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

Vol. 15, No. 4

May 9, 2019

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Legislative roundup

BILL LANDON

In the mix

Middle Country boys lacrosse improves to 10-5 overall, earns playoff potential — A7

Updates on the state and county level

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Flanagan, library to host mammography van

Left, Green Teens volunteers help children with activities to explore pond life habitats during a session of Nature Buddies; and, above, a Green Teens volunteer helps a child with a nature project. Photos from Middle Country Public Library

Middle Country Public Library receives STEM grant The Middle Country Public Library was one of 10 organizations that received a STEM seed grant from environmental nonprofit The Nature Generation for its Meadow in My Backyard educational initiative that included national Green Earth Book Award winning books.

The past four months, the library’s Green Teens volunteer club hosted Nature Buddies and Drop of Nature environmental workshops for youth ages 3 to 7 to promote backyard sanctuaries and wildlife habitats. Through engaging hands-on activities, teens from the club taught young participants and their parents about the life cycle of a butterfly, ways

to protect them and how to start a butterfly garden in their own backyards.

The MCPL Green Teens are also creating a brochure and a video to educate the broader community on preserving nature habitats and backyard nature sanctuaries.

Young participants in the program received copies of “A Place for Butterflies” and “On Meadowview Street,” both winners of the national Green Earth Book Award, bestowed annually

by The Nature Generation to inspire the next generation of environmental stewards. This is the organization’s inaugural year of awarding STEM seed grants to fund hands-on projects at schools,

libraries and other youth-based community organizations for youth-driven environmental projects inspired by the award-winning books.

“We are proud to support these projects that use the ethos and the science of Green Earth Book Award winning books to encourage environmental stewardship,” said Amy Marasco, The Nature Generation president.

“The seeds we are planting across the nation will take root and grow into a generation that is motivated and prepared to protect the planet.”

Grants were awarded to projects in New York, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Florida and Louisiana.

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State Sen. John Flanagan (R-East Northport), in conjunction with the Middle Country Public Library, is hosting the Stony Brook Cancer Center’s Mobile Mammography Van at the library’s Centereach location. This no-cost breast cancer-screening event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the library, which is located at 101 Eastwood Blvd., Centereach.

Stony Brook University Cancer Center operates and staffs the mobile van, which is supported by more than $3 million in funding from the New York State Department of Health, according to a press release from Flanagan’s office. The van provides convenient access to screening services for all women in the area to ensure they get the information and services needed to protect themselves from breast cancer.

This event is for women 40 and older who have not had a mammogram in the past year.

To help ensure proper coordination of the event, patients are asked to schedule an appointment by calling 631-638-4135.

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In the state, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death among women. Mammograms and breast cancer screenings can detect cancer at early stages, when it is most treatable.

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Obituary

Selden resident, Connetquot music director remembered

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Jon-Michael Lasher, of Selden, died of brain cancer April 22. He was 45.

Lasher, Connetquot Central School District’s director of fine arts and music, began his tenure in the district, his alma mater, as a band teacher in 2003 and was promoted to director in 2009. Right before his time at Connetquot, he was the band director at Newfield High School. From 1998 to 1999, he was band teacher at Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park.

Dean Mittleman, assistant superintendent of Connetquot schools, notified parents and students of Lasher’s passing in a letter posted to the district’s website. He described the director as “the type of educator that instilled a love of learning in so many, and surely has helped to develop some of the world’s emerging talents.”

Mittleman credited Lasher with spearheading many initiatives and encouraging “young artists to pursue their passions.”

“A graduate from Connetquot, Mr. Lasher worked in the district for many years and was known to many as a champion for music and

fine arts education,” Mittleman wrote. “As a young student, he possessed a true love of the subject, and therefore it was only a natural progression that he became an educator and worked to help shape the lives of the next generation of student-musicians and artists.

His tenacity for a fine arts education resulted in elevating our robust programs to new heights and his unmatched dedication to his colleagues and students is one that stemmed from the heart — the best sign of a great educator.”

Mittleman’s sentiments were echoed by many on the Connetquot High School Band Facebook page, including John Leddy, Stony Brook University Athletic Bands director emeritus.

