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Vol. 45, No. 47

January 14, 2021

Residents React

Following in Democrat Valerie Cartright’s Footsteps

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Protesters stand on corners and in front of Long Island congressmens’ offices to be heard after siege on U.S. Capitol — A3

Three Village’s Kornreich eyes council seat

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Residents Opt to ‘Take Back Our Flag’

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They said the American flag belongs to everyone — not a single party or point of view.

With the recent events at the United States Capitol and the riots that ensued from proTrump groups, local residents are joining in a national campaign to Take Back Our Flag.

Beatrice Ruberto, a Sound Beach resident, said the campaign, which started online around the 2020 election, implies that the American flag has become a symbol of President Donald Trump’s (R) beliefs.

“We started searching the internet, wondering how the American flag was being used,” she said. “We saw that over the past four years, it became shorthand for MAGA.” That’s Trump’s campaign slogan of Make America Great Again.

During her research, she found that after the election, many people on all sides of the

political spectrum were ready to take it back.

“We want to make the flag a unified symbol rather than a one-sided symbol,” she said.

So now, Ruberto and many members within the community, are looking to make sure the flag stands for its initial emblem, a symbol of We the People.

Ruberto and her group are hoping to persuade all people to hang their American flags outside their homes the day of the U.S. presidential inauguration, next Wednesday on Jan. 20.

“This is not a message of division,” she said. “It’s a message of inclusion.”

After making its rounds online locally and nationally, Ruberto said the feedback so far has been generally positive, although some has been otherwise.

But the message is simple, Ruberto noted.

“Fly the flag,” she said. “Continue flying the flag, no matter what your point of view is.

Everyone should be flying it.”

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County Several protesters stand on the corner of Routes 347 and 112, responding to events taken place at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Photo by Julianne Mosher

Local Republican State Senators React to Capitol Riot

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Protesters Respond to Insurrection at the Capitol

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Protesters rallied in two North Shore locations this past weekend, to demonstrate their First Amendment right to protest.

Nearly 100 people stood on the corner of Route 25A and Bennetts Road, holding signs, urging that President Donald Trump (R) be impeached. For the last 18 years, the North Country Peace Group has stood on the bend, every weekend, to protest.

This year was different.

“I’m going on 79 years, and I’ve seen a good chunk of American history,” said protester Jerry Shor. “I’m really sad this happened to our government, which I owe a lot to. … We have tremendous respect for our government.”

And although Shor said he doesn’t always agree with what the government does, he knew he had to exercise his right to demonstrate, protest and make his feelings known.

In response to the storming of the United States Capitol Wednesday, Jan. 6, members of the group wanted to make their voices heard — their anger at the president for inciting violence, and their urge to remove Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY1) from Congress.

“I usually don’t come out, but today seemed like a day we had to because of what happened in Washington on Wednesday,” said protester Bob Keeler. “And Lee Zeldin, who supposedly represents us in the Congress, is not representing me very well. It’s time for him to be a former congressman.”

Normally the corner has a large group of counter-protesters — known as the North Country Patriots — across the way. This weekend there was only a small group of five.

“The real patriots are the ones who are

voicing their opinions the way our forefathers really meant to be voiced,” Shor said.

Protester Paige Pearson said she had a bad feeling that something was going to happen Jan. 6.

“My immediate thought was I wasn’t surprised,” she said. “But I’m extremely disappointed.”

Pearson said she was disheartened to see what was happening in D.C., especially when she previously participated in other protests that were peaceful and civil.

“We’ve been fighting for months and months, trying to stay as peaceful as possible,” she said. “And then all of these people can just storm into the Capitol, and cause all of this violence and destruction, and get out clean and unharmed.”

At the same time, at Resistance Corner on routes 347 and 112, a smaller, but just as loud group rallied against the president.

Organizer of the Friends for Justice group Holly Fils-Aime said the protesters chose to stand at the corner of Nesconset Highway because nearly 3,000 cars pass every hour.

“Obviously we were very upset when Trump claimed election fraud,” she said.

With the riots down south, Fils-Aime said she and her group are calling for the president to be impeached.

Holding signs of Trump’s face on a peach, the group voiced their hopes that Congress will vote to remove the president from power.

“I can’t believe this is happening to our country,” Fils-Aime said. “He’s been talking about this for months. … We need to get him out of office, so he can’t do this again.”

To see more photos from the rallies, visit www.tbrnewsmedia.com

A lot has happened since the start of 2021, only two weeks ago.

Shortly before the insurrection at the United States Capitol Jan. 6, Long Island sent four Republicans to the New York State Senate to kick off the new legislative session.

Two of those are newly elected Sen. Anthony Palumbo (R-New Suffolk) and Sen. Mario Mattera (R-St. James), both local to the North Shore.

On top of their swearing-in and preparation for the new year ahead, various local and national elected officials released statements surrounding the horrors Americans witnessed that Wednesday.

The two state lawmakers, Palumbo and Mattera, are not condoning what happened Jan. 6.

“Most, if not all, New Yorkers were happy to put the year 2020 behind them and are looking forward to the promise of a better 2021,” Palumbo said. “Sadly, last Wednesday’s storming of the Capitol using acts of violence does not help any cause and instead leads to incarceration.”

Palumbo said he will condemn all lawless attacks on America’s institutions and cities.

“I fully support our men and women in law enforcement who continue to find themselves in ever more dangerous situations,” he said. “I appeal to everyone’s better angels, both on the right and left. We must all focus on important issues like public health and economic recovery, not stoking division from the political extremes.”

Mattera said that he supports the right to peaceful protests.

“The right to express views peacefully is a fundamental freedom for all Americans and it is essential to who we are,” he said. “But when the events become violent or unlawful, as they did last week and have in the recent past, those responsible must be held accountable and must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

Mattera said that what was witnessed must not be condoned or excused.

