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Vol. 45, No. 13

May 21, 2020

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Meet the Candidates

Six vie for three seats on the Three Village Central School District Board

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Virtual Meeting with 3V BOE Candidates

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The Three Village Civic Association and Three Village Chamber of Commerce will jointly host an online Meet the Candidates event for school board candidates May 28 at 7 p.m. via Zoom conferencing.

All six school board candidates have been invited to discuss their candidacy; describe their vision for the school district; and answer questions as time permits.

Jeff Carlson, the district’s assistant deputy superintendent for business services, will also be on hand to brief residents on this year’s proposed budget.

to those risking their lives and keeping us safe and supplied During these difficult times, tips to reduce anxiety:

There will be no in person voting this year and Three Village residents will have the opportunity to vote by mail by June 9 on the budget and candidates. The school district will be mailing ballots to all registered voters in the district. Ballots must be mailed back to the school district by June 9 in order to be counted.

For information about how to be part of the online meeting May 28, go to the websites of either the Three Village Civic Association, www.threevillagecivics.org, or Three Village Chamber of Commerce, www.3vchamber.com, for links to the Zoom meeting.

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Obituary

Edmund Handley, Former Print Shop Owner Edmund Joseph Handley died of natural causes at the Long Island State Veterans Home at Stony Brook University May 11 at the age of 91.

Born in Astoria, Feb. 27, 1929, Edmund was raised by his single mother, Bridget McGhee, and his older Rowan siblings Tom, Jane and Sarah. After graduating from high school, Edmund served in the U.S. Army in Germany during the Korean War years. Upon his return, he graduated from Pace University and began work in construction sales in New York City. In the summers, he served as a state lifeguard in Rockaway Beach.

Edmund met his beloved Australian wife, Janette (Carter), and married her in 1966. The duo left Queens and moved to the Three Village area in 1969. Together, they raised their four children Siobhan, Tara, Shannon and Sean.

After retiring from his sales position in the city, Edmund and Janette opened Budget Print Center in Stony Brook in 1978. As a small business owner, Edmund, along with his wife, immersed himself in myriad facets of the Three Village community. He was a member of the Rotary Club of Stony Brook and served as its president in 1987. He and Janette were strong believers in the Rotary’s host student program

and hosted five students from various countries while their own children were in high school.

Edmund was extremely active in his church parish, St. James R.C. Church in Setauket, and was one of the founding members of its weekly soup kitchen called Our Daily Bread.

In this capacity, he cooked meals for the homeless for 15 years.

Edmund delivered meals through Three Village Meals on Wheels for over 15 years. He spent a great deal of his time at the Stony Brook Yacht Club where he served in many roles over the years. An avid boater, fisherman and swimmer, he could often be seen on his boat with his kids and one of his many Labrador retrievers. In 2017, he was presented with a lifetime award for his service to the club. In all of his endeavors, Edmund was known for his love of family — especially his wife and children and dogs — his generous spirit, his strong belief in “giving back” to his community and, most notably, his quick wit and smile.

Edmund is survived by his wife Janette; his

children Siobhan Handley (Will Ketterer), Tara McKnight (Todd Rexroth), Shannon Handley (John Grossman), and Sean Handley (Jennifer Lewis Handley); grandchildren Brooks McKnight, Sean Grossman, Maeve Ketterer, Bridget Grossman, Finn Ketterer and Charlotte Handley: his sister Jane Hickey; loving nieces and nephews: and countless good friends.

Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Bryant Funeral Home in East Setauket. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, a memorial service will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family is asking for donations to be made in memory of Edmund J. Handley to either: The Long Island State Veterans Home, 100 Patriots Road, Stony Brook, NY 11790 (veteranshome.stonybrookmedicine. edu/donate); or Hope House Ministries, P.O. Box 358, 1 High St., Port Jefferson, NY 11777 (www.hhm.org/help.html).

Three Village Residents Remember

The Three Village Historical Society sent an email to its members to notify them of Edmund

Handley’s passing.

“Janette and Edmund are treasured friends both professionally and personally to the society and have been longtime supporters of TVHS in many, many aspects,” the email read.

Mary Ann McAvoy, a volunteer with Three Village Meals on Wheels, described Handley as “a very generous man.” She said her husband Ed McAvoy and another friend would make deliveries with Handley when they all volunteered for Meals on Wheels. For years, “after delivering meals, the men always went for a burger at Tara’s in Port Jefferson which capped off the day.”

Dan Berger, director of public relations for the Rotary Club of Stony Brook, said Handley was president of the club during the 1987-88 fiscal year.

“He had a dry wit and led the club with an easy style,” Berger said. “A key part of his presidency was his family — children at Rotary meetings and Janette, his ever-present wife, helping in the editing and printing of The Brooklet (the Rotary newsletter). He was one of our best presidents and a devoted longterm member of the club. He was also a Paul Harris Fellow — an honor bestowed on special members, such as Edmund Handley.”

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Education

From left to right, board of election candidates Inger Germano, Irene Gische, Dr. Jeff Kerman, Shaorui Li, David McKinnon and Vinny Menten will be on the mail-in ballot that is due June 9. Photos from candidates

Six Vie for Three Seats on 3 Village Board of Education

BY ANDREA PALDY DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

If this were a normal spring, Three Village residents would have voted this week for the 2020-21 school budget and board of education trustees. But in the wake of a global pandemic requiring school closures and social distancing, business has been anything but usual.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) pushed the school budget votes and board elections back from their May date to June 9 and said that “in an effort to keep New Yorkers safe during the COVID-19 pandemic,” voting would be conducted by absentee ballot. That means all 32,984 registered voters in Three Village will receive ballots with paid return postage to vote on the district’s budget and select three board trustees from a crowded pool of six candidates.

Incumbents Inger Germano, Dr. Jeff Kerman and board vice president Irene Gische are running to keep their seats against engineer and start-up founder Shaorui Li, David McKinnon, a professor of Neurobiology at Stony Brook University, and Vinny Menten, director of parts sales at Gabrielli Truck Sales.

Candidates are listed below in the order they will appear on the ballot.

Inger Germano Germano, 48, is running for her fourth term. In an email, Germano noted that when she first ran in 2011, the district faced seismic changes, including the implementation of Common Core, teachers annual professional performance review and the tax cap. Those past challenges position her to make informed decisions about staffing, programs and other

changes that the district may encounter as a result of “uncertain financial times,” she said.

A health care administrator at Advanced Cardiac Care, Germano said her experience as a health care compliance officer and managing health care facilities will help when it’s time to make decisions about reopening schools. She mentioned additional issues the district would need to tackle. Chief among them, Germano said, was reopening schools “with the priority being the safety of the students and the staff,” emergency preparedness, online instruction and using technology “to supplement and enrich” student learning.

“The changes need to be made while ensuring that staffing and program changes due to budget cuts are made with minimal effect to the students,” said Germano, who has lived in the district for 14 years with her husband and two daughters.

During her tenure on the school board, Germano created the Facebook group, Three Village Connection, to foster communication and transparency between the community and board members.

She has served on the North Shore Montessori School board and volunteered for the Suffolk County Girls Scouts, St. James R.C. Church, Three Village Basketball and the Setauket Fire Department.

Irene Gische Gische first served on the Three Village school board from 1983 to 1995 and was president for two years. She ran again in 2011 and was elected. During a phone interview this week, Gische said she is running to “make sure that the programs that we have in place

continue and that we continue to look for ways to improve the opportunities we give our kids.”

“The district was very different” when she ran in 1983, she said, explaining that it had considered eliminating foreign languages at the junior high schools. The vote was 4-3 “and that was what pushed me … that was too close for comfort,” said Gische, 74.

“I’ve seen a lot of growth and improvements in our programs and in our schools over the years.”

A Three Village resident for 47 years, she’s proud of the district’s ability to prepare its students for the world and points to honors classes, strong academic teams and student acceptance at top colleges as examples of the district’s success. She doesn’t want any of these things to “fall by the wayside” in any situation, but especially not as a result of the pandemic, said Gische, who was the head teacher at University Preschool for 25 years.

Gische also highlighted the board’s successful budgeting. Even while “keeping a pretty tight budget, we have been able to maintain the programs that prepare our kids to move on, and that’s very important to me,” she said.

Gische and her husband have two daughters who graduated from Ward Melville and five grandchildren. Three have gone through district schools. Gische noted, though, that she counts among her honorary grandchildren the many junior high and high school theater kids she’s sewn costumes for over the years.

Jeff Kerman A dentist with practices in Miller Place and New York City, Kerman and his wife have lived in Three Village for 47 years.

“It is a wonderful community, and I want to keep it that way,” he said during a phone interview.

