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December 20, 2018

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What’s inside Efforts underway to get Northport VAMC’s homeless shelter open A3 Suffolk legislator’s effort to ban flavored e-cigs meets resistance A4 TBR exclusive: LaValle talks future of Suffolk Republican Party A7

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Town

Northport VA faces challenges to reopening homeless shelter Building 11 failed inspection in November, renovations expected to be complete within 6 months Cries to open Northport Veteran Affair Medical Center’s homeless center immediately are not falling on deaf ears.

U.S. Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) has called for the swift reopening of Building 11 at the Northport VAMC, the on-site homeless veterans shelter that was run by nonprofit United Veterans Beacon House.

The facility has been closed for repairs since January 2018 when the heating system failed due to a prolonged cold snap.

“Anyone who has followed the Northport VA throughout the years knows that there have been many issues due to staffing shortages, aging infrastructure and so much more that comes with running a huge medical center like Northport, but this cannot be an excuse,” Zeldin said. “The men and women who go to Northport have put their lives on the line, and we must do better.”

The Northport VA received approximately $1.1 million to renovate the shelter with new ductwork and an electronically controlled heating and cooling system.

Work on the shelter was originally expected to be completed by August but was found to need additional electrical work and asbestos abatement, according to Northport VA spokesman Levi Spellman.

“We recognize the importance of having safe, clean on-site housing for veterans who require it for medical stabilization,” Spellman said in a statement. “But because of the problems inherent to an aging facility, we are faced with additional challenges any time we tackle infrastructure issues.”

Once the Northport VA closed Building 11 for an extended period for renovations, it was also required to upgrade the facility to meet fire safety codes for new construction — updated by the federal government in October 2017. A code assessment conducted Nov. 14 found the structure needed additional repairs and maintenance beyond the renovations that were already underway, according to Spellman. This includes the replacement of ceiling tiles, addition of fire sprinkler heads, door repairs, lighting improvements and repair of leaks and general utility — much of which the VA staff has

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A temporary heating and air-conditioning unit hooked up to Building 11 at Northport VA Medical Center.

the ability to perform in-house — before the building can safely be reoccupied.

“We estimate that Building 11 will be habitable in fewer than six months,” Spellman said. “We are currently developing a statement of work to begin the process of finding an appropriate vendor to operate the shelter.”

Beacon House’s contract to operate the shelter had the option to be renewed over the summer, while critical repairs were being performed.

Spelling said Northport VA could not renew or extend the nonprofit’s oversight of the program while space was not available, and hence will have to put the contract back out for Greg Curran open bids in accordance with federal regulations.

As the temperatures drop over the winter, the staff of Northport VA say public officials’ concerns that Long Island’s homeless veterans are being left out in the cold due to the shelter’s closure is “simply inaccurate.”

“I’ve been here 15 years, and we’ve never turned away someone even when we didn’t have the room,” Greg Curran, Northport VA’s

‘I’ve been here 15 years, and we’ve never turned away someone even when we didn’t have the room’

homeless program manager, said. “Even when we had Building 11, there were times we didn’t have beds. We always found a way to make it work.”

Curran said Building 11 played a critical role in the medical center’s efforts to aid homeless veterans by providing on-site housing where the individuals had ease of access to much-needed medical and vocational services — the two most frequent causes of homelessness.

“They could access those services here by walking around campus,” he said.

“Transportation can be a barrier for veterans.”

The Northport VA has continued to work with nonprofit organizations, including Beacon House, Suffolk and Nassau county social service departments, to find available shelters and safe beds for the homeless. Curran said the VA’s homeless programs can offer emergency or transitional programming for approximately 100 individuals, while another roughly 500 veterans and their families on Long Island are offered housing assistance by the federal government’s Section 8 program.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, known as HUD, announced in November it found only one Long Island veteran without shelter on a given night in January 2018 during its Point-in-Time Count, an annual tally of America’s homeless population.

“You can be sure that’s not 100 percent accurate,” Curran said. “There are far fewer chronic homeless and street homeless than there were a few years ago.”

The VA staff member said that he hopes Building 11 will be reopened as soon as possible, as it’s a key component in combating homelessness.

“Closing Building 11 didn’t in and of itself leave people homeless,” he said. “But it was a blow to the system.”

Anyone who knows of a veteran in need of shelter or immediate medical care is encouraged to contact Curran directly at 631-261-4400, ext.

2204. Those veterans who have housing but lack transportation to medical appointments can contact Disabled American Veterans to arrange a ride at 631-261-4400, ext. 7980.

Resources to help veterans • For veterans in need of housing: Greg Curran 631-261-4400, ext. 2204 National hotline 877-4AID-VET • For veterans in need of transportation: Disabled American Veterans 631-261-4400, ext. 7980

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County

Fight over proposal to ban flavored e-cigarettes in Suffolk A legislative proposition to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes and vaping liquids in Suffolk County created a frenzy, packing the county Legislature last week to argue the pros and cons.