“There can be no acceptance of these actions regardless of motivations,” he said.

“They attacked our men and women in blue, and their actions insulted all who support the First Amendment.”

But he said that through it all and at the end of the day, Americans must work together.

“We must now join together as Americans to show we are stronger when we stand together,” the state senator said. “This nation has stood for over 240 years and we must work together to ensure its future.”

Pro-Trump Facebook Group Taken Down

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Notorious pro-Trump group, the Setauket Patriots — who have headed several marches and caravans across the North Shore of Long Island in support of President Donald Trump (R) — have lost their Facebook page and are now operating under a private group account.

James Robitsek, founder of the group, said that last week 200 members of his group gathered on four charter buses to visit the Capitol on Jan. 6, with an extra 100 members driving themselves to the rally.

“The actions by those storming the Capitol building [Jan. 6] should not be tolerated, are condemned, and were not conducted by any of the members that came on our busses to attend a peaceful protest.”

He said the Setauket Patriots page, that holds more than 20,000 members, was taken down by Facebook. The private group is still online.

“The group will remain, and we will continue to hold community events like we have in the past,” he said.

James Robitsek, and Setauket Patriot supporters, rally outside Village Hall in Port Jefferson in November.

File photo by Julianne Mosher

Robitsek added that “false information that is being disseminated on social media, mischaracterizing members of our group is hateful and vengeful and just plain wrong. Just as violence and domestic terrorism will not be tolerated, we also will not allow other groups to violate and slander good-hearted citizens that love our America.”

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Town

Stony Brook Resident Announces Run for Town Council

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

One of the names on the ballot for a special election in Brookhaven March 23 is a familiar one to many Three Village residents.

With the Town of Brookhaven Council District 1 seat vacant, after Valerie Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station) won her run as a judge for the Supreme Court of the State of New York, the town called for a special election. While the Republican candidate has not yet been officially named, Jonathan Kornreich has been announced as the Democrat in the race. Kornreich has been a Three Village Central School District trustee for more than a dozen years and is president of the Three Village Civic Association.

When he first heard Cartright was vacating the seat, he said he didn’t even think of running.

“A few people contacted me, and they were like, ‘What are you doing?’ Kornreich said.

“So, I agreed to think it over.”

He added the argument many made to him was that it would allow him to continue doing the work he has been doing through the years, but more effectively. Although he had considered a run for the seat in the past, it had been many years since he had considered entering politics.

“I just have been focused on doing the work,” he said.

Kornreich said he feels his experience as both a board of education trustee and a civic president will be an asset to the position as he regularly interacts with residents and listens to their concerns.

“Over the years, having been a civic president for so many years and being involved in the community as a school board member, I’ve just learned how to serve the public, and

how to listen, so it’s not going to be a hard adjustment for me,” he said. “I’m used to hearing from people.”

The 51-year-old, who lives in Stony Brook with his wife, Linda, and his two daughters, first became involved with school boards when his children attended the North Shore Montessori School in Stony Brook.

“It was important for me to be involved in their education so I got very active in their school, and eventually I joined the board of the Montessori school,” he said. “Soon after that I became the president of that board, and that’s where I really got my start in civic involvement.”

When his children left to attend school in the Three Village district, Kornreich said he decided to run for its school board in 2008.

While he will take a leave of absence from his role in the Three Village Civic Association, he plans to continue with the school board.

A lifetime Long Islander, he grew up in Hauppauge and graduated from the local high school in 1987. He went on to study at SUNY Albany where he majored in English and minored in philosophy. After graduating from college, he developed an entrepreneurial spirit and started up a pool business that he ran for 20 years before selling it. He then transitioned into construction and real estate. Through the years, in addition to the pool business, he has started a computer company, an importing company and has invested in a restaurant in Thailand and a farm in Cambodia.

Kornreich said during his years of community involvement he has worked with Cartright regularly.

“What I admire was her ability to bring stakeholders together, and just make sure that everyone was heard,” Kornreich said. “Even if

Three Village Civic Association president and school district board trustee Jonathan Kornreich, above, announced he is running for Brookhaven Town Council in a special election in March. Below, Kornreich, left, with former Councilwoman Valerie Cartright and town Supervisor Ed Romaine at a 2017 press conference. Above photo from Kornreich; below by Rita J. Egan

she didn’t agree with them, she always made sure that everyone felt heard.”

He added he never wants constituents to be frustrated with their representation, and he feels it’s important for all residents to be given the opportunity to be heard as Cartright did.

“It’s time consuming and it can be difficult, but you have to go slowly and give people a chance to weigh in on things,” he said.

Kornreich said it’s important to continue the work that Cartright started including making sure the ideas gathered from area residents a few years ago for the Route 25A Three Village Area Visioning Report are implemented, and a similar study for redeveloping Upper Port Jefferson is continued. He said planning is important for the future of the district, especially regarding keeping each area’s personality.

“To maintain that sense of place is a result of planning,” he said. “In the Three Village area, for example, the 25A area is clearly in need of redevelopment. It’s not all that it could be, and I think it doesn’t have the kind of amenities that people in this community expect.”

He gave the example of the East Setauket Pond Park area, which once was a traditional waterfront where residents could see boats.

“But now it’s all overgrown with weeds, and in that park, you can’t really see out,” he said.

“There’s buildings there that are vacant and have been vacant for years, and that’s an area that really needs to be redeveloped. And, I don’t mean to build buildings, I mean that’s a good place for public spaces, for parks, for preservation.”

He said Upper Port, with access to Route 347 and having a Long Island Rail Road station, is an example of where a vibrant, walkable downtown area can be developed.

“That’s a place where it’s OK to build buildings and have a nice walkable downtown area with affordable housing,” he said. “A place where young people can live and seniors, and have shops and that feeling of being in a place. There’s a lot of opportunities for that in the Upper Port Jefferson Station area.”

