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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. 30

November 7, 2019

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Bringing Back Bellone

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Partners in Nature

County and SUNY Empire State College sign partnership to bring trail to campus

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Huntington resident delivers baskets of love and hope

Also: Local veterans honored, Photo of the Week, Ink Stories exhibit opens in Northport

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A new state law took effect Nov. 1 requiring any child under the age of 2 to be in a rear-facing car seat.

If a child outgrows an infant-only seat before reaching their second birthday, it is recommended that a convertible or all-inone car seat with higher rear-facing height and weight limits be used, according to the New York State Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee. These seats should be installed in the rear-facing position until the child reaches the rear-facing weight or height limit set by the car seat manufacturer.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, rear-facing seats are the best option for young children because they are equipped with a harness and, in a crash, cradle and move with the child to reduce the stress to the child’s neck and spine.

“The safety of people, especially children, traveling on our roadways is a top priority for New York,” said Department of Motor Vehicle Commissioner and GTSC Chair Mark J.F. Schroeder in a press release. “Parents and caregivers need to make sure children’s restraints are properly installed and fitted correctly. I encourage caregivers to attend one of our many child safety seat check events which are offered for free throughout the year.”

It is common for car seats to be fitted and

installed incorrectly. GTSC data for 2019 shows approximately 90 percent of car seats inspected by certified Child Passenger Safety technicians through local fitting stations and events were not fitted correctly or were improperly installed.

According to NHTSA, motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 13. Properly installed car seats can reduce the risk of fatal injury in a crash by 71 percent for infants and by 54 percent for toddlers. Last year, GTSC and DMV launched an online video series to highlight safety measures to protect children and infants in motor vehicles.

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Trail Network Will Lead to New College Campus in Selden

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Right before the official opening of its new campus in Selden, State University of New York Empire State College has partnered with Suffolk County to offer the beauty of nature to students and surrounding residents.

On Oct. 29, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) and Jim Malatras, president of SUNY Empire State College, signed an educational partnership. The agreement will connect the county’s existing trail network to the college’s new 6.6-acre Long Island campus at 407 College Road, Selden, which is scheduled to open Nov. 13.

The trail network connection will be used for academic programming which will be designed by SUNY Empire Assistant Professor Matt Schmidt. It will be open for public use, and events for students and community members will focus on exploration of the surrounding habitat.

“This partnership will benefit our students by leveraging the county’s sprawling trail network and turning it into a model program through SUNY Empire State College,”

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, right, and Jim Malatras, president of SUNY Empire State College. Photo from Suffolk County

Bellone said.

Trails will be marked and rated for accessibility by The Nature Conservancy, and the paths will be maintained in part by volunteers from the Long Island Greenbelt

Trail Conference.

Malatras thanked Bellone as well as the Nature Conservancy and the Long Island Greenbelt Trail Conference for their assistance in the project.

“SUNY Empire State College is happy to do its part to protect and maintain these natural areas for the benefit of its students, faculty and staff, as well as the broader Suffolk County community,” Malatras said.

According to a press release from Bellone’s office, a comprehensive connected countywide network of hiking and biking trails is currently in the works. The process will include analyzing hundreds of miles of bike lanes and signed bike routes and potential shared-use paths similar to the North Shore Rail Trail, which will run from Wading River to Mount Sinai. The master plan, expected by early 2020, will map the existing hiking and biking network, identify the gaps in that network and then develop a plan to prioritize and build out those gaps.

College and elected officials broke ground two years ago in Selden on the new campus, according to SUNY Empire’s website.

There are currently two campuses in Suffolk County — Hauppauge and Riverhead. The new Selden campus is described as a stateof-the-art, environmentally friendly learning facility. The facility will offer both in-room and online classes.

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2019 Elections

Steve Bellone (D) celebrates keeping the county executive position with fellow Democrats; right, Ed Romaine during election night.

Bellone photo by Rita J. Egan; Romaine photo by Kyle Barr

Incumbents Rule the Night Nov. 5

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM As the two political parties settled into their respective election night venues Nov. 5, both parties wondered if they could break the status quo and majorities in both town and county.

Though, for the most part, the situation in both remains the same after a long and sometimes brutal campaign season.

At Stereo Garden in Patchogue, where many Suffolk Republicans gathered Tuesday night, county Republican Committee chairman, Jesse Garcia, got up on stage and spoke like a DJ trying to hype up the packed crowd.