Elected in 2011 after serving from 1999 to 2005, the former board president acknowledged the challenges the district faces with remote learning, possible budget cuts and reopening schools safely. However, he said, the district has had “lots of issues that are very difficult to deal with, and we’ve managed to deal with them in our district very well.”

“We have excellent administrators,” he added, and they present the board with good advice to make good decisions.

“Whether school starts in September, our primary concern is the health of the kids and the staff,” he said. Also, paramount, is providing them with a good education, the former captain in the U.S. Army said.

Kerman, 75, said he first ran for the board to ensure that his two sons, Ward Melville graduates, received an “excellent” education.

In his current bid, he said he wants to maintain the district’s reputation, while continuing to help it improve.

One way would be to introduce foreign language education in the elementary schools, he said. Kerman also spoke of his respect for the scientific support for a later secondary school start time, which is why he thinks it was important to form a task force to look into whether a change would be feasible for the whole community.

Kerman has been treasurer for 20 years of the nonprofit NYACAO Corporation, an organization that helps dental students, is a CANDIDATES CONTINUED ON A9

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State

With Businesses Denied Interruption Insurance, Many Turn to State and Feds

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

When the initial impact of the coronavirus pandemic truly hit home back in March, after businesses were forced closed from state mandates, many turned to their insurance providers and filed for business interruption insurance, which they expected would be used for just this sort of occasion.

Only many received notifications back that their claims were denied. The reason: Insurance companies put in provisions within their policies that excluded coverage due to damages “caused by or resulting from any virus, bacterium or other microorganism that induced or is capable of including physical distress, illness or disease,” according to the Insurance Services Office, an insurance advisory organization.

Though business owners and small business advocates such as The Ward Melville Heritage Organization President Gloria Rocchio pay the premiums year after year, she said they and so many others were denied coverage despite the fact that small businesses didn’t close because they or their shops were confirmed with the virus, but government orders forced them to close.

“Very simplistically, [business owners] buy themselves a job for the community, and now they’re made to lay off people, keep their business closed, pay all fixed overheads and maybe they don’t have a reserve at home,” Rocchio said.

“Everything the government is putting forth is not helping the small businessman — the one who doesn’t have a million in the bank and is paying fixed expenses.”

Efforts on Local and State Levels

The provision in many insurance policies was instituted little less than two decades ago after the severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, epidemic of the early 2000s. It is only now, almost 20 years later, that owners filing claims learn of the provision despite them having paid premiums for years.

There is a combined bill in the New York State Assembly and Senate to require companies to accept current interruption claims.

WMHO submitted a public letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) April 22 requesting he supports the Assembly and Senate bill.

“An insurance policy is a contract between the insured and the insurer that clearly spells out those conditions covered and excluded,” the letter reads.

“In recent years, because of severe losses, insurers have added exclusions to their policies, slowly diminishing the very purpose of insurance.”

The state Assembly bill is being sponsored in part by Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) and Fred Thiele (I-Sag Harbor), and there is a concurrent bill in the state Senate.

It would require insurance agencies to cover businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, and would renew any policy that would have

covered businesses during shutdown if they expired in the meantime. New York is just one state of seven which is proposing bills to mandate coverage.

“Insurance is controlling risk, that’s what insurance companies do,” Englebright said.

“What we’re saying is risk transfer needs to occur with this type of policy in a more predictable manner and a more eligible manner than the fine print currently allows.”

The bill is still in the Assembly Insurance Committee, but Englebright, a ranking assemblyman, said it is picking up widespread support in the Democratic-controlled state Legislature.

He added he does not believe what insurance companies say when they argue accepting businesses claims would bankrupt their agencies.

“What we’re saying is to do business in our state, we in the state government do have the power to make sure contracts are fair and equitable,” Englebright said.

Multiple local government and industry groups have come out in support of such a bill.

The Long Island Builders Institute released a letter supporting the legislation, saying that if a business has been paying for its insurance, it should honor the claims.

Mitch Pally, CEO of LIBI, said the insurance companies denying these claims will only create a deeper hole in the economy, which will be an even greater burden to the insurance companies if they go under and no longer can pay their premiums. He also predicted dire consequences to many businesses if claims continue to be denied by June 30 “because the people who bought them didn’t assume their business can be interrupted by something that doesn’t apply [to the insurance].”

The Brookhaven Town Board and Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) also signed a letter asking Cuomo to throw his support behind the bills.

Federal Efforts

There is a bill currently lingering in the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services, co-sponsored by Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY3) that would require insurance companies in the future from denying company’s claims based on a pandemic, but even that has seen “tremendous pushback from the insurance industry,” he said during a Zoom call hosted by Discover Long Island May 19.

“It’s very controversial — I’m getting the crap kicked out of me by certain people.”

Suozzi, who was appointed by President Donald Trump (R) to the economic reopening task force, said he did not believe anything regarding interruption insurance will see the light of day in some of the large stimulus bills Congress is currently working on.

Some policyholders nationwide have sued their insurance companies for denying their claims. A barbershop owner in San Diego

Shops in the Stony Brook Village Center are just a few of the many who found their interruption insurance claims were denied by insurance agencies. State lawmakers say insurance companies should honor those claims. File photo

has created a class action lawsuit against his policyholder, Farmers Insurance Group, for denying his claim under such virus damages provisions. Several other class-action lawsuits have been filed in the past month and a half against several other insurance companies.

Though such lawsuits take months if not years to get going, and especially with many court systems largely shut down from the pandemic, it will be a while before any cases see a judge.

“By the time those lawsuits get done, those businesses will be out of business,” Pally said.

Insurance Providers Respond

The American Property Casualty Insurance Association has said if governments required the companies process these claims, it would mean companies would have to process over 30 million businesses suffering from COVID-19related losses. APCIA President David Sampson was quoted on Twitter saying requiring so would “significantly undermine” their abilities to cover such things as wind damage, fire or other losses.

The industry as a whole currently sits on an $800 billion surplus, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. That business group released a report May 15 with statements from 50 experts from the Wisconsin School of Business insurance panel that if local governments force insurance companies to accept the claims, it will “threaten the solvency of the insurance industry.” Though the report is sponsored by the association through its independent research division, most experts on the panel largely agreed the private marketplace could not handle all the losses with the current surplus in the industry.

Though in that same study, some experts, 13 percent of the 50, argued the industry could be able to handle the claims, depending on how federal legislation was enacted.

Industry lobbyists have said the federal government should be providing help, but one

example of small business aid, the Paycheck Protection Program, which was supposed to help keep many small shops in business, has been mired in problems since its inception, and many owners are simply refusing to use the funds fearing they will have to pay back the money long term as a loan.

The Washington Post reported last month that insurance associations and business groups are hiring lobbyists specifically to play out this fight in Washington, D.C. What some are hoping for is some kind of middle ground, a place where insurers and the federal government’s interests meet.

One suggested draft bill, the Pandemic Risk Insurance Act of 2020, would pay agencies losses when those exceed $250 million and capped at $500 billion over the calendar year, though that bill would only cover future pandemics, and more insurance companies have come out saying it should be the federal government which needs to handle such calls for aid, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Suozzi said he agreed most insurance companies would be “wiped out” trying to cover interruption claims during the pandemic, but also put stock in a public-private partnership, including the possibility of using the infrastructure of the insurance industries to funnel money back into these businesses.

“The bottom line is there’s no relief right now — it’s not going to solve anybody’s problems right now — and I don’t want anybody to get their hopes up,” the congressman said. “But it’s something I’m conscious of and other people are working on it — we just don’t know what the right answer is yet to get it done, because there is so much incredible pushback from the other side.”

In the meantime, Pally said it’s best for businesses to continue writing their state and federal officials. Rocchio suggested that owners, despite the fact some agencies are advising not to bother to file a claim, should apply anyway should anything change in the near future.

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563 5/14 6x vth NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING, BUDGET VOTE AND ELECTIONOF THE THREE VILLAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT TOWNS OF BROOKHAVEN AND SMITHTOWN, SUFFOLK COUNTY, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that, pursuant to the Governor of the State of New York’s Executive Order 202.26 (hereinafter, “Executive Order”), a public hearing of the qualified voters of the Three Village Central School District of Brookhaven and Smithtown, Suffolk County, New York will be held remotely on Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 7:30 p.m., prevailing time, for the transaction of business as authorized by the Education Law, including the following items: 1. To present to the voters a detailed statement (proposed budget) of the amount of money, which will be required for the 2020-2021 fiscal year.

2. To discuss all the items hereinafter set forth to be voted upon by absentee ballot pursuant to Executive Order 202.26 for the Budget Vote and Election to be held on Tuesday, June 9, 2020.