If elected, Kornreich — as with Cartright — will be the only Democrat on the Town Board, but he said with his work with the civic and school district, he has worked with elected officials from different parties.

“I think that a lot of the issues that we face in the town, there’s no Republican or Democrat way to conduct town business,” he said. “And I think that a lot of those national issues don’t really come into play — they don’t apply.”

He said he’s worked frequently with town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R), and he admires Romaine’s respect for the environment.

“From what I’ve seen of the other people on the Town Council, their hearts are in the right place,” the candidate said.

In addition to working with those on the town level through the years, Kornreich has worked with elected officials on the county, state and federal levels, and said he has a good working relationship with many of them.

He said when residents come into an elected official’s office, many don’t know if the issue falls under town, county or state jurisdiction.

“They don’t need to, because as an elected official, if someone has a problem with their road or with this or that, they don’t care,” Kornreich said. … “They want to know: ‘Who do I talk to, how do I get this problem fixed?’ ...

So, having those relationships — I just want to be able to help people solve problems.”

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Village

Kelp Is on the Way as Task Force Begins Pilot Project in Harbor

BY CHRIS CUMELLA DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Rows of sugar kelp – a brown native seaweed — are being planted and will be harvested in Setauket Harbor, not for decoration but to provide cleaner water and other benefits to the community.

Neighboring next to Port Jefferson Harbor, the Setauket Harbor Task Force has installed two 100-foot lines with sugar kelp seedlings in hopes of cultivating them when they are ready for harvesting. There are numerous ways in which the sugar kelp can be benefited from.

This aquatic plant is edible for both people and pets. It can be used as a fertilizer, bioplastic, biofuel, cosmetics and is a method to help improve water quality.

“Our main goal for this year is to spread the word about kelp and where it grows, the conditions it needs, how to process it and how it can benefit growers on Long Island,” said Wendy Moore, benefactor and manager of the sugar kelp project.

Moore, along with her husband, Justin, founded The Moore Family Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit community involvement program.

“To that end, we’ve developed relationships with 11 growers this season,” she said.

Moore attributes her profound interest in the project to the fact that sugar kelp is selfsustaining. It is what she describes as a “lowintensity process,” which has seen nearly no obstacles other than lesser amounts of sun in the winter months. The Town of Brookhaven was one of the first to support the project and even provided equipment to the task force. There are plans to expand the project in the following years.

Even in a continuous pandemic, the project has not been swayed. According to Moore, the gear distribution and out-planting have been outdoors. Everyone on the team has been able to gather safely and follow proper COIVD protocols.

“We’re lucky that much of the needed operations at this time are outdoors,” she said.

David Berg, a scientific advisor to the Moore Foundation, said that the cultivation rate would be more likely to increase after the equinox in March.

Besides Setauket and Port Jefferson Harbors, the Moore foundation has set up in other locations including Islip, Brookhaven, Greenport and Oyster Bay. Two years ago, the Setauket Harbor Task Force began conducting water monitoring in Setauket Harbor. They set out in the spring, summer and fall seasons to take water chemistry readings and samples to document

the water quality. With authorization from New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the task force has been able to look at what can be done about the water and possibly cleaning it up.

“There’s oyster harvesting and clam harvesting,” said George Hoffman, a trustee of the task force which helps oversee the sugar kelp cultivation and production. “We decided to try sugar kelp harvesting, and they’re cleaning up the water by feeding on the C02 … which leads to water acidification.”

Hoffman describes his feelings about the task force being included in this pilot project as “exciting” and wants to show the public that harbors like Setauket can become productive areas for marine agriculture.

“We’re happy to have a product that will help us clean and improve the quality of the water and likewise providing beneficial food,” he said.

Cultivating the sugar kelp requires attaching the seeds to two 100-feet lines in the harbor, held together in place by mushroom anchors.

When the kelp is ready to harvest, it is thick, rubbery, and a glistening shade of brown before it is processed and cleaned into a vibrant emerald green color, ready for distribution.

According to Hoffman, the harvesting sites take up roughly 200 feet of water, and he

Task force member Mark Smith at Setauket Harbor installing buoys and lines in Setauket Harbor for growing sugar kelp. Photo from Setauket Harbor Task Force

hopes to see expansion in a couple of years if this project yields successful results.

“The main thing we’re interested in doing is taking the interest that’s already here and helping Long Island along in the momentum of progressing further,” Moore said. “We want to seek out and connect with people and help get the word out about the amazing potential that it has.”

Higher Ground Receives Grant for Eato House Restoration

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation is playing a part in helping to restore the historic Eato House on Christian Avenue in Setauket.

The foundation recently awarded the Setauket-based Higher Ground Inter-Cultural & Heritage Association, Inc. an Organizational Capacity Building Grant. Higher Ground, which works to preserve the culture, indigenous inhabitants and historic inventory of the Native and Afro-American community, is currently restoring the house.

According to RDLGF, this type of grant will enable Higher Ground to work with four professionals in the areas of governance, collections, site assessment and outreach as the foundation will pay for the services. Higher Ground has been working on the continued preservation of the Bethel Christian Ave., Laurel Hill Historic District, and currently, the organization co-owns the house with Bethel AME Church.

“The Higher Ground project speaks to a story of diversity,” said Kathryn Curran, executive director of RDLGF. “This association

highlights this area’s role in establishing and recognizing that important cultural heritage.”

Robert Lewis, president of Higher Ground, said the first stage of the Eato House’s restoration was completed Dec. 1. He added that the first stage of work focused on preventing water from penetrating the structure. To accomplish the goal, existing roof rafters were fortified and a new roof was insulated. New gutters and leaders were also added to match the 1900 architecture and the A future second stage of work will focus on the foundation of the structure and interior stabilization.