“Jon was a gifted and dedicated student, an inspirational teacher and an innovative administrator,” Leddy wrote. “He served the music program, a program that thrived under his guidance. He was a leader of consequence and significance. Connetquot is diminished with his passing as it was elevated with his presence. This is a sad day for our community.”

Leddy was a music faculty member when Lasher was a student at Connetquot, and later the two became colleagues. Leddy said in an email, when he retired, Lasher asked him to be an artist

in residence for the jazz program at the high school for a week, something that meant a lot to Leddy.

Lasher grew up in Bohemia and earned a bachelor’s degree in music education from SUNY Potsdam, where he met his wife, Susan. He earned a master’s degree in music performance from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, and a certificate in school district administration from Long Island University.

Ten years ago, Lasher began showing neurological signs and was diagnosed with a brain tumor, according to his wife. He was the founder of Tumor Tacklers, which raises funds at the Long Island Brain Tumor Walk. Tumor Tacklers has raised more than $30,000.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by his daughter, Maggie, 16; son, Thomas, 12; parents John and Lucille Lasher of Bohemia; and siblings Laurie Tramuta of Fredonia, Jacqueline Rizzuto of Bohemia and James Lasher of Hauppauge.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Bryant Funeral Home of East Setauket. A funeral Mass was held at St. Margaret of Scotland R.C. Church in Selden April 27. Visit www. bryantfh.com to sign the online guest book.

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Government

Legislative roundup: banning offshore drilling, cracking down on Move Over violators, encouraging park visits Recently, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed into law legislation sponsored by state Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket), while Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) announced that police would be cracking down harder on those who violate the Move Over law. And with temperatures rising, county Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket) challenges residents to get out and enjoy their local parks.

Governor signs Englebright’s legislation banning offshore oil and gas drilling

With singer Billy Joel on hand, Cuomo signed legislation sponsored by Englebright and state Sen. Todd Kaminsky (D-Long Beach) into law April 30.

The legislation will prohibit the use of stateowned underwater coastal lands for oil and natural gas drilling, and prevent state agencies from authorizing leases that would facilitate the development and production of oil or natural gas.

It also prohibits the development of pipelines and other infrastructure associated with exploration, development or production of oil or natural gas from New York’s coastal waters.

“This legislation takes aggressive action to protect New York’s marine environment by prohibiting offshore drilling,” Englebright said in a statement. “This law will protect and defend our waters, keeping them safe for recreation, fishing and wildlife.”

Despite the Atlantic Coast being off limits for drilling for decades, in 2017, the federal government proposed a new National Outer

Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program which would open more than 90 percent of the nation’s offshore waters to oil and gas drilling.

Englebright said the legislation will ensure the protection of endangered and threatened species as well as the state’s tourism and recreational and commercial fishing industries.

Bellone announces new campaign to crack down on Move Over state law violators

Suffolk County is cracking down on Move Over law violators with a multipronged awareness and enforcement campaign.

Bellone announced the campaign April 25 at a press conference in the hopes of increasing roadway safety for law enforcement personnel, emergency vehicles and road workers.

“Move Over is enforced for a reason — to ensure the safety of law enforcement, first responders and highway personnel,” Bellone said.

“This public awareness effort is intended to protect our roads while protecting those whose job it is to enforce the rules of the road.”

Under New York State law, drivers traveling in the same direction must reduce speed and move from an adjacent lane to avoid colliding with a vehicle parked, stopped or standing on the shoulder or any portion of the highway when the vehicle is an authorized emergency response, tow truck or maintenance vehicle with its lights flashing.

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Public service announcements, including a 30-second television ad and a one-minute social media version, will educate residents on the importance of the law and how it helps keep the roads safe for police officers, emergency services personnel and roadway workers.

On April 25, the Suffolk County Police Department began using both unmarked and marked cars to crack down on violators. The department partnered with Maryland-based Rekor Recognition Systems earlier in the year to conduct a two-week study of compliance in the county.

The number of citations for the Move Over law has increased over the last five years with nearly 800 summonses issued in 2018, and since 2013 the SCPD has issued more than 2,600 summonses for Move Over law violations, according to SCPD.

Hahn kicks off annual park challenge

County Legislator Hahn is encouraging Long Islanders to get out and explore once again.

