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January 21, 2021

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Village

Proposed Nicolls Road bus system still in early stages

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Suffolk County is moving forward with a rapid-transit bus system along Nicolls Road, even though the initiative is still in its early stages.

On Jan. 27, the Suffolk County Council on Environmental Quality, known as CEQ, will hold a virtual meeting to determine the need for a State Environmental Quality Review for the bus system.

Residents interested in submitting their thoughts on the SEQRA review will be able to email them to CEQ (details at end). The opportunity will be the first of many for the public to comment on the system in the near future, according to Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket), who is also a CEQ councilmember.

The proposal to create Suffolk’s first northsouth multimodal transportation corridor was introduced by County Executive Steve Bellone (D) in 2015. The proposed corridor will feature dedicated lanes for rapid transit buses traveling along Nicolls Road between Stony Brook and Patchogue, as well as high occupancy vehicle lanes in some sections, with the goal of relieving traffic congestion.

Buses would operate in HOV lanes on the inside of the road and along specialized bus lanes along the outside portions of the road. The buses will go from the Stony Brook train station all the way down Nicolls Road to Patchogue, and smaller routes would be incorporated to

travel to the Ronkonkoma train station and MacArthur Airport.

“There are a lot of important improvements to a corridor that is a key north-south corridor in Suffolk County,” Hahn said.

The county legislator said it’s a tremendously large project which includes a more-than 5,000page document for CEQ members to review.

While she said it seemed as if the county had hoped the council would come to a decision about the SEQRA review in the December CEQ meeting, the members asked for more time to review the documents, saying it would take multiple sessions. They will also decide which will come first, a SEQRA review or a National Environmental Policy Act review, as the county has received federal funds for the project.

“We’re spending a significant amount of time going over each piece of it,” Hahn said.

Different topics CEQ members have and will review include groundwater effects if any, proposed pedestrian bridges, noise walls in specific spots, vegetation, air quality, bus shelters, home values, traffic estimates, coordination of bus routes, environmental analysis and more.

At the December meeting, CEQ members also made recommendations that data be added to the 5,000-plus page document.

“We are by no means ready to make a determination, and we are really early in the stages of the review,” she said, adding CEQ doesn’t expect to make a decision about the

A rendering of proposed bus lanes on Nicolls Road. Rendering by Greenman-Pedersen, Inc.

SEQRA review until February.

There are different phases of the project, and regarding the Three Village area, work won’t begin north of the expressway until 2024. Hahn said before any work begins there would be multiple outreaches to various civic groups and chambers in affected areas.

Proposed changes along Nicolls Road include intersection improvements at Hawkins, Hammond and Mark Tree roads, as well as Pond Path. Proposals include eliminating the left-hand

turning lanes at the intersections and shortening the time of the red lights on Nicolls Road at those intersections for safety purposes and to help with traffic flow.

Residents who are interested in submitting statements regarding the council’s SEQRA review decision of the project can do so before the Zoom meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 9:30 a.m. The council invites residents to send in statements for the public portion by emailing them to planning@suffolkcountyny.gov.

Stony Brook Rotary helps with ‘Million Mask Challenge’

BY CHRIS CUMELLA DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The Rotary Club of Stony Brook is lending aid in a community-involvement project designed to help those in need of face masks to receive them.

Hope Kinney, president of the club and branch manager of Investors Bank, oversees the Rotary and plans to distribute masks to organizations in the area that include local businesses, schools and more.

The Million Mask Challenge has been orchestrated by Rotary International, an organization designed to aid in community outreach and assistance. Stony Brook Rotary is just one of 35,000 clubs globally with over 1.2 million members. With the clubs’ combined efforts, the goal is to distribute a million masks worldwide.

“We picked up our supply of 4,000 masks [recently] when the Rotarian groups of the New York area met together in Hicksville,” Kinney said. “We’re going to give to the local library, the churches, temples and anybody

else in the community that is interested.”

The main focus for distribution plans to revolve around local businesses that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and those people who are more at risk. The Rotary club is also working with Meals on Wheels to provide masks to those receiving their meals.

