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January 17, 2019

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Setauket Commons tenants relocate after fire

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Three months after a fire engulfed one of the buildings that makes up the Setauket Commons former tenants are embarking on new paths.

Business were forced to close after a fire ripped through 60 Route 25A in Setauket, the night of Oct. 7. The fire took more than two hours to control, according to Setauket Fire Department, leaving smoke and water damage in its wake.

Veterinarian Dr. Anthony Nanton, owner of Brookhaven Cat Hospital, has been working at Paumanok Veterinary Hospital in Patchogue since the end of November. The Stony Brook resident said when he arrived on the scene Oct. 7 smoke was pouring out of the building. It’s still difficult for him to talk about that night.

“It was quite traumatic,” he said.

Nanton said three resident cats died in the fire from what appeared to be smoke inhalation.

The animal hospital was the felines’ home since 2003 when it was located in Coram.

“They were like my children,” the veterinarian said.

While Nanton will now work out of Patchogue, Anne McLaughlin, president of Hayes Physical Therapy, said she and her staff will remain in Setauket. The business has operated out of the Setauket Commons since 2004 and McLaughlin bought the company in 2009.

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Since the fire, McLaughlin has made house calls when she can and referred patients to her colleagues in the surrounding area.

McLaughlin said she signed a new lease Jan. 11, and Hayes Physical Therapy will be moving to the same shopping center as Mario’s Italian Restaurant — Heritage Corners East — in the storefront of the former music store. She is hoping to reopen within the next couple of weeks.

“There was no question that I was going to stay in the Three Village area,” she said. “It was just a matter of finding a suitable location.”

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Education

Three Village brings prekindergarten programs to all district elementary schools

BY ANDREA PALDY Big changes are ahead for Three Village’s free prekindergarten program, currently housed at Nassakeag Elementary School.

At an information session Jan. 9, administrators unveiled their plan to expand the pre-K program and to offer a new, tuitionbased enrichment program at each of the district’s five elementary schools.

Though current pre-K students are grouped by “home” school at Nassakeag, the district has announced that it will expand the program to its other four buildings in order to “provide a smoother transition to elementary school.”

The rationale is that it will allow students to attend classes at the same place where they will eventually be in elementary school.

Additionally, the move would prevent congestion at Nassakeag, since the district anticipates the growing program to require the use of up to 10 classrooms. The other buildings can easily accommodate the preschool program either in their kindergarten wings or nearby, according to school officials.

“We are committed to providing a highquality pre-K program that provides students with a strong foundation for academic and

social success,” said Superintendent Cheryl Pedisich in an email.

With the expansion to the other elementary buildings, next year’s program will continue to run as it currently does. Each school will have a morning and afternoon session that lasts for two and a half hours, and each classroom will have a certified teacher and assistant and up to 20 students.

Sessions at Minnesauke Elementary and Nassakeag will run from 8 to 10:30 a.m. and noon to 2:30 p.m., while those at Arrowhead, Mount and Setauket elementary schools will be held from 8:45 to 11:15 a.m. and 12:45 to 3:15 p.m. As with the current pre-K program, students will have access to a special ageappropriate preschool playground. The district says pre-K playgrounds will be built to accommodate the program expansion at the four additional elementary schools.

The district is also launching a tuitionbased Patriots Plus Pre-K program. Staffed by a certified teaching assistant and a classroom aide, this extended day will offer enrichment in STEM, art, music and movement. Each school will run a morning and an afternoon session for 20 students and will include lunch in the cafeteria (with the option to purchase a meal)

Students work to put together a flower order in the pre-K classroom’s flower shop play area, set up in time for Valentine’s Day. Photo by Andrea Paldy

and recess. The district’s website says that tuition will be $500 a month.

The district says that there will be no additional cost to distribute the program to the other schools, since staffing for the pre-K curriculum is already covered. Administrators expect the cost of hiring five new teaching assistants and five aides for the enrichment program to be covered by tuition from

the Patriots Plus program so that it is selfsustaining. Each enrichment section will need at least 10 students, the district says.

Administrators say parents with older elementary students will have a built-in window — 15 minutes before arrival and 15 minutes after dismissal — to drop off or pick up their prekindergartener and be back at the bus stop in time for older children.

Following feedback from last week’s information session, the district moved up the enrollment period to make it easier for parents to plan for the coming year. Applications will be accepted through Feb. 26. Students must turn 4

by Dec. 1, 2019, to be eligible.

Each school has a 40-student cap with a district cap of 200 students. If the number of applications exceeds the caps, there will be a lottery. Administrators say that students who aren’t selected through the lottery at their home school may attend the program at a different building, if there is room.

Three Village first offered a pre-K program in 2015, when it partnered with SCOPE Education Services to run and staff a feebased curriculum. The district rolled out a free pre-K, taught by Three Village teachers, in the fall of 2017.

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Village

Caroline Church of Brookhaven receives second grant for shed

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The Carriage Shed at the Caroline Church of Brookhaven continues to receive a makeover.

