The Times of Smithtown - August 23, 2018

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August 23, 2018

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BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM While new car owners in St. James are excitedly revving their engines, local residents are closing their windows and shaking their heads.

Several residents in the area of Montclair Avenue and Rutherford Street said they are tired of traffic by people test driving cars from the considerable number of dealerships on Middle Country Road. Some are asking Town of Smithtown officials to close off Montclair Avenue before the residential end of the road or create speed bumps on Rutherford Street.

“There are more dealerships now that are taking their people and directing them to use Montclair [Avenue],” Patti McGovern, a 30-year resident on St. James Avenue South said. “The regular amount of traffic is just crazy for a residential section. When we first moved here it was nothing like this.”

The area is home to a number of dead-end residential roads north of Route 25/Middle Country Road along Rutherford Street, which is connected to Middle Country Road through Montclair Avenue and Arlington Avenue.

McGovern said that many people use these roads as a shortcut due to Smithtown High School East being located to the north. Other

people test driving from local dealerships push their new cars close to 50 mph on the residential road, well above the local speed limit.

The Town of Smithtown’s Traffic Safety Department conducted a traffic study through the month of May that determined average weekday traffic was approximately 500 vehicles traveling westbound and 630 eastbound between Montclair Avenue and Jackson Avenue. The study showed 85 percent of cars had an average speed between 31 and 35 mph. The survey concluded that the number of cars was normal for a road like Rutherford, and there wasn’t a speeding issue on roads north of Montclair Avenue.

Despite the study results, McGovern said even a few speeding cars could be a real hazard.

“That 15 percent, stipulated with 1,200 vehicles, means there are [approximately] 180 vehicle trips coming here in speeds excess of 40 and above,” McGovern said. “That’s more than any neighborhood should bear.”

Residents have been making noise about these traffic issues for close to four years, according to McGovern. In 2015, the town agreed to build a chicane, a S-shaped traffic-slowing and road-narrowing measure, on Montclair. McGovern said that even with the road being narrowed to hinder large trucks, the chicane has not done enough to

slow traffic.

“The chicane had to be built so that it had access for emergency vehicles, so any kind of truck can get through, even if they get up on the curbs of the chicane,” McGovern said.

Rutherford Street resident David Friedman said it has become a huge problem to see people test driving their cars down local residential streets — and in their haste, often running the stop sign at the intersection at Rutherford Street and Montclair Avenue. Friedman said there is a school bus stop near that same corner, and he often fears for children’s safety.

“It’s constant, and some of them are just very discourteous,” he said. “Some of them are using it to test their engine — making a lot of noise.”

Middle Country Road is home to more than 10 car dealerships all within a few miles radius of each other. Friedman said that he has seen cars from the Smithtown Nissan and Competition BMW of Smithtown driving on their roads, but the worst, he said, has come from the Competition Subaru of Smithtown located at the corner of Montclair Avenue and Middle Country Road.

David Toomey, the general manager for the Subaru dealership, said he does not specifically emphasize people test drive on Montclair; but, if they do, he said he advises them to maintain the

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“We’re trying to minimize traffic in the back [residential] areas,” Toomey said. “It’s customer preference whether they want to be on the main road or the back road, but I think a lot of the traffic in this area has to do with there being multiple dealerships.”

In terms of the number of Subaru test vehicles driving on the residential neighborhoods, he said most of the traffic is from dealership employees driving to their new dealership located at 601 Middle Country Road. He said there should be little to no Subaru cars on local roadways once the company finishes relocating in early September.

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BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

First-time political candidate Dan DeBono said there are two different kinds of Republicans. One supports the little guy, and the other only helps the rich get richer.

“There are corporate Republicans and then there’s, like me, middle-class Republicans,” he said. “Corporate Republicans will seek to apply all government power to help conglomerate corporations... enrich the big guy and hope that trickles down to the small guy. Middle-class Republican’s vision of leadership is creating an environment where the middle class can thrive.”

DeBono hopes to bring his vision to the U.S. House of Representatives for the 3rd District, challenging incumbent Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) on the Republican party line for the seat this November.

His campaign focuses on middle-class issues due to his upbringing. Born in 1968, he grew up in Northport and graduated from Northport High School. DeBono then attended Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts on a Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarship that allowed him to join the U.S. Navy SEALs after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. The candidate spent four years as an officer in the Navy serving overseas during the Gulf War and U.S. and NATO’s

intervention in Bosnia.

After serving, DeBono went to The Booth School of Business at The University of Chicago where he obtained a master’s degree in business administration. He spent the next 20 years in the finance industry. DeBono became involved in the local politics as a committeeman for the Town of Huntington’s Republican Committee and provided financial advice to the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney (R) and Rudy Giuliani (R).

The Republican candidate said he sees a host of challenges facing Long Island stemming from regulation, taxes and infrastructure problems. It’s hit a breaking point where he says businesses and people do not want to stay here. Given the high cost of living, he sees more and more young people deciding not to stay on the island.

“It’s too expensive to live here and raise a family,” DeBono said. “The balance between income and cost of living has gotten so out of whack that generally young people are not returning after college.”

He wants to put pressure on both the federal and state government to supply funds to ensure the Long Island Rail Road is overhauled. DeBono also supports plans to cut small-business regulations and reduced state income taxes to help alleviate Long Island’s high cost of living.