“The Democrats in Hauppauge are sweating because of you,” he said, pointing to the crowd.

Likewise, Suffolk Democratic Committee chairman, Rich Schaffer, was much in the same way at Hauppauge, coming out and asking, “Are there any Democrats in the house?” to a round of cheers and applause.

Town of Brookhaven

The race for Brookhaven Town supervisor was called before the final votes were tallied, with the night ending with Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) racking up 51,155 votes to Democratic challenger Will Ferraro’s 31,113 votes.

Romaine went on stage to thank the town for an “overwhelming mandate,” for the Town Board.

“We are going to go back to work tomorrow,” he said. “The reason we ran is so we can govern, to move Brookhaven forward so we can fix its finances, help its AAA bond rating, get rid of the zombie homes and do all the things that are necessary to build a better town.”

In a phone interview after the night was called, Ferraro congratulated Romaine on his election, but urged the incumbent to listen to residents criticisms of the town’s recycling policies and road infrastructure. He added he will continue to be a community organizer in the local area and plans to get involved with his local school board.

He added he did not plan on running for another office at least until after next year.

“I ran on 100 percent what I believe in, with every fiber of my being,” he said. “I have no regrets.”

Councilwoman Jane Bonner (R-Rocky Point) defeated her challenger, Coram Democrat Sarah Deonarine, with around 62 percent of the vote to 38 percent.

Through last year’s referendum to give town councilmembers a four-year term, Bonner said it will mean elected officials can focus on longterm projects, especially “environmental-based projects.”

Deonarine said campaigning was strenuous and difficult.

“If I could pull it off anybody can,” she said. “So, I hope other people follow in the footsteps. I’ve met amazing people. We started something new and we’re really hoping for a better Brookhaven in the future.”

She doesn’t plan to run for office again but is interested in the behind-the-scenes work and helping future candidates, saying there’s no existing playbook.

“I learned so much that was not given to me when I started,” she said.

In the battle of Port Jeff Station neighbors, with Councilwoman Valerie Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station) against her challenger Tracy Kosciuk, a nurse running on the Republican ticket, the Town Board’s lone Democrat won with 57 percent of the vote.

Cartright said she plans to focus on completing land-use plans in the Three Village area and Port Jefferson Station and working on the cottages at West Meadow Beach among other initiatives.

“I’m looking forward to completing the process on all of these initiatives that we’ve embarked upon in the community,” she said.

Kosciuk said that even with her loss, she “still won in many ways” by “making my opponent more responsive to everyone in the council district, rather than specific pockets.” She added she hopes her opponent works toward revitalization efforts and on the zombie homes issue.

In the Middle Country area, incumbent Kevin LaValle (R-Selden) won with 65 percent

of the vote against his Democratic challenger, social justice activist Talat Hamdani.

The incumbent thanked his constituents, and said he plans to continue bringing more business into the Middle Country area and finalize work on the Selden Park Complex.

Hamdani wasn’t available for comment.

In the race for town highway supervisor, Dan Losquadro (R) beat his Democratic challenger Anthony Portesy with 48,624 votes to the Democrat’s 34,514.

Losquadro thanked Garcia and said he was “overwhelmed by the mandate” of the voters.

“They see the progress we have made in Brookhaven,” he said. “They have seen the efforts and results that are possible when we work together. The results of this election will allow us to plan long term.”

Portesy said he ran a good race and thanked all his supporters who came out for him.

“Overall, we fought a good race. … If anything, I’ve forced a level of accountability the Highway Department hasn’t seen in decades,” he said. “There was a level of energy in this cycle in 2019 that we didn’t see in 2017 and that’s really going to build going into 2020 as we go into the congressional and presidential races.”

Dom Pascual, a Democrat, took on Lou Marcoccia (R) for receiver of taxes, but voters went again for the incumbent with the Republican making nearly 60 percent of the vote.

“We cared and we listened,” Marcoccia said.

Pascual said he thought they put on a strong campaign.

“I’m a [Democratic] district leader so I’m going to continue to recruit people,” he said.

“We’re not going away no matter what. I ran in 2017, it was just me, and this time around we recruited over 50 people. Demographics are in our favor, there’s more Democrats moving into Brookhaven than Republicans, so I think eventually things will change.”