“The second stage is obviously dependent on funding availability,” Lewis said. “The prospects for acquiring additional funding in the future will be much brighter when the RDL Gardiner Capacity Building Project is completed.”

The grant from the RDLGF grant will enable members of the Eato House Restoration Committee to be trained “to pursue and manage historic preservation activities; manage projects, and to adequately fulfill standard requirements for State registered nonprofits,” according to Lewis. The grant will also introduce the organization to promotional

In 2020, Higher Ground was able to work on the roof of the Eato House on Christian Avenue. Photo from Higher Ground

activities, marketing strategies and high technology processing.

“Participation in the OCB project will increase the competency of Higher Ground to protect structures, documented history, environmental history; to preserve artwork, oral history and archaeological documentation,” Lewis said.

While RDLGF is known for helping to preserve Suffolk County’s history, other works of the foundation aren’t as well known.

“Less known, but equally successful, are the efforts of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to identify, and engage with small, relatively hidden areas of valuable, Native, and Afro-American history being lost in minority communities where small preservation organizations labor to survive,” Lewis said.

In a 2017 interview with TBR News Media, Bethel AME historian, Carlton “Hub” Edwards, said the Eato House was once home to the Rev. David Eato, one of the church’s first pastors, and his wife Mary Baker, a freed slave.

Baker moved to the North after being freed from slavery and settled in Port Washington where she was an organist at a church. It was there that she met Eato and, after marrying, the couple moved to Setauket, and the reverend became one of the first ministers of Setauket’s Bethel AME in the early 1900s. Mary took on the role of superintendent of the Sunday school and held the position until the late 1930s.

Edwards said the members of the Eato family owned the house until the church purchased it a few years ago.

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Capitol Punishment: FBI Asks for Public’s Help

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BY CHRIS CUMELLA DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Shoshana Hershkowitz, founder of the group Suffolk Progressives, joined others outside Rep. Lee Zeldin’s Patchogue office, asking for him to leave his position. Photo by Steven Zaitz

Protesters Petition to Get Zeldin Out of Office

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Groups gathered outside local congressional offices demanding that President Donald Trump (R) be impeached and convicted, and that Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY1) to be expelled from Congress following his vote against the certification of Electoral College ballots.

On Monday, Jan. 11, the group Suffolk Progressives organized the protest and created a petition, demanding Zeldin leave his position.

Shoshana Hershkowitz, from South Setauket, who founded the group, said they are against the congressman’s vote challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election — even after the deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6.

“He continued to talk about his feelings despite the evidence from the country,” Hershkowitz said. “On Jan. 2, he put a tweet out saying this is a lie. … Those words unfortunately they came to fruition on Jan. 6.”

After the mass attack on the Capitol by proTrump extremists, Zeldin still voted to object the election of President-elect Joe Biden (D), and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris (D).

“The combination of all of it, and then going back into the chamber after all of this violence and death, refusing to accept those results, trying to overturn the people … it was mind-blowing,” she said.

Upon Zeldin’s vote, Hershkowitz and her group penned a petition that is now up to nearly 2,000 signatures, calling for his expulsion.

“I was hoping that after all this he would change his tune,” she said.

On Monday, Jan. 11, a group of more than 100 people gathered outside of Zeldin’s Patchogue office. A smaller group of counterprotesters stood across the street.

Members further west rallied outside Rep. Tom Suozzi’s (D-NY3) Huntington office, asking him to demand that Zeldin be accountable. Suozzi supports the removal of Trump through the 25th Amendment or impeachment.

The day of the insurrection, Zeldin released a statement.

“This should never be the scene at the U.S. Capitol,” he said. “This is not the America we all love. We can debate, and we can disagree, even on a January 6th following a presidential election. We can all passionately love our country, but in our republic, we elect people to represent us to voice our objections in the House and Senate on this day.”

He added that there must be “zero tolerance for violence in any form.”

Hershkowitz said she will be sending the petition to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

“I believe that these people shouldn’t be sitting in Congress,” the group organizer said.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a statement that it is seeking assistance in locating individuals who had participated in the riots, which took place at the United States Capitol building Wednesday, Jan. 6.

In addition to citizens, the FBI is also looking for off-duty police officers and firefighters who may have been involved.

A brief memo on the FBI official website at www.fbi.gov noted that an investigation has been launched to track down and arrest those individuals.

“We have deployed our full investigative resources and are working closely with our federal, state and local partners to aggressively pursue those involved in criminal activity during the events of January 6,” the memo said.

Next to the bureau’s statement can be seen a list of news events about the Capitol riots, with arrests and charges.

The bureau’s call to action was for citizens to utilize its online forum, specifically if they had documents, photos or video to attach.

There is also an option enabling participants to utilize the FBI’s phone number at 800-CALLFBI (800-225-5324) to report any relevant tips.

FBI Director Christopher Wray made a statement detailing that the violence and destruction of property at the U.S. Capitol building was appalling and disrespectful to the democratic process.

“As we have said consistently, we do not tolerate violent agitators and extremists who use the guise of First Amendmentprotected activity to incite violence and wreak havoc,” he said.

“Our agents and analysts have been hard at work … gathering evidence, sharing intelligence, and working with federal prosecutors to bring charges,” Wray added.

“We are determined to find those responsible and ensure justice is served.”

These investigations follow directly after the attacks on the Capitol building, which many outlets and organizations have blamed on President Trump’s (R) morning rally as a direct cause of the violence.

During his speech, the president urged his supporters to “fight much harder” against “bad people” and “show strength” at the Capitol, where lawmakers were about to certify the Electoral College votes giving victory to President-elect Joe Biden (D), who is to be inaugurated on Jan. 20.

Regarding off-duty police officers, a media liaison for the Suffolk police department stated in an email that they currently have no specific knowledge that any of its off-duty members attended the event, and will comply with any investigations necessary moving forward.

