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Lake Avenue Work Accelerated Due to Pandemic

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM For St. James residents, navigating Lake Avenue this summer has been a bit tricky due to road closures as the revitalization of the thoroughfare has been underway the last few months.

Despite the road closures, much of the work along the roadway has been completed before schedule due to many more staying at home during the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier this summer, the Town of Smithtown announced

that the Lake Avenue Revitalization Project was about eight to nine months ahead of schedule.

In 2018, a chunk of the town’s capital budget was assigned to the St. James downtown business district improvements, with $4.6 million in bonds set aside for the revitalization of Lake Avenue, of which more than $2 million was to be used to fund water main replacement.

At the end of July, work on the sewer line and water main was nearly completed but temporarily stalled at the intersection of Lake and Railroad avenues as the town waited for permit approval from the MTA to work on the section that is underneath the railroad tracks.

Smithtown spokesperson Nicole Garguilo said that the MTA has approved the work, and the sewer line and water main installation are estimated to be completed before Labor Day, Sept. 7.

The sewer line currently will not be hooked up, even though if approved by the township, the proposed Gyrodyne Sewer Treatment Plant, on the Flowerfield property on Route 25A, could possibly be connected to the new sewer lines in St. James.

Additional work along the avenue has included decorative crosswalks, new drainage systems, sidewalks and concrete curb work.

Lake Avenue is also being repaved and concrete had to be dug out in some spots before new gravel and asphalt were put down. The paving job is projected to be completed north of the railroad tracks before the new school year begins. As for the rest of Lake, repavement will be conducted block by block and should be done by October.

Once the roadwork is completed, Victorian ornamental street signage will be added and utility companies Currently, drivers along Lake Avenue will find a road closure by the will remove old poles and replace railroad station, above. Parts of the avenue saw the completion of new them with new ones. sidewalks this year, left. Above photo by Rita J. Egan; left photo from Paul Garguilo said once the town Rosano/Facebook page Voices of St. James receives approval from Suffolk is excited about the upcoming completion.

County for the intergovernmental purchase of the former Irish Viking bar, work Garguilo said the value the work gives back can begin on a new park and off-the-street to the community as well as businesses in the near future will be “crystal clear.� parking lot at the location. “All will be forgiven when people see the The town has recognized the headaches the construction has caused, but the administration finished project,� Garguilo said.

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Head of the Harbor’s Fischer Balances Finances with Philanthropy

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Setauket recently welcomed a new financial services office to the area, but the company’s president is no stranger to the Three Village community.

Harlan Fischer, president of Branch Financial Services, recently moved his offices from Smithtown to Setauket. His business, which was located on Route 111 for 25 years, and before that, for 21 years in Hauppauge, has now found a home at 21 Bennetts Road.

The Head of the Harbor resident and his wife of almost 47 years, Olivia, are known for their involvement in the art community across the North Shore, and both are familiar names at The Jazz Loft in Stony Brook. For the past three years, the couple has sponsored a monthly concert series at the music venue and museum, which is currently closed due to the coronavirus.

Loft founder Tom Manuel said the Fischers were its first donors. The musician still remembers the day in 2015 when he was in Stony Brook village performing to raise money for the renovation of the venue’s future home. He said a man with a dog walked up to him and they began talking about jazz. The man turned out to be Fischer.

“I was just thinking, ‘Wow, how interesting that there’s this guy that kind of digs what we’re trying to do,’” Manuel said.

“Little did I know he’d already read about us, and he came there on purpose. I just thought he was passing by.”

He said Fischer gave him an envelope

with a check inside, but Manuel didn’t open it until he was home, thinking it was maybe worth $50. Later he opened the envelope and found the check was for $1,000.

“My eyes were as big as saucers,” he said.

The Jazz Loft founder said that with Fischer’s interest in jazz and the couple’s love of art, the venue is a perfect match for them.

“They’re doing it because it’s a passion,” he said. “It’s not just that they’re looking for a place to make a tax-deductible donation.”

Fischer and his wife’s philanthropy goes beyond The Jazz Loft. While the financial adviser spends the day discussing finances with clients — people from all over Long Island as well as 26 states — his interests lie elsewhere when the workday has ended.

Both he and Olivia through the decades have developed a shared love of art.

Fischer said, for him, it began after a 1988 car accident when he was hit by a drunk driver. He realized he could have been killed, and up until that point his life was mostly about work.