While he largely agrees with cutting taxes, the challenger said he would not have voted for the

2018 federal tax cuts simply because the amount of allocated for individuals in lower tax brackets was too small and the duration was too short, only going until 2025. He also said the loss of state and local tax deductions will have a negative impact.

In his campaign, DeBono points to corporate Republicans as those who think of large businesses first and top-down economics whereas he wants to strengthen Long Island’s economy by building up the middle class. DeBono is campaigning on a platform of specifically targeting corporate mergers and consolidations, which he said creates anticompetitive monopolies and oligopolies, as well as targeting regulations that hinder new businesses rising up to compete.

“The same pattern of consolidation has occurred in nearly every industry in the United States,” DeBono said. “Industry after industry have concentrated down into three to four players.

This is a huge contributor to the destruction of the middle class.”

On other national issues, DeBono said he believes in strong borders and supports efforts to build a wall, or barrier, along the U.S.Mexico border. The Republican candidate also said he believes health care prices are crippling America’s middle class and he would prefer a market-based solution — but did not rule out a national single-payer system.

DeBono strongly believes in a free and com-

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petitive market, but he also supports unions.

“A robust free market will always form the most reasonable and durable form of job protection,” DeBono said. “We have structural issues that must be addressed first before those protections can kick in. At this point in the cycle unions are more important than they’ve ever been.”

DeBono is holding an open house at the Huntington American Legion Post 360, located at 1 Mill Dam Road, Sept.17 at 6:30 p.m.

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BY SARA-MEGAN WALSH SARA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The real estate developer for a controversial Fort Salonga development has handed over his proposed plans for a mandated environmental impact study for public consumption.

The Hauppauge-based Northwind Group, founded by developer Jim Tsunis, submitted a 16-page report Aug. 14 outlining how potential impacts of The Preserve at Indian Hills will be evaluated prior to construction of the community.

Residents have until Sept. 17 to give feedback and voice any concerns.

Town of Huntington Planning Board voted Aug. 8 to issue a positive declaration that the submitted plans to construct 98 townhouses and a clubhouse on the existing Indian Hills Country Club golf course will have a significant environmental impact. In accordance with state law, the Northwind Group must undertake, with a detailed environmental impact study that looks at how the development may impact water quality of the watershed, the area’s steep slopes and coastal erosion zone, added traffic and other issues.

“The 99-lot yield is supported by a yield map prepared to town specifications and approved

by the planning board for yield purposes and is less than what would be permitted as right-ofway under current zoning if each property were developed independently,” reads page 3 of the developer’s draft report.

The Fort Salonga Property Owners Association has previously asked town officials to place a moratorium on new developments in the Crab Meadow Watershed area, which includes Indian Hills.

The group has voiced fears, despite the developer’s revised plans that scales 108 units originally requested down to 98, the development will have a devastating impact on the local roadways and surrounding wetlands.

“There is no doubt that this latest plan is completely unacceptable to the neighborhood,” John Hayes, president of the property owners association, said. “Like its predecessors, it does not fully address many of the environmental and social concerns that have been raised.”

Hayes admitted he and others were still going over the 16-page report but said he is likely to suggest additional intersections be added to the traffic study. Those intersections already cited for inclusion by the developer include: Route 25A at Makamah Road, Route 25A at Fresh Pond Road,

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Makamah and Breeze Hill roads, Fresh Pond Road and Breeze Hill Road and Fresh Pond Road at Claymore Road.

“The roads are not designed for this sort of development,” Hayes said, citing numerous fatal accidents at Makamah Road and Route 25A. The draft environmental study outline also clearly stated the 18-hole golf course will be modified, but maintain 18-holes calling it “an important part of the visual character of the site and area.”

The draft scope of the environmental study can be viewed on the Town of Huntington’s website, www.huntingtonny.gov, under the Planning & Environment Department page, under Site Specific Plans, Reports and Studies.

Comments may be submitted through Sept.

17 via email to planning@huntingtonny.gov or mailed to Huntington Town Hall, Department of Planning & Environment (Room 212), Attn: Preserve at Indian Hills Draft Scope, 100 Main St., Huntington, NY 11743.

University

SBU president, senators announce $25M state funding for new building Two state senators are doing their part to engineer a better future for Stony Brook University and Long Island.

New York state Sens. John Flanagan (R-East Northport) and Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) joined SBU President Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr. Aug. 16 to announce the award of $25 million in state funding to the university for the initial phase of developing a new engineering building on campus — one that is estimated to cost $100 million in total. The 100,000 square-foot facility will include industrial-quality labs, active-learning classrooms and prototyping/manufacturing shops.

The official announcement was made at the university’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences building with representatives of local engineering companies in attendance, including VJ Technologies, Cameron Engineering & Associates and H2M Architects & Engineers.

“We have the opportunity to provide funding, sometimes discretionary, and this is a very strong investment,” Flanagan said.

He thanked the owners and board members of the local engineering companies who traveled to Albany a few months ago to discuss the needs of engineering companies as well as the

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Dean Fotis Sotiropoulos, SBU president Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr., Sens. Ken LaValle and John Flanagan in front of the current engineering building at the university.

importance of recruiting talent and retaining students on Long Island.

LaValle, chairman of the Senate’s higher education committee, said he believed the new building will attract preeminent students to SBU, and thanked Flanagan for helping to secure the funds during a time when spare money isn’t plentiful.