3. To transact such other business as may properly

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Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com come before the meeting pursuant to Education Law of the State of New York and acts amendatory thereto.

A copy of the proposed budget shall be made available to residents of the school district beginning May 20, 2020 on the District’s website at http://www.threevillagecsd.org. While Education Law §1716(2) requires the budget also be made available at School District offices, any public library/ free association library within the District, and the polling place, this year that will not be possible due to Executive Order 202.26 and the prevalence of the COVID-19 virus and potential for spread through our personal interaction.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Chapter 258 of the Laws of Section 2008, Section 495 was added to the Real Property Tax Law and requires the School District to attach to its proposed budget an exemption report.

Said exemption report, which will also become part of the final budget, will show how the total assessed value of the final assessment roll used in the budgetary process is exempt from taxation, list every type of exemption granted by statutory authority, and show: (a) the cumulative impact of each type of exemption, expressed either as a dollar amount of assessed value or as a percentage of the total assessed value on the roll; (b) the cumulative amount expected to be received as payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT) or other payments for municipal services; and (c) the cumulative impact of all exemptions granted. The exemption report shall be posted on any bulletin board maintained by the District for public notices and on any website maintained by the District.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Executive Order 202.26, the Budget Vote and Election of the Board of Education members will be held on Tuesday, June 9, 2020. The Executive Order directs that the budget vote and election be conducted by an absentee ballot process in lieu of in-person voting. Therefore,

there will be no voting at the polls for this year’s annual Budget Vote and Election. The District will mail absentee ballots with a postage paid return envelope to qualified voters. In order to be counted, absentee ballots must be received in the office of the District Clerk by 5:00 p.m. on June 9, 2020.

Thus, every qualified voter shall vote by absentee ballot on the following items: 1. To adopt the annual budget of the School District for the fiscal year 2020-2021 and to authorize the requisite portion thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the District.

2. To elect three (3) members of the Board of Education for a three-year term commencing July 1, 2020 and expiring on June 30, 2023.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required to fund the School District’s budget for 2020-2021, exclusive of public monies, may be obtained by any resident of the District beginning on Tuesday, May 26, 2020 on the District’s website at http://www.threevillagecsd.org. (Due to the Governor’s closure orders, the Executive Order and the risk of transmission of COVID-19, the statement will not be available at school district offices, public libraries or the polling place).

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Executive Order 202.26, petitions nominating candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education shall be filed with and received by the Clerk of said School District at her office at the North Country Administration Center, 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, New York, not later than Monday, May 11, 2020 at 5:00 p.m., prevailing time.

The petition may be filed by: mailing the petition to the District Clerk at her office at 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, New York, scanning the petition and emailing it to the District Clerk at: ksampogn@3villagecsd.org, or delivering the petition to the Security Officer at the North Country Administra-

tive Center, 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on weekdays. The petition must be received by the District Clerk no later than Monday, May 11, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. Each petition shall be directed to the Clerk of the School District and shall state the name and residence of the candidate.

Vacancies on the Board of Education are not considered separate, specific offices; candidates run at large. Nominating petitions shall not describe any specific vacancy upon the Board for which the candidate is nominated and must state the name and residence of the candidate. As per Executive Order 202.26, there is no minimum number of signatures required on the petition for the June 9, 2020 Budget Vote and Election.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that personal registration of voters is required either pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law or pursuant to Article 5 of the New York State Election Law. If a voter has heretofore registered pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law and has voted at an annual or special district meeting within the last four (4) calendar years, he or she is eligible to vote at this election; if a voter is registered and eligible to vote under Article 5 of the Election Law, he or she is also eligible to vote at this election. All other persons who wish to vote must register online no later than May 26, 2020. There is no provision for in-person registration for this election.

Those wishing to register to vote should visit https:// www.dmv.ny.gov/more-info/ electronic-voter-registrationapplication in order to do so online.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that military voters who are qualified voters of the Three Village Central School District, may request an application for a military ballot from the District Clerk by mail to the Office of the District Clerk, North Country Administration Center, 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, New York, by email to ksampogn@3villagecsd. k12.ny.us, or fax sent to (631) 730-4068. In such re-

quest, the military voter may indicate their preference for receiving the application by mail, fax or email. A military voter must return the original military ballot application by mail to the Office of the District Clerk at North Country Administration Center, 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, New York. In order for a military voter to be issued a military ballot, a valid military ballot application must be received in the office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m., on May 14, 2020. Military ballot applications received in accordance with the foregoing will be processed in the same manner as a non-military ballot application under Section 2018-a of the Education Law. The application for military ballot may include the military voter’s preference for receipt of the military ballot by mail, fax, or email.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, a military voter’s original military ballot must be returned by mail to the Office of the District Clerk at North Country Administration Center, 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, New York. Military ballots shall be canvassed if they are received by the District Clerk before 5:00 p.m. on June 9, 2020 showing a cancellation mark of the United States Postal Service or a foreign country’s postal service, or showing a dated endorsement of receipt by another agency of the United States Government; or received not later than 5:00 p.m. on June 9, 2020 and signed and dated by the military voter and one witness thereto, with a date which is ascertained to be not later than the day before the election.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to a rule adopted by the Board of Education in accordance with §2035 of the Education Law, any referenda or propositions to amend the budget, or otherwise to be submitted for voting at said election, must be filed with the District Clerk of the Board of Education at the North Country Administration Center, 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, New York, 60 days prior to the vote and must be typed or printed in the English language; must be directed to the Clerk of the School Dis-

trict; must be signed by at least 104 qualified voters of the District (representing 5% of the number of voters who voted in the previous annual election) and must legibly state the name of each signer. However, the School Board will not entertain any petition to place before the voters any proposition the purpose of which is not within the powers of the voters to determine, which is unlawful, or any proposition which fails to include a specific appropriation where the expenditure of monies is required by the proposition, or where other valid reason exists for excluding the proposition from the ballot.

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593 5/21 6x vth Aviso Público para el Voto del Presupuesto y Elección de Miembros para el Consejo Directivo del distrito escolar Three Village Central School District - TVCSD en Brookhaven y para Smithtown en el condado de Suffolk en el estado de New York POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO, que, conforme a la Orden Ejecutiva del Gobernador de New York número 202.26 se llevará a cabo una audiencia pública a distancia para los votantes calificados que vivan en Brookhaven y Smithtown el 27 de Mayo del 2020 a las 7:30 de la noche, hora adecuada de acuerdo con la Ley de Educación para la transacción de negocios.

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LEGALS con’t from pg. 7 Se presentará el presupuesto detallado con la cantidad de dinero necesaria para el año fiscal 2020-2021 Se discutirán todos las partes por las cuales se votará de manera ausente el martes 9 de Junio del 2020 de acuerdo con la Orden Ejecutiva del Gobernador de New York número 202.26 Se tramitarán otros asuntos pertinentes que se puedan presentar antes de la reunión conforme a la Ley de Educación y que correspondan a la misma Una copia del presupuesto propuesto estará disponible a partir del 20 de Mayo del 2020 en el sitio web del distrito http://www.threevillagecsd.org. De acuerdo con la Ley de Educación §1716(2) se requiere que el presupuesto también sea comunicado públicamente en las oficinas del distrito escolar, la biblioteca ó cualquier asociación bibliotecaria gratuita dentro de la delimitación geográfica del distrito y en los sitios de votación. Sin Embargo este requerimiento no se llevará a cabo en esta ocasión debido la Orden Ejecutiva del Gobernador de New York número 202.26 así como a las medidas pertinentes al manejo del virus COVID-19.

ADICIONALMENTE SE AVISA, que, conforme al capítulo 258 de la Ley Seccion 2008, la sección 495 se adiciona a la Ley de Impuestos de Propiedad Raiz, la cual requiere que el distrito escolar incluya en su presupuesto un reporte de exención.

Este reporte de exención hará parte presupuesto final e indicará el valor total de los bienes establecidos en la evaluación final usada en el proceso para establecer el presupuesto y que está exento de impuesto. Adicionalmente, indicará todos los tipos de exenciones concedidas por la autoridad correspondiente y además: a.

El impacto acumulativo para cada exención expresado en cantidad de dinero ó como un porcentaje del total establecido en la evaluación b.

La cantidad acumulada que se espera recibir como pagos en reemplazo

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El impacto del acumulado de todas las exenciones.

El reporte de exención será publicado en cualquier tablero de access público en el distrito así como en el sitio web.

ADICIONALMENTE SE AVISA, que, conforme a la Orden Ejecutiva número 202.26 el voto por el presupuesto y la elección de los miembros de la Consejo Directivo se llevará a cabo el martes 9 de Junio del 2020. La Orden Ejecutiva requiere que el voto se haga de manera ausente en vez de, en persona.

