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 Tim Sini (D) was officially sworn in by U.S. Sen.

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 Errol Toulon Jr. (D) made history just days

before the nation celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. by taking the oath as Suffolk County sheriff, making him Long Island’s first African-American elected official in a nonjudicial countywide position.

& On Jan. 20, women, men and children gathered on the southeast corner of routes 347 and 112 in Port Jefferson Station for the 2018 Women’s March Rally Long Island: A Call to Reclaim Our Democracy organized by grassroots activist groups Long Island Rising and the North Country Peace Group.

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 Long Islanders filled the legislative auditorium of

the William H. Rogers Building in Hauppauge Feb. 14 for a public hearing regarding offshore drilling.

 The Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s

Educational & Cultural Center hosted an event to usher in the Year of the Dog Feb. 11 with performances honoring the traditions and rituals observed around the world during Chinese New Year.

 Our photographer John Dielman caught Ward

Melville basketball player Robert Soto giving it his all.

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 Chin Young Lee retired from the florist business Feb. 28, closing the doors of the Three Village Flower Shoppe for the last time.

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OUR EXPERTS ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS

Nikhil Palekar, MD Director, Geriatric Psychiatry, Medical Director, Stony Brook Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease

Christopher Christodoulou, PhD Clinical and Research Neuropsychologist, Stony Brook Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease

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What You Should Know About Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia has been called the greatest global challenge for health and social care in the 21st century. Globally, more than 47 million people are living with dementia at a worldwide cost of 818 billion dollars.

Are Alzheimer’s disease and dementia the same thing?

Dr. Palekar: Dementia isn’t a specific disease. It’s a term that describes a wide range of symptoms associated with a decline in memory or other thinking skills severe enough to reduce a person’s ability to perform everyday activities.

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, accounting for 60 to 80 percent of cases. It’s an irreversible, progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, and eventually even the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. Alzheimer’s affects over five million people in the United States, nearly 400,000 in New York, and over 50,000 here on Long Island. For each person with Alzheimer’s disease in the United States, there are approximately three family members or other unpaid caregivers, almost 16 million caretakers in all.

What causes Alzheimer’s?

Dr. Palekar: While we still don’t know how the Alzheimer’s disease process begins, it appears that damage to the brain starts a decade or more before problems show up. During this period, while people may be free of symptoms, toxic changes are taking place in the brain. Abnormal deposits of proteins form amyloid plaques and tau tangles throughout the brain, causing once-

healthy neurons to begin working less efficiently. Over time, these neurons lose their ability to function and communicate with each other, and eventually they die.

As Alzheimer’s progresses, the damage spreads to a nearby structure in the brain called the hippocampus, which is essential in forming memories. As more neurons die, affected brain regions begin to shrink. By the final stage of Alzheimer’s, damage is widespread, and brain tissue has shrunk significantly.

Isn’t is a natural consequence of aging?

Dr. Christodoulou: No. While infrequent, mild memory loss may be a part of aging, Alzheimer’s is not. That said, the greatest known risk factor is increasing age, and the majority of people with Alzheimer’s are 65 and older.

However, up to five percent of people with the disease have early onset, which often appears in the 40s or 50s.

What are the most common signs?

Dr. Christodoulou: A typical early sign of Alzheimer’s is a loss of memory for new information that begins to disrupt daily life. However, different people may show different initial symptoms such as: new problems with words in speaking and writing, confusion with time or space, or withdrawing from work or social activities.

Is there a cure?

Dr. Palekar: Alzheimer’s has no cure, but early detection and treatment can help.

Medications may slow the progression of Alzheimer’s symptoms, providing patients and families with the opportunity to plan for the future. There are also programs that can support caregivers to help reduce their burden and stress.

Any advice on prevention?

Dr. Christodoulou: Strategies for overall healthy aging may help keep the brain healthy and reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s. These measures include eating a healthy diet, staying socially active, reducing stress, avoiding tobacco and excess alcohol, treating hearing loss, and exercising both the body and mind.

Aerobic exercise like walking appears particularly important for prevention.

What’s the Stony Brook difference?

Dr. Palekar: If you’re concerned about your memory or that of a loved one, Stony Brook Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease can help. As one of only 10 such centers supported, in part, by a grant from the New York State Department of Health, ours is the only one serving Suffolk and Nassau counties. We offer assessment and diagnostic services performed by an integrated team of clinical specialists. These services include individualized care plans with treatment recommendations, referrals to services and community resources, as well as outreach to primary care and other healthcare professionals. We also offer language assistance, information about clinical trials at Stony Brook University and elsewhere, and the benefits of participation. We make every effort to serve everyone in the most effective and comfortable way possible as we aim to enhance the quality of life of people living with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia or dementia disorders.

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& Approximately 250 Ward Melville students,

with parents standing across the street in support, staged a walkout March 14 held in conjunction with events across the nation honoring the 17 victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

 State Assemblyman Steve Englebright

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(D-Setauket) and Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket) congratulate TBR News Media People of the Year 2017 Maddie and Joseph Mastriano, founders of the Three Village Kids Lemonade Stand, March 11 at TBR’s award dinner.

