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March 5, 2020

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Roce Astor; dear brother of Irene, Helen, Maritsa, Eleftheria and the late Monia; and he is also survived by many other family members and friends.

Religious services were held at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Assumption in Port Jefferson. Interment followed at Washington Memorial Park Cemetery in Mount Sinai.

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Panagiotis “Pete” Koridis, of St. James, died Jan. 24. He was 93.

He was the beloved husband of the late Anna Dorothy.

In addition, he was the cherished father of Chris (Thomas) CantoneStadier and Nicholas (Catherine) Koridis; the loving grandfather of Nichole Cantone, Melissa Simpson, Carissa Siry, Melina Pascual, Nicholas A. Koridis, Gregory John Koridis; great-grandfather of Calvin, Kaia, Kevin, Kayla, Elena, Madison,

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Commack Resident, Cancer Survivor Gives Back to Medical Center

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Dave Wolmetz, second from left, and Keith Handler, second from right, owners of Urban Air, have pledged to raise $100,000 for research at Stony Brook Medicine. Dr. Huda Salman, left, and Dr. Theodore Gabig, right, join the business owners at a press conference Feb. 27. Photo from Stony Brook Medicine

Brook “heroes.” The date of the installment presentation had a special meaning for him.

“My motivation was to recognize that I have a second opportunity around — second birthday today, Feb. 27, it’s the date of my stem cell transplant,” he said. “And this serves my purpose on the Earth at this point, to give back and create lives for cancer survivors.”

Wolmetz underwent total body irradiation and chemotherapy at the hospital after being

diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia in 2018. His treatment at Stony Brook inspired him to start the nonprofit Why Not Us Foundation, with the hopes of raising funds for the chimeric antigen receptor T-cell research program at the cancer center. The program supports Stony Brook scientists who work on developing personalized cell therapy to treat blood cancers.

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While receiving treatment for leukemia, Dave Wolmetz distracted himself with plans to open an indoor adventure park, and now that business is allowing him to give back to the center that enabled him to carry on with his dream.

Wolmetz, of Commack, and his business partner and childhood friend, Keith Handler, have pledged to raise $100,000 for the Hematologic Malignancies and Stem Cell Transplant team at Stony Brook University Cancer Center over the course of five years. On Feb. 27, they presented doctors and nurses with the first installment of $20,000 at their Urban Air Lake Grove adventure park. The business opened in November 2019 and includes an indoor coaster, ropes course, indoor playground and more.

Dr. Huda Salman, director of both the Hematologic Malignancies Service and the CAR T Cellular Therapy Program, said Urban Air’s pledge will be a big help to the research program, which recently received approval for its first trial by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

At the Feb. 27 press conference, Wolmetz called the members of the medical team at Stony

helped him get through some difficult times.

The business partners, who both graduated from Ward Melville High School in 1988, said they were tired of seeing so many people engaged in a digital world. It inspired them to create a place where children could get out and be physical, which plays into healthy habits.

“We talked about things over the years, but we never got serious until two years ago, and one thing led to another,” Handler said, adding the best reviews they get are when parents say they got their best night’s sleep because their children slept in after running around the indoor park.

Wolmetz and Handler said the decision to donate locally was an easy one for them.

Wolmetz said it was excellent medical care, a positive attitude and faith that got him to a place where he could think of other things, including giving back to those going through the same experience that he had.

“We both agreed it was an important initiative that when we serve the community with our business to give a percentage and proceeds back to a meaningful campaign,” he said.

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Civic Groups Rally for a More Rigorous Environmental Study on Gyrodyne Land He described the potential development as “akin to building a new Smith Haven Mall on this rural, country stretch of Route 25A.” Civic groups from two neighboring The civic group president gave examples townships joined forces March 2 to advocate of former aviation manufacturers such as for additional studies of a development along Lawrence Aviation and Grumman that he Route 25A. said, “operated behind a huge wall, often in Members of the civic group We Are secrecy, and in the end, they all left a legacy Smithtown organized a rally on the corner of of pollution and toxic plumes.”