“All of a sudden it got me in touch with my mortality,” he said.

He was talking to his physical therapist who told him about the Rotary club. Not only did he join the organization, but he also went on to become the president of Smithtown Rotary from 1997to 98. Through the Rotary he became involved in various community projects, but when a friend told him how the Smithtown Township Arts Council was looking for a board member, that’s when he found one of his true passions. Fischer told his friend he knew nothing about art, but it turned out the board was looking for

Harlan Fischer, above, stands by two of several pieces of artwork displayed in his Setauket office. Below, Fischer along with his Branch Financial Services associates Stephanie Gress and Kristen Domiano. Above photo by Rita J. Egan; below photo from Branch Financial Services

a businessperson like him. Fischer decided to build a dog park that bears their name, the to join and a year later became its president. Olivia and Harlan Fischer Recreational and During his five-year tenure, he said he Development Park. The Fischers have also learned a lot about art, thanks to Norma Co- backed Little Shelter Animal Rescue’s annual hen, who was director of the Pet-A-Palooza in Huntington. council back then. He and Fischer, who is in his early his wife began collecting 70s, said he feels 10 years artwork, especially contemyounger and has no plans to porary studio art glass pieces retire, especially in his new that fill the couple’s Head of office that features some of his the Harbor home. art collection. He added that Olivia Fischer said the he’s fortunate to work with good couple’s interest in art grew people too, which helps with together and the two began leading a busy life. raising money for various “I can’t ask for more than organizations, including hosting —Harlan Fischer that,” he said. fundraisers in their home.

Success and enjoyment in life Through the years, are something he believes people the Fischers have been find when they feel passionate members of many art organizations as well about what they are doing. He also believes as sponsored many events. Among their in good timing, which has become a common philanthropic activities have been being theme in his life not only with finding ways to members of The Long Island Museum’s give back but also in his career life.

Directors Advisory Circle and sponsoring After spending four years in the Air Force the East End Arts Music Masters Mentorship and almost a year in Vietnam, he wound Program for high schoolers. The financial up in retail despite having an engineering adviser is also a former board president of degree from Northeastern University. He was the Art League of Long Island, and in 2000, running the Levitz Furniture & Showroom he was named The Times of Smithtown Man in Farmingdale when he told someone he of the Year in Business. no longer wanted to be in retail, and it was In addition to their work in the world recommended he consider the financial field. of the arts, the Fischers have rescued dogs “Timing is everything in life,” he said. and are in the process of adopting their 11th “Just being at the right place at the right time one. In late 2018, the Town of Smithtown and saying the right thing. You make a right recognized them for their $7,600 donation turn instead of a left turn, your whole life can which enabled the Smithtown Animal Shelter be different.”

‘All of a sudden it got me in touch with my mortality.’

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SBU President Discusses Hopes for Fall Semester

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Stony Brook University will not let the actions of some students derail the on-campus living and learning experience for the majority.

This past weekend, days before the start of an unusual fall semester Aug. 24 amid ongoing concerns about the pandemic, the university found a “small number of violations” of the university’s COVID-19 health policy. Several students have been put on interim housing suspension for violations pending the conclusion of a conduct case, Maurie McInnis, who became the sixth president of SBU in July, said in an interview. The students in question have not been suspended from their academic studies.

McInnis said the school would suspend other students “if that is necessary.” She added that it is “very important that we give the students who are acting responsibly the opportunity for the in-person residential experience that they are working hard to protect.”

The school’s disciplinary actions follow similar measures taken by other universities such as Syracuse University and the University of Connecticut, which are trying to provide students with an opportunity to benefit from an on-campus experience while protecting faculty, staff and students from the spread of COVID-19.

McInnis added she appreciated the chance to be a part of the excitement that comes from the first day of what is likely to be one of the most challenging in the school’s 63-year history.

“It feels so great to have students back on our campus,” she said. “While, yes, it is under circumstances that are different than we’re used to, the same energy and excitement is there.”

The new university president said she enjoyed meeting students and their families as they moved onto the campus prior to the first day of classes.

The new president, who is a cultural historian and author of “Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade,” said she feels confident in the school’s ability to navigate through the challenges of on-campus living and learning.

Students “understand that the way we are all going to have a great semester” is to act “personally responsible, wearing our masks and being socially distant,” she said.

