Suffolk County that DSS does not oversee, which are instead overseen by New York State. However, the state does not list where or how many sober homes in the area.

“That’s what we’re trying to change, increase that communication,” said Pitti.

Village works with local shelter

Residents have appeared at village meetings to state they have seen drug deals happening near the LIRR train tracks in Upper Port, specifically surrounding Hope House Ministries, which has provided services for homeless for just under 40 years.

Port Jefferson residents have mentioned witnessing catcalling and harassment on the train platform from people behind Pax Christi’s fence.

One resident, Kathleen Riley, said she had witnessed what could have been a drug deal between people using Pax Christi’s back gate to exchange HOMELESS Continued on A7

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LEGALS

NOTICE OF SALE

SUPREME COURT: SUFFOLK COUNTY. DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR J.P. MORGAN MORTGAGE ACQUISITION TRUST 2007-CH3, ASSET BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-CH3, Pltf. vs.

JOSEPH PICCIONE, et al, Defts. Index #4963/2010. Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale entered Dec. 21, 2016, I will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY on Jan. 15, 2020 at 10:00 a.m., prem. k/a 1339 Waverly Avenue, Farmingville, NY. Said property located in Farmingville, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of NY, known and designated as Lot No. 8, on a certain map entitled, “Map of College Hills, Section No. 4” filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk on Mar. 3, 1967 as Map No. 4798.

Approx. amt. of judgment is $566,391.29 plus costs and interest. Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed judgment and terms of sale and the right of the United States of America to redeem within 120 days from the date of sale as provided by law. JAMES ORLANDO, Referee. THE MARGOLIN & WEINREB LAW GROUP, LLP, Attys. for Pltf., 165 Eileen Way, Ste. 101, Syosset, NY. #97968

To Place A Legal Notice

Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com CAPITAL ONE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Index No. 603513/2015.

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated, November 19, 2018 and entered with the Suffolk County Clerk on December 5, 2018, as amended by an Order Extending Time to Conduct Sale and Other Relief duly dated September 16, 2019 and entered with the Suffolk County Clerk on October 10, 019, Daniel J. Panico, Esq., the Appointed Referee, will sell the premises known as 10 Comus Road, Rocky Point, New York 11778 at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, New York 11738, on January 6, 2020 at 11:00 A.M. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being at Rocky Point, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York known as District: 0200; Section: 078.00; Block: 01.00; Lot: 027.000 will be sold subject to the provisions of filed Judgment, Index No. 603513/2015. The approximate amount of judgment is $281,792.76 plus interest and costs. FRIEDMAN VARTOLO LLP 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

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SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF SUFFOLK

NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC AUCTION Supreme Court of New York, SUFFOLK County.

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE NRZ PASS-THROUGH TRUST X, Plaintiff, -against- MICHAEL MULLER A/K/A MICHAEL V. MULLER; KERRI A. MULLER A/K/A KERRI MULLER A/K/A KERRI MILLER; JHOEL GOMEZ A/K/A JOEL GOMEZ; ASSET ACCEPTANCE, LLC; COMMISSIONER OF TAXATION AND FINANCE-CCED CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT SECTION; JOHN T MATHER HOSPITAL; UFCW LOCAL 342 FEDERAL CREDIT UNION; HOUSEHOLD BANK AS ASSIGNEE OF ATLANTIC CREDIT AND FINANCE INC.; DANA MD BRENNER; CAPITAL ONE BANK USA , NA;

CITIMORTGAGE, INC., Plaintiff – against – PEDRO P. GENAO, et al Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on August 18, 2015.

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction, at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738, Suffolk County, New York on the 13th Day of January, 2020 at 3:00 p.m. 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.

Premises known as 10 Dillon Avenue, Port Jefferson Station, (Town of Brookhaven)

NY 11776.

(District: 0200, Section: 281.00, Block: 06.00, Lot: 011.000) Approximate amount of lien $608,027.44 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale.

Index No. 32930/2010.

Peter R. McGreevy, Esq., Referee.

Davidson Fink LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 28 East Main Street, Suite 1700 Rochester, NY 14614-1990 Tel. 585/760-8218 Dated: October 7, 2019 147 12/12 4x ptr SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF SUFFOLK-BROOKHAVEN STERLING NATIONAL BANK, successor by merger to Astoria Bank f/k/a Astoria Federal Savings and Loan Association, Plaintiff -against- WILLIAM M. BOYLE, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered herein and dated March 19, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY on January 10, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. premises situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York, being further described as follows: BEGINNING at a point the following two courses and distances from the extreme westerly end of a curve connecting the westerly side of Berkshire Drive and the southerly side of Edinburgh Drive; 1.

South West 18.35 feet; 2.

South East 17.00 feet to the true point or place of beginning; being a plot 68.00 feet by 44.00 feet by 68.00 feet by 44.00 feet.

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Comsewogue Removes HS Student After Perceived Threat

BY MONICA GLEBERMAN DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Comsewogue School District officials took extra precautions after a non-life-threatening statement required the removal of a high school student Monday morning.

At 11 a.m. Monday morning, Superintendent Jennifer Quinn sent out a robocall alerting the community there was an incident at the high school that required immediate attention.

“Many of you are at work, but I just want to share some information with you because I think you’ll be hearing about it,” she said.

“We had a student at the high school who made a comment that we took very seriously; it concerned us.”

Although Quinn did not go into details about the comment or the student, she did say there was no damage done to the school and none of the students were in immediate danger.