Por lo tanto no habrán sitios designados de votación. El distrito enviará el voto en un sobre estampillado a los votantes registrados. Una vez el voto sea diligenciado se debe enviar para garantizar que se reciba en la oficina del “District Clerk” antes de las 5:00 de la tarde el 9 de Junio del 2020. Cada votante votará en los siguientes asuntos: 1.

Adoptar el presupuesto anual del distrito escolar para el año fiscal 20202021 y autorizar la porción correspondiente a través de los impuestos de propiedad raíz de que conforma el distrito 2.

Elegir tres miembros para la Consejo Directivo por un término de tres años empezando el Primero de Julio del 2020 hasta el 3 de Junio del 2023.

ADICIONALMENTE SE AVISA, que, cualquier residente del distrito puede obtener una copia del estado de cuenta sobre la cantidad de dinero que el distrito escolar requiere para financiar el presupuesto del año 20202021 con dinero público, el martes 26 de Mayo del 2020 en el sitio web del distrito http://www.threevillagecsd. org. Este estado de cuenta no estará disponible ni en las oficinas del distrito, ni en la biblioteca pública de acuerdo con el cierre the dichas instituciones establecido en la Orden Ejecutiva y el riesgo de contagio que el virus COVID-19 conlleva.

ADICIONALMENTE SE AVISA, que conforme a la Orden Ejecutiva 202.26 los candidatos para elegir la Consejo

Directivo deben inscribirse y enviar dicha inscripción a oficina “District Clerk” en el edificio administrativo del distrito en la dirección 100 Suffolk Ave, Stony Brook NY, antes del lunes 11 de Mayo 2020 a las 5 de la tarde. Adicionalmente la petición como candidato(a) puede hacerse de la siguiente manera: escanear la peticion y enviarla a ksampogn@3villagecsd. org, ó entregarla en la oficina de seguridad en 100 Suffolk Ave, Stony Brook NY entre las 8 de la mañana y las 2:30 de la tarde. Cada petición debe incluir el nombre y lugar de residencia del candidato. Las vacantes están abiertas para todos los candidatos por lo tanto no deberá especificarse ninguna vacante en la petición por la cual se está aplicando. De acuerdo con la Orden Ejecutiva 202.26 no se requiere un número de firmas en la petición la cual se definirá el 9 de Junio del 2020 en el voto por el presupuesto y la elección.

ADICIONALMENTE SE AVISA, que se requiere que los votantes estén registrados conforme al §2014 de la Ley de Educacion or conforme al artículo 5 de la Ley de Elecciones del estado de New York. Si el votante está registrado de acuerdo con §2014 de la Ley de Educación y ha votado en una reunión anual o en una reunión especial del distrito en los últimos cuatro años calendario, el/ella puede votar en esta elección.

Si el votante está registrado bajo el Artículo 5 de la Ley de Elecciones el/ella puede votar en esta elección. El resto de personas interesadas en votar deben registrarse antes de 26 de Mayo del 2020. En ningún caso esta elección se llevará a cabo en person. Las personas interesadas en registrarse electrónicamente deberán hacerlo en este sitio https:// www.dmv.ny.gov/more-info/ electronic-voter-registrationapplication.

ADICIONALMENTE SE AVISA, que los votantes militares calificados para votar en Three Village Central school District TVCSD pueden solicitar una aplicación de una balota militar en la oficina del “District Clerk” en el edificio administrativo del distrito 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, NY ó por e-mail al correo electrónico

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ksampogn@3villagecsd. k12.ny.us ó por fax al (631) 730-4068. El votante deberá especificar a través de qué medio desea recibir la aplicación por la balota militar, correo, fax or correo electrónico, email. El votante debe devolver la solicitud de la balota militar original por correo a la oficina administrativa a 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, New York para que se le asigne la balota militar antes del 14 de Mayo de 2020. Las balotas militares recibidas de acuerdo con el proceso descrito serán procesadas de la misma manera como se procesarán las balotas que no son militares bajo la Sección 2018-a de la Ley de Educación. La aplicación de la balota militar debe incluir la manera preferida para recibir la balota militar, correo, fax, ó correo electrónico e-mail.

ADICIONALMENTE SE AVISA, que la balota original de un votante militar debe ser devuelta por correo a la oficina administrativa del

distrito 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, New York. Las balotas militares serán examinadas cuidadosamente si son recibidas por el distrito antes de las 5 de la tarde del 9 de Junio del 2020 mostrando un sello de cancelación del la oficina Postal de los Estados Unidos ó un sello de oficina postal del exterior ó aprobación de recibido de otra agencia del gobierno de los Estados Unidos ó si se recibe antes de las 5 de la tarde del 9 de Junio del 2020 fechada y firmada por el votante militar con un testigo en fecha anterior a la elección.

ADICIONALMENTE SE AVISA, que conforme a la reglamentación adoptada por el Consejo Directivo de acuerdo con §2035 de la Ley de Educación cualquier proposición para ajustar el presupuesto ó similar deberá enviarse para votación en dicha elección al “District Clerk” del Consejo Directivo a la oficina administrativa del distrito 100 Suffolk Avenue, Stony Brook, New York con sesenta

días de anticipación al voto y deberá ser escrita en inglés, digitada y dirigida al “Clerk of the School District”, firmada por 104 votantes registrados (representando el 5% de los votantes que votaron en la elección anual pasada) en adición a la firma, los nombres de dichos votantes deberán ser legibles. Sin embargo, el Consejo Directivo no considerará ninguna petición, que no corresponda a los votantes decidir, lo cual es ilegal, que no incluya el concepto en el cual el dinero deba ser gastado, o cualquier otra petición que no tenga una base sólida para ser excluida del voto.

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Candidates

Continued from A5 member of the American Dental Association and a founding member of the Suffolk County Dental Society and the Bronx County Dental Society.

Shaorui Li Li, 45, points to her research projects, funded by the Department of Energy and NASA, and work in the private sector and for national laboratories as experiences that will make her an effective board member. Her background has required her to work with budgets, operations and personnel management.

“I would strongly support initiatives that allow our students to explore our local professional landscape, to learn more about available career opportunities and be able to shape their own,” Li said in an email.

She suggested career workshops from the Three Village Industry Advisory Board, art programs through local art galleries and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and technology and research programs through Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Stony Brook University Small Business Development Center. Through such collaborations, she hopes to enrich the curriculum and provide opportunities for all students to explore careers suited to their unique talents.

Li also has suggested taking advantage of district parents’ diverse talents and expertise as a resource, especially amid looming budget concerns.

Students should be the driving force of

budget decisions, Li said. Teachers, whom she recognized as “excellent experts of traditional teaching methods,” are also critical, and investing in them will benefit students, she said. Li advocates for providing teachers with professional development to help them with the abundant and sometimes overwhelming online resources and programs that are available.

The six-year Three Village resident and mother of two district students has been active in professional organizations and the local community. She serves as the local society chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, has mentored the Gelinas Science Olympiad team, and has volunteered for local PTAs, the Long Island Chinese American Association, Three Village Civic Association and the Three Village Parents Alliance.

David McKinnon McKinnon, 62, is a 30-year resident and father of a current district student and two Ward Melville graduates.

As a board member, the Stony Brook University professor said he would like to reform the elementary math curriculum, increase technology education and serve all students, especially those in the “middle” — kids who “have a lot of potential, but they are largely dependent on the school system to develop that potential.”

McKinnon proposes an “opt-in” program for elementary math learning that would “use specialist math teachers and would build on the success of the SchoolNova program,” which introduces basic algebra concepts at an

early stage. SchoolNova is a local enrichment program at Stony Brook University that offers math, science, world language and art classes.

Following this model would help prepare students for the math they encounter in junior high and would also enable them to learn computer languages at an earlier age, he said.

It also could improve employment options for students, he added.

“Given how central computers are to our lives, I don’t think anyone should leave school without having at least a basic understanding of how a computer is controlled by a program they have written,” he said in an email.

Aware of the budget challenges that the pandemic poses to the district, McKinnon said he would work to make sure that the core mission of educating students in the fundamentals and providing them with practical skills is not “degraded” with budget cuts.

In addition to the curriculum reforms, McKinnon, who is married to Barbara Rosati, the founder of the most recent later-start-time movement in the district, is a supporter of the cause. Both he and Rosati are members of the Three Village Parents Alliance, which formed as an advocacy group to address various issues that affect the schools, including a later school start.

McKinnon said he is running in part to see a board that is more “responsive to parent or teacher-initiated proposals that can improve the learning environment and academic outcomes.”