According to Rotary’s vice president, Jeannette Merola, the process will be doorto-door style. Through the efforts of 20 volunteers, deliveries will be made to those in need in St. James, Setauket and Stony Brook as soon as Saturday, Jan. 23.

“I have 1,000 masks in my room ready to go,” Merola said. “This whole thing is meant to encourage and foster the ideal of community service and to give back.”

The Rotary Club of Stony Brook meets every other Thursday at 12:15 p.m. at Stony Brook’s The Bench. The Million Mask Challenge is one of many volunteer opportunities offered. Kinney has encouraged those interested in visiting the club’s website at www.stonybrookrotary.com, showing up

to meetings and asking any questions.

For some members, the Rotary is a constant commitment for the sake of others.

This includes Dan Berger, outreach and public relations manager, who has worked as the team’s PR for the past 14 years following his days first volunteering with the organization as far back as the 1980s.

“One of my great early memories was one of our fundraisers at the Stony Brook horse show next to Old Field Club,” Berger said. “I spent the day making hot dogs and hamburgers for people — it was a lot of fun.”

The Rotary Club of Stony Brook shares the goal of aiding those in the community while remembering those who were part of their past deeds. It has been some nine months since the passing of George Rehn, who devoted 40 years to Rotary and served as district governor and president of the club.

Kinney was appointed president of the club in July and has made an effort alongside her colleagues to keep Rehn in heart by helping the community with campaigns such as the mask challenge.

Hope Kinney standing in front of the Rotary Club truck in Hicksville about to receive 4,000 masks. Photo from Hope Kinney

“He lived and breathed being a Rotarian,” Kinney said. “He always had nice things to say about everybody, and he would be very proud of us and the achievements that we’re working toward.”

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Suffolk County and Brookhaven Town Republican Chairman Jesse Garcia announced Jan. 14 in a press release that Stony Brook resident Theresa Laucella was the party’s candidate in the March 23 special election for the First Town Council District.

Laucella will be running against Jonathan Kornreich, also of Stony Brook, for the seat left vacant by Valerie Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station), who won her run as a judge for the Supreme Court of the State of New York. “As a working mother who is an active

volunteer in our community, she will be a common-sense voice on the town board to hold the line on taxes keep our town an affordable place to live, safe for our children, and work with Ed Romaine to continue to preserve our environment for generations to come,� Garcia said.

Laucella, 48, has been an active volunteer in the Three Village area working on projects ranging from community plantings and cleanups to improving signage. She is also an active Girl Scouts of America leader.

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Town

Answering Dr. King’s challenge: Dream it — and then do it

BY TOM LYON DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM More than 110 folks zoomed in last Saturday afternoon, Jan. 16, for the annual, and first-ever virtual, Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Festival and forum presented by Building Bridges in Brookhaven. The Rev. Gregory Leonard, of the Bethel AME Church in Setauket opened the afternoon with a challenge: “To understand that we are all in this together.”

As in the past, Building Bridges held two informative programs with guest presenters and music. Food was OYO — on your own — but the popular Share Fair Exchange for nonprofit groups had to be postponed until spring. Four speakers addressed two long simmering issues for Long Island and presented us with an urgent call to action for each.

Two stories of toxic ecological damage to our Island and to some of our most vulnerable neighbors came first.

Stony Brook University history associate professor Abena Asare, one of the leaders of the newly established Brookhaven Landfill Action and Remediation Group, gave a sobering history of the last remaining waste disposal facility in the Town of Brookhaven. She provided a

parallel history of its growth at a time when nearby communities were becoming alleged victims of racially charged real-estate practices.

A local elementary school and largely minority community there have had severe health issues and high death rates that are arguably the highest for any community on Long Island.

As the landfill has grown to 192 acres and more than 200 feet in height, plans are developing for its closure by 2024. Meanwhile, it still continues to accept waste materials for 1.9 million Long Islanders even though Brookhaven Town’s population is only about 500,000 people.

“This is a regional problem,” Asare said. “We need a regional solution. Landfills are closing across the country in environmentally safe ways every day, but we are sadly way behind.”