Within minutes of the call, parents began posting on social media with concerns about what happened and asking for more details from the district. School board President John

Swenning responded with a post online: “All is safe at the [high school]. A comment was taken seriously, and action was taken. There was no immediate threat to any students or staff.”

In a private message, when asked if the board of education would make an official comment, Swenning said all comments are taken as “true threats” and the district followed protocol, which included getting the Suffolk County Police Department involved.

The SCPD confirmed the incident in a statement via email Monday afternoon, adding that the student involved in the investigation made the “statement” in question on Friday, Dec. 13, which the district was made aware of Monday, Dec. 16.

In the email, the SCPD wrote, “The statement could have been perceived as a threat. The student was taken for evaluation and an investigation determined there was never a threat to the students or the faculty.”

Swenning praised the district and the police for their help. “Kudos to [the] administration and SCPD for their quick response.”

At the end of the school day, the administrators put up an alert on the district’s website with an update from Quinn. The new information included that the school psychologist was called in to help with the student once the administrators were made aware of the incident. Additionally, there were no weapons discovered on school premises and “to our knowledge, the student did not have access to any,” the alert stated. “The student will not be attending school until we are confident that they are not a threat. Furthermore, appropriate discipline is being taken. Please be assured that the safety and welfare of all of our students and staff is always our number one concern.”

Top Suffolk Police Officers to Get Raises

BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Top Suffolk County police officers will take home heftier paychecks beginning next year after county lawmakers passed a resolution 17-1 to approve a new contract with the Superior Officers Association Dec. 17.

The $53 million deal reached would increase pay for SOA members by 11.25 percent over six years. The deal would allow superior officers to paid between 3.59 and 17.97 percent more than police officers, according to Suffolk County Budget Review Office documents.

At a Dec. 12 county Legislature government operations committee meeting, Dennis Cohen, deputy county executive, said the deal would also amend the salary scale for officers hired after 2012-13 and the promotion scale and index would be similar to those of the Police Benevolent Association.

Officers hired this year and in the future

would only have 13 days of sick leave instead of the previous 26 days. It would also call for officers to work an extra day each year to undergo firearms training instead of scheduling it on a day off or preplanned vacation day, according to county documents.

Senior police officials are expected to get between $3,000 and $4,500 a year in overtime compensation. Longevity pay stands to increase by $25 annually for the next four years.

The maximum year of service eligibility will be capped at 32 years.

Other highlights of the deal include superior officers in certain positions could receive an additional 2.5 percent stipend for wearing body cameras.

Sergeants, lieutenants, captains and other senior officers would be set to get base salaries ranging from $183,000 to $273,000 a year by 2024according to SOA officials. The base pay does not include other pay benefits such as overtime and longevity pay.

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our country values immigrants. We need to give people hope in their home countries, so they don’t have to walk a thousand miles.”

Gershon replied, “Yes. I would do that trade to protect people in this country already. We do need comprehensive immigration reform, too.”

In answering a question on guns, there was consensus among the three that legislation is needed, that the assault weapons ban should be reinstated, that high capacity magazines should be banned and that, if the majority of Americans support universal background checks, the NRA ought not be allowed to prevent such legislation from being passed.

Regarding a question about health care, there was agreement that the Affordable Care Act needs to be improved, that health care is a human right and every American deserves affordable access to high quality care. Goroff and Gershon said they’d favor Medicare for All — as an option.

Should military spending be decreased? All three candidates expressed a desire to restore respect for the U.S. around the world. In light of a recent Washington Post exposé on the waste and corruption of military spending in Afghanistan, Gershon and Goroff called for the military to spend more wisely — with Goroff adding, “First, increase spending on diplomacy.”

What bill would they first introduce as a congressperson?

Gershon answered, “Election reform.”

Fleming responded, “We need to fully fund the EPA.” Goroff seemed to concur, “Focus on climate-change research funding.”

an item that was then taken by people onto a train.

Village officials said they have been in communication with the Pax Christi’s Brazeau. In the past few weeks, village trustee Kathianne Snaden said she has communicated with Pax Christi and has toured their facility along with village manager Joe Palumbo and Fred Leute, acting chief of code enforcement. While she commended the facility for the work it does, she suggested either extending or raising the exterior fence, though Palumbo said he was told they would not be able to take any action on new fencing until at least the new year.

Snaden said the village has also reached out to a fencing company that could create a new, larger fence in between the platform and Pax Christi, in order to reduce sight lines.

Brazeau said the shelter is looking to install a new fence around the side to the front of the building, and has agreed with the village about them installing a higher fence in between Pax Christi and the platform.

Regarding the back gate, he said fire code mandates it be open from the inside, but didn’t rule out including some kind of alarm system at a later date.

MTA representative Vanessa Lockel lauded the new train station to help beautify the area, along with new security cameras for added protection. However, when it came to adding new benches, civic leaders helped squash that attempt. Pitti said they feared more people using the benches for sleeping or encouraging more people to stay and loiter.

Snaden said code enforcement meets every train arriving in an effort to show a presence, which she said has led to a

reduction in incidents, though code enforcement is limited in what they can do, with no power of arrest. MTA police, Lockel said, have more than 700 miles of track to cover on the Long Island Rail Road, and not enough people report incidents to their hotline, 718-361-2201, or text tips@mtapd.com.

Other services available

Celina Wilson, president of the Bridge of Hope Resource Center in Port Jeff Station, has helped identify other nongovernment entities providing services for the homeless population in the area.

She said the two hospitals in Port Jeff, namely St. Charles and Mather, provide similar amounts of service as far as substance abuse, but while St. Charles hosts inpatient detox and rehabilitation services, Mather hosts outpatient alcohol and substance abuse programs.