Vinny Menten In addition to helping the district provide an “excellent level of education that our students

deserve,” Menten, 62, said he would like to help balance the budget to reduce waste, lower taxes and increase transparency.

A 50-year Three Village resident and 1975 Ward Melville graduate, Menten points to business degrees, certification in human resource management and experience working with budgets larger than $100 million as preparations for a seat on the board.

His ties to the community run deep. He owned an auto-repair shop in the district for 15 years, is the former commissioner of the Three Village Basketball League and was a substitute teacher at BOCES in automotive technology.

In addition to having two daughters who graduated from Ward Melville High School, his wife of 35 years has been a special education aide in the district for 20 years. His father was a district carpenter.

“Cutbacks are inevitable,” he said in an email, alluding to the brewing budget storm, but he believes they can be achieved by “trimming the fat” first. “And thereafter, all parties involved should be willing to put a small level of skin in the game for the good of the school and the community, just like the private sector is doing,” he said.

Since enrollment has been declining for many years, Menten said that “with some innovative analysis and some persevering execution,” the district could use the savings to “limit the increase to the taxpayers far below the tax cap, while protecting the educational excellence that our students expect and deserve.”

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When Quarantine Ends, the Clean Air Should Not

BY SAPPHIRE PERERA DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a temporary solution for the climate crisis. For many years, people have sought out various approaches to bring down greenhouse gas emissions and improve the environment through renewable energy sources. However, the coronavirus pandemic has proved to be the most effective solution yet. The earth is finally being allowed to breathe. Many scientists are calling this pandemic a temporary solution to the climate crisis but I believe that we can continue to have air with lower carbon dioxide levels, water that is clear and clean and a healthy environment if we all worked hard to change our daily routine.

The COVID-19 started healing the environment in China: the most polluted country on earth. Due to the forced closings of factories, shut-downs of manufacturing plants and mandatory quarantines for its citizens, there were reductions in coal and crude oil usage.

It resulted in a reduction in CO2 emissions of 25 percent or more, which is approximately six percent of total global emissions. Italy was the country next in line to feel the devastating

Main Street in Port Jefferson empty of traffic due to the coronavirus pandemic. Photo by Sapphire Perera

effects of the coronavirus pandemic. However, with everyone in quarantine, Italy followed China in terms of environmental revival. In only a few months, the people of Venice were able to see the fish and the bottom of the canals that were once murky and polluted. In India, similar improvements were being seen. The beautiful snow-covered Himalayas were once hidden by

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These changes to the environment are being seen all across the world. However, once quarantine ends, the earth will be suffocated by humans once again. To prevent this, I believe that more time and resources should be invested in the search for permanent solutions that would ameliorate the climate crisis. In terms of individual change, I know that there are hundreds of ways for us to stop partaking in the activities that promote the oil industry and fossil fuel industry. For instance, we can stop using cruise ships and motorboats for personal entertainment.

According to the 2016 Pacific Standard report, “each passenger’s carbon footprint while cruising is roughly three-times it would be on land.”

In addition to regulating our carbon footprint through marine activities, we can also start placing more emphasis on alternative sports that don’t require corporate culture producers who promote environmentally unfriendly functions and corporations. Also, while this last one might be a small change, it can have a great impact.

This change requires us to use less of our private vehicles to get places, and more of the public transport system. Transport makes up about 72 percent of the transport sector’s greenhouse gas emissions. If public transportation is increased to the point that families are taking buses and trains more than their own cars, we might be able to significantly reduce the percentage of gas emissions that come from driving.

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (DNY-14 Bronx) Green New Deal reinforces some of these ideas and has already shown results through the pandemic. Some proposals in the Green New Deal include high-speed rail, removing combustible engines from the road, upgrading all existing buildings, and retraining

coal workers.

One very important aspect of this Green New Deal is to reduce air travel. Many people find that to be too drastic a step towards fixing climate change, but is it really? According to a Center for Biological Diversity report, airplanes will generate about forty-three gigatonnes of planet-warming pollution through 2050. But with the current travel restrictions and just a few months of limited air travel, we are seeing clouds of nitrogen dioxide begin to evaporate from places above Italy and China. In addition to being less dependent on air travel, we are now less dependent on the coal mining industries.

This has resulted in a dramatic decrease in the employment of coal workers; over 34,000 coal mining jobs have disappeared in the U.S. in the past decade. Fortunately, the Green New Deal focuses on training the coal workers in occupations pertaining to renewable and clean energy, and infrastructure. By eliminating the coal mining industry we would be making great leaps in the fight against the climate crisis.

Ever since the green revolution, humanity has been taking more than they need from the environment. We have abused Earth’s natural resources and expanded into territories that were inhabited by other species. I hope that this coronavirus pandemic has shown us that humanity doesn’t have to behave like a virus.

We don’t have to continue worsening the climate crisis but instead, we could learn from this pandemic and start implementing regulations such as limited air travel and increased public transportations. We can turn consumerism to conservation, capitalism to socialism, and industrialism to environmentalism.

Sapphire Perera is a junior at Port Jefferson high school. The “Turtle Island,” as the name for this ongoing column refers to the Native American mythology about North America existing on the back of a great turtle that bears every living being on its spine.

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More than 100 protesters, above, lined Veterans Highway in Commack to protest the continued closings of some New York businesses. At the rally, protesters confronted News 12 reporter Kevin Vesey, below right, about his report on the prior May 1 rally in Commack, while a retired dog groomer, below left, brought her dog to share a message. Photos by Rita J. Egan

Reopen NY Proponents Rally Once Again in Commack

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Many drivers were honking their horns at the intersection of Veterans Highway and Route 25 in Commack May 14, but it wasn’t due to traffic.

More than 100 people rallied in front of the Macy’s parking lot in support of businesses deemed nonessential during the coronavirus pandemic opening up as soon as possible.

While many were honking in support of the participants, a couple of drivers yelled disapproving comments out their windows.

The Reopen NY rally was the second one to take place at the location this month with the first one held May 1. The May 14 event was posted on the website Meetup by Olivia M. who asked attendees to decorate their cars,

wave their flags and wear patriotic colors.

Many held signs with messages such as “My constitutional rights are essential,” “My sons are not lab rats for Bill Gates vaccine” and “Cuomo to businesses: drop dead.”

One large dog wore a sign that read, “Dog grooming is essential.”

The dog’s owner, Debbie Wilson, who traveled from Freeport, said she was a dog groomer who came out of retirement to take care of some people’s pets.

“Dogs need maintenance,” she said.

“Grooming dogs is not a luxury. It’s a necessity.

For the life of me, I’ll never understand why they shut down dog groomers.”

She added it’s important to maintain many dogs’ ears and nails for health reasons and this is done while grooming.

During the rally, News 12 Long Island reporter Kevin Vesey was filming participants with his smartphone live on Facebook. He had concluded interviews with his cameraman and was documenting the event for social media.

While describing the scene, one woman confronted him saying she noticed he was wearing a mask which she said he didn’t do at the May 1 rally. Vesey responded he did wear a mask last time. The woman was quickly followed by another female, and both had megaphones.

The duo was questioning him about his reporting of the May 1 Commack rally saying he was trying to paint the narrative instead of reporting it and said his report prompted people to call the May 1 protesters “murderers.” One man yelled that Vesey was not a real journalist but a “political operative.”

As Vesey kept backing up, continuing to film them, about a halfa-dozen people kept following him aggressively, criticizing his reporting

and asking why his job is considered essential and theirs are not.

During the verbal confrontation, a few police officers were standing nearby and evaluating the situation. The May 14 rally had a strong police presence, and before it started, an announcement by the Suffolk County Police Department was made to remind participants of the importance of wearing facial masks and social distancing.

Across the street, a nurse took in the rally and said she was surprised by how many people participating, especially children who were there, were not wearing masks.

“I guess they don’t know anyone who died from this,” she said.

After the event, the Setauket Patriots, who were among the organizers, took to Facebook and apologized to Vesey for their fellow

protesters’ behavior.

“We can tell you that the few who decided to harass you and try to prevent you from doing your job are not members or affiliated with the Setauket Patriots group in any way, shape or form,” the post read. “We were looking forward to you giving us fair coverage with what you documented when we first arrived.

But as with all mass rally events, you will always get a few idiots to disrupt an otherwise peaceful, pleasant demonstration and they should have been removed by police.”

At press time, Long Island still had not met the seven health metrics required by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to reopen the region. The state’s pause order was extended until May 28 for regions that didn’t meet the requirements to reopen May 15.