Next Irma Solis, director of the Suffolk County Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, presented a history of the illegal toxic dumping and subsequent closing of Roberto Clemente Park and playground in Brentwood.

The tragic story is also one of a powerful and ultimately successful community response.

It took strong local organizing and a long legal battle for that minority community to get justice and to see the park and pool decontaminated and finally reopened in 2018 after a six-year closure.

Abena Asare was one of the featured speakers during the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Festival and forum.

Photo from Abena Asare

There were clear parallels in the two stories. As the session ended, we could hear Asare call to Solis, “You most definitely have to come and speak with our group.”

Two other guests — members of the New York State Poor People’s Campaign Rebecca Garrard from the state capital region and Michael O’Brien from Nassau — spoke about the rental housing and eviction crisis that looms ahead of New York and Long Island. Currently there is an estimated $3.5 billion in unpaid back rent today across New York state and the recently extended moratorium is clearly not a permanent solution, according to Garrard.

Garrard gave a sober and fact-filled presentation with a compelling argument for bipartisan cooperation on a national level as the only viable long-term solution. Without that, we may face an epidemic of homelessness in the near future.

O’Brien spoke of the need to empower and educate tenants about their rights in order to prevent abuse. He told stories of local private groups bringing attention to this issue and providing education and emergency assistance.

These groups were inspiring examples of the type of service that Coretta Scott King spoke about in 1992 when she challenged Americans to turn Dr. King’s holiday into “a day on, not a day off.”

A video of the entire program is available on the Building Bridges in Brookhaven Facebook page.

Building Bridges wants to thank the presenters, musicians Jamel Coy Hudson and John Schmeiser, Long Island Poor People’s Campaign, Setauket Presbyterian Church — especially the Rev. Ashley McFaul-Erwin — and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at Stony Brook for their assistance and support.

Tom Lyon is a co-founder of Building Bridges in Brookhaven.

Education

Three Village annual career fair goes virtual for 2021

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The Three Village Industry Advisory Board didn’t let a pandemic get in the way of its annual career fair for secondary school students in the school district.

On Jan. 14, the board, a partnership between the district and local businesses, presented its third annual career fair. The event gave students the opportunity to talk to local professionals after they took a “career DNA” test analysis to discover their strengths. However, instead of stopping by tables set up by business representatives, the teenagers checked into Google Meet sessions to take part in 20-minute seminars where professionals presented a quick overview of what their careers entailed and then gave the students a chance to ask questions.

To help participants to choose which sessions to attend, the career DNA results assigned each student a color for various strengths and businesses were also assigned the colors.

Ilene Littman, 3V-IAB coordinator and

Ward Melville High School business teacher, said the fair provided students in grades 7-12 an opportunity “to explore and learn about careers in a virtual format.” This year 308 students registered, and 21 businesses participated. Students had the opportunity to learn about banking, real estate, dentistry, the medical and financial fields and more.

“Students navigated the virtual career fair based on their career DNA, which was matched up to businesses that shared similar traits to ensure those occupations/professions are uniquely suitable for each student,” Littman said. “Using this online platform to interact with business professionals was also excellent practice because it is most likely how today’s students will be screened in the initial stage of the interview process once they are ready to embark on their job searches to enter their chosen fields.”

Alan Baum, the school district’s executive director of Secondary Curriculum and Human Resources, said he was grateful for the work Littman put into organizing the event that he described as “tremendous.”

“Orchestrating such an event is difficult

enough but bringing it to fruition during the pandemic and reimagining it as a virtual career fair was a herculean task,” he said.

Baum added he was also grateful for committee co-chair Michael Ardolino and all of the participating businesses that helped with the virtual career fair. Ardolino is also the founder and owner of Team Ardolino/ Realty Connect USA. “I am thrilled that we were able to provide our secondary students the opportunity to engage with a diverse representation of the business community in our continuing effort to help the students explore future career paths,” Baum said.