Suffolk Legislator Dr. William “Doc” Spencer (D-Centerport) drafted legislation that would ban the sale of all flavored vapes and e-liquids, with the exception of menthol and mint, before the Health Committee Dec. 13 for a public hearing. His proposal drew more than 75 speakers including health officials, small business owners and students.

“This is a public health emergency,” Spencer said. “We are seeing an astonishing increase in vamping among those ages 12 to 17, and to wait for the FDA or state to take action is not acceptable at the expense of more children becoming addicted.”

The legislator said studies indicate the number of children vaping in the last year has tripled, and that up to 80 percent cite flavor as the main reason. Spencer said candy and fruity flavors such as cotton candy or Cinnamon Toast Crunch paired with flashy advertising on social media is enticing young people.

“The kids don’t even have a chance,” he said.

The proposed legislation has gained momentum with letters of support from Suffolk County School Superintendents Association, Suffolk County High School Principals Association, the American Medical Association

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Suffolk Legislator William “Doc” Spencer, center, is joined by doctors and parents rallying in support of banning flavored e-cigarettes and vaping liquids.

and the American Academy of Pediatrics, according to Spencer.

“Studies show children try vaping and e-cigs because of the flavors and kids who use these products get addicted and are more likely to move on to combustible cigarettes, with all the health detriments we know are caused by smoking,” said Dr. Eve Meltzer Krief, a member and legislative advocate with New York Chapter 2 of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

In 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the use of flavoring in cigarettes. Spencer said it’s his belief the FDA will take this step with e-cigarettes next.

A number of small business owners spoke out against the proposed legislation stating the issues

of children ages 12 to 17 vaping isn’t the flavors, but rather an issue of access and enforcement of Suffolk County’s limitation on sale of tobacco product to those over the age of 21.

“Fake IDs are the biggest bane of my existence,” said Ibrahim Bal, co-owner of Cloud Vapor and Smoke vape shop in Smithtown. “I’ve come to a point where I’ve had to turn away people who have actual IDs from [New] Jersey.”

Bal encouraged members of the Health Committee to strongly consider steeper penalties for businesses that sell e-cigarettes and vapes to those who are underage. The county’s current law states a first offense is punishable by a minimum fine of $300, with a fee of $500 to $1,500 for each subsequent infraction.

“We’re all on the same page, we don’t’ want kids vaping,” Bal said.

His brother and business partner, Semih, said the children will still be able to purchase e-cigarettes, like the popular JUUL online, and said the issue of access is a matter of responsible parenting.

“Parents need to stop buying it for their kids,” he said, citing it as a frequent occurrence.

His point was strongly seconded by Ron Diamond, owner of Ronjo’s Magic & Costumes in Port Jefferson Station, who said he has recently made the move into selling vape and wellness products in the last nine months. Diamond said his clientele are mature adults attracted to the diverse flavor choices available for use in larger vapor units, not the e-cigarette cartridges favored by teens.

“We have a bigger problem in America, and that’s flavored cereals,” he said. “We have a bigger problem because all the children are obese. If you are going to take away flavor from a vapor, let’s take the flavor away from luring in children to be obese with cereal and sugary, flavors in cereal.”

Diamond said he would support stricter regulation including mandating ID card scanners be installed in each store, locking down sale to vape-specific shops rather than convenience stores, and strict enforcement of identification to prevent underage sale.

“I’m in America, you can’t tell me I can’t have a flavor,” Diamond said.

BY SARA-MEGAN WALSH SARA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM A proposal for Suffolk County sue former police chief James Burke over the $1.5 million settlement it paid out to his victim was tabled by the county Legislature as legal advice on the best approach to seek reparations differed.

The county’s Ways and Means Committee held a public hearing Dec. 13 on Legislator Rob Trotta’s (R-Fort Salonga) resolution to have Suffolk District Attorney Tim Sini (D) initiate a lawsuit against Burke for the settlement the county paid out to Christopher Loeb in February 2018.

Legislator Bridget Fleming (D-Sag Harbor), the chairwoman of the committee, cited a memo from county attorney Dennis Brown that advised Trotta’s proposed lawsuit “would likely be unsuccessful but could expose us to [court] sanctions and attorney fees.”

“There is no basis for it,” Brown said when questioned. “As the committee has discussed, there is no way to recover or recoup the settlement dollars paid in that lawsuit.”

In the federal civil lawsuit, Suffolk agreed

to pay the $1.5 million settlement as Burke’s employer at the time for the civil rights offenses and the actions of six other police officers who participated in covering up the ex-chief’s actions. Burke retained his own private attorney and settled Loeb’s civil case against him for an undisclosed sum, according to Fleming.