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Health

SBU Infectious Disease Physician Answers Common COVID 19 Questions

BY LEAH CHIAPPINO LCHIAPPINO@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The physical, emotional and financial strains that COVID-19 has thrust into our lives has left the average person physically and emotionally exhausted and overwhelmed. There has been a plethora of information for the public to absorb, and it can be bemusing. Dr. Sharon Nachman, chief of Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, answered some general questions about the spread of COVID-19, the future of the pandemic and how we can all stay safe as restrictions are lifted.

Can you explain how COVID-19 spreads?

COVID-19, like other respiratory viruses, spreads from respiratory secretions. However, it also spreads by touching things that are recently contaminated with respiratory secretions and then touching your face. So, if you sneeze on your hand and touch the doorknob, and if I come by and touch that doorknob and then touch my face, I will spread infection. If you touch the doorknob and don’t touch your face, because say you were wearing gloves and disposed of the gloves, it is unlikely that you will pass infection from your hand, which is clean, by touching the doorknob.

Most of us, when we are around someone sick, think opening a window or being outside with them will help to prevent us from being infected. However, the general public has been told to wear masks or to social distance even when outside. Why is this?

The idea behind social distancing and wearing masks is cutting down on how much virus theoretically could pass from somebody talking, sneezing or breathing onto another person. The idea of being outside is that there is good air exchanged. You’re not in a closed room, and by keeping 6 feet distance, even if I’m talking loudly and I am getting some virus in my breath, and it’s passing out of my mouth, it’s not getting close enough to you. It’s important to realize there are measures for the population with the idea being, we don’t know who was infected, who is at risk for getting severe disease or has underlying issues. It’s the blanket protection for everybody.

There have been some conflicting reports on whether or not the virus can be spread in fresh air after the virus was found in stool stamples.

Say somebody is walking down the street and sneezes and the next person is walking down the same street. Are they at risk? Do you believe that the virus is airborne?

We know the virus is a respiratory pathogen.

What you’re referring to is some people have looked at studies of stool and found pieces of virus in stool. How did it get there? Was it a virus that you swallowed? Was it a virus that went into your GI [gastrointestinal] tract and excreted out from your stool? There are lots of

Dr. Sharon Nachman, chief of Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University Photo from Stony Brook Medicine

different hypotheses. No one is saying that the virus that they found in stool is replicating virus.

No one is saying that when they took that virus and put it into a viral media, it grew.

PCR [polymerase chain reaction] testing is testing for snippets of the virus’ DNA, or in this case RNA [ribonucleic acid]. It’s a good way of saying there was virus there, but it doesn’t translate into “that virus is contagious.”

Can you explain how a facial mask helps to slow the spread of the coronavirus?

A facial mask is a great barrier between you and the next person. If I’m wearing a mask, and I am infectious and I breathe into my mask, the facial mask is a barrier to prevent the virus from getting past the mask to the next guy. If I am infectious and wearing a mask and you are wearing a mask, the virus is [in theory] not passing my mask. If potentially, the virus is passing my mask, but you are wearing a mask and standing 6 feet away, none of the virus gets from the air to you and from the mask into you.

This gives multiple layers of protection. One layer is I have the mask on, the second is we’re standing 6 feet apart, and the third is you’re also wearing your mask.

Why is the recommended distance 6 feet?

There are lots of interesting studies that have looked at how far these size droplets can spread.

Every virus has a storybook to it. A viral particle that is a little heavier, spreads a shorter distance.

A viral particle that’s a little lighter can spread out in the airwaves even further. The measles, for instance, can spread up to 60 feet away, and even after you go out of a room, it is still floating around in the room a couple of hours later. This virus is a bit of a heavier a particle, so it drops down quickly and doesn’t stay in the air.

Can you explain how someone who is asymptomatic can spread COVID-19?

Symptoms and having virus in your nose are not a one-to-one relationship. For example, let’s say I have the flu. I may have a little bit of a runny nose, or nothing, but I go to work and give all of my colleagues, who I’m breathing

close to, the flu. They don’t know where they got it from because they look at me and say, “You had no symptoms, of course you came to work.” COVID-19 is the exact same scenario.

We have lots and lots of people who have been infected by the virus and have no idea that they were infected because they are in fact well. This is true for children, as well as adults. More often children are asymptomatic, but we have seen quite a few adults that we’re getting positive testing for that say, “I don’t know what you’re talking about. I feel fine. I never lost my taste of sense of smell and taste. I never had a runny nose. I never had a cough, and I certainly never had a fever. Asymptomatic just says to you, “Good news, you got this infection and it’s sitting in your nose,” but it does not correlate with how sick you are.

What is the extent that you think the number of deaths would have been higher if stay-athome and social-distancing orders weren’t put into place and why?

I can’t calculate that, but I can tell you it would have been extreme based on the number of people who came into the hospital who had no underlying immune issues, and they had no reason to think they would ever get hospitalized. Those numbers were high. We expect to see patients that have multiple comorbidities [additional conditions]. When they get a respiratory illness, we’re not so surprised. We did see more of them then I would have expected, but what we also saw is absolutely young, healthy adults, who in their lives have never been to a hospital. They take no medication. They are perfectly well, and they also got COVID and came in. I’m scared to think of how much worse this could have been because it was really pretty bad.

Do researchers believe this is the type of virus that once you get it or are given a vaccine you’ll be immune, or will it be like a herpes virus that it hides in the body and can be triggered in the future? Or will this be like the flu where it will be advised to get a new vaccine every year?

The answer is that I don’t know. Anything I say would be complete guesswork because I really don’t know. It’s more important to say, “I don’t know” then to put out ideas that I don’t have a basis to stand on right now. I think that we need the time. We need to put the work in, and then we need to look back and ask, “What did that change? What changed? How did it change?” I’d prefer to be cautious.

We hear about viruses mutating and sometimes they can reappear and infect people worse than before. What are your feelings on a second wave of the virus? Is it possible to mutate and be weaker than before?

We need the time to find out. These are just guesses. Do I think there will be a second wave? I’m certainly cautious that there might be a second wave. When will it hit? I don’t know.

What are the background demographics of who will get it and how sick they will be? Again, we don’t know. We have to think about it. We have to be looking for it. We have to be in close observation of populations across the country for it. We need to be prepared for what we are going to do if it does happen.

Many historical accounts suggest that after the 1918-19 Spanish flu, society permanently altered. Do you foresee permanent societal changes, such as eliminating handshaking, post-COVID-19?

Every year society changes. It’s both big and little things, from cellphones to pandemics. I think this will have a big impact, but we are still too close to understand what it will be.

As the warmer weather hits and restrictions are lifted, people will be eager to get out. Is it safe to go to the beach or a friend’s house?

With warmer weather, it will be nice to be out. I hope people do continue to maintain social distancing. I think over the summer some families may decide to cohort together, after they are tested to prove that their behaviors are acceptable. Getting tested would be the gold standard, but we also need to think about ongoing risks like going shopping vs. staying isolated for the days and weeks before mingling. A fourteenday isolation period would be keeping in line with the guidance that is out there.

How does a virus like COVID-19 change into an inflammatory syndrome that has been seen in some children? What symptoms should parents be aware of regarding their children? Are there any extra precautions parents should take to protect their children?

I think that the book of what that syndrome is has not been written. I think we’re all cautious. The best first line of defense is if a parent thinks their child has unusual signs and symptoms, they should start with their pediatrician or family doctor. They can say exactly what is going on with their child, how they are looking, and then step further. I think running to the emergency room when all [the child] has is a fever or no symptoms is probably not appropriate at this time. We don’t know. Is this syndrome only with COVID-19? Is it after getting better from COVID-19? There are too many unknowns. People, including the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization, are looking at these cases. I think we’ll have more information in the next month.

We are thinking about it, we are working [on it], and we are very cautious with these children, because they are quite sick. However, the vast majority of kids who have had COVID-19 have been asymptomatic or had a mild illness that is nothing like this inflammatory illness. I think the inflammatory disease strikes the very, very few. We don’t know why. We’re trying to understand exactly when it hits, who it hits and why it does so.

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Historical Society Remembers Memorial Day Virtually

BY BEVERLY C. TYLER DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The Three Village Historical Society began, on May 11, a series of virtual Founders Day tours that will take viewers, each Monday, to locations in the Town of Brookhaven Original Settlement Historic District in Setauket. The tours include the Setauket Village Green, with its surrounding churches, graveyards and library and sites in and around the Setauket Mill Pond, Frank Melville Memorial Park and Sanctuary.

The virtual videos have been produced to follow the award-winning field trip program designed for all of the Three Village fourthgrade students who, due to the pandemic, were not able to take part in the April program.

This next Monday is Memorial Day and the Founders Day video, which opens on Monday, May 25, takes place on the Setauket Village Green to honor the men who gave their lives during World War I, World War II and Vietnam.