Mills Pond Road and Route 25A in St. James “Here is what we do know,” he added. to protest the proposed Gyrodyne property “Gyrodyne was a defense manufacturer in development at the site. The group was joined those pre-Earth Day years of the 1950s, 1960s by representatives from the Greater Stony and 1970s when America wasn’t exactly Brook Action Coalition, Three Village Civic careful about what went in the ground.”

Association, Town of Brookhaven Citizens The civic president also expressed concern Advisory Committee for Route 25A, Setauket that through the decades auto repair and Harbor Task Force and Smithtown activist photography businesses have operated on the Amy Fortunato.

Gyrodyne grounds as well as above-ground vehicle The company is hoping ‘What goes into storage among others that to build an assisted living may have released chemicals home, hotel, medical offices and sewage treatment plant our groundwater into the soil. The property is short distance from Stony on the property. quickly winds up aBrook Harbor.

James Bouklas, president “What into our of We Are Smithtown, said as our drinking groundwatergoes quickly winds up all in attendance opposed the development and were water. There is as our drinking water,” he said.

“There is no margin for error.” concerned about possible In addition to environmentoxins in the soil of the former no margin for tal concerns, Bouklas cited helicopter manufacturer’s error.’ traffic congestion on both 25A land, along with a list of and Stony Brook Road. other concerns.

—James Bouklas Justin Bryant, who grew up He and other protesters in Smithtown and now lives called on the Town of in Stony Brook, said he too is Smithtown and New concerned about chemicals in York State Department of Environmental Conservation to take action the ground at Gyrodyne, saying it’s been too and conduct an independent and rigorous long since a forensic environmental analysis was done. forensic environmental study.

“It’s important to remember where about 2,000 feet behind you a Superfund site, regulated by the [Environmental Protection Agency],” he said. “This site is on the national priorities list, which means it’s a site most at risk to the people who live in the area.”

According to the EPA, there is a groundwater contamination site in the villages of Nissequogue and Head of the Harbor. Since the pollution was discovered in 1997, the agency has been monitoring the area’s ground and surface water.

Herb Mones, chair of the Three Village Civic Association land use committee and a 30-year resident of Stony Brook, said the historic corridor should be protected and preserved and any development should be done in a reasonable and sensible way to protect the surrounding communities.

George Hoffman, 1st vice president of the Three Village Civic Association, was co-chair of the Citizens Advisory Committee for Route 25A, where the Town of Brookhaven met with

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

James Bouklas, president of We Are Smithtown, leads a protest against Gyrodyne March 2. Below, George Hoffman, 1st vice president of the Three Village Civic Association, and others call for an independent environmental study of the property. Photos by Rita J. Egan

residents to gather their thoughts about what needed improvement on the corridor.

“You can’t save one part of the highway without saving the entire highway,” he said.

“This is a really historic corridor.”

He pointed to an environmental study done more than 10 years ago, when the State University of New York bought 250 acres of Gyrodyne property, that found several chemicals in the soil. However, both Hoffman and others at the rally said the chemicals did not show up in the recent environmental study Gyrodyne paid for in the location of the potential subdivision.

“We’re really suspicious of how one part of the property could have had a lot of chemicals in it, where this part of the property now has apparently been given a clean bill of health,” he said.

Cindy Smith, chair of the Greater Stony Brook Action Coalition/United Communities Against Gyrodyne, held the first protest against the Gyrodyne development on the steps of Smithtown’s Town Hall Nov. 2017.

After the March 2 press conference, she said she is pleased with the bond that has been formed with “like-minded civic groups in Smithtown and Brookhaven.”

As a member of Friends of Stony Brook Road, she has helped addressed the impact of the overcapacity street.

“We knew that the additional traffic from the proposed Gyrodyne development would cause even more quality-of-life and safety

issues on our road, not to mention the increased financial burden to Brookhaven residents,” she said, adding she is also concerned about water quality, historical impact, increased taxes and more.

Smith said the organizations have given both town residents voice, and Greater Stony Brook Action Coalition/United Communities Against Gyrodyne has worked with environmentalists, including Carl Safina, Dick Amper of the Long Island Pine Barrens Society and John Turner conservation chair of the Four Harbors Audubon Society.