There are numerous soup kitchens in both the village and station areas, but only two kitchens, Maryhaven and St. Gerard Majella, host food pantries. She said both groups reported to Bridge of Hope there was a decline in people utilizing their services as of a year ago.

Hope House Ministries hosts a range of services for the homeless, including the Pax Christi 25-bed emergency shelter.

“Most people are not aware of the available resources until they are in a crisis,” Wilson said. “And they are scrambling for answers.”

She said largely in the area, “everyone is doing what they are supposed to be doing,” and thanked the local officials for taking action compared to other areas, like Brentwood, whose officials did not make efforts until the situation was already out of control.

“It’s been a wonderful opportunity to work with the members of the task force,” she said.

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LEGALS LEGALS con’t from pg. 6 Approximate amount of lien $258,076.11 plus interest & costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale.

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid.

The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney.

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STEVEN SILIATO, ESQ., Referee David A. Gallo & Associates LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 99 Powerhouse Road, First Floor, Roslyn Heights, NY 11577 File# 8888.040 167 12/12 4x ptr NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Structured Asset Investment Loan Trust Mortgage PassThrough Certificates, Series 2006-4, Plaintiff AGAINST Donald Klang; Pasqualina Klang; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated March 27, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, New York, 11738 on January 10, 2020 at 9:00AM, premises known as 75 Valley Drive, Sound Beach, NY 11789. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Township of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk, State of NY, District 0200 Section 030.00 Block 07.00 Lot 001.00. Approximate amount of judgment $483,374.23 plus interest

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Frank Maffei, Jr., Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: November 12, 2019 174 12/12 4x ptr NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, successor in interest to Wilmington Trust Company, as Trustee, successor in interest to Bank of America, National Association, as Trustee, successor by merger to LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee for Structured Asset Investment Loan Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2005-1, Plaintiff AGAINST Salvatore Russo; Chantal Russo; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated December 11, 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, New York, 11738 on January 14, 2020 at 8:45AM, premises known as 38 Chanel Drive East, Shirley, NY 11967. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Shirley, County of Suffolk, State of NY, District 0200 Section 978.80 Block 01.00 Lot 031.000. Approximate amount of judgment $274,424.57 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 070079/2014.

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LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: November 19, 2019 175 12/12 4x ptr NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK U.S. Bank National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee for the RMAC Trust, Series 2016-CTT, Plaintiff AGAINST Matthew Shea; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated May 3, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill Farmingville, NY 11738 on January 16, 2020 at 2:00PM, premises known as 198 Radio Avenue, Miller Place, NY 11764. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk, State of NY, District 0200 Section 168.00 Block 08.00 Lot 014.000. Approximate amount of judgment $252,156.27 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 617544/2017.

James McElhone, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: November 21, 2019 176 12/12 4x ptr Notice of formation of Wildcat Property Holdings, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on December 2, 2019, Office location: Suffolk

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tions regarding bidding and equipment will be available at the Fire District Office between the hours of 9:00 AM and 3:00 PM on regular business days commencing immediately.

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BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS OF THE TERRYVILLE FIRE DISTRICT Dated: December 12, 2019 Port Jefferson Station, New York Frank Triolo District Secretary 206 12/19 1x ptr Due to the Christmas Holiday, the December 26, 2019 meeting of the Board of Fire Commissioner of the Terryville Fire Department has been changed to Monday, December 30, 2019.

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PJ Historical Society Gets 11K Grant Stony Brook Vets Home Honors Soldiers on 75th Anniversary of Battle of the Bulge

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM At the Long Island State Veterans Home, John Tsunis, the owner of the Holiday Inn Express at Stony Brook and board member of the vets home, briefly choke up when speaking of his father, Charles, a World War II veteran and soldier during the Battle of the Bulge, consisting of over a month of fighting from December 1944 to January 1945.

His father called the Battle of the Bulge “a hell on ice,” and Tsunis described when his father had been forced behind enemy Top, John Tsunis, left, and Long Island State Veterans Home Executive Director Fred Sganga, right, honor veteran lines where he and two of his fellow soldiers Frank DePergola; above, Suffolk County and New York State officials, along with representatives of the vets home, were pinned down by an enemy machine stand by vets who were at the Battle of the Bulge. Photos by Kyle Barr gun, helping to save several men, which “[My father] said [that] when the panzer given a plaque, while both state and county earned him the Bronze Star.

“My dad took the lead and they were officials presented proclamations to each in division was coming, and these guys were crawling around, keeping their heads low be- turn. Tsunis accepted the honor in place of his trying to dig into ground that was frozen … cause there was a machine gun shooting over father who died nearly 20 years ago. He also he remembers so distinctly the sound of the their heads,” he said. “He kept on crawling, helped name and hand out plaques honoring panzers, the Tiger tanks rolling over a field of not knowing what to do, until he came over four men at the home who fought in one of the cabbage, crushing the heads of cabbage and they were all imagining skulls of men were some dead Germans, and under their bodies most consequential battles of the war.

DePergola, DiMarco, Lynam and Stru- being crushed as they were coming through,” was a German bazooka. He told one of his buddies to load him up, took aim at the ma- minski were all there during the battle, and he said.

Others in the audience remembered the now that each is over 90 years old, they are chine gun nest and knocked it out.”

In what was one of the bloodiest battles some of the only people in the U.S. who can horrors of that day up close. Alfred Kempski, a World War II veteran living in the vets Americans fought in World War II, the last remember firsthand what happened.