The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation announced Jan. 11 it had recently awarded the church a matching grant of $10,950. The grant is to cover the cost of replacing the cedar roof on the shed, and according to Barbara Russell, a junior warden at the church and Town of Brookhaven historian, work has already started on the roof as Jan. 15.

The grant marks the second time in the last two years the church has received funds from the foundation. The first matching grant of

$23,700 was awarded in 2017 and was used to help stabilize the shed, which was built in 1887. The shed’s internal framework needed replacing as the supporting locust poles were sinking into the ground, according to Russell.

The historian said the congregation was grateful to the foundation for its help.

“Our shared commitment to telling the story of our rich heritage of our communities is exemplified in our ongoing collaboration,” Russell said. “We look forward to the full restoration of the shed in time for our [upcoming] anniversary celebration.”

Kathryn Curran, executive director of the Gardiner foundation, called the shed “an icon to the community.” When a nonprofit like

the Caroline Church applies for a matching grant from the foundation, she said, they must have the full funding match in place.

She added two-part projects like the shed are not unusual.

“There are times when an organization needs to break the project into doable funded portions,” she said. “When a RDLGF grant is awarded, an applicant must complete that first contracted grant and have their final report accepted by the foundation before another application will be reviewed. The Caroline Church applied for two separate grants in two years to complete this project.”

Located on the east side of Bates Road on the church’s property, the Carriage Shed is one of four contributing structures to the church being on the National Register of Historic Places.

The shed was initially intended for members to park their carriages while attending services and in later years was used for parishioners to park their cars.

The Caroline Church celebrates its 296th anniversary later this month. Russell said the congregation will commemorate the milestone at their 9:30 a.m. service Jan. 27, and an event to celebrate the restored shed will be held at a later date.

Father Richard Visconti, rector of Caroline Church, above, watches the Carriage Shed roof being installed. Left, the shed pictured post stabilization. Photos from Caroline Church of Brookhaven

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Parents Elementary will have the Open 19th House Tuesday, MarchElementary 19th at 6:30 at Nassakeag School. opportunity to learn more about the program and visit our pre-k classrooms.

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Village

WMHO connects with consumers from other side of the world

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Mobile payment platforms have connected the Stony Brook Village Center to China.

The Ward Melville Heritage Organization, which operates the shopping center, recently hosted a government delegation from Anhui Province, China. The group consisted of government officials and higher education professionals who were in the United States to visit New York and Michigan State University.

Their mission was to learn best practices in innovation and entrepreneurship.

Last year, Stony Brook Village Center became the first community on Long Island to adopt Alipay and WeChat Pay, which is estimated to have one billion users worldwide. The QR code point of sale terminal systems account for 90 percent of the Chinese mobile payment market, according to the WMHO. The platforms enable Stony Brook village merchants to serve travelers from China better by allowing consumers to purchase goods and services in yuan before then being settled in U.S. currency for merchants.

Gloria Rocchio, president of the WMHO, met with the delegates in her office and then took them on a tour of the village where they were able to shop and experience the mobile payment platforms firsthand. She said it was a whirlwind trip, but the visitors had the chance to shop in many stores including Chocolate Works, Madison’s Niche and Camera Concepts & Telescope Solutions.

“We were happy to host this delegation because they were sincerely impressed with our concern for Chinese customers who are accustomed to using Alipay and WeChat Pay,” Rocchio said.

Jeff Norwood, owner of Camera Concepts & Telescope Solutions, said when the delegates came to his store, one of them wanted to buy a

pair of binoculars, but he decided to pay cash instead of Alipay. When he approached the store’s register, Norwood said he realized his point of sales system was offline, and he couldn’t open the register drawer to give the customer change. Another person came over and paid using Alipay, and Norwood said it took two seconds to complete the transaction. It was then that the delegate decided to use Alipay, too.

“I gave him back the fifty, and I said, ‘Look at that, you see, Alipay is easier than cash,’” Norwood said. “It was like the perfect commercial for it.”

The business owner said he’s only had the opportunity to use Alipay once before and said it’s easier to use than the store’s credit card machine.

All he has to do is put in the amount, and then the customer has an app on the phone that comes up with a bar code. The sales associate scans the bar code and the store’s machine prints out a receipt.

Twelve government agencies, including the School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, along with the Science, Technology and Intellectual Property Bureau, were represented.

Guang Hu, delegation leader and director of the Division of International Exchange and Cooperation, Anhui Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, thanked the WMHO for hosting the visit in a statement.

Delegation members, above, with The Ward Melville Heritage Organization President Gloria Rocchio, front center, in front of the historic Stony Brook Post Office.

Delegation leader Guang Hu, left, completes an Alipay transaction with Jeff Norwood, owner of Camera Concepts & Telescope Solutions. Photos from WMHO

“It is very impressive to know that Alipay and WeChat Pay has been implemented by the shops of the village,” Hu said. “Those two are widely used in China, and it shows the technology and innovation offered here. I believe there is great potential to work with [the] Ward Melville Heritage Organization on all levels of collaboration between Anhui and Stony Brook.”

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Bates House to hold MLK Day event Police In honor of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a Peace & Unity multi-faith prayer service and concert will be held at the Bates House, 1 Bates Road, Setauket, Monday, Jan. 21 from 2 to 4 p.m.