“I think it will go a long way in ensuring that we enhance where we are today in terms of providing students and faculty with an optimum

state-of-the-art facility,” LaValle said.

Stanley recognized the senators as visionaries for acknowledging how critical the university is when it comes to building the technology that Long Island needs.

“The demand is tremendous,” Stanley said.

“So, we really need to grow this school. We’re turning away qualified applicants from the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences because we don’t have enough space and

because we need more faculty to teach.”

Fotis Sotiropoulos, dean of the engineering college, said the number of students applying to SBU has grown 60 percent since 2012, and the university has become more selective due to the lack of space. Currently, engineering students need to score at least 1400 on the SATs and to be in the 95th percentile in their class.

The dean said the research conducted at the school, in addition to impacting the economic development on Long Island, also affects the state and nation. The university focuses on engineering-driven medicine, artificial intelligence discoveries and energy systems for sustainability.

“This is where we are going to develop the medicine of the future,” Sotiropoulos said, adding SBU wants to be the hub for the state in artificial intelligence research.

Sotiropoulos said as the university develops the new facility the curriculum will be reconstructed to build learning around projects that start early in a student’s college years and continue all the way to incubating startup companies.

He said one of the goals is to keep students local after graduation.

“We want to grow the size of the engineering workforce for Long Island and the state, but we also want to educate the new kind of engineers,” Sotiropoulos said.

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University Police SBU professor sued for sexual harassment

Obituaries

Frederick Hagenberger Jr.

Frederick “Fred” Hagenberger Jr., 71, of St. James, died July 12. He was a proud veteran of the U.S. Air Force having served in the Vietnam War and owner of Townline Auto Body in St. James for 30 years.

He was the beloved husband of Eileen; cherished father of Robert (Sarah) and Michael; loving grandfather of Danielle (Matthew)

students. The lawsuit also claims the professor partnered women together on projects and not men as a sign of Frohman’s belief in their capabilities.

Frohman has not responded to requests for comment by press time.

The lawsuit continues that Mosier brought her complaints to Paul Gootenberg, the history department chair of the social studies program, but that he first asked Mosier “What is your appearance and how are you acting to be treated like this?” and that he further commented about how she was not the first to bring complaints to him about Frohman.

Gootenberg declined to comment saying the university does not comment on pending personnel questions.

The suit claims Mosier’s Title IX complaints were mishandled by the university, that the investigation took six months instead of a promised 60 days to finish the investigation and that the office did not adequately give information as to the status of her complaint. On Oct. 30, 2017, Mosier received a letter from the Title IX office saying the case was “closed” and her complaints were “substantiated” but she did not receive any details on what actions the university would take against the professor.

Stony Brook spokeswoman Lauren Sheprow said that the university does not comment upon ongoing litigation.

“The university does have policies and procedures in place to fully investigate claims that are brought to our attention,” Sheprow said.

Heller said he is still waiting for SBU to be formally served and initial hearings won’t begin until December.

Brooks, Andrew, Nicole and Michael; and dear brother of Bette Jean and Robert (Maria).

A funeral service with military honors was held at Branch Funeral Home of Smithtown. A private cremation followed.

In lieu of flowers, donations in his name may be made to: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, c/o Lynda Pennachio, 3 State St., Lake Grove, NY 11755.

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A Stony Brook University student has alleged that a professor sexually harassed her.

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Marine Bureau rescues 2 men off Short Beach Suffolk County Police Marine Bureau officers rescued two men after their canoe overturned in the Long Island Sound off of Short Beach in Nissequogue Aug. 17.

Suffolk County Police received a 911 call at 8:53 p.m. from Smithtown resident Cortland Terris who reported that the canoe he was on with a friend had overturned. Before the canoe overturned, Terris, 22, and Michael Small, 21, also of Smithtown, had been drifting northeast in the canoe for approximately one and a half to two hours. The men attempted to paddle back to shore but were unsuccessful because of heavy winds and rough seas.

Emergency complaint operator Kim Swan obtained the victim’s latitude and longitude position

and communicated their location to Marine Bureau officers Nick Divaris and Pete Bogachunas who responded to the scene. The officers located the men, who were holding onto the overturned canoe and a cooler, after Terris, who had significantly low battery power, pointed his cellphone flashlight toward the officers’ vessel. The men were two miles northeast from where they had launched and had been in the water for about 30 minutes before rescue.

The officers transported Terris and Small, along with their canoe, to the Kings Park boat ramp. Both men refused further medical attention.

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Fake ID used at Nesconset bank Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and 4th Squad detectives are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate a woman who allegedly used fake identification in an attempt to withdraw funds from a Nesconset bank.

A woman entered Chase Bank, located on Nesconset Highway, July 31 at 11:50 a.m., and allegedly displayed a fake driver’s license and ATM card in an attempt to withdraw funds from a valid bank account. When bank employees became suspicious, the woman fled the scene. The woman was described as blonde, approximately 60 years old and carrying a cane.

She was last seen getting into a gray Honda Accord occupied by two young men in the bank parking lot.

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A 2018 Stony Brook University graduate has filed a lawsuit against a Stony Brook history professor claiming he verbally and sexually harassed her while giving preferential treatment to the male students over female students.

Erin Mosier, 24, filed a $3 million suit under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 in Manhattan federal court Aug. 9 saying that Stony Brook associate professor Larry Frohman sexually harassed her and degraded her for her looks and gender, sometimes together during his office hours and other times in front of her peers during class.

