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BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The election cycle has been a quiet one this year in the Village of Poquott.

While residents would usually have a few candidates to choose from for two twoyear trustee terms, this year incumbent Tina Cioffi and newcomer John Musiello are the only names that will be on the ballot June 15.

Jeff Koppelson, who is completing his third term, decided not to run again this year.

In a phone interview, Koppelson said after six years, it was time to move on, especially with him wanting to spend more time on other things in his life.

He said he moved to the village in 1972, but it wasn’t until his first trustee run in 2015 that he felt compelled to run. At one point, residents were divided about the construction of a community dock in Poquott, which was completed in 2019. Koppelson said when he ran he had hoped that he could help in some way, and they could form a team that worked well together on the village board. He said he believes that goal was accomplished, and it shows with the low number of candidates this year and less contention in the village.

“It means that we don’t have discord,” he said. “There’s no dissension. So, people are not saying, ‘I’m against what you’re trying to do and I want to somehow pursue an alternative.’ It’s pretty unifying.”

Tina Cioffi

In 2019, Cioffi won running on the Bright Side ticket with Koppelson. A former creative

director in advertising for a Long Islandbased advertising agency for 15 years, she has owned a marketing and communications consulting business since 2003. She has lived in Poquott since 2008, and her husband has owned their home since 1986.

Before she was voted in as trustee, she was appointed as communications commissioner in Poquott after volunteering to revamp the village’s website in 2017. She is also a member of the Poquott Community Association.

“I’m running again because I enjoy giving back to the community that gives me so much to be thankful for,” Cioffi wrote in an email. “The vibe in Poquott is really great these days, and if I can help keep that going, I’m really happy to do so.”

The trustee said her first time was a great experience, and she feels she accomplished many of her goals.

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Cioffi said she is looking forward to Musiello “being a new member of the village team,” and wanted to thank Koppelson “for years of dedication and hard work.”

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Bethel AME pastor retires from church but not Three Village area

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

After a 40-year career — 26 of those years spent in Setauket — one local pastor recently decided it was time to retire.

Known for his quiet presence and dedication to his religion and the community, the Rev. Gregory Leonard has stepped down as pastor of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Christian Avenue. Shortly after his announcement, the congregation welcomed the Rev. Lisa Williams to step up to the pulpit.

Leonard said the congregation members have hit the ground running with their new pastor.

“I’m here, and I’m available if she needs any assistance or anything like that, but I’m pretty much in the background,” the pastor said.

He added that Bethel AME includes a group of people “who are very committed to the church and committed to striving to grow spiritually.”

Originally from Boston, Leonard started his career in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a pastor at St. Paul AME Church, and then moved to Atlanta, Georgia, to attend the seminary at the Interdenominational Theological Center. From there he spent seven years with a church in Providence, Rhode Island, and before coming to Setauket with his late wife Sandra and three children, was a pastor in Bermuda for two years.

Leonard said he has many good memories from Bethel AME. What stands out to him most is when the church saved Bethel Hobbs Community Farm in Centereach. Alfred Hobbs willed the farm to Bethel AME Church in 1996, and Ann Pellegrino asked to maintain the property nearly 15 years ago. Since 2007, the farm has been growing vegetables and other crops to donate to food pantries and people in need.

Leonard said church members, as well as local elected officials, helped make a difference.

“The community, and the greater community, is benefiting from them giving away the vegetables and the produce to those in need,” Leonard said. “So, that was a pretty big thing. The whole church got behind it and made it happen.”

Bethel AME congregants describe the reverend as a quiet and insightful man who doesn’t seek attention. Leonard said he believes in “get the job done, communicate and love one another — those are the important things.”

Carole and Ron Manning, of Coram, were already worshipping at Bethel AME when Leonard started pastoring there.

“He is a very humble man, very focused and very even keeled,” Carole Manning said.

While the Rev. Gregory Leonard, above, is no longer behind the pulpit of Bethel AME, he will still be involved with the church and continue his volunteering efforts in the Three Village area. On the cover, Leonard along with his wife, Marlyn, and daughter, Maisha, inside the historic church. Photo by Heidi Sutton

“Nothing really ruffled his feathers that much.”