On May 1, Hahn held a press conference at Frank Melville Memorial Park in Setauket to announce her fourth A Park a Day in May challenge. The location was the first of 31 parks

that will be featured in the social media event.

For every day in May, participants will find a description with photos of a different park through Facebook. Participants are then invited to take and post a picture of themselves with the hashtags #APADIM and #aparkaday. Daily A Park a Day in May posts will be added to www.facebook.com/karahahnld5.

“The May sun has always been a beacon, drawing me back out after the biting cold of winter,” Hahn said. “With life returning to nature, my intention was to find a way to return life back into our parks.”

Linda Sanders, Frank Melville Memorial Foundation trustee, said she hopes residents will enjoy the challenge and thanked Hahn for including the park.

“I grew up visiting parks, beaches and open spaces in my youth in Southern California,” Sanders said. “My family’s trips and times together spent outside in nature are some of my fondest memories.”

Hahn’s office will also once again have Park Passport booklets available. Children can collect badges by traveling to any of 24 local parks contained in the booklet. At each park, participants search for a hidden sign and check in by either scanning a QR code or entering the web address listed on the sign, which then loads a printable logo page that the child cuts and pastes into his or her passport. Residents can call 631-854-1650 for more information.

— compiled by Rita J. Egan

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Perspectives

Life experience provides insight on all Admiration grows in adulthood that mom accomplished

never asked, she never let on. In some of her darkest days, she made decisions that were right for her family but wrong for her. I watched as she When asked, most would express their forgave those who wronged her, really wronged admiration for their own mom. I am no different. her. And she really forgave. She has taught Forty-five years after kindergarten, my answers quietly, by example, over a lifetime. are still the same. My mom, Patricia, Other life lessons learned were is the best person in the world. I that hard work and smart planning love her this much — insert crayon got you where you wanted to be; drawing of stick-figure me with my patience really is a virtue; slow arms stretched out wide. A large and steady wins the race, but more red heart placed properly on my importantly, there wasn’t really a mini-me’s chest. Now in my fifties, race to win; and our treatment of and with young adult children of others was your most important trait. my own, my admiration continues Mom was also the epitome of to grow even deeper for my mom, a “perfect housewife.” She ran an appreciation which seems to the household like a boss. Dinner regularly confuse my mother as to was on the table each night; the why I feel this way about her.

Diane Caudullo with mom bills were paid, the house was My mother, now 78, simply has Patricia. Photo from Diane Caudullo clean and laundry and homework no idea of how smart and how strong were done. And she did it all with she is and always has been. She comments more love. It was her pleasure. often than she should, how she believes she didn’t Full disclosure, I did not inherit her really teach us much, my brother and sister and homemaking skills. Maybe it’s one of those genes me. I couldn’t disagree more. that skips a generation. Let’s just say my talents lie My mother’s life has been a series of struggles, elsewhere. But she watched as I raised my children big and small; disappointments of similar, varying to become loving and caring young adults. She sees degrees; and so many accomplishments and me care for my family, immediate and extended, successes that surprisingly look like everyday especially when problems arise. I volunteer in my life. What she does not seem to appreciate is, she community. I feel called to lift others up and make has been and still is a living lesson, a constant a positive impact in the world around me. example of how to live this life right.

Nowadays, my mother looks at me in awe of I watched as she cared for everyone in my strengths and gifts. Funny how she doesn’t addition to her own. Her sacrifices were endless see the resemblance. and seemingly without much reciprocation. If Diane Caudullo is the president of the you were down, she was there. If she was down, Centereach Civic Association and a board member she was down alone. I guess in all fairness, she of the Middle Country Chamber of Commerce.

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my sister, Kaneez, and I got to watch her leadership skills develop right before our eyes. She treated her employees as family and I’m turning into my mom, and that’s a spent so much time explaining the right way good thing. to do things, just as she had with us. She was With nearly a decade of motherhood under still teaching, explaining to “hold it from the my belt, it still surprises me that I sometimes bottom,” but in a mom-boss way. feel like a newbie. I mean, As my sister and I headed off motherhood is a large part to college, my mother’s catering instinct, a bit of luck and a whole business Elegant Eating moved lot of on-the-job experience, but into a Stony Brook storefront, and without employer feedback and my mom and her business partner promotions, it can be tough to Neil were well on their way to know how you’re doing. Raising becoming known throughout a small human is definitely Suffolk County.