“The Suffolk County Police Department will cooperate, if requested, with the federal investigation into the events at the U.S. Capitol, including any alleged involvement of our members,” the statement said.

First Responders, Veterans Can Receive Rapid COVID-19 Test

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced the expansion of the County-wide first responder COVID-19 testing program to include local veterans.

The County first launched the program last month, which provided hundreds of rapid COVID-19 tests to active local fire service, emergency medical service providers and local law enforcement. Eligible veterans will be able to sign up for an appointment through a reservation-based online system. A registration link will be provided directly to local veterans organizations.

“While we await the mass distribution of the vaccine, we know that testing is one of our most valuable tools in combating this virus,” Bellone said. “After a successful launch last month, we have not only extended the duration of the program, but have expanded the testing to include local veterans.”

The Suffolk County Departments of Fire Rescue and Emergency Services, Department

of Health Services and Division of Emergency Medical Services will continue to conduct rapid testing at various locations throughout the County.

The first responder testing initiative is available free of charge for active fire and EMS providers, local law enforcement agencies and veterans. Those who suspect that they have recently been exposed to or are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms will receive priority.

Suffolk County will provide registration links to local veterans organizations, which will then be distributed amongst their membership.

The Suffolk County Veterans Services Agency will work with local organizations to spread awareness and encourage participation.

Appointments are required and must be made through the reservation-based system, no walkins will be permitted.

Suffolk County veterans who have any questions regarding the program are encouraged to contact Suffolk 311.

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Village

Car Parade Honors Retiring Rector

Canon Richard D. Visconti, Rector of Caroline Episcopal Church of Setauket, stands in the walkway Jan. 10 as he watched a parade of parishioners and community residents bid him goodbye. Visconti is retiring Jan. 31.

Canon Richard was seated as Rector at the Caroline Church in 2002, and he also has served as priest in charge of All Souls Episcopal Church in Stony Brook.

Elizabeth Hazlitt

Stony Brook Yacht Club, which is where she first met her husband Walter.

Betty is survived by her loving husband of 67 years, Walter, her two children Elizabeth (Michael) Emerson and Walter (Catherine) Hazlitt, and four beloved grandsons, Christopher and Andrew Emerson, and Patrick and Carter Hazlitt.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Bryant Funeral Home of Setauket.

Visit www.bryantfh.com to sign the online guest book.

Obituaries

Elizabeth (Betty) Hazlitt (née Hayden) died Dec. 12 at the age of 90.

Betty was born in Queens to Harold James (Jim) and Marguerite Hayden (née Hein) in 1930. A graduate of The Mary Louis Academy and Marymount Manhattan College, Betty was a longtime resident of Stony Brook, which she started visiting during her summers before eventually settling there permanently after marrying Walter in 1953.

She was engaged in her community, volunteering her time and energy to a variety of charities and causes, including St. James R.C. Church in Setauket, St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson, the Three Village Garden Club and many others.

Betty remained active throughout her life, and particularly enjoyed golfing with her regular foursome at Port Jefferson Country Club. She also enjoyed taking care of her garden, painting and needlework, as well as expressing her love for her family through recipes that she learned from her cherished maternal grandmother Mary Hein.

A lifelong connoisseur of words, she relished a well-written “whodunnit” and the challenge of a daily crossword puzzle. Betty also remained active socially as a long-standing member of the

—Bottom right photo by Barbara Russell; all others by Andrew Visconti

Larry J. Opisso

Larry J. Opisso died Oct. 29. He was 91 years old.

Larry was born Aug. 29, 1929, in the Bronx. A longtime Stony Brook resident, he was an international salesman for Westinghouse.

Larry was an active member in the community.

He was a Stony Brook Seawolves fan in both football and lacrosse.

His hobbies included fishing, gardening, and he loved to smoke his pipe. He was involved with the Stony Brook Carriage House museum.

In fact, the Opisso family has a carriage there.

He also was a world traveler.

Larry was predeceased by his wife Ann. He is survived by his three sons Larry, Mark, Michael; eight grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren.

Pauline Smith

Pauline Smith died suddenly Dec. 23. She was 90 years old.

She was born Pauline Kroll Oct. 19, 1930, in Carlstadt, New Jersey, to German immigrant parents that passed through Ellis Island. The family moved to Port Jefferson Station when she started kindergarten, and she never left the area. Affectionately called Polly, she was a Belle Terre resident since the 1970s.

The farmer’s daughter grew up on the Buttercup Dairy Farm where she learned the value of hard work and would instill it in everything and everyone around her.

Polly married her lifelong companion, Robert Smith, July 8, 1951. Their reception was held at the Wagon Wheel in Port Jefferson Station, and they honeymooned in Niagara Falls. The couple had four children, Linda, Robert Jr., Sharon and Richard, two grandchildren, and 11 great grandchildren with 12th on the way.

Polly and Bob started the retail store of Buttercup Dairy in 1971 and together built a lifetime of memories and traditions around countless family members, employees and customers. Bob predeceased Polly in 2019 after 68 years of marriage.

In addition to her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Polly is survived by

her brother Leroy. She was also predeceased by her brother William.

Beatrice E. Willa

Beatrice E. Willa, 96, of Naples, Florida, died Dec. 31. She was a former resident of Port Jefferson and Stony Brook.

Born June 17, 1924, in Albany, Bea was the second, and last surviving child of four children born to Gerritt and Ruby Mae Hoogkamp. A resident of Long Island for 40 years, Bea and her family lived in Sound Beach, Port Jefferson and Stony Brook. She retired to Barefoot Bay in Florida with her first husband, the late Charles Willa. She lived at Top of the World in Florida for 20 years, beginning in 1991. In 2013 she relocated to Naples. Bea especially loved cooking, collectibles, entertaining and playing cards.