Lynam’s children Kathy Corrado and home, pointed to a black-and-white image of major German offensive on the Western Front saw 19,000 U.S. soldiers killed, 47,500 William Lynam said their father didn’t speak the Battle of the Bulge, of American soldiers wounded and 23,000 captured. The pocket much about the battle as they were growing in long greatcoats, M3 submachine guns and created by the Germans’ push into American up. However, once they were older, their fa- M1 Garands clutched in gloved fists, the lines gave the battle its name. The day’s fe- ther, a Brooklyn native, would emotionally soldiers peering forward in snow up to their knees. rocious fighting was displayed in a video of relate snippets of the ferocious fighting.

“25,000 GIs were killed at night, the Ger“A Tiger tank almost ran over him, and he historic footage shown to the gathered local said they just couldn’t get the gun down low mans came in at 2 o’clock in the morning and officials, staff and veterans.

The veterans home honored four veterans enough to get him,” Corrado, a Stony Brook shot them all, they were sleeping,” he said.

“The snow was so deep, we had a hell of a who experienced the battle up close and per- resident, recalled.

William Lynam said such stories put time finding the bodies. I was only 19 then, sonal, James Lynam, Philip DiMarco, Frank and when I think of it now ...”

DePergola and Thomas Struminski. Each was graphic imagery in his head.

The Historical Society of Greater Port Jefferson announced it was awarded a grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to help fix a roof on a significant structure.

The historical society received a 50 percent matching grant of $11,100 to support its project to replace the cedar shingle roof on the Marine Barn and Tool Shed, which the society will need to match.

Society trustee Joan Townley said the roofs on both buildings are very old and have deteriorated over time to the point of leaking (above photo of roof from Townley). While the roofs have been maintained over time, they have now reached the critical point of replacement.

“One of our critical responsibilities as a historical society is the caretaking of our Museum Complex and with this generous support from the Gardiner Foundation we can now move forward with the roof restoration,” Historical society President Nick Acampora said The mission of the Historical Society of Greater Port Jefferson, which was founded in 1967, is to discover, preserve and disseminate knowledge about the history of the Port Jefferson area. The Mather House Museum includes the home of shipbuilder John T. Mather, a country store, tool shed, butcher and barber shops, post office, carriage house, marine barn, sail loft, consignment shop in a historic home, clock museum and a clock repair school. The museum complex is a popular destination for residents as well as tourists who visit Port Jefferson in large numbers, particularly in the summer months. The complex is a key resource for local students, parents and teachers who participate in school tours and to learn more about Port Jefferson’s history.

The Mather House museum complex is open to the public from May to October and for special events throughout the year. It is also open for school trips and for the use of researchers, by appointment. A docent-guided tour is available for the main museum building and the 12 other buildings that make up the complex.

Each year, the historical society creates a new exhibit, and this year’s display is titled Sea Captains of Port Jefferson. Included in this exhibit are pictures of the many houses that originally belonged to the many sea captains that lived in the Port Jefferson area.

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Water Quality Expert Answers Questions About the Island’s Water Supply substances that are dumped into a toilet or drain will reach the environment, and because solvents move readily through our sandy aquifer. Septic waste is, of course a major of contamination.

Residential properties can be also responsible for other pollution, such as nitrogen from fertilizers and pesticides.

BY DONNA DEEDY DONNA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Peter Scully, Suffolk County deputy county executive and water czar, responds to exclusive questions from TBR News Media’s editorial staff: 1. You’ve been called Suffolk County’s water czar. Why does Suffolk County need a water czar?

The need for the county to have a high-level point person to advance the water quality agenda of County Executive Steve Bellone [D] is a result of two factors: The high priority that the county executive has placed on water quality issues, and the tremendous progress his administration has made over the past seven years in building a solid foundation to reverse decades of nitrogen pollution that has resulted primarily from the lack of sewers in Suffolk County and reliance on cesspools and septic systems that discharge untreated wastewater into the environment. The county executive succeeded in landing $390 million in post-Hurricane Sandy resiliency funding to eliminate 5,000 cesspools along river corridors on the South Shore by connecting parcels to sewers, and the county’s success in creating a grant program to make it affordable for homeowners to replace cesspools and septic systems with new nitrogen-reducing septic systems in areas where sewers are not a cost-effective solution, prompted the state to award Suffolk County $10 million to expand the county’s own Septic Improvement Program. These are the largest investments in water quality Suffolk has seen in 50 years, and the county executive saw the need to appoint a high-level quarterback to oversee the implementation of these programs.

2. Which groundwater contaminants are the highest priorities for Suffolk County?

In 2014, the county executive declared nitrogen to be water quality public enemy No. 1. The nitrogen in groundwater is ultimately discharged into our bays, and about 70 percent of this nitrogen comes from on-site wastewater disposal (septic) systems. Excess nutrients have created crisis conditions, causing harmful algal blooms, contributing to fish kills and depleting dissolved oxygen necessary for health aquatic life. They have also made it impossible to restore our once nationally significant hard clam and bay scallop fisheries, have devastated submerged aquatic vegetation and weakened coastal resiliency through reduction of wetlands. Nitrogen also adversely impacts quality of drinking water, especially in areas with private wells, although public water supply wells consistently meet drinking water standards for nitrogen.

Other major contaminants of concern include volatile organic compounds, known as VOCs. For example, there is perchloroethlyene, historically from dry cleaners; and petroleum constituents — most recently MTBE, a gasoline additive — from

Peter Scully, left, was named by Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) as the county’s “water czar.” File photo

fuel storage and transfer facilities.

Then there are pesticides. Active ingredients such as chlordane, aldicarb and dacthal have been banned, but some legacy contamination concerns exist, especially for private wells. Some currently registered pesticides are appearing in water supplies at low levels, including simazine/atrazine, imidacloprid and metalaxyl.