Business challenging, but luckily for me, flourished, parties grew larger, and I have the support of friends they moved into a bigger space and family who cheer me on at with room for cooking classes and every turn. luncheons in Smithtown. Elegant Eating has catered hundreds of Now that the terrible toddler parties for the local community, years have long passed, and the celebrities and politicians, and dramatic tween time is upon me, I find myself thinking more and The writer with her daughter and they have managed to remain on top of the trends in this more about my school years, and mother. Photo from Lyla Gleason challenging business.

I’m seeing my mom in a new Over the past thirty years, I’ve watched light. How did she manage two kids when I am exhausted with just one? How could she pack my mom successfully raise her business our lunches every day without the slightest and enjoy her newest job as Mama Myra, hint of annoyance? How could she cook every grandmother to Giselle. I am happy for her accomplishments, but best of all, I’m happy night? Every night! OMG! I’m sure this is true of every generation, that I can now appreciate all her mom-boss but I’ve developed a newfound appreciation tools that I’ve inherited.

I may not see the physical resemblance for my mom, Myra Naseem, and all that she managed to juggle as I was growing up. As a everyone else notices, but I do see our single mom raising two girls in the 1970s and similarities more and more, and I’m cool ʼ80s, the odds were definitely stacked against with that. My mom’s patience, flexibility, her, but I had no idea. Our lives were full of understanding, ability to put others first and kid-focused activities and outings, baked treats determination have helped me become the and visits with friends and family near and far. person I am today, and hopefully, I’ll be able When my mom tired of her home to pass these qualities along to my daughter.

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NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION TO: MICHAEL KINZER, Respondent TAKE NOTICE that a pleading has been filed against you in the Superior Court Division, Before the Clerk of Court, in Surry County, North Carolina. The Petitioner, Clifton Martin O’Neal, pursuant to the provisions of N.C.G.S. § 46, et seq., is seeking a sale by partition of a certain 23.38 acre tract or parcel of land lying and being in Surry County, North Carolina, in which the Petitioner owns an 86.0% interest and in which the named Respondents own a combined 14.0% interest as the natural heirs of Frank Kinzer, who was a child of Lubertha McConnell Kinzer.

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The rubber dummy allegedly used by a Centereach man in the HOV lane on the LIE. Photo from SCPD

Centereach man allegedly used dummy as passenger on the LIE One man’s passenger on the Long Island Expressway was looking a little deflated, police said.

Suffolk County Police issued a Centereach man a ticket after he was pulled over for driving with a phony passenger in the HOV lane on the Long Island Expressway in Dix Hills May 6.

Highway Patrol Officer Andrew Spina was traveling on the Long Island Expressway, near exit 51, when he became suspicious

of the front seat passenger in a 2002 Saturn sedan traveling in the HOV lane.

Officer Spina pulled over the vehicle and observed that the driver, James Britt, had placed a mannequin wearing a sweatshirt, sunglasses, hat and jeans into the front passenger seat in an attempt to resemble a person.

Britt, 34, was issued a summons for the HOV occupancy violations.

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Selden woman arrested for allegedly driving drunk and escaping custody On May 5, Suffolk County Police arrested a woman for allegedly driving while intoxicated, leaving the scene of an accident and escaping following a motor vehicle crash in Selden.

Candice Giorlando was driving a 2011 Dodge Durango westbound on Route 25 when she crashed into a 2001 Jeep at the intersection of Blue Point Road at approximately 8:47 p.m.

Giorlando allegedly fled the scene on foot and was apprehended by 6th Precinct officers. After being taken into custody, Giorlando allegedly fled from officers and was apprehended a short time later.

The driver of the Jeep, Sean Sears, 41, and

two passengers, Michelle Connor, 34, and Mia Sears, 3, all of Selden, were transported to Stony Brook University Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. Giorlando was not injured.

Giorlando, 37, of Selden, was charged with driving while intoxicated, leaving the scene of an accident with physical injury and escape third degree. She was also issued two summonses for vehicle and traffic violations.

She was held overnight at the 4th Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned at 1st District Court in Central Islip May 6.