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 Benner’s Farm held its annual Easter egg hunts

March 31 and April 1. The farm hosted three hunts each day, and the Easter Bunny was on hand to greet children.

 Photographer Bill Landon caught Kiera Hughes of WMHS in action at an April 10 track-and-field meet.

 On April 20 — 19 years after the Columbine High

School shooting — about four dozen members of WM Students Take Action participated in the second wave of the #NationalWalkout movement.

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& Stony Brook University celebrated a milestone

May 18 with a record-breaking 7,350 students donning caps and gowns.

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 State Sen. John Flanagan (R-East Northport)

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presented sixth-grader Sam Specht with a certificate for winning the New York State Senate’s 2018 Earth Day Poster Contest during a May 21 assembly at The Laurel Hill School.

 Children enjoy the Setauket Memorial Day parade.

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Once Upon a Time themed prom June 21.

 Three days later high school students celebrated

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 Ward Melville High School students enjoyed a

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graduation day on the grounds of Ward Melville High School.

 The 1,000-seat theater at Stony Brook University’s

 Former baseball player Ed Kranepool, a member of

the 1969 Miracle Mets, was in Setauket June 12 to speak about the need for live organ donors in New York state.

 TBR News Media hosted its first Cooks, Books & Corks June 12 at The Bates House in Setauket.

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Staller Center was filled to capacity June 24 as the community came out in droves to celebrate the first screening of TBR News Media’s feature-length film, “One Life to Give.”

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 A little drizzle didn’t dampen the spirits of

attendees at the 9th annual Jewish Summer Festival sponsored by Chabad at Stony Brook at West Meadow beach July 25.

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 Suffolk edged Nassau in the first-ever Super Seniors All-Star softball game July 5.

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 Members of the Three Village Historical Society celebrated Beverly Tyler’s 80th birthday Aug. 15, a milestone the historian reached four days before.

 The 6th annual Three Village Kids Lemonade Stand was held Aug. 8 at R.C. Murphy Junior High School. The event was founded by siblings Maddie and Joseph Mastriano with help from dozens of student volunteers from the Three Village school district.

&  On Aug. 23, a 4-on-4 volleyball tournament was held at the Holiday

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 Delaney Unger, of Selden, diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer, in her left distal femur and now cancer free, reunited with the Stony Brook University Hospital doctors who provided her a way to dance again at a Sept. 10 press conference. She received rotationplasty surgery, which involves partial amputation followed by use of a prosthesis.  At the Town of Brookhaven’s Sept. 17 planning meeting,

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representatives for Stony Brook Square, a shopping center on Route 25A, sought approval for modifications that were made to site plans. A stop work order was issued after town inspectors discovered discrepancies between the site plans and what had already been completed on the construction site.

 The fourth annual Culper Spy Day was held Saturday,

Sept. 15, offering participants self-guided tours of 24 locations in the Three Village area and Port Jefferson including eight more spots than previous years.

 The nonprofit group Preservation Long Island,

Homestead Arts and Benner’s Farm hosted the 29th annual Long Island Apple Festival Sunday, Sept. 30, at Sherwood-Jayne Farm in East Setauket.

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 Residents of the Three Village Central School

District rooted the Patriots to a homecoming win against Walt Whitman High School Oct. 6. The Patriots varsity football team beat the Walt Whitman High School Wildcats, 32-10.

 The Three Village Historical Society presented its 24th Spirits Cemetery Tour, titled The Fickle Finger of Fate, Oct. 20.

 The Ward Melville Heritage Organization presented

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its 25th Walk for Beauty at the Stony Brook Village Center Oct. 21. The 4K/6K Walk and the Hercules on the Harbor 10K Run drew hundreds of participants.

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 TBR News Media hosted its first Retail Lives, a

private shopping experience Nov. 13, at The Bates House in Setauket. Local retailers and service-based businesses set up booths to offer attendees a chance to do some early holiday shopping.

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 Two-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) fended off a challenge from first-time candidate Democrat Perry Gershon, winning re-election by securing more than 51 percent of the vote Nov. 6.

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 Some 50 students from New Lane Memorial

Elementary School in Selden performed a patriotic musical celebration at the annual Veterans Day ceremony at the Long Island State Veterans Home at Stony Brook University Nov. 9.

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& Hundreds lined Route 25A Dec. 9 to catch a

glimpse of the Three Village Electric Holiday Parade where more than 30 organizations marched along the route or rode in floats decorated with holiday lights.

& Stony Brook Village Center hosted its 39th

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Holiday Festival Dec. 2. The day featured a visit from Santa Claus and the 2nd annual Legends and Spies Puppets Procession. This year the parade included two new puppets featuring the likenesses of Culper spy Anna Smith Strong and artist William Sydney Mount.

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HELPING YOU NAVIGATE TO OPTIMAL HEALTH

David Dunaief, M.D. Integrative Medicine

• A Whole Body Approach • Reversing, Preventing & Treating Chronic Disease and Managing Weight by Connecting Conventional Medicine with Lifestyle Modifications Our Philosophy is simple.