Mosier enrolled at Stony Brook for the fall 2015 semester desiring to become a teacher. She entered in the social studies education program in spring 2016 where Frohman was the sole undergraduate adviser, according to the court filings.

The lawsuit claims that during Mosier’s first semester at Stony Brook she took a class with Frohman and within weeks he started to privately and publicly make demeaning comments at Mosier based on her looks. The comments continued on into 2017 during her time in the social studies program. At one point during office hours Frohman told Mosier she “talks too much,” and that “all women should use their mouth for men’s pleasure.”

The lawsuit also alleges on another occasion April 2017 that after applying oil to her hands to calm herself, Frohman stated to her in front of her class, “What would calm me down is taking you through a ride on the beaver car wash with me,” alluding to a sexual act with Mosier.

Mosier’s legal representative, Brian Heller, an attorney from Manhattan-based Schwartz Perry & Heller LLP that focuses on employment harassment and discrimination law, said with this case he hopes more people will speak out about sexual harassment in education.

“These are the kind of painful experience that can destroy a young person’s confidence and impact them for the rest of their lives,” Heller said.

“I hope that by coming forward [Mosier] is able to reclaim part of her self-worth and her confidence.”

The suit further claims Frohman gave preferential treatment to male students, giving higher grades to male students on average rather than female

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BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

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— Sara-Megan Walsh

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Sandy Hook parents share violence prevention strategies with Suffolk schools On Dec. 14, 2012, a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, left more than 20 people dead, mostly first-graders, shocking the world and changing it permanently. Much of that change can be attributed to the efforts of those who were most personally impacted by the tragic events of that day.

Parents from Sandy Hook were invited to St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue Aug. 16 by Suffolk County Sheriff’s office to share details about four programs they’ve created aimed at preventing violence in schools to a room packed with Suffolk County school district superintendents, administrators and lawmakers.

Sandy Hook Promise, a national nonprofit organization, was founded by parents including Mark Barden, a professional musician originally from Yonkers who had moved to Newtown in 2007 with his wife to raise their three kids. His son, Daniel, was 7 years old when he was killed during the tragedy.

“It is very real and a very personal mission that I do this work to honor that kid, who we used to jokingly call ‘the caretaker of all living things,’ because that’s how he lived his life,” Barden said of his son.

He said Daniel was known for trying to connect with other kids he saw eating alone, for holding doors for strangers in public and for picking up earthworms from the hot sidewalk and moving them to safety in the grass, among other instinctual acts of kindness he regularly displayed.

“That’s how I’ve chosen to honor his life is through this work,” Barden said.

Sandy Hook Promise’s approach to carrying out its mission of preventing all gun-related deaths can be viewed as an extension of Daniel’s legacy of caring for those in need. Barden was joined Aug. 16 by two other members of the organization — Myra Leuci, national account manager, and Marykay Wishneski, national program coordinator — who detailed the initiatives the nonprofit pitches to school districts interested in improving their prevention strategies.

The four strategies, which fall under the nonprofit’s Know the Signs program, are taught to youth and adults free of charge in the hopes of fostering an environment that empowers everyone in the community to help identify and intervene when someone is at risk.

Say Something is an anonymous reporting system that teaches kids how to recognize warning signs, especially on social media, and gives them an outlet to get adults involved. Start With Hello is a training program that teaches students how to be more inclusive and connected to peers.

Safety Assessment & Intervention program is

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“It is a very real and a very personal mission that I do this work to honor that kid, who we used to jokingly call ‘the caretaker of all living things ...’”

– Mark Barden

Mark Barden, a founder of the nonprofit Sandy Hook Promise, presents violence prevention strategies to a room full of Suffolk lawmakers and school officials during an Aug. 16 event at St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue as Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr. looks on.

geared toward adults and aims to teach them how to identify, assess and respond to threats of violence or at-risk behavior prior to a situation developing. The Signs of Suicide program teaches people how to identify and intervene to get help for those displaying signs of depression or suicidal behavior. The nonprofit offers in-person training for each program, though Say Something and Start With Hello are available to be downloaded and self-led by interested districts.

Since assuming office in January, Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr. said he has made improving school safety and developing uniform, countywide approaches a top priority.

Just a few weeks into his tenure, the country was rocked by the mass shooting Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed by a lone gunman.

“It’s an obligation that I feel I have as the Suffolk County Sheriff, to work with all of our partners, but I do feel I cannot stand on the sidelines and just watch,” Toulon said. “We really have to be proactive. Everyone from our police departments, our school administrators, everybody’s taking this banner on. Thankfully we’re all working together to really keep our communities and our children safe.”

Toulon has offered free safety assessments on a voluntary basis to interested districts.

Suffolk Executive Steve Bellone (D) has taken several steps already to improve school safety including starting an initiative that allows interested districts to grant access to in-school security cameras to the police department, and securing funds for a mobile phone application for municipal workers and school district employees that can be activated and used in the event of an active shooter situation to notify law enforcement. Bellone announced new initiatives to increase police patrols in school buildings, assign additional officers to the SCPD’s homeland security section and establish a text tip line to report troubling activities this month.