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Sports

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Middle Country 19 Copiague 2

Mad Dogs take a bite out of Copiague

BY BILL LANDON DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Middle Country boys lacrosse made short work of Copiague in a 19-2 rout in a Division I matchup May 7 at home.

Spearheading the scoring for the Mad Dogs was Jacob Hyman who had an assist and found the back of the cage five times. Erik Worsoe had a pair of assists and four goals. Nicholas Gurello had three assists and stretched the net thrice, and Jason McKeever had an assist and split the pipes four times.

Pictured clockwise from above, Middle Country senior Cody Genovese, left, battles at the X; Mad Dogs midfielder Matt Robbert rips a shot on goal; Genovese drives past a Copiague defender; attackman Hyman winds up for a shot on goal against Copiague; and long stickman RJ Smith clears the ball upfield.

With the win the Mad Dogs improve to 8-5 in the division, 10-5 overall, and are solidly in the playoff mix. The team will host its final game of the regular season May 9 where they’ll go against William Floyd. Game time is at 4:30 p.m.

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Opinion

Letters to the editor

Letters to our mothers

Mr. George Altemose in The Times of Middle Country April 18 letter, “More to blame in Yemen bombing” zealously proclaims the magnificence of his heroes, President Donald Trump (R) and Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley), as he deliberately misses the point of Myrna Gordon’s letter, “Why are U.S. bombs killing the innocent,” in the March 28 edition of the paper.

He praises Saudi Arabia with faint damns, as a lesser evil that the Trump administration reluctantly supports against some greater evil comparable to the Nazi monsters who killed tens of millions. He describes the murder of Adnan Khashoggi at the orders of Prince Mohammed bin Salman, colloquially

Editorial

Mother’s Day is just around the corner. It’s a time to celebrate the most important people in our lives, the women who made us who we are. As is tradition, the editorial staff at TBR News Media has written short letters so that our moms know we are thinking of them.

Kyle Barr — editor

My mom is scared of being apart from me. She is sad she will leave her house behind, the one she helped raise me in for over 20 years.

Like many, they’re leaving because of Long Island’s high property taxes, and without the SALT deduction, it’s proved infeasible to remain. But still, to her, the house was the lodestone of her life for so many years. She decorated it with attention to detail, even dragging me to the attic to take down decorations for every New Year’s Eve, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Fourth of July and on and on until Christmas.

Now she is leaving her temple behind, and I feel for her. She can’t bring everything. Things will have to be sold or given away, and as she struggles with a bad back, picking out the leaves from the bushes in the front yard (all despite my pleas to let me do it instead). I see the frown set into her face like a jagged crack in the pavement.

Feel better, Mom. You may be away from me, but — hopefully — you won’t find a way from my words.

Rita J. Egan — editor

Mother’s Day brings with it a slew of memories. My mother and I have been through the best of times and the worst of times together, and that’s OK, because we are still here to tell our stories. There are the not so fun times to remember, such as walking around a Queens apartment wrapped in blankets to keep warm in the winter months because the landlady was too cheap to turn up the heat and tears shed over boys who didn’t deserve them during my younger years. But also, there are the memorable vacations, celebrating milestones and catching the concerts of both of our favorite celebrities from Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons to New Kids on the Block. So cheers to memories of all types and happy Mother’s Day, Mom.

David Luces — reporter

She’s been there all my life. Someone I can always count on. She’s my role model. She sacrificed so much over the years for my brother and me so we could go to college, and it’s something I am grateful for every day. I don’t say it enough but thank you, Mom, for everything you do. I know I could be a pain when I was younger, but I’m thankful for the lessons you’ve taught me. As I’ve gotten older and matured, I’ve realized the importance of your messages.

So, on this Mother’s Day, I just wanted to give my appreciation to the greatest mom and friend a kid could ask for.

Trump is an enthusiastic supporter of MBS known as MBS, of Saudi Arabia as “unforgivable” while ignoring that Trump found it quite forgivable.