Howard Miller, a Garden City-based attorney with the law firm Bond Shoeneck & King, presented a case for the county suing Burke for his wages and compensation paid by the county under the faithless servant doctrine.

This doctrine, according to Miller, dates back to the 19th century allowing employers to seek compensation back from disloyal employees.

“Here, the facts are egregious as you had not only beating of the suspect but systematic coverup of that,” he said. “This doctrine is designed to create a deterrent to future acts like this, of corruption and misconduct.”

Miller stated doing so wouldn’t necessarily require further court litigation, given Burke had pled guilty, but could help Suffolk to claw back wages and any benefits paid to the former police chief from the date of the incident with

Loeb, occurring in 2012, through Burke’s resignation in October 2015. While he admitted a lawsuit to see back the $1.5 million settlement was iffy, Miller said he has successfully represented clients at the state level who have been successful in similar lawsuits, including the William Floyd school district.

“What would be a successful lawsuit in my opinion, a plainly meritorious suit would be to go after the compensation [Burke] was paid while he was covering up his misconduct,” Miller said.

Fleming called for the county attorney to research the county’s legal possibility further and received a vote to table the discussion. Trotta has promised to submit an amended resolution to sue Burke for repayment of his salary.

Several Suffolk residents and former police department members asked the Legislature to further investigate what its legal options were for seeking repayment of the settlement, Burke’s salary or pension.

“You as the legislative body of our county have a fiduciary responsibility to Suffolk residents to go after the employees whose actions harm their employees, thus harming Suffolk County

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Motion to sue ex-Suffolk Police Chief Burke over $1.5M settlement tabled

Howard Miller speaks before Suffolk County Legislature.

residents,” Pam Farino, of Smithtown, said.

“Disgraced ex-chief James Burke did just that.”

Huntington resident James McGoldrick complimented Trotta for his intentions but asked the county’s officials to consider the cost of any legal action, considering the total funds Suffolk stood to regain might not be enough compared to the expenses of further litigation.

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Town

Light show transforms Heckscher Park Children of all ages may find themselves drawn to the lights in Huntington’s Heckscher Park.

A little rain didn’t dampen the spirits of Huntington residents and town officials as they gathered to celebrate the grand opening of the first Winter Wonderland of Lights at the park Dec. 13.

“This first annual Winter Wonderland is something I am very happy to be part of, it brings the Town of Huntington together to celebrate the holidays and to beautiful Heckscher Park all lit up where residents can visit throughout the season,” Councilman Ed Smyth (R) said, who also serves as vice president of the Huntington Cultural Affairs Institute board.

The holiday light display consists of 30 light poles and seven large standing light installations. Some of the display features traditional holiday themes, such as toy soldiers

and gingerbread men. Other installations feature nautical themes, given Huntington’s location and history.

Huntington Cultural Affairs Institute, a nonprofit educational organization formed by the town to receive and manage contributions toward cultural programs and services for residents, provided $20,000 in funding for the holiday light display at its Oct. 10 meeting. An additional $17,000 in donations came from local sponsors including Huntington Mazda, Huntington Nissan, Value Drugs, Siena Women’s Health at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center, Huntington Hospital Northwell Health, Huntington Township Chamber of Commerce and PSEG Long Island.

The light display will run from dusk to 11 p.m. through early January, with all poles staying illuminated 24/7.

— Sara-Megan Walsh

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Police Suffolk police cruiser hits bicyclist Huntington’s ‘Johnny Boy’ to serve 51 months for racketeering Suffolk County Police Major Case Unit detectives are investigating a motor vehicle crash in which a Huntington Station bicyclist was struck by a Suffolk County Police vehicle.

Two Suffolk County Police officers in a marked police unit traveling northbound on New York Avenue, north of May Street, struck a man riding a bicycle across New York Avenue from east to west at approximately 5:10 p.m. The officers were responding to a call and had their emergency lights operating, according to police.

The bicyclist, Miguel Angel Gaitan, 64, was transported to Stony Brook University Hospital via Suffolk County Police helicopter with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The two officers were transported to Huntington Hospital for evaluation and released.

The vehicle was impounded for a safety check.

Anyone with information on this crash is requested to contact Major Case unit detectives at 631-852-6555.

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A Huntington resident will be spending time in prison after admitting to racketeering while in charge of Long Island’s most infamous crime family.

John “Johnny Boy” Ambrosio, 75, the acting captain in the organized crime family La Cosa Nostra was sentenced Dec. 6 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York to 51 months in jail for taking part in a racketeering conspiracy. He previously pled guilty in May. Ambrosio was among the last of seven associates of La Cosa Nostra to be sentenced in connection for the racketeering conspiracy, which included acts of drug trafficking, loan sharking, gambling and obstruction of justice.