“We are educators, so partnering with law enforcement and those with the skilled lens of how to best ensure the safety of our students has been paramount,” said Ken Bossert, president of Suffolk County Superintendents Association who leads Elwood school district. “So the focus and attention that law enforcement has paid on our schools is just greatly appreciated.”

Representatives from districts across the North Shore attended the informational forum and expressed interest in implementing some or all of what Sandy Hook Promise has to offer, including Huntington Superintendent James Polansky and Port Jefferson Superintendent Paul Casciano.

“A lot of what we heard today I’m going to roll out just informationally to my administrative

staff,” Polansky said, adding Huntington has taken up Toulon on his offer to assess building safety already. “We’re actually looking to pursue a lot of the initiatives Sandy Hook Promise has to offer.”

Casciano expressed a similar sentiment.

“It’s a great resource, and we’re very interested in pursuing it,” he said. “We’ll be making our contacts.”

Several attendees commended Toulon for embracing a leadership role on school safety, including Suffolk County District Attorney Tim Sini (D), who was among the wide array of lawmakers at the event along with the school officials.

“It shows that our sheriff has a pulse on the public safety worries of our parents,” said county Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket), who is a licensed social worker. She called Toulon’s approach incredibly important. “It shows that he has the recognition that when you have a shooter at the door of a school, it’s too late, and this really needs to be about prevention. We cannot police this, we need to prevent this. And that’s what this is about.”

Bossert said superintendents in the county have been working to put together a uniform blueprint for school safety and are planning to roll it out later this month. For more information about Sandy Hook Promise, visit www. sandyhookpromise.org.

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Suffolk County now has a new drug program that judges and prosecutors hope will offer nonviolent offenders a means to get clean before they repeat offenses.

Suffolk County District Attorney Tim Sini (D) along with several drug court judges announced Aug. 13 the creation of the new Comprehensive Addiction Recovery and Education Program that will allow people charged with low-level drug crimes to instead be sent into a drug treatment program rather than being matriculated through the standard legal system. If the participants finish the program clean, they are promised the charges will be dismissed.

“We consistently heard that in some cases requiring defendants to take a plea prior to accepting treatment is a disincentive [to seek court treatment options],” Sini said at the press conference. “By connecting these individuals to treatment, we will not only be helping to tackle the disease of addiction ... we will also be improving public safety by addressing the underlying motivation to commit crimes fueled by drug abuse.”

Those charged with misdemeanor drug crimes

can participate in the program without having to enter a guilty plea. Those who sign up for the program work with members of court staff to develop a treatment plan and determine what services will be available. The program lasts for 90 days, but the person involved in the program can ask for a longer term.

“It should result in increased numbers who receive the benefit of treatment given the crisis that we’re facing both locally and nationally,” Suffolk County District Administrative Judge Randall Hinrichs said.

What makes the program remarkable, according to Karen Kerr, the supervising judge of Suffolk County District Court, is that without having to plead guilty more people will be more willing to participate.

“For many people, particularly those people with minimal to no record, it was just too much of a risk for them to take [the plea],” Kerr said.

“I felt there was a group of people who really could use the help but who just didn’t want to take the chance.”

The timing for this program comes as the numbers of opioid-related deaths have peaked in the past two years. Suffolk Chief Medical Examiner Michael Caplan said in June the office has data

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on approximately 360 county deaths from opioid overdoses in 2017. The office is expecting a decline in the number of deaths this year by more than 100, but officials won’t know the results until they compile all data at the end of the year.

The program is open to defendants who have minimal or no criminal record and who have no history of violence or gang involvement. Those charged with misdemeanors of petit larceny, crim-

inal possession of marijuana, criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal trespass, criminal possession of hypodermic instrument, criminal use of drug paraphernalia, disorderly conduct or loitering are eligible for the program as long as the drug court determines they are addicted to any kind of hard drug.

Kerr said that the district attorney determines whether a person should be screened for a drug problem and then the person is referred to the CARE court date, always held on Tuesdays, and then the court treatment team will ask a number of questions to determine if there is an issue.

Officials said they expect many people to be eligible for the CARE program. District attorney spokeswoman Sheila Kelly said the office noted from April to June of this year approximately 600 people would have fit the criteria to be allowed to enter into the program.

Violations of the program include being arrested on new charges, not participating in the treatment program as recommended or not reporting to scheduled court appearances. Participants are drug tested prior to finishing the program.

Hinrichs said the court and the DA’s office will be monitoring the program to see results and identify its efficacy and inclusiveness.

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Politics Fortunato announces run for Smithtown board substance abuse. One of her main goals is to reduce the number of vacant storefronts on the town’s Main Street.

A Smithtown resident has announced she is “We must take action as a community to ensure taking a second-crack at landing that our children and residents a seat on the town board. can enjoy Smithtown’s natural Democrat Amy Fortunato environs, like the Nissequogue will vye against Councilman River, without the visual affront Tom Lohmann (R) for a seat of an adult entertainment venon the Smithtown town council ue,” she said. “It’s past time that in the Nov. 6 special election. we addressed this blight that our Lohmann was previously appoliticians have been unwilling to address.” pointed to fill the vacancy left Fortunato and Lohmann were when Supervisor Ed Wehrheim both among the six candidates (R) was elected supervisor last who ran for two seats on the November.