Altemose would have us believe that the deaths of some 40 Houthi Yemeni schoolchildren killed by a bomb that happened to be made by “the great” Lockheed Martin was an unfortunate isolated incident. The point is that MBS, autocrat of the most repressive theocracy in the world, is waging a genocidal war against Yemen that has put 14 million, approximately half of its population in danger of starvation — 85,000 children under 5 years old known dead — and disease — 1 million cases of cholera in 2017, threat of a third catastrophic epidemic. (See International Red

Cross, World Health Organization, U.N. secretary-general.) And that Trump is an enthusiastic supporter, not a reluctant one, who coddles MBS at every turn. Under Trump, the U.S. has lavishly supplied Saudi Arabia with its genocidal bombers and armaments, but its complicity extends to supplying hourly strategic and battlefield military intelligence and even air-to-air refueling. Both the Republican Senate and the Democratic House voted to end all aid to the Saudi war, but Trump’s veto allows the Saudis to continue their dirty job.

Arnold Wishnia Setauket

Anti-Semitism is spread by both parties I am 78, and I have never seen the level of anti-Semitism we are witnessing today. This comes out of a context in which President Donald Trump (R) and my congressman, U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley), pander to anti-Semites.

The Republican Party supports the president no matter what he does or says. They even oppose the most basic sensible gun control laws that would prevent murderers from having automatic weapons which are capable of murdering more people in less time.

The Democratic Party waffles, and

is fearful of forthrightly condemning one of their own, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota), who spouts antiSemitism. I have not heard one word from the leader of any Jewish organization saying the emperor has no clothes.

Our president has created and panders to an atmosphere in our country that gives a green light to anti-Semites. Where are our leaders? Some Jewish groups even sell out to the president under the claim of supporting Israel because he allows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to do whatever he finds politically expedient to

do. This does Israel no favors.

So far, our leadership both in the political and Jewish realms have proven themselves to be bankrupt. Will they speak out or will our country continue to spiral down into a situation where more and more Jews are murdered.

None of this minimizes the serious pain caused by racism and Islamophobia. That, too, is part of the current atmosphere.

Adam Fisher Port Jefferson Station

Airwaves not dominated by Democrats I will respond to an April 11 letter by Michael Meltzer to the editor, “Agenda to overthrow Trump is backfiring,” by saying freedom of the press is the basis of any free democratic society, and it is good that we have a Fox News, CNN and MSNBC for us to choose from for “our news.”

However, the letter likens the Democratic National Committee-

controlled media as “godless/ progressive/Stalinist” — all of which are falsehoods.

The radio media is not controlled by the Democrats. Fox News and Sinclair Broadcast Group control much of the media. Then “the good news:” the so-called Democrats, also known as progressive “Jew-haters,” this is a

Trump perception. Racists, not true.

Stalinists, not true.

I ask myself where are the anti-trust laws that did not allow such media consolidations — Fox News and Sinclair — that now dominate the airwaves?

Herb Laub Stony Brook

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Opinion

The agony and ecstasy of Long Island life

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f you ever move away from Long Island, you may find relief and a longing.

The relief could take many forms. For starters, you may find a place with magnificent sidewalks that allows you to walk for miles without needing to step out into the road.

Yes, there are such places, although they are mostly in urban environments, where you can watch people, D. None find restaurants and not just bars of the above that are open at all

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF hours, and where you can shift from one ethnic neighborhood to another within a few blocks.

You may also find road relief, as people in other places may allow you to merge readily, may move at a different pace, and may smile and wave at you as you pass them while they are on their lawns, walking their dogs, throwing a ball with their daughters or sitting on a rocking chair on their front porches, appreciating the flow of human and avian traffic that passes by their houses.

You also may not miss the delays at the airports or the train stations, as you wonder if you’ll make it to the job interview, the meeting, the wedding or the date on time when construction, lane closures, accidents, sun glare or road flooding slow everything around you to a stop or a crawl.

You might also find yourself relieved that the delis — if you can find ones you like outside of Long Island — are much quieter, as people in other regions may not be as compelled to raise the decibel level in public to outcompete each other for stories or to place their turkey club orders.

But, then, you might also find yourself missing some key ingredient of Long Island life. There are

plenty of landlocked places you can visit that have wonderful lakes, rivers and streams, but how many of them truly have Long Island’s magnificent and varied beaches?

You might miss sitting on a bluff in Port Jefferson and staring out at the harbor or looking through the channel into Long Island Sound. You might miss the chance to visit your favorite rocky beach on the North Shore, where you can walk slowly along, looking for the perfect skimming rocks, recalling the days decades ago when your grandfather taught you how to use surface tension to make a rock bounce its way far from shore.