“There should be no doubt that putting a stop to the criminal activities of La Cosa Nostra continues to be a priority of this office and our law enforcement partners,” Richard Donoghue, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said.

Ambrosio and his co-conspirators — including Anthony Rodolico, 46, of Huntington — were arrested by federal law enforcement officials Dec.12, 2017 after federal officers executed search warrants at various locations, including a storage facility in Nassau County, where they found gambling and loan sharking records, electronic gaming machines, narcotics

and drug paraphernalia and numerous firearms, including two AR-15 rifles, a .38 caliber revolver and a sawed-off shotgun, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. Law enforcement officials also found letters addressed to Ambrosio from the Bonanno family boss Michael “The Nose” Mancuso and former Gambino family boss John Gotti.

“Organized crime continues to plague our communities with violence, coercion, and intimidation,” William Sweeney Jr, assistant director-in-charge of the FBI’s New York field office, said. “The mobsters grow richer while their victims live in fear as they struggle to make payments while dealing with daily threats.”

Prosecutors said they believe Ambrosio and his associates engaged in a racketeering conspiracy from January 2014 to December 2017. In entering his guilty plea, Ambrosio admitted to participating in the Gambino family’s activities by extorting a loan from one victim and supervising a gambling business that involved poker games, electronic gaming machines and sports betting, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.

Under the terms of his plea deal, he will forfeit $100,000, including $66,116 in cash that was seized from his Huntington home at the time of his arrest.

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A Huntington Station man has been sentenced to serve 90 months in prison for possessing and distributing drugs, in part through his 17-year-old brother.

Jamal Brown, 26, was sentenced by Judge Joseph Bianco Dec. 14 in Central Islip’s federal court for distributing and possessing with intent to distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl. Brown previously pled guilty to the charges in May. “Brown preyed on vulnerable addicts to enrich himself, exposing them to significant risk of overdose with fentanyl, a drug that is a leading factor in the opioid crisis plaguing Long Island and the United States,” Richard Donoghue, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said. “To facilitate his illegal drug distribution, Brown even involved his teenager brother.”

An investigation conducted by U.S. Drug Enforcement Adminstration’s New York Division in cooperation with Long Island’s Heroin Task Force, consisting of Nassau

County, Suffolk County and New York State Police, found Brown possessed and sold more than 40 grams of fentanyl along with unspecified quantities of cocaine between July 2017 and February 2018, according to court records.

Prosecutors said court-authorized wiretapped calls revealed Brown used his brother — who spoke of his struggles with addiction and a plan to enter a rehabilitation facility — to help transport the narcotics and pick up drug sale proceeds, according to court records.

On Feb. 27, searches of Brown’s Long Island drug storage locations in Bay Shore and Huntington Station turned up 76 grams of fentanyl, more than 150 grams of cocaine, a .32 caliber handgun, ammunition and other evidence of drug trafficking, according to police records. At the time of the search, Brown’s newborn child was inside the Huntington Station home where 10 grams of fentanyl were found.

— Sara-Megan Walsh

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County

As legal troubles swirl on the national stage over President Donald Trump’s (R) 2016 campaign, he has at least one powerful local supporter who is as staunchly in the chief executive’s corner as ever.

Despite the loss of control of the House of Representatives and the New York State Senate, Suffolk County Republican Committee Chairman John Jay LaValle — the party boss who stumped for Trump during 2016 and delivered the county to the first Republican presidential candidate since the early ’90s — has no doubts about Trump’s political capital and said he sees no reason to reexamine his party’s platform in the coming electoral cycle. That upcoming cycle features county Legislature and executive races in November 2019. Meanwhile the 2020 presidential campaign already begins to churn.

On its face, Republicans’ showing in Suffolk in the 2018 midterms last month is nothing to cause alarm, according to LaValle.

Incumbent U.S. Reps. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) and Peter King (R-Seaford) secured new terms in an environment that produced 40 new colleagues with “D” next to their names for congressmen. Entrenched state senators John Flanagan (R-East Northport) and Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) — the party boss’s cousin — also scored easy wins, keeping their decades-held seats even as the body flipped to the Democrats’ control, painting all three houses of New York’s government blue.

LaValle, speaking in an exclusive interview with TBR News Media at his Ronkonkoma office Nov. 29, displayed no concerns with the future of his party, nor a willingness to reassess messaging or strategy ahead of the next two

November elections. Jobs, the economy and immigration — along with undoing anything and everything possible from President Barack Obama’s (D) tenure — have been first and foremost policy in the Make America Great Again era of the Republican Party, and LaValle suggested that shouldn’t be expected to change.

“The Democrat Party had a better day than the Republican Party,” he said of the 2018 midterms. “If we cut out everything else in the world and we look at it in a vacuum, what occurred, certainly the Democrat Party performed somewhat better; not substantially, but somewhat better in the 2018 election cycle.”