Ardolino said it was interesting to see the conversations that were going on in the different sessions and how well the virtual platform worked and could possibly lead to smaller presentations in the future such as a business owner talking about how to manage the company’s money and more.

Mike Lawton of Element Energy LLC noted there were more participants than he thought there would be, and the virtual format was perfect.

Business owners, such as Michael Ardolino of Team Ardolino/Realty Connect USA, answered students questions virtually during the annual career fair. Photo from Three Village Central School District

“I had some excellent questions from the students, and I enjoyed every minute of it,” he said.

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University

SBU’s leaders deal with present, prepare for future seeking ways to increase its revenue, by creating these new degrees and attracting more students, particularly from outside the state.

Stony Brook University has been at the center Out-of-state students pay more in tuition, of the COVID-19 pandemic, as hospital staff which provides financial support for the school has treated and comforted residents stricken and for in-state students as well. with the virus and researchers have worked “We have some room to increase out-of-state tirelessly on a range of projects, students,” Sotiropoulos said. including manufacturing “There is some flexibility” as the personal protective equipment. university attempts to balance Amid a host of challenges, between the lower tuition inadministrators at Stony Brook state students pay, which benefits have had to do more with less socioeconomically challenged under budgetary pressure. students, and the higher tuition In a two-part series, Interim from out-of-state students.

Provost Fotis Sotiropoulos and While the university has President Maurie McInnis share been eager to bring in talented their approaches and solutions, international students as well in while offering their appreciation what Sotiropoulos described as a for their staff.

Fotis Sotiropoulos Photo from SBU “globally-connected world,” the interim provost recognized that Part I: Like many other administrators at universities across the country this effort has been “extremely challenging right and world, Fotis Sotiropoulos, Dean of the College now,” in part because of political tension with of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Interim China and in part because Chinese universities are Provost of Stony Brook University, has been also growing.

Stony Brook “recognizes that it needs to juggling numerous challenges. diversify right now. The university is considering Named interim provost in September, strategies for trying to really expand in other Sotiropoulos, who is also a SUNY Distinguished countries.

We need to do a lot more to engage Professor of Civil Engineering, has focused on ways to help President Maurie McInnis keep students from African countries,” he said.

Sotiropoulos described Africa as an important the campus community safe, keep the university part of the future, in part because of the projected running amid financial stress and strain, and think creatively about ways to enhance the university’s quadrupling of the population in coming decades.

“We are trying to preserve our Asian base of educational programs.

In January, Stony Brook University which is students,” he said, but, at the same time, “we are one of two State University of New York programs thinking of other opportunities to be prepared for to earn an Association of American Universities the future.”

While the administration at the university distinction, plans to announce new degree continues to focus on cutting costs, generating programs aimed at combining expertise across at revenue and attracting students to new programs, least two colleges.

“We have charged all the deans to work together officials recognize the need to evaluate the to come up with this future-of-work initiative,” effectiveness of these efforts for students.

Sotiropoulos said. “It has to satisfy a number of “Assessment is an integral part,” Sotiropoulos criteria,” which include involving at least two said. The school will explore the jobs students colleges or schools and it has to be unique. Such are able to find. “It’s all about the success of our programs will “allow us to market the value of a students,” he added. The school plans to assess constantly, while making adjustments to its efforts.

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Sotiropoulos said Stony Brook hoped to announce at least two or three degree ideas by the middle of January.

Under financial pressure caused by the pandemic, the university has “undertaken this unprecedented initiative to think of the university as one,” Sotiropoulos said. Looking at the East and West campus together, the university plans to reduce costs and improve efficiency in an organization that is “complex with multiple silos,” he said. At times, Stony Brook has paid double or triple for the same product or service. The university is taking a step back to understand and optimize its expenses, he added.

On the other side of the ledger, Stony Brook is

Pandemic Response

Stony Brook University has been at the forefront of reacting to the pandemic on a number of fronts. The hospital treated patients during the heavy first wave of illnesses last spring, while the engineering school developed ways to produce personal protective equipment, hand sanitizer, and even MacGyver-style ventilators. The university has also participated in multi-site studies about the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.