Faith leaders Father Frances Pizzarelli from Hope House Ministries, Rabbi Ian Silverman of the East Northport Jewish Center, Kadam Holly McGregor of the Kadampa Meditation Center of Long Island and Mufti Farhan of the Islamic Center of Long Island will be on hand

for the event.

Music will be provided by The H.I.M.S. & Her from Hope House Ministries; Juraid Raja, Pakistani Sufi musician and singer; and Stuart Markus, a folk musician from the band Gathering Time. Food and fellowship will follow. Free will donation requested. To reserve tickets, please call 631-240-3471 or visit www.communitygrowthcenter.org/mlkday-event.

Correction

A Dec. 27, 2018 article printed in The Village Times Herald, Village Beacon Record, Port Times Record and Times of Middle Country entitled “Interfaith association gets much needed conversations going” contained incorrect information in the photo caption. The larger photo was taken at Temple Isaiah in Stony Brook.

The smaller photo of Rabbi Aaron Benson was taken at an Interfaith Thanksgiving service held Nov. 20 at the North Shore Jewish Center. We regret the errors.

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Rolling Pin Bakery along Route 25A in Setauket reported a person or persons allegedly entered into their store Jan 11 via unknown means and stole a safe from the shop.

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A Shoreham woman was arrested Jan. 11 along Hallock Avenue in Port Jefferson Station at around 1:30 a.m. She was allegedly involved in a motor vehicle crash in a 2011 Ford. She was arrested for aggravated DWI with no priors.

Petty theft

A Middle Island woman was arrested in Port Jefferson Station Jan. 13 for allegedly stealing a jacket from the Kohl’s located along Route 25A in Rocky Point Jan. 3.

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A Middle Island man was arrested Jan. 13 in Port Jefferson Station at around 3 p.m. for allegedly having switched license plates on his 2006 Chrysler. He was also charged with criminal possession for having Suboxone, a prescription medication.

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Police arrested a Lake Grove man in Stony Brook Jan. 12 for allegedly stealing various vape products from Vape Nation, located at 978 Middle Country Road, at around 4:30 p.m.

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Village

Mary Speers says goodbye to Setauket Presbyterian

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM As the congregants of Setauket Presbyterian Church look to the future, one pastor has her mind on retirement.

The Rev. Mary Speers, 65, who pastored at the church for nearly six years, said her last sermon in Setauket Nov. 30. Temporarily taking over the role as interim pastor is Kate Jones Calone who is known for her work with the Open Door Exchange, an outreach program of the church created to collect furniture to distribute to those in need.

After members of Setauket Presbyterian conducted its most recent mission study and put together a five-year plan, Speers started asking herself if she wanted to work another five years, considering she was thinking of retiring in May when she turns 66.

The reverend said she was already researching houses in Baltimore. Speers said she wished to move there due to a lot of social justice work needing to be done in the city, along with her love for small-city life. The pastor said if she bought a home before she retired, she could rent it out.

When she decided it would be best for Setauket Presbyterian church members to find someone who would be there for the long haul, she called the Presbytery office in Maryland to see if there were any churches looking for an interim pastor. She said soon after her request, she received a call that congregants of a church in the city were looking for someone. Around the same time, her real estate agent found a home for her.

She said the church members of Setauket Presbyterian understood her need to move as soon as possible and for the small Maryland church’s need for a pastor after theirs left in July 2018.

“They said, ‘You know what, why don’t you let them have a pastor for Advent,’” she said. “‘We’ll be fine.’ That was really sweet of them.”

Speers said she’ll miss pastoring at Setauket Presbyterian Church, where she described the congregants as “putting feet on faith.”

“The congregation is absolutely wonderful,” she said. “They are so involved in the running of the place.”

The pastor said after working and living in Setauket since February of 2013, in addition to the church members, she will miss her time in the Three Village area where she kayaked and picked beach plums at West Meadow Beach, with which she made jam.

Debra Dwyer, an elder with the church, said she switched churches three years ago and credits Speers with her becoming a member of Setauket Presbyterian. She described the pastor as strong and passionate.

The Rev. Mary Speers, left holding dog, at a past Christmas Eve Manger Service at Setauket Presbyterian Church; and Kate Jones Calone, above, after her first official Sunday service as interim pastor. Left photo from Mary Speers; photo above

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Dwyer said she and one of her daughters promoted,” she said.

Speers said she knows Jones Calone will Emily visited the church on one Youth Mission Sunday during which young church members do great in her role as interim pastor because she knows the church’s reported about their recent mission trip to ‘The congregation is dynamics.

“She has a great head Washington, D.C., to work with the homeless. Based absolutely wonderful. on her shoulder,” she said.

“She’s very pastoral, but on that visit, Dwyer and her daughter came back They are so involved she also has excellent boundaries.” one day when Speers was in the running of Jones Calone, 44, who preaching. is a wife and mother of “She preached on the place.’ three children ranging social issues,” the church — Rev. Mary Speers in age from 7 to 13, has elder said. “She applied been involved in the the bible and scripture church since 2011 when in a way that I was so she started as an assistant impressed. What she was able to do was get a message out that was truly pastor. She was in the role for nearly five years, Christian and that was truly socially just in a and during that time, launched and became the way that was not controversial so that everyone director of Open Door Exchange.