Smithtown town board in the Fortunato has lived in Smith2017 elections. Fortunato ran on town for more than 25 years with the Democrat, Working Famiher husband, Joe, where they lies and Women’s Equality party have raised three children and two Amy Fortunato lines and received 10,196 votes, grandchildren. She previously or approximately 17.6 percent, worked as a Citibank manager and has a bachelor’s degree in marketing. Now coming in third. She received nearly double the balFortunato serves as a pastor, having earned a master lots cast for Lohmann, who received 5,394 votes.

The current councilman had previously lost the of divinity from New York Theological Seminary.

If elected, Fortunato said she would focus on Republican Party primary to incumbents Counimplementing revitalization programs in Smith- cilwoman Lynne Nowick (R) and Councilman town, reduce taxes, address water quality issues, Thomas McCarthy (R). So, Lohmann ran without invest in traffic safety and combat crime and the support of his party on the Conservative lines.

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Commack Eagle Scout Brian Trifon of Troop 403 was named the first winner of the Mickey Marcus Post 336 Jewish War Vets Jewish Scout Scholarship, in conjunction with the Jewish Committee on Scouting of Suffolk County Council, June 18 at Troop 403’s Court of Honor ceremonies. Troop 403 Assistant Scoutmaster Steve Feldman and Phyllis Stein, the JCOS scholarship selections committee chairwoman, presented him with the award.

The Jewish War Veterans Post of Port Jefferson Station created the two scholarships, both of which require an

essay detailing the importance of the Jew in the American military — from the Revolutionary War to the current military crisis overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. The scholarship has the following criteria: a Boy Scout who lives in Suffolk County and had earned his Jewish Scout religious emblem as a Cub Scout (Maccabee or Aleph emblem) or Boy Scout (the Ner Tamid or Etz Chaim emblem), is currently a Star or Life Scout rank, and is in his senior year of high school and who will be attending college in the fall. Pictured above, Trifon, at center, with his parents.

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During the Dennis Cannataro Summer Concert Series at The Smithtown Library’s main building, students from the Town of Smithtown had the chance to perform to showcase their musical talents for local residents.

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Development grant that funded the concert series.

Pictured above right, Fort Salonga resident Isabella Benrubi played the national anthem on her violin. She will be entering her freshman year at the University of Texas this fall.

to throw the game’s ceremonial first pitch to mark Jewish Heritage Night Aug. 4.

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B-con kits, which can be used during a trauma, include tourniquets and gauze, among other things. More than 350 teachers, administrators and staff were given the opportunity to practice with the equipment following

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Commack Volunteer Ambulance Corps members trained the group on the use of tourniquets while Northwell’s emergency response teams provided training with gauze — either can be used to stop a person from bleeding out.

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ST JAMES 2 Evan Ct. Custom 3,700 sq ft Ranch, Pella windows, HW flrs, custom kitchen w/large prep island, 2+ acres, $1,199,000.

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12:00 -3:00PM OLD FIELD 100 Mount Grey Rd. Wine and Chesse! Village of Old Field Tudor, 2.5 acres lot. $1,300,000.

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MILLER PLACE 190 Miller Place Rd. Secluded lovely 4 BR rambling ranch on 1.67 acres with pool. $549,000.

SUNDAY 8/26 12:00-2:00PM OLD FIELD 100 Mount Grey Rd. Wine and Chesse! Village of Old Field Tudor, 2.5 acres lot. $1,300,000.

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Opinion

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LIPA fallout coming

We get it — if you read our newspapers or just about any other media that cover Long Island, you’ve heard enough over the past decade about the legal battles going on between several school districts and townships versus Long Island Power Authority.

If you feel like you’re on LIPA overload, we have some significant news — a major development occurred in the cases last week.

A New York State Supreme Court judge determined that the 1997 Power Supply Agreement between National Grid, which owns the power plants, and LIPA, which transmits that electricity to customers, did not contain any language, or “promise,” that prevented the utility companies from seeking to have taxes they pay on the power stations reduced.

The good news is this decision may signal there’s a light at the end of the tunnel to this endlessly drawn-out court battle. We fear the positives may end there.

LIPA has said that its intention in filing these lawsuits is to be able to reduce energy bills for its customers, as it hopes to pay out less in property taxes. On its face, the company’s goal appears to a good thing for residents of Huntington and Brookhaven townships, who will likely see a reduction in their monthly electrical bills should LIPA be victorious, except for the residents in Northport and Port Jefferson, who will see a property tax increase. These odds seem an increasingly likely fact in recent weeks as courts have ruled twice in LIPA’s favor.

However, these legal battles have been waged for nearly a decade, racking up what we can only imagine are substantial legal bills from lawyers hired to represent the municipalities and the school districts involved. Then adding in fees paid for a third-party mediator when sit-downs begin in September, we find ourselves asking, “At what cost?”

We hope to find out just how much taxpayers’ money has been spent on legal fees for the duration of the saga, so keep an eye out for that. And for what? The “Hail Mary” play that a court would determine the 1997 PSA had implied a legally binding promise that LIPA wouldn’t seek a reduction in its property taxes.

It was such a risky play for Brookhaven Town and Port Jefferson Village that those two municipalities have agreed to settle the cases out of court to avoid exposure to the risk of years of back pay should the issue actually end up in a trial loss for the two entities. Still, why did it take Brookhaven and Port Jeff until 2018 to finally reach a settlement while legal fees kept accruing?