SBU has created a dashboard that will track the number of tests the school is conducting on campus and the number of positive cases, if there are any. So far, the school has only had negative tests.

The dashboard is available at: www. stonybrook.edu/commcms/irpe/covid-19. phpleadership. It shows that the hour in

Maurie McInnis was named SBU’s sixth president. Photo from SBU

the week in which the number of students registered for in-person classes is the highest is Tuesday, between 11 a.m. and noon, when 2,721 students were registered for in-person classes. In that same hour in the fall of 2019, 13,836 students took in-person classes.

The university will monitor its dashboard

closely and will alter its policies as necessary to protect the campus community.

McInnis said the school was preparing for a possible second wave of the pandemic in the fall, as well as the possibility of the coincident timing of an outbreak of the flu.

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Politicians Express Outage Outrage, Demand Improvement from Utilities

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Politicians with long memories and short fuses demanded answers from PSEG and LIPA for the communications problems and the slow restoration of power after Tropical Storm Isaias, even as they lamented how this wasn’t supposed to happen again after the long recovery from Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

In a full-day hearing of the combined New York State Assembly and Senate, local politicians including Assemblymen Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) and Doug Smith (R-Holbrook) and Senators James Gaughran (D) and Todd Kaminsky (D-Rockville Center) questioned everyone from the chairman of the Public Service Commission, John Rhodes, to the President of PSEG Long Island, Daniel Eichhorn, and the CEO of LIPA, Thomas Falcone.

“We were told after Superstorm Sandy that things would change, but they did not,” Kaminsky said. “Why do we pay some of the highest electric and internet bills in the country when we couldn’t reach a provider, when the information we got was inaccurate? Why is it

so hard to receive a reimbursement? Who is funding those reimbursements?”

Indeed, Rhodes, of the Public Service Commission, said he wanted answers from numerous utilities throughout the state and that the commission was not going to leave “any tool on the table.”

That proved small consolation for politicians and their constituents, some of whom were without power for over a week and many of whom had to throw out the entire contents of their powerless refrigerators and freezers. That is an especially problematic proposition in the aftermath of the pandemic, when budgets are tight and the recession caused by the lockdown has cut jobs in numerous industries.

Englebright questioned why PSEG is reimbursing customers for food spoilage only if their power was out for at least 72 hours.

The reimbursed amount totaled $150 if the customers didn’t have receipts and could be as high as $250 if they had receipts, photographs, a canceled check or a credit card bill.

Englebright suggested the timeframe should allow for food spoiled after about 48 hours and wondered why the utilities had not settled on a

longer time frame. The Setauket assemblyman wondered whether PSEG believed food “spoils more slowly on Long Island than any other place.”

Eichhorn said the 72 hour threshold defined numerous factors in a storm and “aligns with some of our processes.” The three day time frame “triggers certain things.”

Falcone added that the 72 hours defined a major storm.

“That’s not a health definition,” Englebright countered, but, rather was a “storm definition.

That doesn’t necessarily reflect what somebody’s suffering from if their refrigerator is out for perhaps even half of that length of time.”

PSEG’s Eichhorn acknowledged that the company’s response to the storm was “not in line with our expectations.” He said the company is conducting its own reports to figure out what went wrong and to make changes and improvements.

“I’m not here to make excuses,” Eichhorn said. “We own the experience our customers had and we are committed to fixing it.”

Kaminsky asked whether PSEG had tested its system prior to the storm. Eichhorn responded that the company did a simulation in

June and that PSEG passed that test.

That passing grade, despite the performance a few months later, will be a focus of PSEG’s own review, as well as a review conducted by LIPA. “The most relevant stress test was the storm and [the PSEG system] was obviously inadequate,” Falcone said. The systems were “not robust enough” to allow customers to report power failures to PSEG. On behalf of their constituents, politicians also lamented the shifting timeline for restoring power. In several cases, representatives at the virtual meeting recounted how residents spoke with people in utility trucks or representatives from PSEG who told them their power was on when their constituents were still struggling through the ongoing outage.

In an interview, Gaughran expressed his frustration with the utility arrangement on Long Island, where LIPA oversees PSEG, while the Public Service Commission has no direct authority or recourse.

“The Public Service Commission cannot fine them or sanction them,” Gaughran said.

“They’re totally out of the loop.”