The Republicans still have a 6-1 majority on the Town Board.

David Luces and Rita J. Egan contributed reporting.

Suffolk County

In the most profiled race of the year for Suffolk County Executive, Democrat Steve Bellone won handily over his challenger, county Comptroller John Kennedy Jr. (R) with 55 percent to Kennedy’s 43 percent. Libertarian candidate Greg Fischer gained just 1 percent of the overall vote.

Bellone was greeted by enthusiastic cheers at IBEW Local 25 Union Hall in Hauppauge.

“It turns out that the voters have decided that there is more work for us to do here,” he said. “This will be my third and final term as county executive, I don’t know what the future holds but it entirely possible that this could be my final race for public office. … If that is the case I must give one final thank you to the person who has been with me for every race that I have won,” referring to his wife Tracey.

He also thanked his opponents Kennedy and Fischer.

“I look forward to working together to build a better future for Suffolk County,” Bellone added.

Kennedy blamed the incumbent’s near $2 million war chest for the loss, along with negative campaign ads he said targeted not only him, but his wife and children.

He promised he would continue to be a financial watchdog for the county, saying he thinks the county will enter a financial death spiral it may not be able to pull out of.

“The good news is, I get to keep doing the job I love, being comptroller,” he said.

“There’s no lack of fraud waste and abuse in Suffolk County, which we demonstrated the past five years.”

After a heated campaign season, and while the vote seemed to be close as they were tallied, county Legislator Sarah Anker (D-Mount Sinai) defeated her Republican opponent Gary Pollakusky 54 to 41 percent. Libertarian candidate James Kevins, who was not available 2019 ELECTIONS CONTINUED ON A7

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there be transferred from the present Section 6(g) Capital Reserve Fund #3 of the SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT a sum not to exceed Sixty Thousand ($60,000.00) Dollars for the purchase, and the District Treasurer is authorized to effect such transfer from time to time to effect such purchase.

This resolution shall not take effect until thirty (30) days unless in the meanwhile a mandatory referendum as provided for in Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law is required to be held.

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SECURITY AND CAMERA SYSTEM AT FIRE HEADQUARTERS WHEREAS, the Selden Fire District has, by appropriate resolution established a certain Capital Reserve Fund designated as the Capital Reserve Fund for Safety Devices Medical Equipment Supplies, Uniforms and Firefighters’ Gear, established pursuant to Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law, in an account for deposit of said reserves fund entitled, “The Selden Fire District, Section 6(g) Capital Reserve #3, in local banks; and WHEREAS, it is deemed in the best interests of the residents of the Selden Fire District to install an upgraded security and camera system at fire headquarters; and WHEREAS, the maximum cost to complete said purchase and for incidental expenses and advertising and attorney’s fees are estimated to be Sixty Thousand ($60,000.00) Dollars;

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Suffolk County officials announced a new partnership of shared intelligence that will help in the ongoing opioid crisis.

County Executive Steve Bellone (D) and Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart, along with health and public safety agencies, announced Oct. 31 its Suffolk Sharing Opioid Analysis & Research program, known as SOAR. The promise is to have high level department officials meet quarterly to share intelligence regarding both fatal and nonfatal overdoses.

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transdisciplinary approach across various levels of government. The program will include reps from the county executive, police department’s patrol and detectives, district attorney, sheriff, health services, probation, social services and medical examiner.

“The county continues to seek innovative ways to address the opioid epidemic and Suffolk SOAR offers a great approach by bringing both public health and safety perspectives to the table,” the county executive said.

The SOAR program was modeled after New York City’s RxStat initiative, which was established in 2012 to provide a similar pooling of data among city, state and federal agencies.

Police Workers Uncover Live Grenades at Rocky Point Zombie Home A person on-site during demolition of a derelict property in Rocky Point called police about an explosive discovery Oct. 31 when workers excavating the property uncovered a bag of grenades, some of them still live.

On Halloween, police said a person on-site of the demolition called 911 at 10:07 a.m. to report the grenades found at a zombie house on King Road. The house was already abandoned and had been knocked down. A bag with five grenades were found by workers during excavation. Three

were still live, police said.

The house is just one of many derelict properties the Town of Brookhaven is contracting to demolish. Brookhaven spokesperson Jack Krieger said the site is being handled by Bayportbased Panzner Construction. He said the town was unaware who placed the call to police.