“I’m incredibly so grateful and excited to could hear it.”

While Dwyer will miss Speers, she said she be serving Setauket Presbyterian Church in this admires Jones Calone for her peace and justice point in the life of the congregation,” she said.

During this transitional time, she said she missions and looks forward to her pastoring.

“For us, this is just a family member getting is excited to help the congregants, whom she

described as loving and dedicated, with their plans, which include figuring out how to help people connect with their faith in new ways.

She said the church will continue its mission to learn how they can be good stewards of the funds they receive.

In addition to running the Open Door Exchange, every Wednesday the church members volunteer at Welcome Friends Soup Kitchen in Port Jefferson, which serves hot, homemade meals with volunteers from several area churches.

Jones Calone, who officially became interim pastor Jan. 9, said Speers will be missed, and she always appreciated her support when Open Door Exchange was initiated.

“Mary brought a real creativity in her leadership in a lot of different ways, including worship, and I always appreciated that,” Jones Calone said. “I also think about how I really appreciated when we came to her and said, ‘We have this idea for starting this new outreach program.’ She never hesitated and said, ‘Let’s do it. Let’s figure out a way to make this happen, what kind of support do you need.’”

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Of the 300 Scholars, 40 will advance as finalists and be invited to Washington, D.C. in March to participate in the final judging, displaying their work to the public, meeting notable scientists and competing for awards, including the top prize of $250,000.

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Suffolk comptroller to unveil new online tax filing system Need for consistency between towns

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Hot off an electoral victory from last November, Suffolk County Comptroller John Kennedy Jr. (R) spoke to TBR News Media on a number of topics including a new county online tax filing system, the need for more cohesion on how towns send their tax rolls to his office and the potential of running for Suffolk County executive in 2019.

Online tax filing for delinquent taxes

Kennedy announced a new online filing service that will be available to Suffolk County residents after the tax season ends May 31.

The program, called Citizen Self Service, will allow residents to plug in their bank account and routing numbers instead of sending the county a paper check to pay late or delayed property taxes.

“With this new software component somebody is able to pay taxes on a Sunday,” Kennedy said. “[People who don’t use technology] are something we, in government, have to be mindful to accommodate.”

Each township’s receiver of taxes mails out tax bills mid-December and are payable to the tax receiver from Dec. 1 through May 31. If a resident fails to pay their taxes on time, they become delinquent and must pay their taxes

John Kennedy Jr. (R) during a 2014 debate at TBR News Media offices. File Photo by Erika Karp

to the county comptroller with an additional 5 percent interest plus 1 percent for each additional month the taxes are late. Payments received later than Aug. 31 are charged an additional tax sale advertising fee.

Kennedy said the existing pay-by-mail system will remain in place. The comptroller’s office also hosts a pay-by-phone system that allows property owners to talk to a representative and pay the bill that way, but Kennedy said that system is limited in the amount of time it takes and the business hours of the comptroller’s office.

“We always must make an ability for someone to go ahead and transact,” he said.

The comptroller said there have been issues in the past with how municipalities report tax payments to his office. Suffolk County towns must give lists to the comptroller’s office on which bills were paid and those persons or businesses that are tax delinquent. The issue, Kennedy said, was no two towns currently use the same system to file these reports.

“I have 10 town tax receivers to deal with regarding their individual software systems for the record of tax collection,” he said. “We have to drive uniformity amongst the towns — one way or the other they will have to pass muster through us.”

Some towns are more accurate than others, according to Kennedy, as he named the Town of Islip as the most consistently accurate and ontime with its tax reports. Most municipalities collect approximately 90 to 95 percent of their areas property taxes. The comptroller’s office must then spend time going back and forth between the towns’ tax receiver offices to work out those discrepancies.

Kennedy said he’s soon planning to implement, on a prototype “scrubbing system” that will find mistakes on each town’s end and flag them to be fixed before the documents reach the comptroller’s office. The system will first start on a preliminary basis with Brookhaven

and Smithtown townships this year.

Potential run for county executive

Kennedy is only a few months out from his Nov. 6 victory against Democratic challenger Jay Schneiderman for his second term in office.

It was close as Kennedy received only 50.88 percent of the votes.

Still, the comptroller is now weighing the pros and cons of running for the office of county executive.

“I am weighing the possibility, but I have not made any decision yet regarding it,” he said. “Do I think I could do a better job than the current county executive? Yes, my answer to that is yes.”

Part of his decision-making process is figuring if he would trust another person to take up the duties and responsibilities of Suffolk’s comptroller.

“Do I know of anybody that comes to mind, anybody who would embrace the position that I have? I don’t know.” Kennedy said. “The thing that allows me to be aggressive, is the time I spent in the Legislature, the time I was minority leader, my experience in government and my experience as an attorney.”