Smithtown spokesperson Nicole Gargulio said in a statement that the Town has been vigilant in following New York’s State Environmental Quality Review Act requirement and law, “It would be negligent, not to mention a dangerous, unethical precedent to ask the hard-working taxpayers of our community to foot a $500,000 (minimum) bill for a private property owners’ Environmental Impact Statement. Especially, when the EIS process requires the Town’s planning, engineering and environmental professionals to thoroughly review and verify the analysis,” Gargulio said.

A representative from Gyrodyne could not be reached for a comment about the protest or environmental study.

At the Suffolk County Legislature’s March 3 general meeting, a vote for a comprehensive planning study for the corridor was tabled until March 17.

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LI Officials Call on MTA to Rescind Planned LIRR Fare Hike

BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Local and state officials, along with citizen advocates voiced a collective message to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and New York City during a press conference at Ronkonkoma train station on March 2: “Stop shortchanging Long Island.”

The group called on the MTA to abandon its plan for a systemwide 4 percent fare increase in 2021 for Long Island Rail Road customers, including those in Nassau and Suffolk counties.

The decision was a part of the NYC Outer Borough Rail Discount plan which offers an up to 20 percent discount for city riders.

“Long Island is not the cash cow for New York City,” said Ed Romaine (R), Brookhaven Town supervisor. “This is unconscionable, this is a handout to the city at the expense of Long Island.”

Romaine said a typical Ronkonkoma LIRR commuter who purchases a monthly parking pass, monthly train ticket and unlimited ride Metrocard would have to pay $7,224 annually.

“The MTA has not made the capital investments it should on Long island — what about our riders?” Romaine said.

The supervisor added that Long Island has already been shortchanged regarding electrification, as there is no electrification east of Huntington and none past the Ronkonkoma station.

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Legislature as a condition of its approval of congestion pricing legislation, which would create new tolls for drivers in Manhattan to help fund the authority’s $51.5 billion capital program.

The plan will go into effect in May of this year.

Assemblyman Anthony Palumbo (R-New Suffolk) also took issue with the MTA’s decision.

“We had the congestion pricing vote, which I voted against it,” he said. “This is completely counterintuitive to the folks using the trains.

Congestion pricing was meant to get individuals to start using public transportation and not use their vehicles.”

He added that the MTA has billions of dollars of subsidies from the state and federal government.

“This is a New York City problem — we should not bear the brunt of it,” he said. “Mayor [Bill] de Blasio [D] should pay for this — they are overwhelmingly serviced [by the MTA].”

The MTA board is made up of 21 stakeholders appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), including people recommended by unions and municipalities such as the city and surrounding counties. Kevin Law represents Suffolk County, and was nominated by Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D). The other Long Island representative, David Mack, represents Nassau.

Despite their differences, officials continued to agree with the planned change at a Feb. 26 board meeting, saying they expect the up to 20

Brookhaven Town officials, with Supervisor Ed Romaine at the microphone, join local representatives from the state and nearby townships to protest the LIRR’s planned fare hike. Photo from TOB

percent discount to entice Queens and Brooklyn commuters to use the LIRR if they live far from a subway line.

MTA officials say this is a pilot program up to one year’s duration.

However, on Long Island, other local officials voiced their displeasures.

Ed Smyth (R), Huntington Town councilman, said commuters will essentially be paying for their ticket and for somebody in NYC. “Everything is being pushed out to Long Island in terms of expenses and it won’t be long until you’re expected to buy them a coffee and a bagel as well,” he said.

Kevin LaValle (R-Selden), Brookhaven Town councilman, said the MTA plan would negatively affect the progress they’ve made to

bring transit-oriented development to the area.

“On a town level, this is something we’ve been working on for years,” he said. “The Tritec [Ronkonkoma Hub] development is an example of that. It will make it easier for Long islanders to get into the city. With these fee increases it will make it harder for them to afford to live here and ride here.”