He said it is to be expected a sitting president’s party would lose seats in Congress during a midterm election, a long-held trend that plagued nearly all presidents in the recent past. This is also despite the narrow margins of victory for King and Zeldin compared to recent cycles.

“This was a very tough climate for a lot of people, not so much for us,” he said. “We actually stemmed the tide very well. We are intact. That to me is an extremely positive sign.”

The closing message for the president on the campaign trail last month focused on immigration, specifically a caravan of migrants coming through Central America, which has for the most part dwindled. Zeldin’s campaign ads in late October warned of his opponents “radical liberal agenda,” support of sanctuary cities and desire to provide free health care for illegal immigrants. Immigration has long been a wedge issue nationally, and in Suffolk, LaValle pegged it as one of the key issues that helped Trump win during a 2017 interview.

“As far as our game plan — the Republican agenda for America is working,” LaValle said, touting unemployment numbers and an economy displaying some other positive

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Above, Suffolk County Republican Committee Chairman John Jay LaValle at his Ronkonkoma office. Below, LaValle stands with U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin on election night Nov. 6 celebrating a Republican victory.

signs. “The truth is, the Republican agenda for America, and in large part Donald Trump’s agenda for America, is not being represented accurately in the media.”

He dismissed the notion that Democrats are a more diverse party, both in the electorate and in the candidates running.

“More Americans are working today than ever before in our history,” he said, adding the left has gone out of its way to try to label the president as a racist. “For a guy that’s a racist, more African Americans are working today than ever in the history of this country. Under Barack Obama more were on social programs, welfare, and more were unemployed then ever in the history of the country. So we had a black president who failed the black community. We have now what the Democrats say is a racist president, is now employing more African Americans than ever in history. It’s totally indisputable.”

The unemployment rate for black people is at a record low, though African-American unemployment has been declining overall since 2010, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, several years before Trump took office.

LaValle said he expects in coming elections more people of color to realize the positives Republicans have brought about for their communities.

“It’s not going to happen overnight that they’re going to wake up and say, ‘You know what, I love the Republicans,’” he said. “That’s a myth that’s perpetuated — the Democratic Party is the party of diversity. No, they’re not.

What diversity are they offering?”

LaValle suggested Trump will be in a better position going forward to advance his agenda with a Democratic-held House, saying

the president falls closer to the center on the political spectrum than many Republicans in Congress who have failed to rally behind him.

“I have a feeling at the end of the day there’s going to be a lot of negotiating and think we’re going to see some compromise and we’re going to see some progress,” LaValle said. He added he’s not sure what his involvement will be in the 2020 Trump re-election campaign but will be willing to get in the game if his name is called.

LaValle has previously been rumored as a potential challenger in 2019 against incumbent Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) but said at this point that’s unlikely to be in the cards. He named Flanagan, county Comptroller John Kennedy (R), Legislator and Minority Leader Tom Cilmi (R-Bay Shore) and Legislator Rob Trotta (R-Fort Salonga) as a few possible Republican candidates for Suffolk’s top office. He said he expects the decision to play out in January.

LaValle called Flanagan “an excellent candidate” but said he’s unsure if the state senator would be interested in the position.

“Rob’s an interesting guy, he’s certainly willing to say whatever it is that’s on his mind, that’s a quality that people like,” he said of Trotta.

The chairman pegged legislature seats held by Sarah Anker (D-Mount Sinai), William Lindsay (D-Bohemia), Al Krupski (D-Cutchogue) and Tom Donnelly (D-Deer Park) as a few he expects to hone-in on to try and flip in 2019. The Legislature is currently comprised of 11 Democrats and seven Republicans.

“I think for the most part we’re going to continue along the path that we’re on,” he said. “I don’t see any reason not to. We faired pretty well in this election cycle. We certainly bucked trends.”

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Sports — Game of the Week

Tigers taken down by Smithtown West The Northport Tigers came out fierce, but were unable to claw their way to the top Dec. 13.

Northport High School’s varsity wrestling team briefly took a 19-18 lead over the West Bulls, but Smithtown dropped the hammer late. The Tigers were defeated, 41-21, in the League III matchup.

Pictured, clockwise from top left: Nick DeMarco, a second-year varsity wrestler, maintains control at 99 lbs; three-year varsity wrestler Jack Marlow, a returning League II runner-up, defeats his opponent at 126 lbs;

Guissepe DeMarco, on top, in his first year wrestling at varsity level, has the advantage over his opponent at 145 lbs; captain Peter Magliocco, currently ranked fifth in Suffolk County, defeats his challenger; and first-year varsity grappler Tom Tini battles for an escape, on bottom, in the 132 lbs bracket.

The loss dropped Northport to 1-1 in the 2018 season.