Read TBR News Media next week for Kennedy’s take on Suffolk’s financial status, how it could impact residents and the upcoming police contract negotiations.

Nonprofits, food pantries work together to help WIC clients

BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Suffolk County officials are working to partner with food pantries and nonprofits to help ensure low-income women and children keep access to basic food and health care in the months ahead as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children undergoes a major change in the months ahead.

The county offices of the WIC program are closed Jan.14 for a week to upgrade to a debit card-based system, making the transition away from paper checks to electronic benefit transfer cards in accordance with New York State law.

The facilities will reopen Jan. 22 in limited capacity only to allow time for employee training and EBT card distribution to clients.

Suffolk officials expect the WIC program to be back up and running in April, but many are concerned that its recipients should have ready access to food and health care during the transition.

The officials viewed the new EBT system changes as necessary to modernize and streamline the program for its more than 12,000 Suffolk recipients.

“I can’t think of no greater priority than

At center, Rebecca Sanin, president and CEO of the Health & Welfare Council of Long Island, speaks about WIC changes Jan. 10. Photo by David Luces

making sure babies and children in their youngest years are well fed and never face nutritional insecurities,” Rebecca Sanin, president and CEO of Health & Welfare Council of Long Island, said during a Jan. 10 press conference.

The council, Hauppauge-based Long Island Cares and Island Harvest of Bethpage have compiled a listing of food pantries in close proximity to WIC offices for families in need during the closure at www.hwcli.com/wic-closings.

WIC provides more than food for lowincome families, it also offers basic health care for children under age 5 including height,

weight, blood tests and iron levels. The program provides women and children with access to nutritional counseling, breastfeeding support and peer counseling.

“WIC sites are not only providers, they also serve as powerful community centers,” Sanin said. “Food security leads to lower infant mortality rates and safer pregnancies.”

Paule Pachter, president and CEO of nonprofit Long Island Cares, said he recognizes there are challenges ahead.

“When you are trying to provide food for mothers and babies, you are talking about some

of the most expensive food on the market,” Patcher said. “Formula, baby food, diapers, specialized food — this stuff is not readily available at the local food pantries.”

Many individuals rely on LI Cares and Island Harvest for these products.

“If the public doesn’t provide the food to the pantries, we don’t have them,” he said. “We’ve been preparing for this day for quite some time.”

As part of the preparations for the months ahead, LI Cares has made sure that mothers can have access to these vital products at their satellite locations in Freeport, Lindenhurst and Huntington Station.

The Hauppauge nonprofit also created mobile outreach units to go into the community to make residents aware of the ongoing closure and changes to the EBT system. They will be visiting Centereach, Bay Shore, Bohemia, Brentwood, Patchogue, Riverhead and Southampton.

Sanin said WIC agencies have worked very hard to get in contact with clients to pick up their checks in advance.

In addition, part of the new system will include the launch of a new smartphone app, WIC2Go, that will let clients track their benefits, find vendors and items.

“The new system will be much easier for clients,” Sanin said.

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State pledge Third time’s the charm

On Jan. 3, Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) was sworn in to a third term in the United States House of Representatives by newly-elected Speaker of the House Nancy

Photo from Congressman Zeldin’s office

Pelosi (D-San Francisco), third from left.

Zeldin’s cousin Travis; mother, Merrill; wife, Diana; and twin daughters, Arianna and Mikayla, were on hand for the ceremony.

State Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) was sworn in with fellow state elected officials Jan. 9 in Albany.

In 2018, Englebright was elected for the 14th time as assemblyman in New York State’s 4th Assembly District.

Photo from Assemblyman Englebright’s office

County

Suffolk County program aims to decrease jail recidivism

BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Suffolk County has been working toward reducing inmate populations through programs to give people who have been incarcerated a new lease on life.

On Jan. 2 county officials announced the completion of the Suffolk Fresh Start program which has helped assist more than 100 formerly incarcerated individuals find employment after their release.

Over the past two years, after receiving a $489,901 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, the county’s Department of Labor has administered Suffolk’s Fresh Start program with the county’s Sheriff’s Office and Eastern Suffolk BOCES. Its main goal was to try and provide employable skills and vocational training to incarcerated individuals.

County Executive Steve Bellone (D) said in a press release the county has created a successful criminal justice model to reduce recidivism and protect taxpayers.

“This program is giving people a second chance to become productive members of society, strengthening families and saving Suffolk taxpayers millions,” he said.

More than 350 individuals were enrolled in the Fresh Start program where they were given resources and training to address any possible barriers to employment. They were also registered with the county’s One-Stop Employment Center in Hauppauge.

The employment center supplies jobseeking individuals with the tools necessary for a self-directed or staff-assisted job search.

There they can receive help with creating or editing résumés, navigate the internet for potential jobs and be interviewed by prospective employers on-site.

“The program has changed people’s lives,” said county spokesperson Derek Poppe.

Since 1999, New York State’s prison population has declined by 35 percent, according to a report from the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision released Jan. 1. The report said since 2011, the state has eliminated 5,500 prison beds and closed a total of 13 correctional facilities. The number of male inmates in maximum security prisons has been reduced from 24,151 in 2009 to 20,173 in 2019.