She was predeceased by her sisters Mary and Jeanne, and brother Norman. She is survived by her sons Daniel (Gail) of Pocasset, Massachusetts, Ronald (Linda) of Naples, Florida; five grandchildren Caryn and Keith of Salem, Massachusetts, as well as Melissa, Kerri and Meredith of San Francisco. She also leaves behind 11 great grandchildren Jacob, Tyler, Shane, Kailyn, Hunter, Emmett, Ansel, Charles, Willa, Luca and Evelyn.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Hodges Funeral Home in Naples, Florida. Following cremation, a private ceremony will be held at a later date. Memorial contributions to the American Diabetes Association would be appreciated.

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Stories That Make Up Local History Have an Impact on Today

BY BEVERLY C. TYLER DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM “HISTORIAN! you who celebrate bygones!

Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races — the life that has exhibited itself, You have treated man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers, and priests; But now I also, arriving, contribute something: I, an habitue of the Alleghanies, treat man as he is in the influences of Nature, in himself, in his own inalienable rights, Advancing, to give the spirit and the traits of new Democratic ages, myself, personally, I do not tell the usual facts, proved by records and documents, What I tell, requires no further proof than he or she who will hear me, will furnish, by silent meditating alone; Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the great pride of man in himself;) I illuminate feelings, faults, yearnings, hopes — I have come at last, no more ashamed nor afraid;

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Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be, I project the history of the future.”

(Walt Whitman - 1860) More than 13,000 years ago the first humans entered the continent of North America. These hunter-gatherers found giant mammoths and mastodons and a climate significantly colder than today’s. We know this from the discovered remains of their activity and the plant life remains preserved in the earth. These first indigenous people hunted these giants to extinction with a new weapon, a weapon they did not bring with them from Asia, as there are no examples of it found there. This weapon was the Clovis point, a large spear point used by hunters until the beasts they hunted were gone. A number of these points were found on Long Island and are preserved in collections from the Garvies Point Museum in Glen Cove to the Southold Indian Museum.

Over the next 10,000 years these Native Americans, as well as other indigenous people who came after the first, settled into village life — often highly mobile villages — across North America. The Long Island natives, Algonquian in culture and

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In a photo taken before 1894, students with teacher George W. Hawkins (b.1843-d.1927) pose outside of the West Setauket School on the Setauket Village Green. Photo from Beverly C. Tyler

appearance, left many records of their culture including archaeological remains of villages such as the Stony Brook Site (Richie 1959) and remains of tool manufacturing sites such as the Fischetti Site along Stony Brook Creek (Three Village Historical Society 1980).

When the first European explorers came to America, they recorded details about the indigenous people with whom they came in contact. These provided the first written records we have. As Long Island was settled

by English immigrants during the 17th century, more and more written records were produced. The interpretation of these artifacts and archival materials, including deeds, town records, letters and journals has provided the basis for the story of our history for succeeding generations.

Our local history is the story of the people who have lived here, the homes and communities in which they lived, and the events that surrounded them. There is no limit to the depth and breadth of our history.

It is reflected in the Setalcotts in Northern Brookhaven who left the remains of their stone tools and in the native Americans listed in Madam Martha Smith’s records of the offshore whaling operation she and her husband William “Tangier” Smith ran from their manor houses in Setauket and Mastic between 1696 and 1708.

It is reflected in the letters and correspondence between George Washington, Benjamin Tallmadge, Abraham Woodhull and the rest of the Setauket spies as they fought to establish and preserve American freedoms between 1778 and 1783. It is reflected in the journals of Mary Satterly Rowland who spent 20 years at sea with her ship captain husband, raising four children and burying one on shore in the midst of a bombardment during the American Civil War. It is reflected in the Victorian homes built

by Setauket and Stony Brook ship captains who took their locally built and financed ships up and down the Atlantic coast, around the

Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn to China and Japan. It is reflected in the photographs of school children in the 1890s who are dressed in the clothing of recent Eastern European immigrants and pictured together with children of both African and Western European heritage.

It is reflected in the Stony Brook rehabilitation village and the Frank Melville Memorial Park which were designed and built due to the philanthropy of the Melville family who settled in Setauket in the first decade of the 20th century. It is reflected in the Special Collections at the State University at Stony Brook which include a 1779 letter from George Washington to Benjamin Tallmadge.

It is reflected in the housing developments constructed by builder William Levitt in the 1960s. It is also reflected in the trees planted in 1976 along Route 25A with funds raised by school children in the six Three Village elementary schools for the celebration of our Bicentennial of American Independence.

All of these, and the thousands of other stories that make up our local history, have had an impact on what we are as a community.

These are our stories, this is our history. Every person, from the first people to set foot on these shores to the newest resident who works or lives here, has a part in Three Village history.

Over the past 40 years, since my first local history article in the Three Village Herald on Aug. 5, 1981, I have attempted to bring the stories of our past into the lives of residents today. I hope that an appreciation of our history will provide each of us with an understanding of what we want our future to be, what we want our community to be, and what we want our lives and the lives of our families and neighbors to reflect.

Beverly C. Tyler is the Three Village Historical Society historian and author of books available from the society at 93 North Country Road, Setauket. For more information, call 631-751-3730 or visit www. tvhs.org.

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Editorial

Letters to the Editor

An Open Letter to U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin

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Community Journalism Matters More than Ever

Not every publication out there is “Fake News.”

During last week’s insurgence at the U.S. Capitol, a photo — taken by a journalist — has made its way around social media, memorializing the words “Murder the Media” written on a wall inside The People’s House.

That’s disheartening to say the least.

Now more than ever, facts are important — whether you like us or not.

The fact that journalists, reporters and photographers down in D.C. are now sharing their stories about that Wednesday’s events — how they were attacked, name called, hurt and threatened — is a terrifying thought.