Ron Manning agreed, saying the pastor has a calming presence. The couple said Leonard was the type of pastor who if he didn’t see you for a while, would pay a visit to see how you were.

“We got very lucky, and his tenure was never really questioned,” Ron Manning said.

“He just kept going on until his retirement.”

Antoinette Miller, originally from Setauket who now lives in Florida, also first attended Bethel AME before Leonard began pastoring there. She remembers when he first arrived and the impression he made on the congregation.

“He is a great preacher, family man and community warrior,” Miller said. “He loves his church.”

Cynthia Shephard, who lives in Port Jefferson Station, added that the reverend is devoted to his religion and congregation. She said she will miss Leonard’s quiet dedication and humble presence where he would be involved in various meetings and stop by choir practice.

“He’s a very humble man, who has always been concerned about our spiritual welfare,” Shephard said.

Lisa Roller, who has been worshipping at the church for more than 20 years, first traveled from Middle Island to attend services. Now she makes the trip from Islip.

Roller said she appreciated that Leonard is community-minded and at the same time an introvert like herself, something she

appreciated when she first met him. She said to herself, “This is somebody that I need to stick with.”

She added her family always loved seeing him at the church.

“My mother has commented that he’s such a kind and gentle person,” she said.

Teresa White described Leonard as a

“caring and genuine servant of God.” She said while he will be missed as the church’s pastor, he would remain a friend in the Setauket community.

“His strong faith in God has always been his anchor,” White said. “We will truly miss his humility, teaching and being inclusive of all people. He always emphasized the importance of our relationship with God and with one another.”

Leonard said he will continue to live in Setauket with his wife, Marlyn, and daughter, Maisha. He also plans to continue his volunteer work in the area which includes serving as a chaplain for the Setauket Fire Department and Long Island State Veterans Home at Stony Brook, and working with the Three Village Interfaith Clergy Association and Building Bridges of Brookhaven, an interfaith group that works to forge connections and encourage peace.

He also plans to continue being involved with the restoration of the historic 1917 Eato House on Christian Avenue in Setauket, which belonged to the church’s first pastor.

“I’m still involved, only I’m not on the frontline,” he said.

The Mannings said they aren’t surprised that he will still pursue his volunteer efforts in the community.

“He may not be the pastor but he will be involved in AME and the community, and help the community to move forward,” Ron Manning said. “I think that’s part of what he truly wants to do.”

Bethel AME welcomes new reverend Bethel AME Church’s new pastor, the Rev. Lisa Williams, was appointed pastor of Salem AME Church in Roslyn Heights at the beginning of January 2018, according to a press release from Bethel.

Before her appointment in Salem, she was an associate minister at Mount Moriah AME Church in Cambria Heights where she oversaw the assimilation ministry. The focus of this ministry is to care for the needs of people from first-time visitors to long-standing members. She developed the church’s curriculum of Christian care, which “instructs, encourages and empowers believers to walk in the fruit of the Spirit, while lending their time and talents in service to the Lord.”

Williams has also worked closely with Mount Moriah’s women’s ministry and was instrumental in the development and

organization of its annual retreats.

Williams has worked in information technology as a support analyst and software trainer for over 20 years and has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a Master of Divinity degree from New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Jersey.

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Obituary

Max Temkin, 99, Holocaust survivor, public speaker

BY MARILYN TEMKIN Holocaust survivor, Max Temkin, most recently of Setauket, who was part of a delegation that brought back soil from concentration camps to place under the Eternal Flame of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, died May 22, several weeks after suffering a stroke on his 99th birthday, March 27.

Max was born in Lodz, Poland, on March 27, 1922. He started his life in a large Jewish family consisting of his mother, Paula, father, Jacob, two brothers Chaim and Ephraim, and his sister Lisa.

When the Nazis invaded Poland on Sept.

1, 1939, his world changed forever. All of his family members were eventually killed in the concentration camps. Max was separated from his family on Sept. 19, 1939, never to see them again. He was 17 years old.