Suffolk has two jail facilities. One is the Riverhead facility which was intended to hold 529 inmates in maximum security cells and

240 in medium security cells, according to a The number of people in Suffolk’s jails is 2008 county report. The facilities in Yaphank strained by a lack of corrections officers in included a minimum-security jail that had cell both Riverhead and Yaphank. County Sheriff space for 504 inmates, and a DWI Alternative Errol Toulon Jr. (D) told TBR News Media facility for 54 inmates. in July 2018 the county was dealing with a Since 2010 the county’s jail population large amount of corrections officer vacancies, has decreased drastically. Newsday’s data on saying at the time there were 76 positions left Long Island’s jail population unfilled with 30 new officers shows a fall from 1,609 in 2010 being added as early as August to 1,157 in 2016. The decrease that same year. has been mostly in inmates at the The sheriff said in a press Riverhead facility. release that Fresh Start gives Poppe said Bellone was county inmates opportunity and against the construction of a new hope following incarceration. jail facility, and programs like “Having gainful employment Fresh Start work to keep inmates is one of the factors that can from committing further crimes. reduce recidivism, and we are “Many of these individuals fortunate to have Department were able to find work in the of Labor staff working with us construction, manufacture and to improve outcomes for those telemarketing field,” Bellone’s transitioning from jail to our County Executive Steve Bellone spokesperson said. communities,” Toulon said.

Even though the grant from the By repurposing existing Department of the Labor expired in December internal funds Poppe said the county plans on 2018, Poppe said there are plans in place to having Department of Labor staffers work in continue the programs through internal county conjunction with the correctional facilities in funds and possibly funds from the federal future, adding, “We want to continue to run this government. successful program.”

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An internist or a family practitioner performs the detailed examination over an extended encounter.

What are the components of preventive wellness physical exam?

A. During an annual preventive wellness exam, your physician will take a full inventory of your current health and review your medical history to ensure no alarming changes have occurred. Detailed medical history, including your lifestyle, personal and social activities, as well as family history is discussed at the exam, which can help further identify necessary screenings. In addition, your weight, blood pressure and complete physical exam is assessed. Your age is also a determining factor for further screenings, such as cancer screenings and vaccinations.

The annual preventative wellness exam is essential to keeping you healthy.

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A. Yes, almost all insurance carriers will cover your annual preventive wellness exam. In fact, most insurance carriers will cover at least one wellness or preventive exam per year.

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Ward Melville’s varsity wrestling team members had their hands full when top-seeded Patchogue-Medford came to town outscoring the Patriots, 55-21, in a League I contest Jan. 9.

Atop the leaderboard for the Patriots was Max Scott, below, with a 9-2 decision over PatMed’s Jack Caravella at 126 pounds. James Araneo pinned his opponent at 4 minutes, 22 seconds at 170 pounds. Sam Berger won a 10-7

decision over Pat-Med’s Evan Albrecht at 285 pounds. Christian Lievano, right, made short work of Steven Isselbacher with a pin at 1:43 at 99 pounds, and Tom Fitzsimons defeated Sean Beatty 8-4 at 113 pounds. Pictured above, Chris Prussen in control at 138 pounds.

The Patriots are currently 1-5 in league. The team is back out on the mat at the Highlander Tourney at Herricks High School in New Hyde Park Jan 19. First bout is 10:30 a.m.

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Opinion

Letters to the editor

Dear newspaper editor

The swearing-in ceremony for newly elected state Sen. Monica Martinez (D-Brentwood) Jan. 12 was a remarkable event here on Long Island. At the most basic level, I was touched by the amount of support for Monica and her accomplishments. She represents a true American success story — coming to this country at age 3 from El Salvador, growing up in a local community to become a school teacher and then its county legislator.

This is a remarkable story in and of itself, but now Monica is moving up to represent her larger community as a state senator. Best of all, she is doing things for all the right reasons, to help her fellow community members share in the success of this nation and, like all immigrants before her, help to make this nation a success as well.

In our world of seemingly broken government, another significant aspect of the event stands out, even if only relevant for the short two-hour period of the ceremony. The outpouring of support for Monica not only filled the Brentwood High School auditorium, it was a true bipartisan cross section

Editorial

One of the best parts of our job is providing an outlet for readers to express their beliefs and passions on the Letters to the Editor page. Knowing what is on the minds of community members is always valuable to us and to the rest of our readers.

This is a platform for releasing passions.

That’s why we’re hoping a few readers who called us last week will take pen to paper — or fingers to keyboard — and write us a letter. After the Jan. 10 editorial criticizing the extended government shutdown over a proposed wall on the U.S. and Mexican border, we received a few calls from readers who were unhappy with our opinion. Some went as far as to say they would no longer read our papers. Even though they want to end their relationships with us, we appreciate their calls. We wish they would have taken the time to write a Letter to the Editor, because that’s one of the purposes of the page — for a reader to let the newspaper staff and readers know that they don’t agree with an editorial or even an article.