The Tigers will travel to Riverhead to take on the Blue Waves Dec. 21 at 4:30 p.m.

— Bill Landon

DECEMBER 20, 2018 • TIMES HUNTINGTON & NORTHPORTS • PAGE A9

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Obituary

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Edward J. Frank

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Edward J. Frank, 69, of Northport, died Nov. 11. He worked as an attorney for Zaklukiewicz, Puzo & Morrissey in Islip. He was the beloved husband of Marguerite, loving father of Louis and Elena, dear brother of Joseph (Donna) and Michael (Barbara) and survived by loving nieces and nephews.

Visitations were held at the Branch Funeral Home of Smithtown. Cremation was private. In lieu of flowers, donations in his name may be made to: American Red Cross, P.O. Box 37839, Boone IA 50037-0839

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Opinion

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Dear Santa of NYS

We, the taxpayers of Suffolk County, believe that as a whole we’ve been pretty good in 2018. Many of us have been busy working long hours, sometimes in multiple jobs, to make ends meet and provide for our families given the high cost of living on the Island. Suffolk police report violent crime and hate crimes are down — we’ve been doing our best to behave.

This holiday season we’re asking you, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), to double, no, triple check the list we know you’ve been diligently drafting up in Albany as to who’s been naughty or nice.

We understand that you have nearly 20 million residents to look out for, but we have a holiday wish list we’d like you to consider before announcing your budget for the 2020 fiscal year: ● Increase state aid to our public schools. School taxes make up the largest portion of our property tax bills. President Donald Trump’s (R) Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is about to hit this April, which limits homeowners to a $10,000 deduction of their state and local property, income and sales taxes. By increasing school funding, it will hopefully help keep future school budget increases low. ● Consider proposals to reconfigure Long Island Power Authority. Long Islanders pay among the highest rates in the Northeast for their electricity; and any reorganizational measures or changes that could bring relief would bring financial relief. ● In the alternative, push through legislation that would allow municipalities and school districts who lose a tax base from utilities, such as LIPA, to access reserved state funds to offset the impact on Suffolk taxpayers. ● Provide more state funding and grants for alternative energy. Our environment is sensitive from being on an island, and increasing our renewable energy resources would help ensure clean water to drink, safe land to live on and, hopefully, lower costs of producing electricity. ● Lay out state funding for sewers on Long Island. Many of our downtown areas are hurting financially, as business districts are struggling to consider growth without sewers. In addition, providing grants to help homeowners with the costs of transitioning from old-fashioned cesspools to modern systems should improve the area’s water quality. ● Set aside more money to repave and reconfigure our heavily traveled state roadways, such as Route 25 and 25A. Driving along these congested roadways brings several perils, including large potholes, inadequate street lighting and sections that flood in heavy rainstorms. Funds could be used to re-engineer troublesome spots that repeatedly cause accidents and repave sections that are in disrepair.

In addition, we understand that you have plenty of elves, your fellow elected officials, who can help enact changes and allocate funds to help make the rest of our holiday wishes come true: ● Start construction on the Rails to Trails project from Wading River through Mount Sinai. The project is much anticipated, but some funding and consideration must be made for neighboring property owners who want privacy of their homes and yards.

Sure, we have quite the holiday wish list this year. But we hope you can see the gifts we’re asking for will benefit all.

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Safety needs to be LIRR’s top priority Recent news that the Long Island Rail Road will fail to meet the Federal Railroad Administration’s Dec. 31, 2018, deadline for complete 100 percent systemwide installation of positive train control comes as no surprise to those of us who have worked in the transit industry.

The FRA originally mandated that positive train control — a system of signals and switches that could prevent potential train crashes — be installed and operable by 2015 to insure safety for the riding public. Even with a time extension to December 2018, it was always doubtful that the LIRR would meet this new deadline. Perhaps the LIRR had insufficient force account — that is, track employees — including inadequate numbers of certified signal maintainers and other specialized trade employees to support installation of positive train control. In addition, there are annual routine state-of-good-repair systemwide projects: additional work in the East River Tunnels; $2.6 billion Main Line third track; $450 million Jamaica capacity improvements; $432 million Ronkonkoma double tracking; and $11.8 billion MTA East Side Access.

It continues to be challenging for the LIRR to coordinate daily track outages

and go-slow work zones to support all of this work while at the same time providing the basic service customers pay for. There is no guarantee that these issues will be resolved anytime soon.

Now the LIRR will need another twoyear extension until Dec. 31, 2020, to actually finish positive train control. The LIRR has known since 2010 for this need.

Complete means positive train control is up and running 24/7 on all LIRR branches and service areas. It should also include completion for thousands of contract(s) punch-list items, delivery and acceptance of all manufacture component maintenance plans, release of retainage and final payment to all third-party construction contractors and vendors.

Needing another two-year extension to 2020 is an admission of failure.