You might miss the toughness of feet so accustomed to the uneven rocks that you pause momentarily when you see someone struggling to navigate them, remembering that you once found these rocks hard to cross as well.

You might miss the wonderful intertidal zone, which at low tide allows you to wander across rippled and water-cooled sand far from shore.

You might also miss winter beaches, where

winds whip along the abandoned dunes and where, if a cold snap lasts long enough, you can see the top layer of water frozen as it heads toward shore.

If you ever took advantage of the myriad cultural and scientific opportunities on Long Island, you might also miss spectacular performances at the Staller Center, lectures and symposia at Stony Brook University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory or Brookhaven National Laboratory.

You might also miss the farms or vineyards on the East End, where you can admire the way rows of vines, trees or grass expand out from the road.

You might also miss the secrets hidden beneath the surface of the water. If you’ve ever had the opportunity to snorkel at Flax Pond or at a beach, you know that magnificent creatures — arthropods that live on yellow sponges and look like ancient creatures under a microscope — populate a completely different world that is within surprisingly easy reach.

Free your mind, be smarter and more creative ... maybe

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any of us sit through meetings of one kind or another: business meetings, community meetings, even social gatherings. But did you know that the air we breathe in those closed spaces might not be so healthy for us? If you come out of such a gathering and the air around you then feels fresher and cooler, consider this: “Small rooms can build up heat and carbon dioxide from our breath to an extent that might surprise you.” So explained a recent Between article in the Science Times secyou and me tion of The New

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF York Times.

When we breathe, we exhale carbon dioxide. That gas, which

we might characterize as stale air in such a situation, can actually affect decision-making as a result of its impact on the mind. Some eight studies over the past seven years have considered the effects on cognitive function in small, airless rooms over a couple of hours. The results suggest that perhaps we should not entirely trust decisions made there.

Carbon dioxide, when inhaled, dilates blood vessels in the brain and reduces activity among cerebral neurons, thus decreasing communication between brain regions. We know this to be true when a large amount of the gas is inhaled but we don’t know so much about the effect of smaller amounts. If student test results are compared in rooms with 600 parts per million (ppm) of CO2 and similar rooms with 2,500 ppm, the scores of the test takers with the high concentration are significantly lower. It is interesting to note that carbon dioxide levels can be twice that high in some classrooms.

Such studies were repeated in the workplace, with workers taking problem-solving and strategy tests, and the results were the same.

In today’s energy-sensitive world, many office

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buildings are better sealed, with less fresh air seeping indoors. Another interesting fact was that not every type of test showed that same result. Less complex test material, like some proofreading, for example, did not show a comparable shift.

So the next time you are in such a situation, open a window or keep the door ajar. Perhaps the intellectual level of the conversation will rise.

Now here is another tip for better living that is also from The Times, although published a different day. For those of you who, like me, love to sit around sometimes and do nothing, here is exoneration from the charge of laziness in an otherwise busy world. The Times tells us that the Dutch call this “niksen.”

What is doing nothing, exactly? A psychologist named Doreen Dodgen-Magee, who studies this matter, likens it to a car whose engine is running but isn’t going anywhere. It’s “coming to a moment with no plan other than just to be,” she writes. She calls that boredom, which she doesn’t intend in a negative way.

But the idea of niksen is to take conscious

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time to do activities like gazing out of a window or sitting motionless. I like that, although it flies in the face of our always-be-productive American culture. According to some experts, “the benefits of idleness can be wide-ranging.”

Daydreaming, “an inevitable effect of idleness — literally makes us more creative, better at problem-solving, better at coming up with creative ideas,” according to Sandi Mann, a psychologist at the University of Central Lancashire in England, who has done research in this area. “Let the mind search for its own stimulation. That’s when you get the daydreaming and mind wandering, and that’s when you’re more likely to get the creativity,” she explained.

It’s not easy to do nothing and certainly to do so and not feel guilty about it. We have to set time aside deliberately to disconnect — and not just from our devices. The reward is that we can refocus with more energy. I have a chair in my living room that I can sink into and just have my mind go blank. It’s even tempting to fall asleep there, and sometimes I do for a few minutes.

Delightful!

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