Palumbo added he will be writing a letter to Cuomo in the coming days and will ask Long Island representatives from both political parties to sign it. The assemblyman is hopeful the plan can be changed before the NYS budget deadline next month.

“Hopefully he can see it, and this can be fixed on April 1 — I’m just hoping that it doesn’t fall on deaf ears,” he said.

NY State Earmarks Funds, BNL Cancels Conference Due to Coronavirus

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM With six cases of coronavirus Covid-19 in New York state confirmed as at March 4, state, local institutions are preparing for the potential spread of the virus.

New York lawmakers earlier this week passed a $40 million spending bill. The funds will allow the Department of Health to hire staff, purchase equipment and gather additional resources to address a virus for which a travel ban no longer seems sufficient to ensure containment.

A 50-year old Westchester man tested positive for the virus, even though he didn’t travel to areas of contamination, which include China, South Korea and Italy, and didn’t have known contact with anyone who has traveled to those areas.

Through the so-called community spread of the virus, which has a mortality rate of more than 3 percent, can infect a wider range of people.

Northwell Health Labs said earlier this week it expects to begin testing for Covid-19 within

a week. The health facility, which announced the future testing at a news conference March 2 with U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), said manual testing could involve 75 to 100 tests each day. After it automates the tests, the facility could process hundreds and even thousands of tests on a daily basis. Mather Hospital in Port Jefferson is part of Northwell Health group.

Meanwhile, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Stony Brook University have made recommendations to staff who might travel to areas of infection.

BNL is following the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and the State Department regarding health notices and travel advisories. The U.S. State Department has a donot-travel restriction on trips to China and Iran, along with specific areas of Italy and South Korea, while it also recommends reconsidering travel to Italy, South Korea and Mongolia.

Also, BNL is asking visiting scientists if they

traveled to China or live with someone who visited China within 14 days. If the answer to either question is “yes,” these individuals have to complete a 14-day period away from China without symptoms before returning to the lab.

BNL canceled the International Forum on Detectors for Photon Science conference, which was scheduled for March 29 through April 1 at Danfords Hotel in Port Jefferson. The conference was expected to have 40 participants.

CSHL has told participants from these same countries that they may not attend any upcoming meetings or courses unless they provide certification that they have left those countries 15 days prior to the event. The lab has provided access to conferences through video streaming.

The Cold Spring Harbor-based lab is also canceling all upcoming events that bring visitors to its campus until April 5.

Also, CSHL is cleaning common areas including bathrooms, counters and dining areas more frequently, is providing more hand sanitation stations, is enhancing the readiness

of its Center for Health & Wellness and is providing secure transfer protocols for at-risk people with potential symptoms of the virus.

SBU discouraged school-related and personal travel to China, Italy, Iran and South Korea. The school also created a mandatory preapproval requirement for all publicly funded university-sponsored travel plans to China, Italy, Iran and South Korea. SBU has not canceled the Florence University of the Arts program, since the university is continuing classes as usual and the Tuscany region doesn’t have any reported cases of the virus.

On a national level, the Federal Reserve, in a move similar to decisions from other central banks, cut interest rates by half a percentage point, the biggest cut since the financial crisis of 2008. The cut was designed to stave off an economic slowdown caused by business disruptions from the coronavirus.

“The coronavirus poses evolving risks to economic activity,” the Federal Reserve said in a statement.

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Village

Longtime Kings Park Resident Will Lead St. Patrick’s Day Parade with Family Columbus, Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Kings Park Fire Department and Ambulance Committee and more. To this day, he is an Kings Park resident Jim Girvan was usher at St. Joseph’s R.C. Church. thrilled when he heard he would be this year’s When it comes to Kings Park, Girvan grand marshal in the hamlet’s St. Patrick’s realizes there has been a lot of development Day parade. through the years, but he said when it comes “As a Scout in parades, I never thought I to charm, it’s stayed the same. would be a grand marshal,” he said, adding “We didn’t change that much, believe it or that when he was a kid, he would march in fire not,” he said. “The town is pretty much the same.” department parades.