Emerging contaminants include PFAS, historically used in firefighting foams, water repellents, nonstick cookware; and 1,4-dioxane, an industrial solvent stabilizer also present at low levels in some consumer products.

3. Are the chemicals coming from residential or industrial sites?

Contamination can emanate from a variety of sites, including commercial, industrial and residential properties. Many of the best-known cleanup sites are dealing with legacy impacts from past industrial activity. Examples include Grumman in Bethpage, Lawrence Aviation in Port Jefferson Station, Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton and the Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant in Calverton. There have been hundreds of Superfund sites on Long Island, Fortunately, most are legacy sites and new Superfund sites are relatively rare.

More recently, the use of firefighting foam has resulted in Superfund designations at the Suffolk County Firematics site in Yaphank, Francis S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base in Westhampton, and East Hampton Airport. The foam was used properly at the time of discharge, but it was not known that PFAS would leach and contaminate groundwater.

The county’s 2015 Comprehensive Water Resources Management Plan found that some chemicals, such as VOCs, continue to increase in frequency of detection and concentration. While some of this is attributable to legacy industrial plumes, experts believe that residential and small commercial sites are partially responsible for contamination. This is partly because any

4. Which industries currently generate the most groundwater pollution in Suffolk County?

The county’s Department of Health Services Division of Environmental Quality staff advise that, historically, the major contributors to groundwater pollution in the county were dry cleaners, and fuel storage and transfer facilities.

However, current dry cleaning practices have minimized any possible groundwater discharges, and modern fuel facilities are engineered to more stringent code requirements that have substantially eliminated catastrophic releases. Low-level discharges are still a concern, and are the subject of the county’s VOC action plan to increase inspections and optimize regulatory compliance.

There are thousands of commercial and industrial facilities, most of which have the potential to pollute — for example, with solvent cleaners.

Best management practices and industrial compliance inspections are key to minimizing and eliminating further contamination.

5. The word “ban” is often a dirty word in politics, but do you see benefits to banning certain products, and/or practices, for the sake of protecting the county’s drinking water supply?

(The bans on DDT, lead in gasoline and HFCS, for example, were very effective at addressing environmental and human health concerns.)

Policymakers have not hesitated to ban the use of certain substances — DDT, lead in gasoline, chlordane, MTBE — in the face of evidence that the risks associated with the continued introduction of a chemical into the environment outweigh the benefits from a public health or environmental standpoint. Based on health concerns, I expect that there will be active discussion in the years ahead about the merits of restricting the use of products that introduce emerging contaminants like 1,4-dioxane and PFCs into the environment.

6. If people had more heightened awareness, could we slow or even eliminate specific contaminants? As consumers, can people do more to protect groundwater?

There is no question that heightened awareness about ways in which everyday human activities impact the environment leads people to change their behaviors in ways that can reduce the release of contaminants into the environment.

A good example is the county’s Septic Improvement Program, which provides grants and low interest loans for homeowners who choose to voluntarily replace their cesspools or septic systems

with new nitrogen-reducing technology. More than 1,000 homeowners have applied for grants under the program, which set a record in October with more 100 applications received.

If a home is not connected to sewers, a homeowner can replace their cesspool or septic system with an innovative/alternative on-site wastewater treatment system. Suffolk County, New York State and several East End towns are offering grants which can make it possible for homeowners to make this positive change with no significant out-of-pocket expense. Consumers can choose to not flush bleaches or toxic/hazardous materials down the drain or into their toilets.

Consumers can also take care to deliver any potentially toxic or hazardous household chemicals to approved Stop Throwing Out Pollutants program sites. Homeowners can choose not to use fertilizers or pesticides, or to opt for an organic, slow-release fertilizer at lowest label setting rates.

7. Can you offer examples of products to avoid or practices to adopt that would better protect the drinking water supply?

Consumers can choose to not flush bleaches or household hazardous materials down the drain or into their toilets. Consumers can also take care to deliver any potentially toxic or hazardous household chemicals to approved STOP program sites. Homeowners can choose not to use fertilizers or pesticides, or to opt for an organic, slow release fertilizer at lowest label setting rates.

8. Aside from banning products or chemicals, and raising awareness, how do you address the issue?

Promoting the use of less impactful alternatives to products which have been shown to have a significant and/or unanticipated impact on public health or the environment, on a voluntary basis, is a less contentious approach than banning a substance or placing restrictions on its use through a legislative or rulemaking process. Such an approach should only be taken with the understanding that its success, value and significance will depend in large part on public awareness and education.

9. What about product labeling, similar to the U.S. Office of the Surgeon General warnings about cigarettes, or carcinogens in California, etc.? Can the county require products sold to include a groundwater contamination warning?

The question of whether the county Legislature has authority to implement labeling requirements could be better addressed by an attorney.

10. People, including some elected officials and people running for public office, sometimes say that sewage treatment plants remove WATER QUALITY Continued on A11

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all contaminants from wastewater. Can you set the record straight? What chemicals, including radioactive chemicals, are and are not removed from wastewater via sewage treatment?

Tertiary wastewater treatment plants are designed primarily to remove nitrogen, in addition to biodegradable organic matter. However, wastewater treatment is also effective at removing many volatile organic compounds. Some substances, such as 1,4-dioxane, are resistant to treatment and require advanced processes for removal. Evidence shows that the use of horizontal leaching structures instead of conventional drainage rings may facilitate removal of many pharmaceuticals and personal care products, known as PPCPs. Advanced treatment technologies, such as membrane bioreactors, are also being tested for efficacy of removal of PPCPs. Staff advise that the mere presence of chemi-

cals in wastewater in trace amounts does not necessarily indicate the existence of a public health risk. All wastewater treatment must treat chemicals to stringent federal and state standards. In some cases, such as for emerging contaminants, specific standards do not exist. In those cases, the unspecified organic contaminant requirement of 50 parts per billion is commonly applied.