Max described his experience as “hell on Earth.”

In 1940, he was transported by cattle car to Auschwitz, where he was immediately given striped prison garments and tattooed with the number 142538 on his left arm. He would always say “This meant that 142,537 people were tattooed in Auschwitz before me!”

He was forced into slave labor; his primary job was in construction. He helped build the Autobahn, a public works program promoted

by Hitler for the purpose of providing quick transportation for vehicles carrying troops. He also worked as an electrician and coal miner.

Max had no formal training in these fields but always complied with orders. As he put it, “When the Nazis asked me to do something, I did it.

Otherwise, they would kill me.”

Max was surrounded by starvation, sickness and death as well as the constant stench of cremated bodies. He was shot randomly by a German guard — “just for the hell of it.” The large wound on the back of his right leg did not become infected, and he survived.

On Jan. 18, 1945, with the Russians fast approaching, the Nazis forced the prisoners to march out of Auschwitz, to erase any evidence of their inhumanity. It was bitterly cold. Max ate snow to survive. Any person who stumbled or slowed down was taken to the side of the road and shot. The prisoners were freezing and infected with lice from head to toe, having not showered in weeks. Sixty thousand prisoners were forced to march from Auschwitz to other camps in Germany. The death toll was staggering.

Max arrived in Buchenwald in late January, weary but alive. Conditions there were not any better than at Auschwitz.

He was immediately put to work cleaning bunkers where there were bodies of dead German soldiers from previous bombardments

by English forces.

Late in the afternoon of April 11, 1945,

Max Temkin, right, with his wife Sara. Photo from Marilyn Temkin

Buchenwald was liberated by General George Patton’s Third Army Unit. “This is a day I will always remember and cherish.”

Max is in the famous photograph by Life magazine photographer, Margaret BourkeWhite (The Living Dead at Buchenwald, 1945), taken hours after liberation. He and fellow prisoners were still behind barbed wire when the photograph was taken. Max is the second prisoner from the right in the second row.

The Living Dead at Buchenwald was not published in Life Magazine until December 1960, in a special double anniversary issue.

Titled “Grim Greeting At Buchenwald” the caption reads: “In Margaret Bourke-White’s grim comment on man’s inhumanity to man, survivors of Buchenwald stare out at their Allied rescuers like so many living corpses, barely able to believe that they would be freed from a Nazi camp where the only deliverance had been death.”

After liberation, while in the Zeilsheim displaced persons’ camp near Frankfurt, Germany, Max met and fell in love with Sara Braun, originally from Ozorkow, Poland. Sara also lost her family in the Holocaust. They worked as volunteers for the United States Army, Max primarily as a cook.

They promised each other to get married in America.

Max always said that he was “at a loss for words” to describe how he felt when he first saw the Statue of Liberty as his ship, the USS Marine Flasher, pulled into New York Harbor.

Although it was dusk and the Statue was hard to see, “her silhouette will always be preserved in my memory.”

He married Sara on May 8, 1948 (Mother’s Day) in the Bronx. Their wedding guests were

members of their foster families and American soldiers who liberated Max from Buchenwald.

The soldiers came from all parts of the country.

Although Max and Sara had the good fortune to live with two wonderful foster families, life after marriage was challenging. They lived in a tenement on the Lower East Side, shared one bathroom with the other tenants, worked full time during the day and attended English classes at night. They had to pass an English proficiency exam to qualify for U.S. citizenship.

Max had the opportunity to start a six-year apprenticeship to become a photoengraver at Intaglio Corporation of New York. The training would ultimately lead to a prized union job.

Most of these jobs went to sons or brothers of employees, so this was indeed a lucky break for Max. A group of very understanding men guided him through his training. He was the only Jew and immigrant in the company when he started.

Max demonstrated a unique visual aesthetic and soon assumed responsibility for the preparation of advertisements that appeared in the Sunday supplement, Parade Magazine, which is still in publication and distributed across the nation with local newspapers. Max worked as a photoengraver at Intaglio Corporation for 32 years and it became his second home.