He and wife Irene, known by her nickname Kevin Johnston, chair of the parade Rene, said they remember when the Northern committee, said Girvan was the perfect choice Parkway ended in Nassau County and for grand marshal. He remembered Girvan Smithtown was filled with farms. They saying that when he was younger, he wanted a also still call Commack “Comac” as many place where he had friends, a job and a town, longtime residents do, the original spelling and and he found that in Kings Park. pronunciation of the neighboring hamlet.

“He epitomizes what we consider Kings Girvan has marched in the Kings Park Parkers,” Johnston said. parade before with the Ancient Order of The committee chair described this year’s Hibernians, but this year will be special, he grand marshal as a delight to be around. said. He and his wife said friends and family “It’s that Irish smile of his that is just are coming from all over to see him lead beaming,” Johnston said. “He has a very the parade, including Texas, Maryland and welcoming and endearing smile and that’s Florida, and many will also walk with him. A Jim Girvan, this year’s grand marshal, in his Kings Park home Photo by Rita J. Egan what kind of brings people in.” good friend from San Antonio recently came The 88-year-old Girvan has a deep up to surprise him for the Grand Marshal Ball connection with Ireland. His father, John except for two years when he was a nurse in County Championship, the first time the school that was held back in January.

Girvan, was raised there, and while his Philadelphia. He and his wife have also raised won a county title in the sport.

“The Girvan family feels mother Mary McGuckin was Girvan went into nursing very good about it, and it will six children in the hamlet. born in Scotland, she was of be in our hearts forever this After graduating from St. and worked at the Kings Park Irish descent. day,” Girvan said.

‘He epitomizes Joseph’s R.C. Church’s grammar Psychiatric Center and then It’s Kings Park though Johnston said this year the school, he said he received a Northport Veterans Hospital. what we where Girvan has established parade will feature more than scholastic scholarship to Bishop He said he was drafted by the deep roots.

20 bands, 15 of which will be Loughlin High School in army in 1966 but then was His father worked in a naval consider Kings Brooklyn. Girvan said he attended commissioned by the navy to bagpipes, as well as more than yard in Staten Island, and as a 10 fire departments and several the school for two years until work as a nurse in Philadelphia Parkers.’ semiprofessional soccer player, local businesses. he asked his father if he could Naval Hospital, where he would travel out to Kings Park The Kings Park 10th annual —Kevin Johnston go to Kings Park High School. supervised the Acute PTSD to entertain patients at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade kicks The grand marshal said he loved Admissions Unit.

After two years living in psychiatric hospital. Girvan off at noon Saturday, March playing basketball, but couldn’t said when his father broke his participate while commuting to New Jersey with his wife and —Jim Girvan 7, rain or shine. It begins at leg and lost his job at the naval yard, he was the city to attend school, sometimes not returning children, and commuting to the corner of Lou Avenue and the Pennsylvania hospital, offered a position as a kitchen helper at the home until 8 p.m.

Pulaski Road, continues down hospital and worked his way up to head cook.

Main Street and turns onto He would go on to not only graduate from Girvan and family returned to That move was a fateful one for Girvan, Kings Park High School but to also be part of Kings Park. Through the decades the grand Church Street and ends down Old Dock Road who has lived in Kings Park most of his life the basketball team that won the 1950 Suffolk marshal has been involved in the Knights of at William T. Rogers Middle School.

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Letters to the Editor Editorial The Trash Imperative Making Washington Work for Lee Zeldin It’s now become obvious that Long Island has a garbage problem. It’s an issue that’s not going away.

The Town of Brookhaven is set to close its landfill in 2024, and after many municipalities altered their recycling programs when China’s decision to ban the import of most plastics and other materials used by its recycling processors in 2018, our communities can’t avoid the problem anymore.

The Brookhaven landfill alone handles about 350,000 tons of ash annually from energy-from-waste facilities, in addition to handling 720,000 tons of solid waste.

A representative from a local carting company at a recent Long Island Regional Planning Council meeting said that one person can produce 4 1/2 pounds of garbage a day and that 2,000 trucks daily transport waste off the Island.