We encourage and appreciate letters from all our readers no matter where they stand, even when it comes to politics. Also, we would love to see more letters from those who voted for and support President Donald Trump (R) as well as those who don’t. We want readers to tell us what they like and don’t like about the president — we appreciate hearing from all sides. We think our readers do too.

Speaking of Trump and national issues, many have asked why they don’t see more letters about local topics. When we receive them, we gladly publish them. We would love to hear more about what our readership thinks of political decisions on the town and village levels as well as our local elected officials.

These letters to the editor can create much-needed conversations, but a few readers have commented there’s too much back and forth between some individuals in some of our papers. We always do our best to give people an equal opportunity to respond to each other, but some of that back and forth would stop if we received more letters about a wider variety of topics.

So, if you’re reading this editorial right now, don’t be shy.

We accept letters with opinions about local, state, national and international issues. Whatever is on your mind, we want to hear from you. Take action. Keep in mind that letters are edited for length, libel, style and good taste — the letters page is not a place for foul language or personal battles. Letters should be no longer than 400 words, and we don’t publish anonymous letters. All submissions must include an address and phone number for confirmation.

On a side note, here at TBR News Media we go by “The Associated Press Stylebook” to edit our articles, letters and editorials. One reader pointed out in last week’s edition we didn’t refer to Trump as president. But we did. In the first reference we wrote “President Donald Trump (R),” but following AP style, on subsequent references used only his last name.

We hope this editorial gets you to write or email, leading to more diverse and productive conversations in the future — waiting to hear from you at rita@tbrnewsmedia.com.

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Swearing-in ceremony an example for all

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of society. Yes, Democrats like U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo were there as the keynote speakers to laud the absolute success story on display. But there, too,

were stalwart Long Island Republicans like U.S. Congressman Peter King and Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine, among many others. Long Island’s elected leaders attended to cheer the achievements of one of our own, regardless of tribe or partisan politics.

For many it may have gone under the radar, but the “D” and “R” in people’s affiliation took a two-hour break.

At least for those few hours on Saturday morning, Long Island political society functioned in a healthy manner.

Why can’t our gang in Washington, D.C., get it together as well and open the government so people are not suffering unnecessarily? Let us hope that what was accomplished here can be accomplished in our nation’s capital, and all our elected officials can return to working together for the benefit of the many, not the benefit of the few. Let Monica’s ceremony be a symbol for all of us of what we should be — a nation that celebrates in the accomplishments of all its citizens.

Perry Gershon Democratic candidate for NY-1 2018 East Hampton

A personal view of global warming Why is Paris burning? Recently, many thousands of French citizens, wearing the “yellow vests” (gilets jaunes) they are required to carry in their cars, took to the streets of Paris, most notably the Champs-Élysées, to protest the recently imposed tax increase on gasoline, which raised the cost to an astronomical $7 per gallon. What is the reason for this latest burdensome tax? Perhaps not surprisingly, in this city that gave birth to the unwelcome Paris accord, the stated purpose of the tax is to solve the problem of global warming, more fashionably described as climate change, by discouraging the use of fossil fuels.

People throughout the world are increasingly becoming aware that global warming is not the fault of industrial civilization, and that it cannot be prevented by the expenditure of large sums of money. The surface temperature of the Earth is determined by literally hundreds of factors, of which the most important is the intensity of the solar

radiation that we receive, which is known to fluctuate from time to time, and is the main cause of global warming and cooling. The most important greenhouse gases are water vapor and clouds, which provide 90 percent of the greenhouse effect, compared to 6 percent from carbon dioxide. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is now around 0.041 percent, up slightly from 0.028 percent at the start of the Industrial Revolution.

However, this number is also known to have fluctuated greatly in the past, and there have been times when carbon dioxide levels have been higher, and temperatures have been lower, compared to the present day.

The physics of these relationships is extremely complex and is not completely understood. Numerous software models have been generated, which are purported to describe and predict the effects of the myriad of real world factors, including carbon dioxide concentrations, on the

temperature of the Earth. However, these programs always contain convenient fudge factors, which may be manipulated to provide a desired outcome, based on political or other nonobjective agendas.

And, as it turns out, one of these desired objectives is the redistribution of wealth, which is the never-ending holy grail of our friends of the socialist persuasion.

Thus, we find ourselves afflicted by dual pestilences: Computer models that are tweaked to tell us that increased levels of carbon dioxide will lead to disastrous increases in global warming, and politicians, exemplified by presidents Emmanuel Macron of France and Barack Obama of the United States who tell us that this can be prevented only by enormous levies of new and onerous taxes, which will righteously punish us for our past excesses.

Fortunately, the citizens of both countries know better. Lafayette, we are here!

George Altemose Setauket

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Opinion

An unwelcome gray hair announces advancing age

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rom birth, hair has been a signal. I had hair when I was born, which probably doesn’t come as too much of a surprise to people who have known me for years.

When I was young, my haircutter used to imagine becoming wealthy by figuring out what made my hair grow so rapidly.

For those without hair, this isn’t a boast; it’s a part of a genetic heriD. None tage that cuts both of the above ways. My hair,

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF as it turns out, is also thick and fast growing on my eyebrows or, as people have preferred to say, eyebrow. The space between my

eyebrows is just as eager to grow hair as the area just above my eyes.