In November 1992, Max was part of a delegation from the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., which included survivors, US Army liberators and museum supporters, on a 10-day journey to Western Europe. The delegation, sponsored by the Museum in cooperation with the Department of Defense’s 50th Anniversary of World War II Commemoration Committee, visited Holocaust and military sites in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. As part of their mission to gather soil for the Museum’s Hall of Remembrance, Max was given the honor of bringing back soil from Buchenwald, where he was liberated in 1945.

He placed the soil from Buchenwald under the Eternal Flame in the Museum’s Hall of Remembrance during the Soil Dedication Ceremony in February 1993.

Fellow Jewish Holocaust survivors brought back soil from the 37 other concentration camps and participated in the ceremony as well.

Max was active in the Lodzer Young Men’s Benevolent Society, where he was a member of the executive board for 20 years and served as president from 1994 to 1998.

After retirement, Max and Sara traveled to middle schools and high schools on Long Island to talk to students about their Holocaust experiences. On the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day, they were invited to Ward Melville High School on two occasions, April 11, 2002, and April 17, 2008. In 2002, their older granddaughter, Stephanie Pollack, who was a

junior at the time, was sitting in the audience. In 2008, their younger granddaughter, Ilana Pollack, also a junior, was sitting in the audience. They spoke to students at Paul J. Gelinas Junior High School, at the invitation of Mrs. White, Ilana’s eighth grade English teacher, also on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day. They were invited by Jeffrey Sanzel, executive artistic director of Theatre Three in Port Jefferson, to join the theater’s traveling troupe at middle schools when they performed “From the Fires: Voices of the Holocaust,” the widely acclaimed play Jeffrey wrote. This gave Max and Sara another opportunity to talk to students about their Holocaust experiences.

They also spoke frequently at Islip Middle School at the invitation of now-retired teachers Adina Karp and Paul Tapogna, whom they met in the audience when they first saw “From the Fires: Voices of the Holocaust” at Theatre Three.

At the end of each talk, Max would say: “I want to leave you with this message: Never, never hate. Hate is the enemy. The Nazis were a vehicle of hate. Hate is like a cancer, it will destroy you as well.

Hate is the enemy but for those of my generation, time is also the enemy. I am an elderly man and I want to share my story with as many young people as possible before I am no longer able to.

So, go home today and hug your parents and siblings. And never take the Statue of Liberty for granted.”

Max enjoyed attending the monthly meetings of the board of directors of the Port Jefferson Ambulance Corps with his daughter, Dr. Marilyn Temkin. It reminded him of his many years of service as an EMT and later as a dispatcher in his former neighborhood of Little Neck-Douglaston, Queens.

Max was a vibrant, elegant man who always kept a positive attitude. He made friends everywhere he went. He always lived in the moment but never forgot the past.

“Papa Max” is survived by his wife, Sara; his children, Dr. Marilyn Temkin (the late Dr. Mitchell Pollack) and Dr. Jay Temkin (Beata Drachal), two granddaughters, Dr. Stephanie Pollack (Matthew Perle) and Ilana Pollack (Dr. Zachary Wolner); U.S. Army Specialist Tyler Nussbaum and U.S. Army Sargeant Jade Nussbaum, to whom Papa Max was a beloved grandfather-by-choice; cousins Yoram Tiomkin (Nava), Adina Tiomkin (the late Raffie), and Chaim Tiomkin (Ofra) and their families in Israel and California; U.S. Army Corporal veteran and foster brother Bernard Kleinman (Lila) and family in Florida; and cousins-by-marriage Cantor Bruce Braun (Dianne) and family in Canton, Ohio.

Funeral services were held May 24 at Star of David Memorial Chapel followed by burial at New Montefiore Cemetery in West Babylon, New York.

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Village

Community comes out to support Hahn’s run for Congress on together the enormous challenges that need to be tackled for Long Island’s hardworking families.”