While waste is transported off Long Island to upstate New York, opting for more trucking leads to more traffic and exhaust fumes exacerbating already poor air quality, plus damage to the roads. Transporting more garbage by rail can be a better option.

In our easily disposal world, overflowing garbage pails wind up going to landfills that are near capacity. It’s important for residents not only to ask their legislators to think outside of the box to come up with a solution but also to look inside their homes and be mindful when discarding rubbish. We’re not talking about anything radical, like fitting all of your trash from a year in a jar, but many products are thrown out when they can be fixed. While it may not make a huge dent in the number of stuff thrown out yearly, repair cafés, like the one recently hosted at Comsewogue Public Library, are an option instead of just buying something new. If one of these events can’t be found in an area, YouTube is filled with videos on how to repair various items. A simple Google search really can do wonders.

New York State’s ban on plastic bags is a good step, but there needs to be a new way of looking at buying items, possible forgoing one-use items like plastic water bottles for refillable, reusable on-the-go drinkware and being vigilant about separating garbage. Requesting towns to revert to better recycling programs, where glass is part of the process, is also a must.

Long Island is just that, an island, and the problem is that we have no real way to take our garbage and simply take it somewhere else. Shipping our trash off the Island will only mean more traffic and broken roads. Indeed, we on Long Island have to look at other places that are more like us in geography for solutions.

In Japan, residents and visitors to the country are expected to separate their waste into combustible, incombustible, oversized garbage and then glass bottles and cans. The precise separation of waste leads to more post-consumer use recycled items, and the country is an example of how it can be done. In nearby South Korea, which has only half a peninsula for itself, has little room for additional dumps or landfills. In restaurants or even food courts, people are expected to use metal utensils and cups which are cleaned and reused.

State Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) recently introduced legislation to amend the state Environmental Conservation Law to establish a New York State goal where no less than 85 percent of solid waste to be reduced, reused, recycled or composted by 2030. That is an ambitious goal, but even looking to reach those heights could do us a wealth of good. Municipalities, waste management services and our local residents should get on board.

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Abraham Lincoln once said, “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

Apparently, Congressman Lee Zeldin [R-NY1] doesn’t agree. If his extraordinarily self-serving “Perspectives” column appearing recently in this newspaper is any indication, he seems to think that actually you can fool all the people all the time.

Filled with clumsy flattery (what exactly makes CD1 “the greatest congressional district in the country”?), and bursting with self-congratulation for supposedly providing us with a cornucopia of goodies from Washington, he seems unaware that actually he’s insulting the intelligence of his constituents.

Brookhaven National Lab was here long before Zeldin went to Washington, and it will be here long after he’s gone.

As far as building a new Electron-Ion Collider there, the scientists at BNL had something to do with it. It “brings to conclusion the hard work over the last 20 years to make the case for an EIC,” said Elke-Caroline Aschenauer, a physicist at BNL. Also as part of the selection, New York State pledged $165 million for upgrades of existing infrastructure at BNL, including roads and utilities essential for the EIC facility. Sen.

Chuck Schumer (D-NY) worked for the selection of BNL for years. But Zeldin grabs the credit all for himself.

In his column Zeldin notes that CD1 is “nearly completely surrounded by water” and boasts of his efforts to get a dredging operation to control the chronic flooding around Shinnecock inlet. He conveniently forgets to mention, however, that this operation was recently suspended because the dredging equipment was relocated to Palm Beach, Florida, near Mar-a-Lago.

In any case dredging is only a stopgap solution for the long-term threat of climate change and rising sea levels to our nearly water-surrounded district.

Zeldin seems blissfully unconcerned about how the oil and gas industry needlessly spouts millions of tons of methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere. He voted multiple times to block requiring the installation of available and relatively inexpensive methane capture equipment in drilling operations.

Far from using his powers as a Congressman to serve his constituents, Zeldin seems more interested in serving President Donald Trump (R) as a gambit to enhance his own career as a politician and as a talking head on Fox News. He

was the only Long Island congressman to vote against the bipartisan bill to increase the SALT tax deduction.