Police said Emergency Service Section officers removed the grenades, with the three live ones to be detonated off-site.

— Compiled by Kyle Barr

Police: Attempted Burglary at Shoreham Home Injures Woman Suffolk County police said three men allegedly tried to rob a Shoreham home Halloween morning while the residents were still inside.

Police said three men, one armed with what appeared to be a handgun, entered a residence on Suffolk Down at around 3 a.m. and confronted a man and woman who live in a rear bedroom. The suspects attempted to steal a safe but dropped it as they fled the home. During the burglary, the woman was allegedly struck in

the head with a hammer by one of the suspects.

She was treated and released at what police described as a local hospital.

Detectives said they believe the burglary was targeted.

Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call the 7th Squad at 631-852-8752 or anonymously to Crime Stoppers, at 800220-TIPS (8477).

— Compiled by Kyle Barr

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2019 ELECTIONS Continued from A4

for comment, gained nearly 5 percent of the vote.

When brought up on stage, Schaffer called her “landslide Anker.”

The fifth-time legislator said it was her strong base and work of her campaign that helped pull her through. She added there are numerous projects she hopes to work on in the coming years.

“We have so many projects in the works. …

We have the Rails to Trails, the park in Middle Island, continue working with the opioid advisory panel,” she said. “There is so much work to do. I really want to focus on mental health and addiction treatment, tackle the financial issues with the county, be proactive with supporting local business and those mom and pop shops.”

Pollakusky remained gracious after his loss, saying, “I hope Sarah serves her constituents well for our legislative district.” He added he will continue to be active in the community by leading the Rocky Point Sound Beach Chamber of Commerce and serving on the board of the Rocky Point Civic Association.

In the Port Jefferson-Setauket area county Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket) won overwhelmingly against her Republican opponent John McCormack 63 to 37 percent.

Hahn said she is looking forward to continuing work on several projects including protection of the environment, public safety and the opioid epidemic.

“Those numbers have to come down to zero,” she said. “We cannot accept more opioid deaths.

The numbers have fallen a little bit, but we have to continue to work on that. We cannot be losing our children. It’s senseless. It’s preventable. We have to be sure we do what we can on that.”

McCormack was not available to comment.

County Legislator Tom Muratore (R-Ronkonkoma) easily won over Democratic challenger David Bligh in the fight for the 4th District with nearly 60 percent of the vote. He thanked his wife and staff and said they would move on “stronger.”

While Bligh lost to Muratore, he said he plans to stay in the political arena and to run again.

“Tom’s term limited after this year so there’s going to be an open seat in two years,” he said.

Bligh, an environmental engineer, said he has a long list of quality of life issues, including affordability and water quality issues.

The lone upset of the night, Republican challenger Anthony Piccirillo won with barely a 1 percent margin against county Legislator William Lindsay III (D-Bohemia) in the 8th District.

The Democrats have asked for a recount, but if Piccirillo succeeds it would mean the Democrats 11-7 hold on the Legislature would become a 108, just as partisan divide between officials seems at a near peak.

Last year, Republicans and Democrats butted heads over lump bonding issues, with Republicans using their slim minority to block bonds they called were being pushed through by Democrats.

David Luces, Rita J. Egan, Leah Chiappino and Donna Deedy all contributed reporting.

Operation Remember Seeks New Recruits Two signs in Port Jefferson and Setauket have been set up on Brookhaven Town parkland to remind residents about Operation Remember.

Organizers of the operation, including Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket), are hoping the signs will remind passersby about the efforts to update four existing war memorials located in Port Jefferson, Setauket and Stony Brook to commemorate the sacrifices made by the latest generations of America’s service members.

Operation Remember was launched last Veterans Day and has raised nearly $22,000 of the $35,000 needed to complete the threephased effort.

Designed by Hahn’s office, the signs show the progress of the project.

In the fall of 2018, a coalition comprised of American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts located in Setauket, Stony Brook and Port Jefferson Station, Suffolk County and the Long Island State Veterans Home announced a partnership to complete a threephased effort to expand memorials located in Stony Brook Village, on the Setauket Village Green, at the Setauket Veterans Memorial Park and along the Port Jefferson Harbor. Phase I of the project, which focused on the Stony Brook and Setauket Village Green sites was completed in time for this past Memorial Day. Phase II, which will renovate the Port Jefferson Harbor

A sign installed near the Port Jefferson veterans memorial.