More than 150 people, celebrating a local The legislator said she recognizes the elected official’s announcement, filled the impact the pandemic has had financially on front courtyard of the Three Village Inn, many. She added Long Islanders’ finances Stony Brook, in the late afternoon of June 2. were affected long before the COVID-19 Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn shutdowns when the federal government (D-Setauket) announced her bid to run in 2022 capped the state and local tax deduction. for New York’s 1st Congressional District.

“This punitive tax has hurt families and Hahn, who is also deputy presiding officer of hurt our economy,” she said. “Of course, I’ll the county Legislature, will run against fellow stand up for Long Island homeowners and Suffolk Legislator Bridget Fleming (D-Noyac) vote to repeal that tax.” for the Democratic nomination. U.S. Rep. Lee In addition to removing the tax cap Zeldin (R) has held the seat since 2015. The on SALT deductions, among her goals, congressman is currently campaigning for the if elected to Congress, are making health Republican nomination for care affordable, child care New York State governor more accessible, investing in local infrastructure in 2022. and protecting land and The June 2 event was water from pollution and organized for Hahn to make having access to parks and her first public remarks shorelines. about her decision. When “Washington must be she was younger, the better for us,” she said. legislator was a waitress at Hahn said she believes the Three Village Inn. a campaign can be built Hahn said her father, with Long Islanders across who was a volunteer the political spectrum firefighter in Stony Brook, “while upholding deepgave her inspiration to held Democratic values of serve the community. respect, equality, justice and “I always try to match the level of service my —Kara Hahn opportunity for all.” She made it clear she is ready dad gave,” Hahn said. for the task of running for “He is my hero, and my Congress and described prime example of what it herself as a problem solver. means to show up for your “I work to get things done,” Hahn said. community and help families in need. It’s his example that led me to pursue a career in “I lead with respect, and I listen. I have a track record of working with anyone, to social work and become a civic leader.”

She said his influence also helped her put family first and get results. That’s the tackle difficult issues in the Legislature where kind of leadership our community needs in she has worked on legislation to protect land Washington. This campaign isn’t going to be and water from pollutants, confront Long easy, but like a lot of Long Islanders, I’ve Island’s opioid epidemic, and helped victims never backed down from a challenge.”

Nancy Goroff, who challenged Zeldin in of domestic abuse.

Hahn said more than ever the district 2020, was at the event. In an email to her needs a leader in Congress, “who actually supporters earlier this week, the former wants to find solutions for our problems, and Congressional candidate endorsed Hahn.

“Kara is a leader who is deeply connected that is what I will do — find solutions.”

“I have so much hope and optimism right to this community and understands the now,” she added. “We are back together close problems families here face,” Goroff said.

“As our county legislator, she has tackled enough for handshakes and hugs.”

Hahn compared the pandemic to a storm, tough and important challenges and has and said like other storms, residents will come come up with creative, practical solutions.”

Alexandra VanDerlofske, executive director of out stronger “if we are willing to face head

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

‘This campaign isn’t going to be easy, but like a lot of Long Islanders, I’ve never backed down from a challenge.’

Correction: Last week’s article titled “Suffolk County Landbank works to find solutions for blighted Port Jeff Station property” incorrectly stated the land was owned by the federal government.

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Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn formally announced her bid for Congress at a June 2 event at the Three Village Inn in Stony Brook. Photo by Rita J. Egan

the Suffolk County Democratic Committee, said in an email statement that voters will have a difficult decision to make when it comes to the primaries.

“Kara Hahn has been a dynamic legislator and has a proven record of getting things

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John Musiello

Musiello moved to Poquott in 2019.

A Bronx native, after he graduated from college, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area.

He spent more than 20 years working with AAA in various divisions throughout the years, including corporate finance and real estate. The bulk of his AAA career was spent in operational and strategic positions in the automotive services division of AAA working his way up the ranks to senior director. He retired in 2012.

He and his husband, Mike Taflinger, volunteered with Caring Hands for more than 15 years. The nonprofit helps seniors remain independent. He has also been the treasurer for two homeowners associations. Currently, he and his husband volunteer at Welcome Friends Soup Kitchen and at Infant Jesus R.C. Church in Port Jefferson as Eucharistic ministers, who bring communion to parishioners in nursing and adult homes. They also take time out to clean up any trash they find on the roads and

done for Suffolk,” she said. “Voters are going to have a tough choice to make, but either choice will be a good one as Kara or Bridget will both be strong advocates for Suffolk in Congress.” beaches in Poquott.