All of this can also be looked at against the backdrop that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has set a goal for 50 percent of the state’s energy to come from renewable sources by 2030. Who’s going to pay for the solar and wind producing plants necessary, for example, to get on track in reaching that goal? We don’t think we’re going out on a limb in speculating that at least some of that cost will fall on LIPA’s customers.

While we’d like to think we’re inching closer to a day when we no longer have to report on legal issues pertaining to LIPA, a positive resolution for all stakeholders is going to take significantly more work. In reality, it should have been resolved long ago.

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Pay everyone a living wage A few months ago, I was talking with a friend on his front porch when he leaned against a column. His finger went through the glossy paint into the rotten wood underneath. The paint had done such a great job of hiding the decay. It had gone undetected. It’s how I feel about the economy. I am not an economist, but I observe things and wonder.

Are we on the brink of something unseen?

During a break, at a seminar I attended recently, the people at the table talked about the economy and how the jobs numbers were looking better. One of the women remarked, “Yes, I have four of them”; she drives with Uber, works at a card shop, a

grocery checkout and the board of elections, all just to get by. Others at the table, though not as severe, had similar stories.

In the early spring, while walking my son’s dog, I met a young man living in his car behind a shopping mall. I recognized him from the local market, where he worked as a deli clerk. He did his laundry at the laundromat, had a $35-a-month membership at a gym that afforded him a locker, access to a shower, the pool and some equipment. I inquired about how he handled severe weather?

“There are houses around that rent rooms by the day, week or month ... I stay

On hate and immorality Susan Perretti was given the privilege of writing a Your Turn column for TBR News Media, July 12. Sadly, she used that opportunity to blatantly mislead her audience regarding the true nature of her actions at the campaign kickoff of U.S. Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley), June 28.

Far from Susan’s grandiose portrayal of a victimized citizen, we learned she was part of a group generously celebrated in The Smithtown News as the “Elks Club Four,” whose sole purpose was to infiltrate and disrupt an event held on private property.

We learned this because the quartet apparently had so little regard for both the curiosity and intellect of TBR readers, they merrily boasted of their double-dealing in a weekly, published in the same town, and on the same day Perretti’s propaganda appeared. That this crew refused to even consider the possibility someone might read more than one local paper and recognize the obvious contradictions speaks a whole lot more about them than us.

Yet recently, despite being easily exposed as an untrustworthy source, Sue is back moralizing to the same readers she presumed incapable of discovering her obvious duplicity. She loves lecturing the commoners on hate and morals, especially with regards to Zeldin; retyping the word “immoral” five times in her latest Aug. 16 letter, “Something is wrong, we must speak up.”

Yet she’s had zero to say about the inarguably immoral, hateful death threats being made against our congressman, his wife and their young, twin daughters.

It’s critical to note two things. All three of those targeted ladies were introduced at the Elks Club that evening, and the next week there was a widely publicized July 6 incident at Zeldin’s Smithtown campaign office. The Suffolk County Police press release read: “Martin Astrof was arrested after he threatened to kill supporters of Congressman Lee Zeldin and President Donald Trump.

in those,” he said. “Can be pricey but it gets you inside.”

Don’t be distracted by the glossy paint.

In 2017, 82 percent of the wealth generated last year went to 1 percent of the population, according to a study released by Oxfam International, a global nonprofit organization dedicated to helping fight against poverty with offices in Washington, D.C. With everything we care about on the line, we have to get involved in this election.

Vote for a livable wage for everyone.

Jerry Reynolds Coram

Astrof went to the campaign headquarters of Congressman Zeldin and became irate with a campaign worker at approximately 11:15 a.m. After threatening to kill the campaign worker and other supporters, Astrof backed his car up in an aggressive manner nearly striking the worker.”

Astrof was charged with making a terroristic threat and second-degree reckless endangerment. Those are felonies. After he made the threats at one of the congressman’s offices, he then menaced the worker outside the office by nearly backing into the person.

Then he fled the scene.

Rather than, once again, sermonize TBR readers on what’s right and wrong, perhaps Ms. Perretti could better redirect her homilies toward alleged felon Astrof, and any others who think they have the moral authority to threaten the lives of Congressman Zeldin and his family.

Jim Soviero East Setauket

A plea to save a changing nation Our nation’s greatest documents, second only to the laws of deity, are now in gave peril.

The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution are presently in jeopardy from forces of change.

Nations denied freedom witness our ap-

proaching danger.

Apathy now reigns in our nation, causing a far greater danger than weapons of war. Witness the decline of our social order and the corruption of politicians. To deny this truth is truth denied.

May the dark clouds of danger abandon

our precious nation and that America once again return to its greatest glory.

God bless America.

Leonard J. Henderson Port Jefferson

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Opinion

Suggestions for an untapped baseball entertainer

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aseball is missing out on an entertainment gold mine. In most games, the third base coach is practically invisible, wandering in and out of a rectangular box that’s missing its back line.

Indeed, most of the time, the coach isn’t anywhere near lines that were drawn specifically for him.

If those lines aren’t necessary, why draw them? And, if they are where D. None the coach is supposed to be, then of the above shouldn’t umpires

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF enforce that rule?

What kind of lessons are we teaching our children if the coaches can’t stay between the lines?

Are we telling them it’s OK to leave the

lines? Or, maybe, we cleverly imagine that allowing them to stray from their limitations encourages children to exceed whatever limits others put on them — as happens in this space on occasion, but I digress.