Photo from Kara Hahn’s office

memorial, is nearing completion and will be unveiled Nov. 10. The final phase will update the Setauket Veterans Memorial Park located along Main Street. These improvements are scheduled to be completed by Memorial Day, May 25 next year.

Those wishing to contribute to Operation Remember can make checks payable to Veterans Memorial Fund and mailed to: P.O. Box 986, Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776, or can be hand delivered to: American Legion, Wilson Ritch Post 432, 1450 Hallock Ave., Port Jefferson Station.

For more information about Operation Remember and sponsorship opportunities still available, visit: americanlegionwilsonritchpost432.org.

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Opinion Letters to the Editor What Endorsements Mean Future SBU Prez Can Improve Relationships As election season draws to a close, finally, we are among the many breathing a sigh of relief.

We heard that a few people were unhappy with our endorsements. That, of course, should be expected. Some points, though, need to be made clear about our process for endorsing candidates.

Starting in late summer, we start gathering a list of candidates for the upcoming electoral season and arrange candidate debates in TBR News Media offices in Setauket. The process is long and grueling and, despite months of effort, sometimes candidates cannot find a time that works for everyone or, as we saw in several cases this year, some people simply never respond or don’t show up. So, we talk with the candidates that do come to the office and conduct candidate interviews over phone or email with the remainder. The better interview is always done in person as a debate in a roundtable discussion.

The last publication date before election day — which for us is a Thursday — becomes the election edition. In that issue, we exclude letters to the editors that focus on local politics, because there is no way for people to respond publicly before the election. Instead, we include our endorsements on the letters-to-editors pages.

Our election issue contains multitudes of political advertising, but there’s a common misconception that advertising buys our endorsements. The advertising and editorial departments are two distinct entities, and work on two separate floors of our small office space. Advertising is indeed what keeps TBR afloat, but that department has no input on editorial decisions. Of course, there is communication between departments in the newsroom, but that comes down to the placement of ads, and our papers policy avoids placing political ads for candidates on the same page as the candidate profiles that we write.

The endorsements are a product of the interviews, not the other way around. In fact, we are prouder of the debate articles we conduct, which we try to make as balanced as possible between the candidates. We let all sides speak their piece before carefully writing the articles. The debate interviews are conducted throughout October, then written and placed into our annual election issue.

These articles range from 500 to more than 1,000 words each for some of the wider-ranging offices.

The endorsements, on the other hand, are barely more than 200 words each. They represent the collective opinion of editors, along with our publisher Leah Dunaief who moderates the debates. We consider long and hard all that we heard, along with our experience with the candidates on the campaign trail.

Sometimes we cannot come to an agreement, or may be on the fence, and meet again the next day to review pros and cons of our choices. The endorsements represent those who we feel might make a better fit for office, but they are also our chance to compliment the person we didn’t endorse or criticize candidates for past performance.

We at TBR News Media congratulate all who stepped up to campaign for public office but, if we were to be honest, endorsements sometimes have little bearing on future performance.

In 2016, we endorsed the opponent of Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr. (D) for the office. Toulon won that election, and in 2018 we named him one of our People of the Year. What matters is what an elected official does for the constituents when in office.

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This past summer the president of Stony Brook University, Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr., resigned to take a new job as president of Michigan State University.

His sudden resignation caught many by surprise and prompted the creation of a search committee by the university council to recruit candidates for this important position.

For those of us working to build stronger relationships between the university and the Three Village community, the selection of a new president is an opportunity to continue to improve on the university’s host community relationship, something that was not a priority of the previous president.

We immediately reached out to the state chancellor and head of the university’s council and were invited to meet with SBU’s presidential search consultants to make suggestions on how to strengthen the university/host community relationship.

This past week the search committee

Community leaders recently meet with SBU Interim President Michael Bernstein. Photo from Stony Brook University

released a 17-page profile to be sent to prospective applicants listing the various qualities sought in a new president. We were pleased to see included in the listing of “Key Qualities for the Next President” the following paragraph: “Political acumen, and a willingness to engage with public and civic leadership at all levels; experience fostering successful town-gown relations and partnering with

local and community leaders toward long-term goals and development.”