Trump is on a political vendetta against New York. And Zeldin is on Trump’s side, not New York’s. Aside from his pathetic response to the punitive cap on the SALT deduction, he hasn’t said a peep about the Trump administration’s recent cancellation of a federal grant to New York State’s health care system, a cancellation that will cost Stony Brook University Hospital alone over $21 million. In another petty and vindictive move, the Trump administration is discontinuing the Trusted Traveler Programs for residents of New York State only. This punishes all New Yorkers regardless of who they voted for. Three weeks ago I wrote Zeldin, asking him what he was doing to reverse this unfair and spiteful policy. I have yet to receive an answer.

The truth is that far from making Washington work for the residents of CD1, Zeldin is all about making Washington work for himself. He’s afraid to cross Trump — that might set back his career plans. His claimed concern for the residents of CD1 is as phony as a $3 bill.

David Friedman St. James

Moratoriums Protect the Planning Process In a recent TBR News Media article [“Elected Officials, Residents Eye Route 25A Potential Developments,” The Village Times Herald, Feb. 27] it was reported that the civic group We are Smithtown has requested a building moratorium to closely examine the impacts of the recent wave of redevelopment across the Town of Smithtown while the master plan is still being drafted.

A Smithtown spokesperson dismissed the request for a moratorium out of hand as “reckless,” asserting the town’s fiscal stability was at risk without the anticipated taxes from theses properties and that taxes were needed to avoid “catastrophic” impacts on the residents and small businesses.

Needless to say, that argument makes no sense. The town’s fiscal stability evidently was better under Supervisor Pat Vecchio [R], who kept taxes, debt and expenses low without the need to overdevelop. This

is in contrast to the present Town Board, which aggressively pursues maximum development unrestricted by any plan and recklessly spends taxpayer dollars by giving large raises to themselves.

The bigger issue, however, is that the spokesperson is just plain wrong.

Moratoriums have been used extensively in Suffolk County as part of the planning process. Patchogue and Southampton have recently had building moratoriums in place, as have Brookhaven and Sag Harbor.

Not only are building moratoriums not “reckless,” they are responsible planning tools to take the pressure off planners as area master plans are being developed. The absence of a moratorium while a master plan is in development is much more “catastrophic” and will open the floodgate to inappropriate development before community consensus on a plan.

These megadevelopments that are now

barreling toward approval throughout the town are the same zombie projects that have been lurking for decades, half-dead but halted under Vecchio and now very much alive under present leadership: the Watermill Hotel, prior iterations of the socalled Preserve at Smithtown in Nesconset and, of course, Gyrodyne, to name a few.

We managed to get this far without these projects, with money in the bank, little to no debt and the highest bond rating anywhere in Suffolk at the end of Vecchio’s long tenure.

The outcry against moratoriums and corridor studies usually comes from developers who do not want to be constrained by town planning. That’s what makes the recent criticism by the town spokesperson on the request for a moratorium so telling.

Whose side is the town on?

James Bouklas President of We Are Smithtown, formerly We Are Nesconset

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Opinion

A Birthday to Remember in the Big Easy

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just celebrated an incredible birthday, thanks to the thoughtfulness of friends and family who took the time to talk with me and shop for greatly appreciated gifts.

Each year, these birthdays have the potential to be challenging, especially given that mine often comes some time around school midterms. Even though I’m no longer watching the calendar to see how many days I have left before I D. None have to take a big test, of the above I still ride that roller coaster vicariously

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF with my children.

This year, however, enormous and difficult tests didn’t hang over us, like the academic sword of Damocles.

For starters, before my birthday celebration kicked in, my sister-in-law and brother-inlaw sent me AirPods. I knew I was supposed to open the gift on my birthday, but I’m not exactly the most patient person when it comes to opening presents. Gee, I wonder where my kids get that trait?

Anyway, the reaction from my son was almost as enjoyable as the present itself. When he saw me wearing them, he said, “How did you get those?” as if the question were an accusation. “My friends all have them.”

My daughter did a test run with me, chatting with me on FaceTime while she stared at my ears instead of at my uneven sideburns or the hairy bridge connecting my eyebrows. It’s increasingly rare these days for anything I do, say or wear to be considered “up to date,” so this wonderful gift hit the mark.