No, you see, the third base coach spends an entire game performing: He appears to be simply scratching an itch on his nose, tapping his cap and motioning for sunscreen as he rubs his hand down his arm. Yet those gestures are a series of complicated signals that indicate what the batter and the runners should do before, during or after the next pitch.

Why does every team need to be so restricted and why does the coach’s facial expression always have to look like he’s trying to memorize a phone number written on a blackboard 90 feet away?

We are a creative culture, the endless Hollywood sequels to movies that shouldn’t have been made in the first place notwithstanding.

Why can’t we encourage the third base coach to add entertainment and perhaps levity to a sport

in which the home audience routinely watches players and managers shove sunflower seeds into their mouth and then expectorate them onto the field of dreams?

I have a few suggestions to bring more eyeballs to the third base coach and, perhaps, away from teams that long ago gave up hopes of a playoff berth. A coach could: • Attempt to bring his hands together behind his back. Sal, as we’ll call him, could turn his back to the hitter, put one hand behind his back from below while reaching down from above with the other.

• Break into a one-person kick line. Who doesn’t love a great Broadway number? Sal could kick out his leg and raise his hat at the same time.

• Combine line dances. Sal could start with a Macarena, add a second of the wobble and then conclude with the hustle.

• Attempt to start a lawn mower. The coach could bend down as if he were fixing something on the ground and then pull straight up several

times, hoping the engine catches.

• Wash his hands. This could serve two purposes: It could signal to the hitter to clean up his swing or mechanics; and it could remind everyone watching about the benefits of good hygiene, all the spitting and rubbing dirt between their fingers notwithstanding.

• Put a leash on an imaginary dog and stroll in place.

• And, finally, Sal could walk around his small box, tapping imaginary heads and then mouth the word “goose” and run back to his original spot.

These are just a few of the ways the forgotten man on the field might spruce up the game a bit. Maybe, if he caused the other team to focus on him enough, he might give his team an edge, allowing a runner on first to break for second as an appreciative pitcher became distracted by a coach’s antics. And, even if it didn’t work, it might bring a few smiles to fans during the dog days of summer.

The census doesn’t count these neighbors of ours

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hey are a surprise to behold, the wildlife in the suburbs. When I was growing up in New York City, the extent of the animal population consisted of pigeons and squirrels in the park. So I marvel at Long Island’s Canadian geese, rabbits, squirrels, ducks, swans, seagulls, ospreys, raccoons and deer going about their business alongside us as we humans go about ours.

Sometimes they are beautiful to watch.

On one road I frequently use, Between the geese will you and me cross to the other side, holding up

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF traffic as they do.

Drivers slow to a stop and watch as the geese unhurriedly walk single file before them. Interestingly one of the geese stands in the mid-

dle of the road in front of the line of march, a sentinel protecting the rest. Only after the last one crosses does the lookout then join on the end. These geese are definitely traffic savvy, patiently waiting on the edge of the grass and avoiding the cars as they speed by, awaiting an opening before they start to cross.

My son likes to watch the ducks swimming along, one behind the other, and wonders aloud if there is a pecking order to the line. We also marvel at the birds in strict formation when they begin to migrate.

We have a wacky rabbit that lives on our property and races the car down the driveway as we arrive home. One of these days, we are going to have rabbit stew if it isn’t careful.

There are gorgeous butterflies occasionally, rising together like an umbrella of color when startled, and the buzzing bees encourage the likelihood of pollination.

The other day, as I was driving along a waterside road, two deer, one in front of the other, rushed out of the wetland grass in front of my car, crossed the road, gracefully jumped the post-and-rail fence on the oppo-

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site side and raced up the hill until they were hidden in some trees. It was a heart-stopping moment because they had come close. They were also so lyrical in their movements, their russet bodies glistening in the sunlight, that they took my breath away.

We have a woodpile that is visible from the windows on one side of the house, and early each day, it seems, there is a squirrel that runs back and forth, bushy tail held high, across the chopped logs. We have named him Jack and conjectured that he is doing his morning exercises. Later, he can be seen leaping from limb to limb among the lush trees, the ultimate gymnast gathering nuts, I suppose, for his meals.

Early in our lives here, we used to see an occasional red fox and sometimes plump pheasants, but I haven’t seen those in a long while. I do know when there is a skunk nearby, and should we just once leave the garbage cans unfastened, we are aware we would be visited by raccoons.

The variety of songbirds is lovely. In addition to the mockingbird, the cardinal and the blue jay, those little brown birds are loud and

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numerous. A pair of ospreys apparently have made a huge nest nearby because we can see them soaring high above. Ditto for the seagulls, crying out to each other as they glide on an air current looking for dinner.

It surprises me that the dogs in the neighborhood coexist so peacefully with the rest of the animal kingdom here. Yes, they will occasionally chase a rabbit, almost as a duty, but not for long. And they will bark at a chipmunk as it scurries along but not in any sort of vicious way. I suppose that means they are well fed by their owners. The cats, however, are a different story. We’ve got one on the block that’s a real hunter, a lion in miniature.

The cliché is that the suburbs are sterile places, but they certainly are more interesting for their variety of natural life than the pigeons I used to be thrilled by as they landed on the fire escapes and city windowsills. To take just a few moments from an otherwise busy day, draw a deep breath, and enjoy the beauty of living beings around us this summer is a pleasure we should allow ourselves.

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