Stony Brook has been involved in more than 200 dedicated research projects across all disciplines, which span 45 academic departments and eight colleges and schools within the university.

Sotiropoulos, whose expertise is in computational

fluid mechanics, joined a group of researchers at SBU to conduct experiments on the effectiveness of masks in stopping the way aerosolized viral particles remain in the air, long after patients cough,

sneeze, and even leave the room.

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Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com The Setauket Fire District Board of Fire Commissioners will hold Business Meetings for 2021 as follows: January 28th February 11th and 25th March 11th and 25th April 8th and 22nd May 13th and 27th June 10th and 24th July 8th and 22nd August 12th and 26th September 9th and 23rd October 14th and 28th December 9th and 23rd Currently our meetings will be held virtually and will begin at 6:30 p.m. This is subject to change. Please visit www.setauketfd.com for meeting for updates.

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Kenneth & Catherine Roberts, 75 Shore Rd., Setauket, NY. Location: South side Shore Rd. 215’+/East of Bayview Ave., Setauket. Applicant requests relief of Chapter 33-5 (FEMA elevations) for existing one story residence addition (13’ required to bottom of lowest structural member required - 11’9” requested). (0200 06300 0300 008000) 33.

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BY BILL LANDON DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Ward Melville High School’s boys swim team members hit the road in a League I matchup against Brentwood Jan. 15, and despite many first-year swimmers, the Patriots inked a 67-43 victory.

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The Patriots returned to the pool Jan. 19 with an away meet against Half Hollow Hills where Ward Melvile lost 105-67.

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hour” to dissipate in a room, especially if there’s no ventilation, Sotiropoulos said, and added he was pleased and proud of the scientific community for working together to understand the problem and to find solutions.

“The commitment of scientists at Stony Brook and other universities was quite inspirational,” he said.

According to Sotiropoulos, the biggest

danger to combating the virus comes from the “mistrust” of science, He hopes the effectiveness of the vaccine in turning around the number of people infected and stricken with a variety of difficult and painful symptoms can convince people of the value of the research.

Sotiropoulos said the rules the National Institutes of Health have put in place have also ensured that the vaccine is safe and effective.

People who question the validity of the research “don’t understand how strict this process is and how many hurdles you have to go through.”

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Local lawmakers demand priority of senior citizen COVID-19 vaccine

BY KIMBERLY BROWN DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Republican elected officials gathered at a press conference in Hauppauge Thursday, Jan. 14, calling out Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on the state’s failed vaccine rollout.

State senators, including Mario Mattera (R-St. James) and Anthony Palumbo (R-New Suffolk), demanded that Cuomo implement a plan to fix issues that have arisen since the vaccine was authorized to be distributed.

Senior citizen and West Babylon resident, Anna Foley, shared her experience of how difficult it has been to obtain the vaccine, which she has still not received.

“I’m 83 years old, fighting two types of cancer and other underlying medical problems,” she said. “I can’t seem to get anyone to help. I have looked at the New York State website, called pharmacies, doctors, hospitals, and I even tried my union to see if I can get any information, to no avail.”

Foley mentioned the difficulties senior citizens are facing while trying to make an appointment for the vaccine, saying that most people ages 80 and over are not computer savvy, and the locations where the vaccine is administered are too far to drive to.

Mattera pointed out how the federal

government still has not released the new vaccine to pharmacy chains like Walgreens and CVS, giving residents fewer options of locations where they can receive the vaccine.

In his plea to the governor, Mattera said, “Get the vaccine here and get more locations.

Right now, there are four locations, and do you know what they say? They say, ‘We don’t know what to do, we can’t help you.’

It’s unacceptable.”

The partial and full closings of businesses, mandated by Cuomo, were intended to combat rising numbers of COVID-19 cases. However, Palumbo said even though businesses are partially closed, the cases are still increasing.

“The Legislature needs to get involved, we need to get control back,” he said. “We need to get those vaccinations out, and as quickly as possible — not throw them in the garbage.”