11. Can you provide an example of a place where residential and industrial groundwater contamination concerns were reversed or adequately addressed?

There are numerous examples, mostly under the jurisdiction of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, in which groundwater concerns have been addressed through treatment to remove contaminants. Because health and safety are always the most important issues, the first priority is typically to make sure that people who live near an impacted site have a safe supply of drinking water. In areas served by

public water suppliers — Suffolk County Water Authority or a local water district — this is not usually an issue, since public water suppliers are highly regulated and are required to test water supply wells regularly. In areas where people are not connected to a public water system, and rely instead on private wells, the Suffolk County Department of Health Services will work with the water supplier to identify properties that are not connected to a public water system and then contact homeowners to urge them to have their water tested at no charge to make sure that it is safe for consumption.

Over the past several years, Suffolk County, New York State and the Suffolk County Water Authority have worked together to connect hundreds of homes that had relied on private wells to the public water system, to make sure people

have access to safe drinking water.

12. Are you hopeful about addressing the issues?

I am hopeful and optimistic about the success of efforts to reverse the ongoing degradation of water quality that has resulted from reliance on cesspools and septic systems. For the first time in Long Island’s history, environmentalists, business leaders, scientists, organized labor and the building trades all agree that the long-term threat that has resulted from the lack of sewers to both the environment and economy is so great that a long-term plan to address the need for active wastewater treatment is not an option, but a necessity. Experience shows that public awareness can be a significant factor in driving public policy.

State Bans Consumer Product Chemical 1,4-Dioxane

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Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) signed legislation into law Dec. 9 banning the chemical 1,4-dioxane, which is found in cleaning products, personal care products and cosmetics.

The Environmental Protection Agency considers 1,4-dioxane a likely carcinogen. Yet the dangerous chemical can be found in numerous household products that families use every day.

Recent testing done at an independent lab found 1,4-dixoane in over 80 percent of cleaning and personal care products tested, including shampoos, body washes, baby products and detergents. Once used by consumers and washed down the drain, 1,4-dioxane enters local water systems. Elevated levels of 1,4-dioxane have been found across the state, with EPA data showing that Long Island has the highest levels detected in the country.

The Suffolk County and Suffolk County Water Authority have been conducting tests to monitor the situation, and purchased equipment in some cases to remove the chemical.

The county continues to characterize the chemical as a major emerging concern to Long Island’s drinking water.

“By signing this bill into law, Gov. Cuomo has taken the bold step of saying that we are no longer going to simply chase after 1,4-dioxane after it gets into the environment, we are going to take strong steps to prevent it from getting into the environment in the first place,” said Peter Scully, deputy county executive and water quality czar. “Once again, the governor has made New York a national leader in the battle to ensure a cleaner environment for future generations.”

Adrienne Esposito, executive director of

advocacy group Citizens Campaign for the Environment, has been a strong proponent of the ban and has provided a consumer guide listing products to avoid on the CCE website.

“In the battle of public need over corporate greed, the public just won,” she said. “Washing our laundry, bathing children and washing dishes should not result in cancer causing chemicals in our drinking water.”

This legislation, she added, is precedent setting and sends a clear message to industries that the public’s need for clean water trumps corporate interests.

“This was a hard fought battle, with Dow Chemical, American Chemistry Council, Lysol, Proctor and Gamble and others all working against the bill,” she said.

Removing 1,4-dixoane from consumer products that are washed down the drain will be essential to meet this new drinking water standard.

“In the absence of federal leadership, and to protect our communities, New York State is currently poised to adopt the nation’s most protective maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) for PFOA, PFOS, and 1,4-dioxane,” said State Department of Health spokesperson Erin Silk. “New York State agencies are also undertaking what is arguably the nation’s most comprehensive investigation of potential sources of contamination by these chemicals. The public comment period for the regulatory process has closed and the department has concluded its review of nearly 5,000 comments for discussion at the next Drinking Water Quality Council meeting.”

New York State Sen. Todd Kaminsky (D-Rockville Center) and Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) sponsored the bills (S4389B/A6295A) in the Legislature. Senator Jim Gaughran (D-Northport) and Sen. Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) are co-sponsors.

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Suffolk County residents are being asked to reach into their wallets to help the water authority deal with the ongoing presence of 1,4-dioxane in local groundwater, which is the sole source of drinking water on Long Island.

The Suffolk County Water Authority announced Nov. 22 that the board approved a $20 quarterly fee added onto customers bills starting Jan. 1, 2020. The bill will go toward the cost of developing and operating treatment systems for filtering 1,4-dioxane and other perfluorinated compounds PFOS and PFOA in anticipation of New York State mandating such regulations.

“As we’ve said since state officials first began considering the regulation of 1,4-dioxane and perfluorinated compounds, we fully support taking whatever measures are necessary to ensure our customers continue to have a drinking water supply that is among the best in the country,” said SCWA CEO Jeffrey Szabo. “But, as we’ve also said, these regulations come at a high cost. We need the

funds that will be raised by the quarterly fee to develop the treatment systems to meet the new standards.”

In an October presentation to Suffolk County legislators, SCWA proposed installing 31 new advanced treatment systems at a number of sites where the levels of 1,4-dioxane are higher than the state proposed limit, which is 1 part per billion.