Two men from the local area gave their lives in World War I — Raymond Wishart and Harry Golden. The massive boulder with south-facing bronze tablet was erected on the Setauket Village Green in their memory. The boulder was brought from Strong’s Neck and the plaque was designed by the well-known artist William de Leftwich Dodge who painted the murals on New York history that are in the state capital in Albany.

Private Raymond Wishart, son of postmaster and Mrs. Andrew Wishart, was born Sept. 10, 1893, and he died in France on Aug. 23, 1918. His remains were returned to this country and were buried in the Caroline Church of Brookhaven graveyard on a Sunday in July of 1921.

Harry Golden was remembered by his nephew Sam Golden.

“He was a sergeant in charge of the mules,” Sam Golden recalled. “His unit was attacked, and he was killed. He was 28 years old when he died, and he’s buried there in France.”

On the opposite side of the rock is a plaque that was placed there after World War II. It reads, “1941-1945 — In memory of Clifford J. Darling, Henry P. Eichacker, Francis S. Hawkins, David Douglas Hunter, Orlando B. Lyons, Anthony R. Matusky, Edward A. Pfeiffer, (and) William E. Weston of the United States Armed Forces who gave their lives in World War II.” The grave of Francis S. Hawkins, Tech Sergeant, 853 AAF Bomb Squadron, is also in the Caroline Episcopal churchyard, near the stone of Raymond Wishart and it details his service.

“The son of Everett Hawkins (the last miller in Setauket) and Celia Swezey was born at Setauket, L.I., June 18, 1911. He volunteered in the U.S. Army Air Force Sept. 24, 1942. On November 25, 1944, he gave his life to his country while on his 28th bombing mission over enemy lines, when his plane “The Moose” was shot down over

Bev Tyler, above, talks to students about the Setauket Village Green memorial rock in a Founders Day tour video. One of the plaques on the rock is pictured below. Photos from Beverly C. Tyler

Hanover and crashed near Gehrden, Germany.”

Also, on the memorial rock is a plaque for Chris Fredrick Brunn, U.S. Army, SP4, from East Setauket, age 22, who was killed in Vietnam Feb. 17, 1969. Chris is buried at Washington Memorial Park, Coram.

Brookhaven town historian and Founders Day committee member Barbara Russell spoke about the importance of the field trip program.

“Founders Day is more than learning about our local history, it is a historical experience for our Three Village 4th grade students ... Learning that the Emma S. Clark Library is not just the place to find books or attend a program, but is an architecturally interesting structure that was built by a local resident (Thomas Hodgkins) as a gift to the community, and there really was a person named Emma S. Clark is enlightening to fourth graders. Then they walk toward the Caroline Church and see the Hodgkins and Clark headstones — it all comes together in this fascinating look on a student’s face that they have just put it all together.”

On the field trip program that took place from 2015 to 2019, students and teachers viewed the Vance Locke murals of Brookhaven history in the Setauket School Auditorium and were then led on an interactive walk into the Town of Brookhaven Original Settlement Historic District in Setauket.

To recreate this experience during our current reality, we visit seven sites virtually.

Each Monday a new video is posted along with background information, supporting documents, pictures of the Vance Locke murals or posters created for this program, questions for students and puzzles. Answers to the questions

are provided on Friday on the Three Village Historical Society website www.tvhs.org.

“A few of the answers received will be highlighted on the TVHS blog each week,” Donna Smith, TVHS director of education said. “At the end of the series, we suggest that the students, at some time in the future, visit the sites with their families (all of the sites are outside). Although the program is primarily about Setauket and the Town of Brookhaven, it focuses on community, which is applicable to all

towns on Long Island.”

All seven programs will remain on the Three Village Historical Society website so anyone, no matter when they begin the explorations, will be able to visit all of them. The series is free, and no pre-registration is required.

Beverly C. Tyler is Three Village Historical Society historian and author of books available from the society at 93 North Country Road, Setauket. For more information, call 631-7513730 or visit www.tvhs.org.

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Letters to the Editor

Why the Media Is Essential A Bone to Pick with Two Letter Writers At a recent rally, protesters of the lockdown asked why a reporter’s job was deemed essential when theirs weren’t. The question is a fair one, even though the way it was posed at a May 14 rally in Commack had reporters fearing for their safety.

Dissatisfied with the way News 12 Long Island’s Kevin Vesey reported a previous rally that took place May 1, protesters began to approach him aggressively as he took video footage with his smartphone for Facebook Live, which quickly went viral over the internet. First, there were two women with megaphones and then a few others joined in the shouting match. Vesey’s response was to keep backing up as he answered them calmly and continued recording.

One of our editors was also reporting on the scene and was on hand for the confrontation, moving in closer to hear the protesters’ concerns. It was concerning the way the small crowd questioned “who was essential” with such anger. With distrust in the media growing for years, exacerbated by constant “fake news” remarks, there seems to be less and less places safe enough for local reporters to simply report the news.

If our reporter could have answered the question posed by the angry protesters and interrupted Vesey’s replies, she would have told them that if the media wasn’t deemed essential during this time, elected officials would only communicate with the public if they felt like it. They could put out whatever information they wanted to without being challenged.

President Donald Trump (R) did not calm the situation when he took the viral video of Vesey being confronted and lauded the small band of protesters, giving them and others the green light to their anti-free press rhetoric and intimidation. What should happen if Trump’s words result in violence toward journalists?

What if that violence was directed at one of our members at our local newspaper?

If we weren’t deemed essential, there would be no one there to ask the questions that are on people’s minds. You see, journalists are not creative writers. We don’t decide what we want to write every day and then make it up as we go along. We attend press conferences, we conduct interviews, we research — and we ask the questions that we believe are on our readers’ minds.

And when those in our coverage area have something to say, we print their letters to the editors, and we cover their events and rallies as best as we can. We do everything in our power to get the facts straight and to represent both sides of an issue if people on each side are willing to talk.

The Setauket Patriots, one of the organizers of the protests, apologized to Vesey for his treatment, saying they hope the reporter will offer fair coverage of the group’s events.

That is what reporters set out to do. Though we are forced to recognize we are human, and sometimes we make mistakes, a rally in Commack, New York, is not a place for such tense conflict.

No reporters on such a scene should be fearful for their safety. We are there to relate what is on protesters’ minds in their own words.

While it’s understandable that people are in distress about their livelihoods, Vesey should have been approached in a less aggressive manner and with respect to personal space, especially when he obviously tried to respect the health of the people around him by wearing a mask and trying to keep 6 feet away.

Americans ask that the media be fair; we ask the same of Americans.

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I have a bone to pick with two letter writers, Francis G. Gibbons, Sr. (“Idiocy of Some Youth During Coronavirus”) and Larry Penner (“Cuomo Overstates NY’s Funding Inequalities”) in the May 14 TBR News Media newspapers. The reckless youths protesting social-distancing policies in COVID-19 hotspots like Miami and Suffolk County, callously endangering the rest of us, are indeed idiots, but they are right-wing idiots, like the right-wing militia types carrying assault rifles who stormed the Michigan Legislature and hang Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) in effigy (“These are very fine people”, said President Donald Trump (R), who also tweeted “Liberate Michigan!”). How does that lead to an attack on young supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), supposedly seduced by “Bernie’s free giveaways?”

Sanders’ main issue is “Medicare for all,” that health care is a human right, not a

commodity you buy if you can afford it. If Mr. Gibbons had lived in such a country, or even in France or Great Britain (with rightwing governments), he would have been spared much anguish and struggle, if not the pain of losing the companion of his life.

Medicare is paid for by payroll deductions (I’ve been paying since 1965). Adding “for all” would indeed require tax revenue, just like all public services, best paid for by progressive income taxes on us old folks and everybody else (that’s solidarity: in Republican President Eisenhower’s day, the top marginal income tax rate was 91 percent, now it’s 37 percent; the capital gains tax was 25 to 30 percent, now it’s 15 to 20 percent). Sanders’ other big program is free tuition to public universities. Most of us accept that preK-12 is a universal public good to be paid for by everybody.

But somehow many have been gaslit into believing that in this high-tech era

post-high-school education is a market commodity that benefits only the customer, so of course he/she should pay what the market will bear.

Likewise, Mr. Penner is correct that a richer New York should normally pay a poorer Kentucky’s Medicaid bills, ditto downstate for upstate; that’s solidarity, why we’re the United States, and Cuomo’s claim is a ploy. But Trump and McConnell aren’t interested in solidarity. Unlike every other national leader, who committed their central governments to obtain and distribute the necessary anti-COVID-19 test kits and other resources, Trump to this day won’t do it (remember “I take no responsibility at all”?), making a few, usually publicityrich, gestures. Can you imagine Franklin Roosevelt telling governors to find their own tanks to buy?