Positive train control should have been the No. 1 priority for the LIRR over past years even if it meant diverting resources from other capital improvement projects.

Safety should No. 1 for commuters.

But don’t blame Washington when it comes to how the MTA LIRR decided to use federal assistance for installing positive train control since 2010. Federal support for transportation has remained consistent and is growing over past

decades.

When crises occurred — be it 9/11 or Hurricane Sandy in 2012 — Washington was there. Additional billions in assistance above and beyond yearly formula allocations from the Federal Transit Administration were provided.

In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided billions more.

In 2018, Washington made available $1.4 billion to the MTA; the same, if not more, will be available in 2019. The LIRR averages a 15 percent share of all annual federal funding received by MTA. For years, it has been their respective decisions to program virtually all of these funds to other capital projects and not to positive train control.

The MTA is paying for $550 million LIRR positive train control as part of a $1 billion federal loan. Will this loan be paid back plus any interest as part of the next $30 billion 2020-24 MTA Capital Program? What is the cost for this loan?

Larry Penner Great Neck Editor’s note: Penner is a transportation historian, advocate and writer who previously worked 31 years for the U.S. Department of Transportation.

U.S. should ban all bee-toxic neonicotinoids A shocking 40 percent of the nation’s honeybee colonies collapsed over the past year. The world’s most widely used class of insecticides, called “neonics,” is a key factor in this devastating loss of bee colonies. Acute exposure to neonics can kill bees directly. Chronic exposure to neonics could be making it harder for bee colonies to breed, fight off disease and survive the winter.

This is a full-blown crisis. The government has reported that the number of managed honeybee colonies in America has plummeted from 4 million in 1970 to just 2.5 million today. We depend on bees for many of our local crops. Not to mention the abundance of flowers and vegetables that bees pollinate in millions of backyard gardens across America.

Bayer, the German chemical giant

and trusted maker of aspirin, is also the world’s leading manufacturer of bee-toxic neonics. The company’s leading neonic products are imidacloprid and clothianidin. These products are so dangerous that the European Union has restricted the use of these toxic chemicals because of the high risk they pose to bees. Unfortunately, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the sale of these dangerous neonics without considering their impacts on endangered bees, butterflies and birds — a possible violation of the Endangered Species Act. An annual survey of American beekeepers showed that honeybee colonies aren’t dying only during the cold winter months. Bee colonies collapsed last summer at a rate of 17 percent. Science has been warning us that a tidal wave of

neonics is a key factor in the nationwide collapse of bee colonies. Bees are also suffering from the loss of wildflower habitat, rapidly spreading diseases and climate change — all of which have left these vital pollinators stressed out and even more susceptible to pesticide poisoning.

Neonics are truly insidious because they are “systemic,” meaning once they are absorbed into a plant’s tissue, they turn that plant into a tiny poison factory that emits toxins all the way from the roots to the nectar on which the bees feed.

We need to demand that we pull all bee-toxic neonics from the American market.

Edward P. Romaine Town Supervisor Town of Brookhaven

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Opinion

Trying out our best and worst on family

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s we marinate in the warmth of the holidays, we have a chance to spend time with friends and family.

We’ve chosen most of our friends ourselves.

OK, maybe that’s not exactly true, as we inherit friends from our parents when we’re young: “Oh, why don’t you play with Timmy, who is the son of my best friend whom I met when I was your age”; and from our children when we’re older: “Hey, dad, can you hang D. None out with Allisa’s parents while we of the above wander through

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF Great Adventure theme park.”

Despite the somewhat limited pool of people

from which to choose our friends, we often pick those people who share similar values, a sense of humor or a tolerance for politicians.

We don’t have the same luxury with our families. We have nutty family members who say and do all kinds of things that make us cringe, that cause us to laugh long after the events are over or who simply make us scratch our heads.

We often think it’s the other family members who are the oddballs but, in truth, we’re all pretty strange.

Long before people voted each other off shows or islands in situations that seemed completely contrived in reality TV shows, family members confronted the awkward moments when they saw each other, year after year, at holidays, birthdays, special occasions and, perhaps, uncomfortable or less-than-ideal moments.

Families provide us with opportunities to test ourselves and our theories without worrying about losing a job, losing a friend or losing our minds. We can challenge ourselves and our families with ideas percolating in our heads, but

that may not be exactly what we believe.

Our families receive the best and the worst of our impulses, as we step forward to help each other, but also encourage independent growth and development.

As older members of families, we hope to lead not only by our words but by our examples.

Failing that, however, we hope that our spouses, children, parents and siblings can see us for the range of our contributions to the family, and not just for that ignominious moment that we’d just as soon forget.

Families offer reality checks on the myths we create for ourselves. “No, Dan, you didn’t win that horseback-riding ribbon because you had such a great ride. You fell off the horse and the judges felt sorry for you when you landed in horse manure. Good try, though.”