Water officials and environmental activists have made 1,4-dioxane a topic of concern this year, pointing out that it is a likely carcinogen with links to liver and kidney damage after a lifetime of exposure.

If the state limits 1,4-dioxane to 1 part per billion and PFOS and PFOA at 10 parts per trillion, the water authority will have to put into service 56 new advanced oxidation process treatments, and 20 new granular activated carbon systems. The total cost for all these systems is expected to exceed $177 million over the next five to six years.

The $80 yearly charge is expected to cover those costs over time. The water authority services approximately 1.2 million Suffolk residents, including most parts of the North Shore.

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In the Consolation Finals, Tyler Rogers pinned his opponent at the 3:18 mark, Sam Robertson won with a major decision and Anthony Evangelista took victory at 145 pounds.

The Royals are back out on the mat Dec. 20 when they hit the road to face Babylon. First match is 5:30 p.m.

Photos clockwise from above, Jack Neiderberger, a senior, places third overall at 195 pounds; Mount Sinai senior Adham Shata, right, attempts to lift Neiderberger; junior Nick Kim goes for the grapple; senior Anthony D’Elia and county finalist from last season competes at 120 pounds placing second; junior Tyler Rogers placed third overall at 126 pounds.

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Lend Us Your Words Zeldin Should Support Dems Drug Bill

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I am blessed to have excellent health insurance and pharmacy coverage, but I ache for those who do not.

The cost of drugs in this country is out of control. Currently, Medicare cannot negotiate drug prices and current laws disallow any negotiation.

Big pharma is able to set prices and

raise prices at will. This is inappropriate.

It is time for a change.

The Lower Drug Costs Now bill will allow Medicare to negotiate for lower prices. Democrats in Congress, through this bill, are standing up to big pharma.

It is critical that this bill receives

support of local representatives. U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) should be ashamed for having voted against it.

It’s long past time that he step up on behalf of his constituents to support lower drug prices.

Judy Black Shoreham

Russia’s Misinformation Is Influencing U.S. Russia is our enemy. Russia is carrying out a cyber war of misinformation against the United States. All of our intelligence agencies have said that Russia interfered in our 2016 election to favor President Donald Trump (R).

Russia is now spreading false information that Ukraine was the country that interfered in our 2016 election to favor then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Now we have U.S. citizens aiding Russia in spreading this false narrative,

namely, elected Republicans such as U.S. Reps. John Kennedy and Ted Cruz. When you give aid and comfort to our enemies, namely Russia, that’s called treason.

Albert Cimaglia Port Jefferson Station

I Will Not Be Silent I am writing this letter in response to the Dec. 12 letter from Jim Soviero [“Media Has Responsibilities Too”], which brings up my former employment at the organization Taking Action Suffolk County.

My part-time work at TASC lasted for 16 months (March 2018 to July 2019), where I worked as a field organizer. My job was canvassing and engaging Democratic voters who didn’t vote regularly in an effort to increase voter turnout in off-year elections. Any letters that I wrote, any events that I spoke at during those 16 months were on my own behalf, and not that of TASC. I have a record of writing and political organizing that predates my part-time fieldwork and has continued after I left TASC. My work was recognized in an article in the Village Times Herald in October 2017,

months before my employment at TASC. I wish that I could say that this attempt to discredit me was a new experience, but sadly it is not.

In the fall of 2018, U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin’s (R-Shirley) director of communications, Katie Vincentz, did exactly this when speaking with a reporter of the online news site RiverheadLOCAL. The effort to discredit me as a private citizen exercising my First Amendment rights is problematic on many fronts. Attacking the messenger is a sign of weakness and highlights an inability to respond to the merits of my argument. It also highlights their attempt to quiet dissenting voices through intimidation, which flies in the face of our democratic values.

I cannot be certain what the motivation

of the attacks of Zeldin and Soviero are.

Perhaps it is to make me uncomfortable or afraid. Perhaps they are angered by my consistent speaking of truth, and my effectiveness in doing so. Whatever the reason, if they think that this will frighten me, they are mistaken. I believe too strongly in justice, in democracy and in holding our elected leaders accountable to be silenced. Their attacks are proof that my words matter, and that they have power.

I remain determined and resolute in the work of citizenship. It is my patriotism, and my deep love and concern for this country and its inhabitants that drives me. I will not be silent, no matter where I work, or who I work for.

Shoshana Hershkowitz South Setauket

Stop Trying to Remove Our President To all the haters of President Donald Trump (R), the Democratic leaders and the Democratic followers: All of you should be ashamed of all the lies, unfounded proof and hearsay or opinion evidence against our duly elected president. All the citizens of our country should be worried that our constitutional right — that you are innocent until proven guilty — is not being upheld

but is now being based on hatred of a person. The Democratic Party is trying to take over our government. Remember our history prior to World War II in Germany. Our schools are brainwashing our children, the media is lying to us and our First Amendment and right to bear arms is in jeopardy. In addition, the socialist Democrats are trying to remove our president because they cannot beat him

in 2020. What about the crimes the Democrats are committing, which are exactly the crimes the Democrats are accusing our president of doing?

Whoever rebuts my comments, do you want to live in a socialist country because you hate our successful president?

God help America.

Richard Esopa Miller Place

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Opinion

An Unusually Tasty Rubber Chicken Event

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hey are called rubber chicken dinners for a reason. Much of the time, corporate events masquerading as social gatherings offer little in the way of flavor, taste or entertainment.