I’m enjoying using the AirPods at the gym, where I don’t have to worry about the wire bouncing around when I’m running or after I’ve exercised, when I’m panting as I lean

over the water fountain.

The best part, though, is that they allow me to talk with someone while I’m walking my dog and picking up his droppings. I don’t have to worry about the wire coming lose when he suddenly pulls hard on the leash to chase a rabbit or to run away from the sudden noise a desiccated leaf makes when it blows in the wind behind us. Yes, despite his 90-pound body, he finds the unexpected noise from leaves threatening.

While I insisted to my wife that she didn’t need to buy anything for me, she purchased several items of clothing, like shorts and shirts that fit, look good and are incredibly comfortable. She also got this terrific jacket that repels the white dog hair that has rendered the rest of my outerwear ridiculous when interacting with members of the general public.

This birthday we ventured to the Big Easy, where the ubiquitous music still resonates.

We took a paddleboat ride and heard about

the Mississippi River and the site of the Battle of New Orleans. The oak trees lining the bank are about 250 to 300 years old, which means that the same trees stood in the same spot during the battle.

My teenage son, who isn’t always the picture of patience with his demanding dad, played with me and allowed me to hug him in public during the weekend. That was better than any gift he could have purchased. My daughter, meanwhile, celebrated vicariously from college. A few of her friends wandered into the screen and wished me the best.

Finally, I connected by phone with college roommates, nephews, brothers and my mom, who was a critical part of that day so many years ago. Birthdays have, at times, made me feel older and displaced. This one, with the meaningful conversations, the laughter with my wife and children and the chats with friends and relatives, as well as the “cool” gifts, made me feel so young.

Early Voting Equality for All Women and Men, Regardless of Race

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n this year of celebrating a century since women were granted the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment, I will tell you a true tale from the dustbin of history.

Women voted for three decades after the American Revolution. They voted from 17761807 alongside men in, of all places, New Jersey. How do I know? Jennifer Between Schuessler tells you and me me so in the Feb. 24 edition of The

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF New York Times.

The women

were only stopped from voting after “rampant fraud and corruption.” For example it seems that some men put on dresses to vote multiple times. New Jersey passed a law then, limiting voting in 1807 to white men.

Was it an early expression of gender equality or a legal loophole that enabled women — and African Americans — to vote at the dawn of our country? Or was that a myth?

The Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia located new-found poll lists that show women voted in “significant numbers” before they were denied. In August of this year the museum will open an exhibit called ironically, “When Women Lost the Vote,” featuring those documents. This is a great triumph for the museum and the tale.

While other states limited the vote to “freemen” or male inhabitants, New Jersey gave the right to vote to all “inhabitants” as

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long as “they” could show they had property worth 50 pounds. That ruled out most married women, whose property or income went to their husbands when they married.

However, the law enfranchised many women, regardless of race, in New Jersey — or so the early story went. But where was the proof?

Then, an 1801 poll list from Montgomery Township, found in the New Jersey State Archives in Trenton, was the first real modern-day evidence of numerous women voters. The state archives had acquired the lists in 2016 “from the descendants of a long-ago county clerk.”

Now there are 18 poll lists from four New Jersey townships from 1797-1807 that have been found. Nine of them include 163 unique women’s names. The women had cast about 7.7 percent of total votes. On some lists, it was as much as 14 percent.

An interesting corollary is that the

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women’s names almost always appear in bunches, suggesting that women came to the polls in groups. Maybe that had something to do with the polls often being located in taverns “awash with drunkenness and guns,” according to The Times.

Philip Mead, chief historian at the Museum of the American Revolution, explained that there was difficulty in determining who met the property requirements, which contributed to the end of gender and race equality in New Jersey.

Still, Mead sees a positive message in this research for the museum’s exhibit: “In early New Jersey, we have women voting and African Americans voting. This is a story both about what we might have been, and about who we’ve become.”

It is a fitting tale to mark the end of Black History Month and the beginning of Women’s History Month.

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