Many of the politicians also discussed the bill Cuomo signed into law June 17, which would allow every pharmacist in New York state to administer the COVID-19 vaccine. State Assemblyman Doug Smith (R-Holbrook) demanded to know why the bill has not been put into full force.

“Now we’re in January, governor, where is your plan?” Smith said. “Why is every single pharmacy in the state of New York not able to administer this vaccine?”

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Editorial Letters to the Editor Fearlessly moving forward All semblance of fairness lost It was during Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inauguration address in 1933 when he uttered the famous sentence, “So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

It was a call to Americans to work together to fight against dark times.

Our country has known collective terror throughout the decades, and 2020 will be remembered as the year we feared an invisible virus and people taking advantage of peaceful protests by looting stores and burning cars. That trepidation carried over into the new year as citizens watched as extremists sieged the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Nearly 90 years after Roosevelt called for Americans to fight fear, we find ourselves afraid of our fellow citizens.

Since the attack on the People’s House in Washington, D.C., members of Congress are worried that their safety, as well as that of their family members, is in jeopardy. Some even believe their own colleagues will harm them if they speak out against former President Donald Trump (R). Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI-03), a freshman congressman, told CNN he was afraid of possible threats after he voted to impeach Trump.

The fear has trickled down to our own neighborhoods as many are hesitant to speak their opinions, afraid if their views are more conservative than others they will be tied to the extremists who assaulted the Capitol.

There are those who once wouldn’t think twice about standing on a corner to protest or rally, even if people who held opposing views were right across the street. Now many are hesitant that their words might be met with foul language, assault and worse.

Many this past summer, during protests, witnessed foul language being exchanged between protesters and antiprotesters. Black Lives Matters participants in a rally in Smithtown in June took to social media alleging that they were assaulted. In September, a Massapequa man was arrested for allegedly assaulting a 64-year-old man who was rallying with the North Country Patriots, a conservative group that meets on the corner of Bennetts Road and Route 25A every Saturday morning.

Our times have become so divisive that many have forgotten the adversities Americans have gone through together — the Great Depression, the world wars, 9/11 and more. These horrific events didn’t leave us weaker, they left us stronger.

We became stronger because we live in a country where we have the right to pursue happiness, the right to gather, the right to express our opinions and so much more. And while we may not have the right to use those words and actions to cause harm to others or property, we have those rights.

Most of our fellow Americans get that. So let’s move forward together, stronger and more fearlessly than before with knowledge and empathy, embracing our freedoms and respecting that others in this country enjoy the same rights.

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Our historic right to free speech, as American citizens, has been under serious attack, and it is not likely to improve during the upcoming Joe Biden [D] administration.

Since the election and inauguration of President Donald Trump [R], we have been faced with a diabolical cabal of partisan zealots, including the majorities of our TV networks, newspapers, college campuses, Hollywood celebrities and digital media outlets, particularly Twitter, Facebook and Google. These groups have lost all semblance of fairness, and no longer even pretend to provide fair coverage of both sides of the political aisle.

According to their unabashed propaganda, Trump has done nothing right, and Biden and his collaborators and supporters have done nothing wrong. In actual fact, nothing could be further from the truth.

In the months leading up to the election, information began to surface regarding Biden’s son, Hunter. It appeared that Hunter Biden, when

he was not incapacitated from his overindulgence in recreational drugs, was extensively involved with a number of Chinese companies, for which he had received many millions of dollars for the sole purpose of providing a path of access to his father, when Joe was the vice president.

As time went on, these allegations became increasingly supported by evidence, including the acknowledgement that Hunter was being investigated by the U.S. Attorney in Delaware for tax issues. And an extremely credible witness appeared, named Tony Bobulinski, who appeared to have irrefutable evidence that Hunter did in fact receive millions of dollars from Chinese sources, and that significant portions of this money were earmarked for Joe and Jim Biden, who is Joe’s brother.

However, unless you watch Tucker Carlson on Fox News, or you read the New York Post, you were probably unaware of these startling disclosures, because the media conspired to keep it

under tight wraps, even going so far as to ensure that candidate Joe Biden was never put into a position where he was forced to answer a single tough question about the whole sordid Hunter affair.