The media has always had a rocky relationship with readers. A lot of the time, many people don’t like what is being reported on or how it’s being said. That is something this field has dealt with since the first newsletter came out centuries ago.

But the last four years are on a different level. It’s a whole new battle.

There have been many times that reporters at TBR News Media were harassed on assignment, also being called “fake.”

We are your local paper. We are the ones who cover the issues in your backyard, who tell the stories of your neighbors that you live beside, and we showcase your children, whom you love, playing their favorite sports.

We aren’t commentators or analyzers, except on our opinions pages that are clearly labeled.

We are the eyes and ears of our community, and we do the heavy lifting when you have questions. We interview your elected officials and bring awareness to issues other larger papers or TV stations forget to research or mention.

How is that fake?

Now more than ever, we ask you to support what we have put our hearts and our livelihoods into.

Next time you might think that the media had it coming to them, just remember that those reporters who have been hurt and humiliated don’t come into your workplaces, breaking your equipment and ridiculing you for what you do.

We serve all the public and are proud to do so.

Letters … We welcome your letters. They should be no longer than 400 words and may be edited for length, libel, style and good taste. We do not publish anonymous letters. Please include a phone number and address for confirmation. Email letters to rita@tbrnewsmedia.com or mail them to The Village Times Herald, P.O. Box 707, Setauket, NY 11733.

Thank you for the revisionist email sent Saturday evening to your constituents (of whom I am one).

You wrote in response to last week’s President Donald Trump [R] planned and inspired insurrection. You tried to wrap yourself in the flag and to feign victimhood. You sought to shield yourself from your responsibility for what took place.

I, as a lifelong Republican — and a conservative one at that — hold you accountable for enabling, endorsing and abetting the president’s assault on our democracy. I hold you accountable for this last four years of Trump-led attack on the truth, and his Joseph Goebbels class promulgation of lies.

I hold you complicit in holding hands with ignorance and disregard of science in a march into darkness.

It is ironic that you may have found yourself in harm’s way during the assault on the Capitol. It is even more ironic that the systematic assault, supported by you, on the truth and our

democratic processes, however flawed, has driven America into the arms of the Democrats, who will now control the Congress and the executive branch of our government. I’m not at ease with that, but I am way more at ease with the Democrats’ stewardship than I have been of these last four years of demagoguery, totalitarianism and Trump’s attempt to destroy faith in the truth.

You say in your email that we have big challenges and “real disagreement.”

There are real disagreements to be sure.

Economic policy, defense policy, health care, social security, environmental policy, education and many others.

These are things about which reasonable people can differ. What is not a real disagreement is the outcome of the presidential election in which voters rejected Donald Trump while electing many Republican candidates, including yourself.

That Trump won is nonsense that no informed person can reasonably believe. You must renounce this lie.

Its persistence is a cancer on the body politic that will eat away at America and at democracy itself for years to come.

If we survive this — you acknowledge the future of our republic is precarious — it will be because our free press sheds light powerful enough to blot out the shadows cast by the president and his cronies, you among them. There is bias in the news media, sure enough, but there are many sources and, across the board, you can take the average and divine the truth. Your inexplicable adherence to the Trump narrative has increased the threat to our democracy.

One of the mantras of the last week has been, “This is not who we are.”

Unfortunately, it may well be who we are, gone from the worldwide promise of democracy and equal treatment to a bigoted, parochial and incendiary banana republic. Mr. Zeldin, answer the question: “Is that who you are?”

Timothy Glynn Setauket

Decision Time for Republicans My Republican fellow citizens, the time has come to finally choose for yourself between two mutually exclusive views of reality.

The first is that there was a nationwide conspiracy to steal the election from President Donald Trump [R], presumably involving hundreds of state and local election officials and workers, voting machine manufacturers and contractors, with 60-plus judges — many Republican or even Trumpappointed — inexplicably disregarding evidence of fraud in courts around the country. (And that despite successfully stealing the election for Biden, Democrats lost seats in the House and failed to avoid Senate runoffs in Georgia.)

That there was a conspiracy to accuse the Trump campaign of involvement with the Russian effort to influence the election, and that the 140-plus contacts with Russian nationals by Trump and 18 of his associates — which included

sharing internal campaign polling data — were innocuous. And that the investigation into those contacts, led by a Republican former FBI director, which indicted and convicted seven of those associates, was baseless.

That Trump didn’t withhold military aid to Ukraine to force an investigation into a domestic political rival, or threaten a Republican Georgia election official with prosecution if he didn’t falsify votes to change the outcome of an election — transcripts and tapes of these conversations notwithstanding.

That former President Barack Obama [D] wasn’t born in the United States and was able to run for president only thanks to a conspiracy to falsify his early history in Hawaii and Washington state, presumably involving state officials, schoolteachers and friends, dating all the way back to a fake birth announcement placed in a Honolulu newspaper in 1961.

The second view is that Trump was simply lying to you all along.

Not spinning, shading or selectively arguing the truth — which all public figures do — but outright lying to your face about nearly everything, big (COVID-19, election fraud) and small (his inauguration crowd, his wealth).

He told you things that felt good to hear, to feed his ego with your approval, and to benefit himself financially and politically. He never cared about you or any part of his constituency — rich or poor — or the country or even the Republican party.

To be healthy, American politics needs a viable, national conservative party made up of reality-based, true conservatives arguing in good faith for a principled agenda, not crackpot conspiracy-weaving Confederate cultists devoted to one individual. Last week clearly illustrated the predictable consequences of trying to have it both ways. The time has come to make a choice.

John Hover East Setauket

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Opinion

Comparing Life Now to the Beginning of the Pandemic

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or my family and me, the pandemictriggered life change started almost exactly 10 months ago, on March 13.

How different is the life we lead now from the one we led way back in March?

Comparing answers to the same questions then and now can offer a perspective on the time that’s passed and our current position.

Question: What do we do?