This one, however, had so much potential. A group invited my wife and me to attend a football game. The connection came through my wife, who interacts regularly with our hosts and received the invitation months D. None earlier. When we of the above read the invitation,

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF we knew she could invite our son, although we also knew he had two midterms the day after the big

game, which meant that I could escort her.

I have, on occasion, demonstrated a surprising nimbleness in jamming my foot into my mouth.

Unintentional and harmless though the effort may be, I have worked hard to pull back on (a) sharing too many details, (b) making too many jokes and (c) asking anything about controversial topics.

We walked into a suite, where our host immediately caught my wife’s eye and shook her hand.

I’d met him several times and he graciously welcomed me as well, although I realize my decidedly unimpressive place in the world.

My wife had given me a rundown of the people we’d likely meet, even as I tried to look over some of their shoulders to watch the football game occurring past the tray of appetizers, the plate of sliders, the collection of untouched cookies and the bowl of half-eaten popcorn.

A woman whose name had made the list shook my hand and smiled at me. I waited the usual three seconds to see whether she was planning to bolt to chat with someone more

interesting, more powerful, taller, better dressed or more well versed in the world of football. After all, she was wearing a football jersey and, while my son can name the rosters of most teams because of his fantasy football acumen, I’m much more limited in this sport.

She, however, kept looking me in the eye, encouraging further conversation. We described the lives of our children. That generally constitutes safe topics, so I was on terra firma.

When I asked where she grew up, she said California until she went to high school on Long Island. I’m not sure why I asked because Long Island is truly a huge place, but I wondered what school she attended.

She told me it was in Setauket and it was called Ward Melville.

Wow, I replied, I went there, too. She said she was on the tennis team and we both remembered the name of the coach who had been there years ago, Vicki Goldfarb. My new acquaintance’s father, as it turns out, was a fighter pilot who had

moved to Grumman when he became an engineer.

It became a remarkably detailed conversation. She lived about a mile away from me for five years, until I graduated a few years ahead of her from Ward Melville.

When she excused herself for a moment, I figured that I might have overplayed the conversation. At that point, I tried to get a closer look at the football game, until my wife and I started talking with our hosts about their family’s skiing adventures.

As we started to leave, I once again found myself chatting with the Ward Melville graduate.

She shared a few more compelling stories about her family and her life, including an adventurous trip to Green Bay, where her husband celebrated a landmark birthday in the snow and cold.

This was, decidedly, not a typical rubber chicken event for me and one that I hope continues if we follow up and get together some time in 2020. And, in case you are wondering, I don’t think I committed any social faux pas.

New Haven is not any different, neither is the University of Chicago and wherever there are universities adjacent to neighborhoods that are prone to crime.

“As of Dec.8, there had been 20 robberies inside Morningside Park or on its perimeter this year, compared to seven in the same period last year,” wrote The New York Times. The article continued, “Since June, five people reported being robbed on or near the staircase at 116th Street and Morningside Drive, near the spot where Ms. Majors was killed.”

Why, then, was the park not better patrolled by the New York City Police Department? That’s what compiling those statistics is for, yes? To send help where help is most needed? This is an issue the NYPD will have to deal with in coming days.

The other metropolitan area tragedy at the top of the news at the moment is the slaughter of four innocent people in Jersey City Dec. 10 by, according to reports, a couple of heavily armed drifters. While those investigating the murders are not saying much while they work on the case, there seems little doubt that this was a hate

crime directed specifically against both the police and one segment of the population: Jews.

Why do people hate? Particularly why do they hate strangers, people they don’t even know?

It’s a question as puzzling as why people would ever want to kill each other. For bigotry to be so strong as to result in violence is unfathomable.

For that matter, why conclude that just because people are different, they should therefore be despised? In fact, they might be thought of as more interesting for their differences.

Which brings me back to my original thought. If everyone is praying for peace, why is there war? Why is there violence? Why is there bigotry? Why is peace so elusive? Is peace, real peace, impossible because of the makeup of humans? Will there always be a Hitler and a Stalin, a Napoleon, Vikings and an Attila the Hun? Still, let us pray for peace, however hard to imagine. Let us keep this idea alive before us as a goal someday to be realized. Let us work to make our world less violent, less filled with hate, less bigoted. Maybe the operative word is “less?” That we surely can do.

Praying for Peace

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he year is rapidly coming to a close, and it is leaving us with impassioned thoughts.

At this time, probably more than any other in the year, we pray for peace: “on earth peace, good will toward men.” Never in the history of the world were people more united than in this wish. And yet, we are so far from the reality.

Tessa Majors, only 18 years old and on the threshold of adult life, bright with promBetween ise, is stabbed to you and me death in Morningside Park in UpBY LEAH S. DUNAIEF per Manhattan. A Barnard College freshman from Virginia, an out-of-towner, was in the park after dark, although it was

only 7 o’clock on a Wednesday evening, Dec. 11. Ostensibly the cause was a robbery gone bad. Her death is a personal tragedy for her family, her friends, the neighborhood, the Barnard and Columbia communities and all New York City. I know. I’m a Barnard alumna and my roots are in New York. The murder tugs at my heart. I lived on the Columbia campus for two years, only a short block from the park. One thing I understood: Don’t go into the park at night.

So I have lots of thoughts, lots of questions.

Why was she there? Was she not told that simple fact? At the first assembly of my entering class, the president of the college cautioned us about safety in the neighborhood, warned us where to walk and how to be safe. That was a different time, I acknowledge, over a half-century ago, when the city was a more dangerous place. But dark places in any city can be dangerous anywhere in the world. The president was trying to teach us urban smarts.

Are the new students still getting that important message on many college campuses?

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