Over the last four years, we have seen one-sided, patently unfair coverage of every aspect of the Trump administration, including the two Supreme Court nominations, the farcical Mueller report, the totally political impeachment, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Democrat sanctuary city riots, in which the anarchists were allowed, and even encouraged, to vandalize, loot, burn, spray paint, destroy businesses and topple statues.

In 1776, a few months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, with a clear foreboding of the dark days ahead, Tom Paine got it right when he said, “These are the times that try men’s souls.” I wonder what Tom Paine would have to say about our plight today.

George Altemose East Setauket

Zeldin’s Suffolk County accomplishments While Congressman Lee Zeldin’s [R-NY1] recent positions seeking to prevent further national division during this volatile time have been the subject of debate for some, what is not debatable is what he has accomplished and continues to accomplish for Suffolk County and its people.

Representative Zeldin championed a successful effort to save Plum Island; helped obtain a $2 billion electron ion collider for Brookhaven National

Lab, creating countless high paying jobs; secured a veteran’s health care clinic for the East End of Long Island; helped repeal the MTA Tax for 80% of employers; advanced numerous Army Corps projects for his district, including the over $1 billion Fire Island to Montauk Point project; and brought home $300 million in COVID relief to save Suffolk County from financial ruin and much, much more.

Ranked as the 12th most bipartisan

member of the 437 member House of Representatives by Georgetown University’s prestigious McCourt School of Public Policy, Congressman Zeldin has consistently put the needs of Suffolk’s resident’s and local businesses first, and I remain confident that he will continue to do so.

Robert Trotta Suffolk County Legislator 13th District

Letter to the community from 3V Chamber Dear Community Members, 2020 has been a very challenging year for most of us in this country. As we close out 2020 and come into the new year, on behalf of the Three Village Chamber of Commerce I would like to thank the community for their support of our local businesses. The health of our local economy is important. The chamber on many levels

has supported our businesses though our involvement with public officials and private sectors benefactors.

We are so fortunate to have the resources of Stony Brook Hospital and the main campus which has provided critical testing and care for those impacted by the pandemic.

We live in one of the most beautiful parts of Long Island and have much to be grateful

for. With all of us working together we can strengthen our community. Please continue in the months ahead to support the hardworking businesses in our neighborhood.

Have a happy and healthy new year.

Charles Lefkowitz President, Three Village Chamber of Commerce

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Well, for starters, we can’t and shouldn’t shake hands. That ritual is probably long gone. Maybe the Japanese were right with bowing.

If handshakes are out, hugs, even for those we might have been speaking to for months during the D. None isolated pandemic, are absolutely of the above forbidden.

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF If we can’t hug grandma, grandpa and other relatives we’ve known most or all of our lives, we certainly can’t hug, even casually, someone new.

Ideally, we’d stand somewhere between six and 60 feet away from them, especially if we’re inside. That could be problematic for people who can’t hear all that well and who don’t have the benefit of reading anyone’s lips anymore.

In fact, I’m thinking of going into the business of selling those Mission Impossible voice changers. If you’ve seen the movies, you know that the Tom Cruise teams can change their voices to sound like everyone else.

Most of us who have heard our own voices on voicemail would like a few moments to sound more like James Earl Jones or Scarlett Johansson. Maybe we like our own voice, but we’d prefer to have a British, Australian or New Zealand accent. We could change our accents, the way we change the navigational voice on Siri and ask people if they know where we’re pretending we were raised.

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The first is of a friend who knocks on my window each day that the sun is out.

At first, he annoyed me, distracting me from my keyboard or my Zoom screen. But as the social distancing and the isolating in place have continued, I changed my tune.

When he doesn’t come, I miss him for he keeps me company. He has brought color to my winter world with his improbable crimson feathers easy to spot among Between the brown limbs of the naked trees and you and me the often slate sky.

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF By now you have probably guessed that I am referring to a cardinal, one who calls my property his home, too.