It is our hope that the new president will be someone who embodies those qualities and is committed to building strong partnerships with our local civic and business communities.

Jonathan Kornreich, President George Hoffman, 1st Vice President Three Village Civic Association

Artificial Intelligence in Schools Our educational system is deeply rooted in a model that straddled the agricultural and industrial ages. It was a time when only some kids attended school, and fewer went beyond the eighth grade. Jobs were plentiful and most didn’t require academic skills.

Teachers were primarily single women who taught morals and trained kids to memorize facts. Schools closed between the sowing and harvesting seasons. It worked just fine.

As more families left farms for factories, fathers took on city jobs and could no longer apprentice their sons in manual and agricultural skills. There was a diminishing need to. Compulsory education laws were enacted, and children started attending schools in greater numbers and for longer stints.

After World War II, blacks migrated to Northern cities, as whites fled to the suburbs and passed budgets for sprawling schools. The faculties of college-educated women — and increasing numbers of men — unionized.

The educators were primarily those who succeeded in and liked school as they experienced it, so, they sought to maintain, not revolutionize it. Parents,

too, had expectations based on the model of their own school experience.

Modest adjustments — like new math and whole language — were ridiculed. The school culture was static and resistant to change even as society was undergoing broad upheavals.

Mothers started working, and parenting was outsourced to day care centers. Latchkey kids rode yellow buses to empty houses. Race, poverty, immigration, dysfunction, politics and divorce all entered the schoolhouse.

Knowledge proceeded to double by the decade, as workers saw the lifelong career platform fade into a new employment world of musical chairs … chairs occupied by an increasing number of efficient robots.

The curriculum expanded slightly, but survived largely intact. A classroom would be comfortably familiar to a person who hadn’t entered one in 50 years.

Our world was going digital but our thinking clung to analog. The mixed blessing of technology, and the scourges of drugs and terror entered the schoolhouse.

Even as we employ computers, smartboards and iPads, we clutch onto

much of the yellowing curriculum and methods as if they were the owner’s manual to success.

They’re not.

Studies repeatedly encourage a change in the school day and calendar, but entrenchments and stasis won’t hear of it.

Our template is more past than future.

Global comparisons scare us into action. The committee organized by the Council on Foreign Relations concluded that 30 percent of high school graduates do not do well enough on an aptitude test to serve in the military.

We sense that something is wrong, but, rather than considering an educational revolution, we prescribe a program of evaluating teachers — a bureaucratic alchemy contest in search of educational gold. Regretfully, a reasonable definition of schooling has become the study of things that help one get through school — and not life.

We have spell-check but we need think-check.

As schools vigorously teach to the test, they should be teaching to the future.

Bruce Stasiuk Setauket

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Opinion

Imagining ‘Seinfeld’ Characters Bridging the Modern Political Divide

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wonder how the creators of the show “Seinfeld,” Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, would portray today’s world?

The answer resides in their approaches to other ideas and conflicts that became the focal point for shows that continue in reruns almost every day.

In one show, Elaine, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, is dating furniture mover Carl (David James Elliott). When Elaine D. None finds out that Carl of the above is a pro- lifer, they

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF decide to end their relationship.

In Washington, D.C., and indeed throughout the country, that seems tame compared with the passions

people feel when they share their views about the president and about the upcoming election of 2020.

I could imagine an entire modern “Seinfeld” episode dedicated to the efforts people take to avoid discussing politics.

Changing the subject, walking out of the room and pretending they can’t hear each other seems like a way these characters might keep the political genie locked in the bottle, allowing them to enjoy the company of anyone and everyone, even if those people disagree with their views on national politics.

We play out that scenario regularly wherever we go, whether we’re looking to date someone or just chat with someone in a line at the deli, on vacation or at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

We are so concerned that we might offend the other person or that he or she might offend us.

When did we become so incapable of speaking with each other? Are we determined to live in echo chambers, where we only

listen and speak with the people whose ideas, thoughts and words match our own?

Come on, that’s not how democracy is supposed to work. We can and should be capable of hearing from other Americans whose ideas differ from our own. In addition to the land, the flag, the monuments, the Constitution, the history and so many other facets of American life that we share, we owe it to ourselves and to future generations to be able to listen to each other and to remain open to ideas and opportunities.

Are we afraid that someone who seems rational and reasonable might convince us to change our mind? Are our ideas so fragile and our confidence so weak that we can’t have an informed discussion about our views and our ideas?