In college, I tried to grow my hair longer to see how I’d look with shoulder-length hair. That was a failed experiment as my hair grew out instead of down, turning it into a heavy tangle of thick hair.

When I met my wife, I convinced her that I couldn’t disconnect the hair between my eyebrows, or I would be like Sampson and loose my strength. Amused as she was by the story, she let it slide. The afternoon of our wedding, she was stunned to see me with two eyebrows. She wanted to know what had happened and, more importantly, how I was still standing?

I told her that I went for a professional shave so that my usual facial shadow wouldn’t appear during the wedding. While I had my eyes closed, the barber removed the hair above my nose with a quick wrist flick.

Fortunately, my wife didn’t ask for ongoing

removal of that hair when it returned.

As I’ve gotten older, hair has emerged from unwelcome places, making appearances from my ears and nose. Who needs hair there — and how could Charles Darwin possibly explain the presence of such unwelcome hair? Does the ear hair announce my advancing age and lower social value?

That brings us to today. As I was maneuvering through the usual deep thoughts, resolutions and promises for the start of the new year, an errant and unwanted fellow emerged from my nose. He was clearly long enough to attract attention, but what was especially surprising about “Jedediah” wasn’t just that he was long or that he seemed to rappel out of my nose. It was his color that offered such an unwelcome but realistic signal — Jedediah was gray.

Ugh! Who wants or needs a gray nose hair, not only offering the world a clue that my hair growth was out of control, but that I’m also

so much older that even my nose hairs have started to show signs of aging? Do people dye their nose hairs?

Should I pluck him, trim him or wear him with pride, hoping that he distracts people from the progressively bushier pile of hair pouring out of my ears?

Wouldn’t a rugged individualist defy convention and wear the years and the hair growth with pride, despite the lack of magazine covers with contemporary studs like Hugh Jackman with hair coming out of their noses? If Hugh made gray nose hair fashionable, would I feel less self-conscious about Jedediah?

Poor Jedediah, who worked so hard to emerge from the nose cave, suffered the same fate as the errant hairs that grew out of my ears.

He reluctantly left the warm comfort of my nose and was discarded into the trash.

While hair may tell a story about each person, Jedidiah will no longer be sharing mine, except for readers of this column.

sleep one-third of our lives. Home is our center, where our car knows to go automatically. Home is safe.

The longer we live there, the harder it is to leave.

When my elder brother died, leaving the co-op empty that my parents had bought and lived in for many years, I started slowly to have alterations made inside the apartment. The bathroom and kitchen needed to be brought up to date, appliances modernized, floors improved. My cousin watched with some amusement. “You are making a temple to your parents’ memory,” she offered. Not really, I thought to myself. I was investing for a far more pragmatic reason. I had hopes of one day renting it out for some supplemental income. But when I thought about her wry comment, I had to admit there was an element of truth in it. Our family had lived there happily for such a long time. I was even born there. It wasn’t just an apartment. It was the physical container for some of my happiest times.

And it was comforting, somehow, that it was still there, even if we no longer were.

I remember when I was still in the elementary school, just down the block, that one of my young classmates came to school one day to wish us goodbye. With tears in her eyes, she explained that her family was moving to someplace called Ohio for her father’s job, and she would be leaving us. “Don’t worry,” soothed the teacher, “you’ll go to a nice school there and make new friends. You’ll grow from the experience. And you can always come back to visit.” She nodded her head obediently, but I remember thinking then how sad it must be to leave one’s home and all associated with it to start over. Leaving a home means interrupting the momentum of one’s life. I wondered if my father would ever move us all elsewhere and comforted myself with the thought that he seemed pretty anchored where he was, which meant I would continue to live near my school.

A house is just an inanimate thing, bought and sold. But when it is a home, it can be the soul of the people who once lived there.

Home sweet home A friend called the other day to wish us a happy new year and to tell us that she and her husband had sold their house. The buyers were going to tear it down and build a new one on the property. Before I could react, she assured me that they had lots of pictures from over the years, and their many memories of raising the children there would always stay with them. Clearly she had mixed feelings about what was happening.

It got me to Between thinking about you and me what a house is.

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF For starters, it’s four walls and a roof, maybe even a basement, but maybe not, in which we shelter ourselves, our families and our

stuff. It is also a place where we invite friends and neighbors to drop in for a drink, a chat or even an elegant dinner party. Some of those guests may even stay over from time to time, so a house is a hospitality center in which we connect with those we enjoy and perhaps love.

A house is a physical location where we can be found. When people ask our names, they may immediately follow up with a second question: “Where do you live?” So to some extent, where we live helps define us. But a house is more, so much more. It is a home where those closest to us reside, perhaps where our children grow up, where we planned, and from which we traveled to and from work to become the people we are today.

Home is where we want to go immediately when we are not feeling well. It’s where we can get a soothing cup of tea or our regular sustenance at mealtimes. Home is a place where we rest, watch television, read the newspaper, use the computer, play video games, call our friends, wash our clothes, floss our teeth and

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