He is not just content to share my trees, however. He wants in to my house. Well, not exactly. When the sun is shining, he sees a reflection of my surrounding bushes in my glass windows and thinks he can just continue to fly in their direction. I give him a high mark for determination because he tries over and over again.

At the same time, I have to give him a low mark for intelligence because he doesn’t seem to learn from his abrupt crashes that the way is blocked for him. I guess the term “bird brain” would be appropriate, but I don’t want to discourage him since he reminds me that there is life outside my house, and he doesn’t seem to cause himself any damage with his efforts.

The second thing to share is that we have binged our way through the eight episodes of “Bridgerton,” a new historic series on Netflix, and I would give it a B+. It’s a little slow and talky, in the way of Jane Austen, but it has real worth for some of its subject matter. The main theme deals with the impossible position of upper class women in 19th century Europe.

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would be happy to talk about their fourfooted companion.

I’ve been surprised by the type of questions and information people seek when they talk about my dog. People have asked not only how old he is, but also how much he weighs, as if dogs around his size are in some kind of modeling contest. Fortunately, my dog doesn’t seem particularly concerned about his weight, as he demonstrates regularly with a feverish appetite for everything from broccoli to french fries to cat vomit. Yes, he eats cat vomit, which means that if I cook something he won’t eat, he thinks it tastes worse than cat vomit, a notion that delights my teenage children.

Now, if you’re thinking about politics, you probably should keep that to yourself. Unless someone is wearing a MAGA hat or has some version of Dump Trump on a T-shirt, it’s tough to know where they stand on the plate tectonic sized political divide.

We can talk about sports, but we run the risk of someone telling us how irrelevant

sports is in the modern world during a pandemic or how they wish they could return to the age when sports mattered.

Children seem like fair game, although we have to watch out for many age-related minefields.

My son, for example, is a senior in high school. Some parents are happy to tell you all the colleges that accepted and rejected their children, while others are content to share what city or even what coast intrigues their progeny, as in, “yes, my son has only applied to schools on the East Coast or in states with fewer than seven letters” (there are nine states in that category, by the way).

So, where does that leave us in the strange world where we’re all putting on masks before we go into a bank (imagine taking a time machine from 1999 and seeing those entering a bank without masks getting into trouble?) Well, the weather is often safe, as are dogs, the disruption the pandemic caused and, generally speaking, children.

The poor things had but two goals in life: to marry well and to produce heirs. This was for the good of the family and only incidentally for their own benefit, so they suffered from lots of family pressure and control. That’s old hat, though, for us 21st century viewers.

However, the series is somewhat original for populating London in the 1800s with a totally integrated cast. The Duke is black and the debutante is white, but that’s just for starters. The one theme that’s absent is any discussion of racism. There is none. You can pretty well guess how the love story ends up, but it’s fun watching the couple and their supporting cast get there.

The third subject is more serious and important to share. You know by now that our new president is making it mandatory to wear face masks in federal buildings and on planes, trains and buses that cross state lines. He is also urging the rest of us to wear masks at least for his first 100 days in office. “Observational studies have suggested that widespread mask wearing can curb infections and deaths on an

impressive scale, in settings as small as hair salons and at the level of entire countries,” according to an article by Katherine J. Wu in the Science section of this past Tuesday’s The New York Times.

Now comes further advice about mask wearing. Double-masking is even better and for obvious reasons. In order for the droplets that carry the virus to get to our nose and mouth, they have to work their way through the tangle of threads in a cloth mask or the filter in a surgical one. Double the masks and we double the difficulty. The best arrangement, we are advised, would be a face-hugging cloth mask over a surgical mask. As if one weren’t miserable enough, now we are urged two.

Yes, the vaccines are here and more are coming, but it will take a while for the logistics of delivery to get ironed out. And the numbers of patients stricken with the disease keep escalating, so we have to continue to maintain our distancing, our hygiene and yes, our masks.

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A 55+ LUXURY R E N TA L CO M M U N I TY

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SCHEDULE A TOUR TODAY! 300 Sutton Court, Mount Sinai, NY 11766 631.239.7090 | suttonlanding.com

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