Surely, we are better than some homogenized party line. We are a land of rugged individualists, who can and should find a way to advance our local, state and national best interests to give everyone an equal opportunity.

It’s not up to the leaders to tell us what

to think, who to be and how to live. We have the chance to make those decisions for ourselves. At their best, those leaders are working to give us a shot at pursuing the American Dream which, last time I checked, doesn’t belong exclusively to one political party or another.

By not talking with each other, we increase the tension that separates the parties and the people who support them. Rather than waiting for a bipartisan detente in Washington, we can and should gather ideas about each other.

If they were still making the show today, the characters from “Seinfeld” might have helped us laugh about how entrenched we have become in dealing with our differences. We, however, aren’t living in a TV show and we owe it to ourselves to gather real information, to listen to other people and to bridge the divide that’s causing the fabric to fray of a country we all call home.

We can learn and grow from making decisions for ourselves, instead of following the same script with every conversation.

Come Aboard With Me to the Adriatic Sea

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ll vacations are wonderful in their own way. A chance to get a break from the daily routine, to rest, perhaps to view new scenery, meet new people, learn new things, even just to get a break from the news — these are hoped-for results. We’ve just returned from a trip abroad and, as I have done in past columns, I would like to share some of what we saw and did.

We boarded one of the largest sailing vessels in the world in Venice, Italy, after an eight-hour plane ride from JFK International Airport. I won’t go into raptures about Between Venice because it you and me would take up the

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF rest of my allotted space and, besides, I’ve done so before. I will just say that there were probably more visitors

in Venice than there are on any given day in Walt Disney World. Large ships are not allowed inside the harbor, so our small group was ferried to the Wind Surf by small motorboats lined up waiting for passengers along the Grand Canal.

Let the adventure begin.

We departed at 6 p.m. and set sail to cross the Adriatic Sea, an extension of the Mediterranean, to land on the Dalmatian Coast the next morning. The first city, in the north of Croatia, was Rovinj, pronounced roveen.

Croatia is a country often described as being at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe and one that is exquisitely picturesque with seaside cities and steep limestone mountains.

As you might guess, for being in the center of human history, the country has had many invasions, rulers and iterations of government.

Now a republic, it has been a duchy, a kingdom, in a union with Hungary, part of the Habsburg Monarchy, part of Austria-Hungary, part of Italy, then remade after World War I into Yugoslavia until that country finally fell apart into six independent smaller countries after the 1980 death of the autocrat, Josip Tito.

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geographically are Slovenia, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro.

Croatia joined the European Union in 2013.

All of that abbreviated history took place over only the past 14 centuries. The area actually has been inhabited since prehistoric times.

Rovinj is a fishing port on the Istrian peninsula. Surrounded by blue-green, startling clean Adriatic water, its pastel houses crowded down to the seafront, the small city offers a tangle of pale yellow cobblestone streets, lots of inviting bistros and a beautiful Baroque hilltop church, St. Euphemia, whose tower is the highest in Istria at about 61 meters and can be climbed — not by me — for a magnificent view.

The Adriatic is only 120 miles at its widest point, separating what was known as the Balkans from Italy. The coastal towns were often under attack and thus encouraged to build fortified walls along the beachfronts.

We walked the pebbled beach of Rovinj, bargained in the marketplace for native olive oil and truffles, and bought a couple of scarves made in Italy at cheaper than Italian prices.

In fact, Croatia is known as a less expensive tourist destination, where a room in a fine hotel

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The eastern shore of the Adriatic is often referred to as the Dalmatian Coast and the name stems from an Illyrian tribe called the Dalmatae, (from their word “delme,” meaning sheep) who lived there during classic antiquity.

Dalmatia is even referenced in the New Testament. And, yes, the hardy Dalmatian dogs come from there, whose unique black and white markings make them easily spotted on fire trucks. Dalmatia is one of the four historical regions of Croatia and for a long time was ruled by the Republic of Venice from 1420 until Napoleon of France appeared on the scene in 1797.

One of the frustrations of traveling along the coast by ship is that time spent in any port city is of necessity limited by the schedule of the cruise. After a delicious fish lunch in a sidewalk café, we returned to the ship, with its white sails billowing dramatically in the breeze, then went on to the larger city of Split.

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