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Continued from A6 Reflecting the concerns of his fellow senators and assemblymen and assemblywomen, Gaughran wondered what the utilities would do to protect Long Islanders in the event that another storm, with potentially stronger winds and heavier rain, impacted the region.

Gaughran said he would like to ensure that PSEG and LIPA don’t tap into a storm reserve fund, which is a collection of money set aside with rate payers money.

“The language in that fund is clear: they can’t access that for any part of the cost” from mismanagement or inadequate storm response, Gaughran said. “If you have an out-of-town crew sitting at the side of the road for hours waiting for instructions … those extra costs are costs of incompetence.”

Gaughran introduced a bill that would give the Public Service Commission the authority to investigate and sanction and fine the company and force them to take corrective action.

To prevent this kind of communication failure from happening again, Eichhorn said the company was conducting reviews of its computer system, which includes its outage management system and the telephone and digital experiences.

“We have made interim changes during and since the storm,” Eichhorn said. “We are continuing to do an after-action review to

Sen. James Gaughran and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory officials at an Aug. 18 press conference. Photo from Sen. Gaughran’s office

identify additional short and long term changes to ensure we’re ready for the next storm.”

Falcone added that LIPA would “go back and see why the system failed. We are hiring independent people to redo the stress test.”

Assemblyman Smith asked whether PSEG knew that National Grid employees weren’t a part of the storm response crews, even though people with experience were on Long Island.

“National Grid [employees] were not used during the storm,” Eichhorn said. “That will be included in the review.”

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“We are watching and monitoring all that carefully,” she said, which includes having enough personal protective equipment and a plan in place for health care personnel, among other measures.

McInnis said it is “too soon to speculate on” what the university policy might be if and when researchers develop a vaccine for COVID-19.

“As a part of SUNY and a public institution, we would be working with state partners and the [New York] Department of Health in making any sort of decision” about a vaccination for students or faculty, she said.

McInnis, who shared a detailed and open letter with the community and the public about the university’s difficult financial condition, said the budget remains a “fluid situation.” She added that the university “needs to get to work straight away as a community” in an “open and collaborative fashion to bring the best ideas for collaborating and working together better for leveraging opportunities, for efficiencies on our campus” and to develop ways to generate new revenue.

Meanwhile, the university has spent the summer “significantly improving” the quality of the remote and distance learning for students engaged with the online platform, she said.

In addition to being the new university president, McInnis is also a parent of a college-age son. Her son’s school was going entirely nonresidential and remote, so he decided to take a gap year.

At Stony Brook, the total number of students registered is 26,130, which is about 200 fewer than last year, suggesting that deferrals haven’t affected the matriculation rate much this fall.

McInnis said she appreciated the ongoing support of the university and surrounding communities.

“What we have been hearing, again and again, is, ‘How can we help?’” she said.

“It is so great as president to be part of the community that clearly has the devotion of so many people.”

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Editorial Letters to the Editor Need for Universal Empathy Republican Strategy Is Voter Suppression We’re a small paper, really a small company, and just like so many small companies, the pandemic has done a number on us, except for an explosive growth on the internet. That’s how it is, and if you’re reading this, we cannot fully express how much we appreciate your support, even if it is just picking up this paper to read it.

It’s such a little thing, but knowing somebody is there holding our words in your hands is the reason we get up every morning to do this. To know we might be impacting somebody on a weekly basis is enough, or it should be enough.

We write about the small things. The small town government — towns, villages, school districts. We include the small donations to local nonprofits or our libraries, veterans groups, and on and on.

It’s easy to say we just report on what’s happening, that we exist to regurgitate the facts of what somebody said at a meeting, or give you statistics about who is running for what public office.

But more is needed. Humanity can’t subsist off of data points. Democracy can’t continue without somebody to put facts in context.

That is why we enjoy giving you profiles of people doing extraordinary things, from young people fresh out of college working on their own farm seven days a week to a financial adviser who supports the art community on the North Shore..

Because those stories do more than offer interest and escape from day-to-day drudgery, they offer something much deeper, a shared sense of empathy and community.

If we can break through the veil into each other’s lives, understand the hardships of other people, find that they have so much more in common than they don’t have in common, then that helps bridge divides, builds upon that universal sense that humanity itself is a sacred thing.

We cannot let partisanship craft our belief systems for us.