March 2020: Shut businesses down, encourage people to D. None stay home and track of the above everything. Talk about

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF where we are “on the curve” and hope that we can “flatten the curve” and reach the other side, allowing us to return to the lives and habits we used to know.

January 2021: Try to keep infection rates down and take measured chances in public places, while hoping officials allow schools, restaurants and other businesses to remain open.

Question: What do we eat?

March 2020: Pick up take out food whenever we can. Go to the grocery store and cook. Baking rapidly became a release and relief for parents and children, who enjoyed the sweet smell of the house and the familiar, reassuring and restorative taste of cookies and cakes.

January 2021: In some places, we can eat indoors. Many people still order take out or cook their own food.

Question: What do we do with our children?

March 2020: Overburdened parents, who are conducting zoom calls, conference calls and staring for hours at computer screens, face the reality of needing to educate their children in subjects they either forgot or never learned.

January 2021: Many students continue to go to school, even as the threat of closing, particularly in hot spots, continues.

Question: What do we do for exercise?

March 2020: People take to the streets,

order exercise equipment or circle the inside or outside of their house countless times, hoping to break free from their blinking, beeping and demanding electronic devices.

January 2021: Gyms have reopened, with some people heading to fitness centers and others continuing their own version of counting the number of times they’ve circled the neighborhood, with and without their dogs.

Question: What can we do about work?

March 2020: Many businesses close, asking employees to work from home.

January 2021: Many businesses are trying to stay open, even as others have continued to ask their employees to work from home, where they can talk on computer screens in mismatched outfits, with nice blouses and shirts on top and gym shorts or pajamas.

Question: What can we plan for?

March 2020: We cancel weddings, parties, family gatherings and all manner of events that involve crowds.

January 2021: We have learned not to make plans that are set in stone, because the calendar has become stone intolerant. We make plans

Freedom of Speech or Unlawful Speech

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t may have been the start of a new year last week, but life certainly hasn’t calmed down much. We are witnessing history in the making. Demonstrators who had traveled from all over the United States to Washington, DC last Wednesday turned from listening to President Trump rage to marching on the Capitol.

Once there, many broke into the building and caused vandalism, chaos and death. Thanks to instantaneous news flashes, we heard it and saw it Between happen, and now we are living through you and me the consequences.

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF One of the consequences is bans of certain accounts by social media, led by Twitter and Facebook.

Is that censorship? Is that an assault on our Freedom of Speech enshrined in the First Amendment to our Constitution?

A simple way to offer an answer is to take you into the world in which community newspapers and media operate. As you know, we are the ones who report on the news closest to our daily lives, the events and issues that concern us here in the villages and towns where we live, send our children to school and most of us work. We report comprehensively on local people, local politicians and local businesses that would otherwise be overlooked by the bigger dailies and networks. We are the watchdogs on behalf of the local citizenry.

Here are the rules by which we must publish: While we print opinions as well as facts, opinions must be clearly labelled as such and are usually confined to two or three pages specifically designated for Letters to the Editor and Editorials. We also publish pieces called “Your Turn,” or “Our Turn,” again as opinion or analysis. Everyone has a right to their opinion, and the publisher has a right to its policies about those articles and letters. Our policy is to publish opinions in as balanced a way as we are sent submissions, subject to libel and good taste.

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Libel rules are more straightforward than good taste, which is, of course, subjective.

But here is the bottom line: publishers have the final say in what they publish because they are private, not governmental enterprises.

Freedom of Speech, which specifically prohibits censorship by the government, does not apply to us. Decisions made by private businesses on what to publish are not First Amendment issues. And those decisions may reflect any number of concerns that may affect the company: financial considerations, the environment in which the publisher operates and whether the publication is an avowed partisan or an independent one.

We, for example, are an independent news media company, supporting neither major party unilaterally but rather our own sense of merit.

We are responsible for the accuracy of the facts in our stories. Do we sometimes err? Of course. When we make a mistake, our policy is to print a correction in the same place that we ran the error, even if that’s on the front page.

When we run ads, by the way, we are also responsible for the facts in them — although not the advertiser’s opinions, which still are subject to considerations of libel and good

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Leah S. Dunaief GENERAL MANAGER Johness Kuise MANAGING EDITOR Rita J. Egan EDITOR Rita J. Egan

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

and contingency plans.

Question: What do we do for entertainment?

March 2020: We secretly binge watch TV shows, although we don’t share our indulgences.

January 2021: After we ask how everyone is doing, we regularly interject questions about the latest TV shows or movies.

Question: What do we notice in the supermarkets?

March 2020: Toilet paper and paper towels are hard to find.

January 2021: Toilet paper and paper towels are generally available, but we may only be allowed to buy two packages. The cost of paper goods and other items seems to have risen.

Question: Do we let our children play sports?

March 2020: Almost every league in every sport shut down, following the lead of professional teams.

January 2021: Youth leagues have restarted.

Question: What’s a cause for optimism?

March 2020: We believe in flattening the curve.

January 2021: The vaccine offers hope for a return to a life we used to know.

taste. And when we run political ads, we must print who paid for the ad in the ad itself. When it is a group under a generic name rather than an individual, we must have on file the names of the executive officers of that group and those must be subject to review by any member of the public.

Do we have the legal right to refuse an ad or an opinion or a misstatement of facts?

As a private company, we do. Further, just as it is against the law to yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater when there is none because that is not protected free speech, we have the civic responsibility to vet misstatements and untruths. And while we consider our papers safety valves for community members to let off steam with their strongly held opinions, we do not publish just to add fuel to a fire.

Twitter and Facebook and the rest who consider themselves publishers of news and not just telephone companies also have a responsibility to the public.

That, of course, raises another issue. Do we want so much power in the hands of a few high tech moguls, whose messages instantly circle the world? Or should they, like us, be subject to regulatory control?

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