We believe wellness is derived through nutritional medicine and lifestyle interventions that prevent and treat chronic diseases.

Medications have their place - and in some cases can be lifesaving.

However, there’s no medication without side effects. The goal should be to limit the need for medications - or minimize the number of medications you take on a regular basis.

You are not limited by your genes.

Fortunately, most diseases are based primarily on epigenetics, which are environmental influences, and not on genetics. Epigenetics literally means above or around the gene. In epigenetics, lifestyle choices impact gene expression. Just because your first degree relatives may have had a disease, you are not predestined to follow suit.

We are specialists who will partner with your primary care physician.

A standard medical education does not integrate enough nutritional medicine and other lifestyle interventions. We bridge that gap.

We use evidence-based medicine to guide our decision-making.

The amount of research related to nutrition and other lifestyle issues continues to grow rapidly, with many studies showing significant beneficial effects on health.

We treat each patient as an individual.

We will work with you to develop a plan that allows you to take a proactive role in managing your own health. The health outcomes are worth the effort.

Is disease reversal possible?

Absolutely! Study evidence has found this to be true, and many of our patients have experienced reversal of diabetes, autoimmune disorders, migraines, and cardiovascular disease, just to mention a few. In many cases, because of their exceptional results, our patients have been able to reduce or eliminate their medications.

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Preventing and Reversing Chronic Conditions and Diseases Including: High Blood Pressure • High Cholesterol/Triglycerides Heart Disease • Stroke • Diabetes Type 1 and Type 2 Obesity • Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) Rheumatoid Arthritis • Hypothyroid • Hyperthyroid Lupus • Multiple Sclerosis • Sjogren’s Syndrome Raynaud’s Syndrome • Inflammatory Bowel Disease Ulcerative Colitis • Crohn’s Disease • Psoriatic Arthritis Celiac Disease • Psoriasis • Sarcoidosis “I lost 135 lbs and have kept it off for several years with the guidance, recipes and encouragement that Dr. Dunaief has provided. Also my inflammation has been reduced significantly. This means I was able to stop my two immunosuppressives for rheumatoid arthritis. I have no more pain or swelling in my joints and can move my fingers normally. This is a surreal experience.

I also have reduced my CA125 by tenfold to well within the normal range associated with my BRCA1 ovarian cancer.” – C.H.

Dr. Dunaief builds a customized plan for each patient - he knows that “no body is the same.”

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OUR EXPERT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS

Joanna Chikwe, MD Director, Stony Brook University Heart Institute Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery

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Why Our Top Rating for Heart Bypass Surgery Is Good News for Patients Heart disease is now the number one cause of death in the U.S. — one million people each year have a heart attack (that’s one person every 40 seconds). Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery can help people with advanced heart disease live longer, healthier lives. The Cardiothoracic Surgery Division at Stony Brook University Heart Institute has received a three-star rating — the highest awarded — from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) for overall patient care and outcomes in isolated CABG surgery for procedures done from January to December 2017. Joanna Chikwe, MD, Director of the Heart Institute and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, explains why this top rating is important for patients.

What does a three-star rating for heart bypass surgery mean?

This is an achievement shared by an elite group of cardiothoracic surgery programs in the U.S. and Canada. Historically, only about 10 to 15 percent of participants receive the three-star rating for isolated CABG (heart bypass) surgery. For patients, they can have peace of mind knowing they’re getting care from one of the top-rated facilities in the nation.

Who awards the ratings?

The ratings are determined by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), a not-forprofit worldwide organization of surgeons and other healthcare professionals who are dedicated to ensuring the best possible outcomes for surgeries within the chest.

How does a hospital get rated?

Cardiac surgery programs voluntarily submit detailed information about their surgical procedures performed. The STS then analyzes and randomly audits data elements submitted by hospitals to validate accuracy. The results are riskadjusted so that hospitals are judged fairly based on the communities they serve. The three-star rating that Stony Brook achieved is an “Overall Composite Score” for patient outcomes and quality of care for isolated CABG surgery. It measures a surgical team’s performance before, during and after CAGB surgery.

A NEW CARDIAC SURGERY UNIT Our cardiac surgery patients will soon be treated in spacious, private rooms in our new stateof-the-art Hospital Pavilion, opening in December 2018.

The cardiac surgery intensive care and cardiac care units are designed to provide the highest level of care to our patients.

Why are the ratings important?

Heart bypass surgery is the most often performed cardiac surgery. But like any open-heart procedure, clinical excellence requires a highly skilled, experienced team that has a proven track record of consistent high quality and safety. The STS ratings provide accurate, unbiased information about the quality and safety of the care provided by different heart surgery providers. When a surgical program receives a three-star rating, it’s a testament to the clinical excellence that patients can benefit from.

How can patients use the ratings?

The STS star ratings provide verifiable information based on true clinical data, to help people make informed decisions. When it comes to something as important as your heart, that can make a huge difference. The STS star ratings can be found at https://publicreporting.sts.org/acsd.

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