Something that should be as universally understood as the need for the means for people to vote outside of polling places has become yet another red or blue issue. What does it matter if not what political aisle you shop for your beliefs, the end result should always be to at least attempt the betterment of the biggest number of people, and to add support for those who fall through the cracks like water drops through and open hand.

We cannot and should look at something like the COVID-19 pandemic without noticing how it disproportionately impacts people with fewer resources. Those with jobs in service industries, those that pay little and are staffed mostly by those of limited means, were much likelier to get the virus during the height of its spread through New York. It impacted communities of color such as Brentwood and Central Islip, whose school districts are largely Black and Latino, and had many more cases, even considering size, compared to our North Shore communities.

You can argue what is best for people, but really there is no mistaking empathy. Empathy is when local soup kitchens and food pantries along with many, many volunteers worked to feed people unable to provide for their family and themselves in the past few months.

Empathy is when a local volunteer animal rescuer takes away some abandoned roosters knowing the only other likely fate for the birds is to be hit by a car or eaten by a predator.

It’s not enough to know why these people do what they do.

We must look at both them and at their shining hearts as well as the social reasons those things happen. That is what we do, and as we fight to keep reporting amidst a backdrop of decline for the entire newspaper industry, we hope that our readers will find that a communal sense of empathy is the best, and perhaps the only way to survive in times like these.

An excellent editorial and letter from David Friedman, defending the United States Postal Service and mail ballots, appeared in The Times of Smithtown Aug. 20. I’d like to add two notes. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said he would “suspend” further sabotage of the USPS, but explicitly refused, testifying Aug. 21, to repair the damage already done or to restore the high-speed mail-sorting machines he had removed, precluding, as he had earlier warned, effective mailin voting in 46 states. President Donald Trump (R) keeps repeating, with zero evidence, his false claims that mail balloting will lead to massive voter fraud, and that he will block, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R) gleeful aid, the $29 billion needed to assure mail voting and keep the USPS running. Republican strategy has always been voter suppression, by

gerrymandering, by voter purges or, more slyly, by causing hours-long lines by drastically cutting polling stations in urban minority districts. Trump admitted why, commenting on the first pandemic relief bill March 30: “The things they [Democrats] had in there were crazy.

They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”

Trump has fatuously insisted that people voted in person during World War II, so why not in 2020? Of course, civilians did not risk dying of COVID-19 in the 1940s. But there is another lesson there: Right-wing partisan politics successfully prevented millions of Americans from voting. Recall that we were then emerging from the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt had been reelected president to a third term, the

A Threat to Stony Brook Harbor Residents of Head of the Harbor are happy to see an increasing population of ospreys and bald eagles fishing in Stony Brook Harbor. We want this to continue, so we are very watchful.

A sewage treatment plant has been proposed as part of a development of the Gyrodyne property. The Gyrodyne property is 160 feet higher than Stony Brook Harbor, and the flow of effluent discharged by the sewage plant at Gyrodyne will be governed by gravity.

Mr. John Cameron Jr., a consulting engineer acting for Gyrodyne, brings more information in his Aug. 13 article in The Times of Smithtown. [See “Gyrodyne Development Plan Is Environmentally Responsible” at tbrnewsmedia.com.]

Cameron says the NYS Stony Brook University sewage plant processes waste water from both the university and the medical center and discharges into Port Jefferson Harbor. Cameron also says the SBU Research and Development Park at the former Gyrodyne property discharges untreated wastewater into the ground. Further, Cameron says the businesses on Lake Avenue in St. James presently discharge high nitrogen loadings into Stony Brook Harbor.

This all sounds pretty bad; we need to understand the impact on our waterways.

Our village is calling for more independent environmental impact work on any major development in our community such as Gyrodyne. We want clean ground and surface water for the next generations, and

Congress of Industrial Organizations was in its heyday (Ford, the last of the Big Three, had just been unionized), northern farmers had not yet largely been driven off the land by agribusiness (the Minnesota party was the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party), and Blacks were kept from voting in the South by poll taxes, impossible “literacy” tests and, when necessary, by lynch terror. Now millions in these groups were in the armed services, away from home. Democrats tried to facilitate absentee ballot voting with the Soldier Voting Act of 1942. So how to suppress their votes? Republicans and white-supremacist southern Democrats joined to gut the act: Less than 1% of the millions and millions of men and women serving were able to cast ballots in 1942 and 1944. Sound familiar?