These moments when families hold up mirrors to us can help ground us, keeping us from becoming too proud or mighty. On the other side, however, when we’re feeling down, families can serve as the perfect counterweight,

suggesting that we have succeeded in more difficult circumstances and that they are certain of a positive outcome, even if we harbor significant doubts.

Movies about families often run the gamut of emotions, from slapstick, to comical, to serious and even bruising, as rivalries that run amok can become the origin of dysfunction even when we step away from these familial contacts.

Certainly, therapists often start and end with the family dynamic, drawing an understanding of habits we may not know we have until we look back at the lives and roles that brought us to this point.

At their best, families can inspire and encourage, while suggesting that we can and should believe in ourselves while we pursue our goals. Ultimately, families who demonstrate unconditional love and support, even if they do laugh at us periodically, set the kind of example that makes the accomplishments of the next generation possible. Here’s to everything we give, get and laugh about from the people we call family.

The year that was at TBR, with more to come

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he end of the year has snuck up on us. Have you noticed that the pace of the passing years seems to have accelerated? This is our last regular issue for 2018, and it seems fitting to take a bird’s-eye look at where we’ve been and what lies ahead.

Most immediately coming are the next two issues of special note, that of Dec. 27 and Jan. 3. The first is People of the Year, and we call it our only all-goodnews issue. This is the 43rd year we are honoring outstanding residents for going that extra mile and thereby Between helping to make you and me our hometowns the special places they

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF are. In doing so, they quietly elevate the quality of our lives.

We solicit nominations for this issue from

you, our readers, community leaders and neighbors. The editorial board meets with focus groups in the last quarter of the year over breakfast or lunch to discuss nominees and to further inform us of what is happening here, sometimes quietly, sometimes not so much. It is a treat for us to interact with the community on such a pleasant mission. We also get suggestions via emails, texts, phone calls and even an occasional petition; our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts are available, too.

We then take those names back to our conference room and amid lively discussions, select those whose stories we print in the People of the Year issue. Sometimes the ones that don’t fit become feature stories we run in the new year. I have been told that there are collectors who have all 43 issues. What a shelf life!

The second, the Year in Review, is new this year and is done in pictures in a kind of Life magazine treatment. It is on special white stock to help enhance the photo reproduction and is in full color. Life magazine — for whom I worked when in my early 20s and is no more — eat your heart out! A chronology of the way we were, we

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suspect that it, too, will have a long shelf life.

Some special offerings of this past year certainly should include our first full-length movie, “One Life to Give,” which was screened in June at the Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University to a full house of more than 1,000 viewers. The story follows the early years of the Revolutionary War, specifically through the lives of Nathan Hale and Benjamin Tallmadge, and the start of Washington’s Culper Spy Ring that was headquartered in Setauket.

I am pleased to be able to tell you that we have filmed a sequel, called “Traitor,” that takes place four years later. It is now 1780, and with great luck the Patriots have captured British spymaster, John André. Again Tallmadge is central to the plot that reveals the discovery of Benedict Arnold’s betrayal and the ultimate fate of André. It will be screened in the spring and you will all be invited.

Another first for us this past year was the Cooks, Books & Corks event at the Bates House off Main Street in Setauket. Many local authors came with their books for sale, and many local restaurants came with their specialties for tasting

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Leah S. Dunaief GENERAL MANAGER Johness Kuisel EDITOR Sara-Megan Walsh LEISURE EDITOR Heidi Sutton

ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Kathryn Mandracchia DIR. OF MEDIA PRODUCTIONS Michael Tessler

on a sweet summer evening. There was wine and unending good food for both the body and the mind. Our engaging headline speakers were Guy Reuge from Mirabelle Restaurant, internationally famous naturalist Carl Safina and the inspirational dean of the School of Journalism at SBU, Howard Schneider. The event raised money to fund a journalism intern next summer.

In answer to the many times we have been asked, yes, we are planning to do it again.

A new print offering this past year was the sleek Washington’s Spy Trail booklet. In 1790, Washington took a slow, ceremonial coach trip along what is now 25A, from Great Neck to Port Jefferson, to honor the Setauket spies who had contributed so much to the victory of the colonists. The booklet marks the route, which this year sports road signs, with information about various points of interest along the way. We will again be publishing the story with updates.

I am running out of space, but there was a lot more that we innovated this past year with much more to come in 2019. Meanwhile thank you for your participation. We could not do any of this without you.

ART AND PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Beth Heller Mason INTERNET STRATEGY DIRECTOR Rob Alfano CLASSIFIEDS DIRECTOR Ellen Segal

BUSINESS MANAGER Sandi Gross CREDIT MANAGER Diane Wattecamps CIRCULATION MANAGER Courtney Biondo

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