Arnold Wishnia Setauket

In Praise of Congressman Lee Zeldin There’s an old expression that goes, “actions speak louder than words.”

Nothing highlights that saying more than something like the COVID-19 crisis.

Whether literally on the ground on Long Island or in D.C., Suffolk County has greatly benefited from the actions of Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-NY1).

He has been a driving force behind the delivery of more than one million pieces of personal protective equipment, most of it without charge, to frontline medical heroes and other courageous

essential workers. Zeldin has also been instrumental in getting over $250 million in desperately needed federal funding for our county.

While doing these things the congressman has offered a helping hand to local leaders of both parties.

Republicans and Democrats alike are glad he’s “looking out for” their constituents and been grateful for the generous aid.

Those constituents would include minorities. While some people may “have friends in the black and brown

community,” Lee actually lives, and has lived for years, in a racially diverse area.

He bought a house within few blocks of where grew up, started a family and enrolled his twin daughters in the same public schools he attended.

I want to thank Congressman Zeldin for the swift, decisive actions he’s taken on behalf of his suffering neighbors in Suffolk County and Congressional District 1.

Joanne Tereshko Setauket

Feds Should Encourage Medical Innovation

As the owner of an oral surgery practice, I am acutely aware of the dangers posed by the COVID-19 virus, as well as the economic impacts for business owners and everyday citizens. Instituting public policy that balances safety and prosperity is challenging, but critical, to restarting the economic engine that has made America a world leader in so many respects.

Ensuring that our hospitals and medical providers have adequate funding to maintain their level of readiness is perhaps the single greatest action that Congress can take to aid in safely reopening our country. Congress has the opportunity and ability to put frontline

health care workers at the forefront of the COVID phase 4 stimulus. Our doctors and nurses need all the funding they can get. While the CARES Act was a step in the right direction, we must continue where we left off and send more financial support to the front lines.

The federal government should also encourage medical innovation by supporting the biopharmaceutical industry. We will find effective treatments for COVID-19, and perhaps a vaccine, if we allow the unparalleled ingenuity of America’s biopharmaceutical companies to bring their resources to bear. Many of the proposals being considered by Congress

would devastate the very foundation that nurtured this exceptionalism.

Just as we did during 9/11, we are asking a professional sector of our society to see us through. In the days following Sept. 11, first responders and armed service members led the recovery and justice efforts. During the era of the coronavirus, doctors, nurses and health care workers are the heroes this nation is depending on. Congress must set them as priority number one in the COVID phase 4 stimulus package.

Dr. Keith S. Fisher, DDS Middle Country Oral Surgery & Implantology

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Opinion

A Salute to the Fallen Heroes of Today This Memorial Day

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he weapons and uniforms are different, but the goals are the same: to protect the interests of Americans everywhere and to save lives.

Every year, Memorial Day presents an opportunity to honor the men and women who served our country in the military, as we appreciate their courage and sacrifice during battles against a range of enemies.

This year, we have a large group of people who are D. None laying their lives of the above on the line for the

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF benefit of society.

They are the first responders, who arrive at the homes of people stricken with symptoms of a disease that can

make breathing difficult, that can give them a fever for days or even weeks.

They are the nurses who not only take the pulse and blood pressure of their patients, but also provide a human connection when those with the virus can’t have friends and family visit.

They are the doctors who use the best medicine at their disposal to provide comfort until a new standard of care is developed or a vaccine is created.

They are also the police and fire rescue teams that set aside their personal concerns about interacting with members of the community who might be sick to help strangers and the family members of those strangers.

Without these health care workers prepared to help in the struggle against a virus that never takes a weekend off or for which chicken soup, sleep or a hot shower are inadequate to ameliorate the symptoms, Long Islanders would be struggling on their own, infecting each other, and dying at even higher levels.

At the same time, people who work in other fields have been vital to the ongoing functioning of our society in the midst of the pandemic. The people who deliver packages and the mail have connected us to an outside world we can’t visit.

They travel through our neighborhoods, wearing gloves and masks and bringing everything from Mother’s Day cards for the mothers and grandmothers we dare not visit lest we are an unsuspecting carrier of the deadly disease, to the paperwork we need to sign.

Those who work in grocery stores stock the shelves with the necessities and luxuries we snap up every week, as we continue to feed families huddled in our homes. Bus drivers and transit workers enable first responders, grocery store clerks, and others to get to and from their jobs.

In addition to accepting their normal responsibilities, these people also go to their jobs in a new normal that requires many of them to wash their clothing and shower before they interact with their family, which some of them only do while wearing masks.

Some of them have died in the line of duty. They have made the ultimate sacrifice because their difficult jobs haven’t provided them with an immunity from a virus that threatens everyone.

This Memorial Day, we should honor the fallen from past wars, the soldiers who fought in Europe 75 years ago, the ones deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, those who trudged through the jungles of Vietnam, and the patriots who ensured our freedom during the founding of the country.

We should also honor the fallen victims of the virus who were on the front lines, armed with personal protective equipment such as gloves, gowns and face coverings.

When we wave our flags and honor those who gave their lives, we should pray for and thank the heroes of the last few months as well. They put themselves in harm’s way and inspired the rest of us with the same kind of courage we celebrate each year from our armed forces.

The True Story of a Female French Resistance Fighter

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ere is a script for the next Academy Award-winning film whenever we get back to making and viewing movies. It has all the right elements: white-knuckle suspense, bad guys, good guys, some who were both, Nazis, women of courage, men of valor, Charles de Gaulle, a love story, Auschwitz, a close family, children, heartbreak, resilience and especially a tale that truly happened.

What’s it about?

It is the life of Between Cécile Rol-Tanguy you and me before and during

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF WWII. You probably never heard of her. I hadn’t until I read her obit. She died earlier this month at the age of 101 in Monteaux, 130 miles from Paris. Born Marguerite Marie Cécile Le Bihan April 10,

1919, she was the daughter of Francois, an electrician who served in the French Navy and was a co-founder of the French Communist Party (PCF) in 1920.

Cécile was raised in a highly politicized family that frequently hosted foreign communist agitators on the run from Italy, Germany and eastern European countries. As a communist, her father was arrested for the second time by the Nazis in 1943 and was sent to Auschwitz, where he died.

Cécile dropped out of school in 1936 and got a job with the Comite d’ Aide a la Espagne Republicaine, an organization helping the Republicans against Franco in Spain, and there she met Henri Rol-Tanguy, who was 11 years her senior and a fellow communist. He volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War, returned wounded in 1938, and they married in 1939 when she discovered she was pregnant. Sadly, she lost the baby girl in June 1940, two days before Paris fell to the German army. Shortly thereafter her father was arrested for the first time, and her husband, Henri, joined the French Resistance (Forces Francaises de l’Intérieur, or FFI).

Cécile too worked for the resistance, and when she gave birth to a second girl, Henri asked

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her to work elsewhere and leave the baby with her mother in case both of them were arrested.

She refused.

They were separated during the war and were forced to hide their identities and their relationship, only communicating using code names. Cécile would adopt disguises and frequently change her hair style. She moved around Paris often hiding guns, grenades and clandestine newspapers in the baby’s stroller. She worked to set up a command post in an underground shelter, from which the couple received and distributed information and orders. Henri continued to move about the city, but Cécile felt confined to the headquarters, sending out communiques.

Then Aug. 19, 1944, the couple published and distributed a pamphlet calling the citizens of Paris to arms for a general mobilization, and, on Aug. 25, Paris was indeed liberated by the French division of the Allies’ army. In the underground, she said she could not hear the bells but she and the other women there celebrated by having a pillow fight.

Her husband went on to become an officer in the French Army, and while she was initially recognized for her efforts, Cécile felt that the

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many other women who had participated in the French Resistance at great peril to their lives were not. After the war and throughout the rest of her long life, she represented and advocated for recognition of the role of women in the French Resistance.

After 63 years of marriage, Henri died in 2002, and in 2008, Cécile was asked to become the Grand Officer of the Légion d’Honneur. Reluctant at first, she accepted the great distinction in the name of all the women resistance fighters whom she said were too often forgotten by history.

Cécile Rol-Tanguy died May 8, remarkably on the exact day of the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII in Europe, known as VE Day. As she went along, giving lectures and interviews during her last years, she continually stressed the importance of fighting for one’s freedom. She wanted future generations to receive that message.

Fortunately, she lived long enough to see the reopening of the Musée de la Libération de Paris moved, in August 2019, to Place DenfertRochereau, the location of the underground from which she and her husband launched the insurrection that helped in the liberation of Paris.

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