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we don’t want any surprises to the contrary.

Cameron says Gyrodyne management prides itself as being a good neighbor. I tell you that I worked for Grumman for 24 years up until 1998, and during this time no company was ever a better neighbor than Grumman. Before, of course, the widespread ground pollution was uncovered in Bethpage.

I ask that all residents find out for themselves what all of this means to the future of our community. I ask that you tell your legislators that you want more independent and comprehensive environmental studies so we all can be more intelligent about this issue.

Doug Dahlgard, Village Mayor Head of the Harbor

Will Republicans Be Part of Biden’s American Mosaic At the Democratic Party Convention, five Republicans crossed the aisle to speak and endorse Joe Biden for president.

They were John Kasich (former Ohio congressman, House Budget Committee chairman and Ohio governor), Susan Molinari (former Staten Island Congress member), Colin Powell (former Secretary of State), Christine Todd Whitman (former federal EPA administrator and New Jersey governor)

and Meg Whitman (former CEO of eBay and Hewlett-Packard).

Biden promised, if elected president, to have the most diverse cabinet and administration in history, representing the gorgeous American mosaic. He also promised to appoint the first female African American Supreme Court justice.

He promised a female African American running mate for vice president and delivered California Sen. Kamala Harris.

Republicans represent a significant portion of America. How many will be invited to serve in his cabinet and administration? Will any of these five Republicans be offered a job in a Biden presidency? Will Biden make a public commitment on this issue of inclusion for Republicans prior to Election Day? Voters want to know.

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Imagining a National Convention Celebrating Babies and Puppies

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ext week, I invite you to the virtual and completely imaginary People’s National Convention, or PNC. It’s not a Democratic Convention or a Republican Convention. It’s just a fake gathering, virtually and invisibly, in which real people can stop worrying about partisan politics and enjoy the chance to live each day.

Now, this PNC won’t nominate any one person, because, let’s face it, no singular person is capable of succeeding D. None with the challenges of the above that face our nation

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF in this extraordinarily challenging year.

We’ll keep the speeches to a minimum because we don’t think people listen to most

of what others say at these things anyway. Our first speaker will come up with a mask and will start by rolling her large and expressive eyes.

She’ll try to convey, without using her mouth or her cheeks, which will be hidden behind her mask, a wide range of emotions. In fact, we might have a “guess-her-expression” game and the person who wins will receive absolutely nothing in the mail.

After that, we’ll launch into a rage presentation. Our speaker will bark, growl, throw himself around the room and urge you, with his arm motions, to get off your sofa and join him. He’ll work his way up to a fevered snarl and then he’ll bang his fists so hard against the TV set that he’ll shatter the screen. You’ll see the cracks on the TV, but don’t worry, the cracks and the blood — we won’t use real blood — are all on the PNC end. Your TV is fine. At the end of his speech, he’ll take a 2020 sign, or one of those 2020 New Year’s glasses with the holes for the eyes in the zeroes, put them on the floor and stomp on them.

After our rage speaker, we’ll have a fear speaker. He, too, won’t use words. He’ll move from left to right, then right to left and then, you guessed it, left to right again, on your screen, afraid of something over his shoulder. He might see a shadow. He’ll be frightened because, as the other conventions suggested, we must feel the need to fear something. He’ll run towards the letters PNC and will smile with relief, knowing that the PNC will protect him.

To offset this potentially overwhelming programming, we’ll offer a counterbalance of kids and pets accompanied by light-hearted music on a harpsichord. We call this portion of the programming the “Awwwww” segment.

We’ll show images of toddlers laughing, baby bunnies hopping around a flower-strewn meadow and dolphins cutting in and out of the surface of the water.

We’ll have the icon room, where you can stand up, or not, as you see fit when you see the images. We’ll start with the Statue of Liberty

and Ellis Island, where the ancestors of so many modern Americans arrived. We’ll add the Grand Canyon, the California coastline, Yellowstone National Park and Niagara Falls.

Then, we’ll have people trip and fall and try to juggle cell phones ineffectively. When the phones land, their screens, which might or might not have images of familiar faces, will crack. Will the entire segment be funny? Not necessarily. No one is always funny, but they promise to try because laughter might be our best medicine.

We’ll have a few actual speakers who use words, who tell inspirational stories about triumph over impossible odds. We’ll talk about people who were told many times that they couldn’t do something, until they went out and did it.

At the conclusion of the PNC, we’ll celebrate our friends and neighbors and the people who enhance every day and we’ll promise each other we’ll be better to them, and to ourselves.

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Time for ‘Thank You’ 17 Times & Many More

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onsider this a big Thank You card.

First, thank you to the New York Press Association for awarding us 17 prizes in their annual Better Newspaper Contest for 2019.

Please check them out in the Arts and Lifestyles section of today’s paper or read about it on the web. These awards are normally given out at the spring convention up in Saratoga Springs in March for work done during the preceding year.

But we know that there is nothing normal about 2020, and so the good news arrived this Between past week via — you and me you guessed it — the internet. The

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF physical prizes, wood plaques and certificates, will follow at some future time, but the news of the winners was flashed to us digitally.

The purpose of the contest is twofold: to honor the winners and to help improve the more than 400 weekly and small daily newspapers across the state with examples of good work for the membership to view. It is indeed an honor to be selected by our peers, who are the judges, and we deeply appreciate the recognition.

There is a third consequence of the awards: bragging rights. We are able to share with our communities, whom we serve, the peer-reviewed quality of our efforts. We can do our jobs because you, our readers and advertisers, support us. So please accept this as a report card of sorts, along with our deepest appreciation for your continuing faith in us. We do our best to bring you the latest news and issues in the towns and villages we cover in an honest and unbiased fashion.

We also serve as a sounding board for opinions and analyses, clearly labelled as such. We enable others to have bragging rights too, for their family members and community groups and even pets, by proudly printing their accomplishments. And we like to amuse and entertain you with contests, beautiful photos and interesting stories just for the fun of it. The bottom line there is, Thank You to our communities.

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I would like to call your attention to the nature of our awards. We consider our job to be publishing both editorial and advertising content, the two together making up the news and our primary focus. So I am pleased to note that half of our prizes are for editorial excellence and the other half for advertising effectiveness. And for this distinction, I thank our talented staff and salute their commitment, especially during these times of few numbers both in the newsroom and in the art, production and sales departments.

And of course, we have to have the support of the business office to maintain our company and the circulation people to pick up the papers in the middle of the night and get them to the post offices and the newsstands in time for you to read them with the rest of your mail on publishing day.

But even as our staff numbers have shrunk, their work has increased. For we are no longer a weekly newspaper group but a daily and hourly news source, thanks to the internet.

We have brought you daily briefings and news stories about the various aspects of COVID-19 since March, along with other news scoops,

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Leah S. Dunaief GENERAL MANAGER Johness Kuisel MANAGING EDITOR Kyle Barr EDITOR Rita J. Egan

LEISURE EDITOR Heidi Sutton ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Kathleen Gobos ART AND PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Beth Heller Mason

breaking news and advertising — all for the most part in addition to the content in the newspapers — on our website and also on our social media platforms. This enormous effort was made possible by our overworked and underpaid staff.

So a heartfelt and deeply appreciated Thank You to the following, by departments: Kyle Barr, Rita J. Egan, Heidi Sutton, David Luces, Donna Deedy, John Broven, Ernestine Franco, Bea Ruberto and Daniel Dunaief in Editorial.

To Kathleen Gobos, Kathryn Mandracchia, Elizabeth Bongiorno, Robin Lemkin, Minnie Yancy, Jackie Pickle and Katherine Yamaguchi in display sales.

To Sheila Murray, Ellen Segal and Joann Brady in Classifieds. To Beth Heller-Mason, Janet Fortuna, Sharon Nicholson and Lauren Vohrer in Art and Production, and to Courtney Biondo in Legals and her team in Circulation.

To Sandi Gross, Meg Malangone, Diane Wattecamps and Cathie Kitz in Business. To Sheila Murray again in Business and Subscriptions. To Rob Alfano, for Internet Strategy. And to Johness Kuisel, our General Manager, who is everywhere.

Please all take a bow.

INTERNET STRATEGY DIRECTOR Rob Alfano CLASSIFIEDS DIRECTOR Sheila Murray BUSINESS MANAGER Sandi Gross

CREDIT MANAGER Diane Wattecamps CIRCULATION MANAGER Courtney Biondo SUBSCRIPTION MANAGER Sheila Murray

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