Musiello wrote in an email that when he moved to the village, he “immediately felt a strong sense of community, and it made me want to get more involved.”

“As soon as Tina Cioffi approached me to run for village trustee, I immediately said ‘yes,’ because I knew that working together with the other board members and mayor, we could continue to do great things in Poquott, especially keeping our community safe, clean and friendly,” Musiello said.

The candidate’s goals for office include utilizing his financial background and community service experience.

“Financially, I’m looking forward to collaborating with the board on operational efficiencies, bid reviews and budget considerations,” he said. “From a community service standpoint, having done volunteer work for many years, I hope to establish some more formalized volunteer programs for Poquott based on resident interest and feedback.”

The Village of Poquott election for village trustees will be held Tuesday, June 15, from noon to 9 p.m. at Village Hall located at 45 Birchwood Ave.

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County

New school mask guidelines cause confusion

BY JULIANNE MOSHER & KIMBERLY BROWN JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Parents, students and school districts had a confusing week with mask mandates for kids pre-K through 12 needing clarification from the governor.

On Friday, June 4, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said an announcement was coming to drop in-school mask mandates for children. But shortly after, the state Department of Health’s announcement didn’t align with what he said.

Health officials said they had not yet received an OK from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and on Monday, Cuomo announced the CDC would not be changing guidance for wearing masks, therefore they are still required inside schools.

According to Cuomo, school districts can lift the requirement that students must wear masks outdoors. The state’s guidance on mask use indoors remains in place, but school districts may choose to no longer require masks outdoors, for example during recess. This change aligns with guidance relating to summer camps, where even unvaccinated campers are not required to wear masks outdoors.

“Children wear masks in school inside, and when they’re outside of the school building in recess, etc., it’s hot, they’re running around, but they’re outside, there is no mandate for masks

outside. We’ll leave that up to the local school districts,” Cuomo said Monday.

This came just days after rallies were hosted across Long Island, demanding that the governor “unmask our kids.”

Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-NY1) and upset parents gathered Wednesday, June 2, outside the H. Lee Dennison building in Hauppauge to demand a mask-free environment for children in schools and camps.

“This is the right decision for children across New York, who have sacrificed so much throughout the pandemic and suffered emotionally, physically and mentally from lockdowns and remote learning,” Zeldin said at the rally.

The week before, May 26, Andrew Giuliani (R) — another contender for Cuomo’s seat in 2022 and son of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) — stopped by the same spot to show his support for the same cause.

These rallies were put together by parents and advocacy groups who hoped to influence Cuomo’s decision to lift the mandate.

“It’s a parent’s right to take care of their children the best way they feel fit,” said Mike Hathaway from Long Island Loud Majority, a conservative organization. “Not the government, not for political pull, and not for control.”

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Congressman Lee Zeldin voiced his concerns over children wearing masks in schools last week. Photo by Kimberly Brown

America while educating and empowering parents to defend their parental rights, has been working to get the mask mandate lifted in New York.

A member of the group, Barbara Abboud, said her children, among many others, have been suffering in school, whether that be academic, mental or physical.

“Everyone here today knows what’s at stake,” she said. “It’s more than just unmasking our children, it’s about getting our basic freedoms back.”

Zeldin also discussed his animosity with the prior COVID-19 restrictions, where businesses were forced to close at earlier hours to prevent the spread of the virus.

“There was a time when they said you couldn’t go to the gym after 10 [p.m.] because, apparently, that spreads COVID,” Zeldin said.

“However, if you go at 8:30 with a whole group of people, that would mitigate the spread.”

Cuomo said virtually all restrictions can be lifted once 70% of New Yorkers aged 18 and older have received the first dose of the vaccine.

Prelude to Revolution in the Three Village area

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Part one of two.

In 1655, when the first English yeoman farmers came to the land occupied by the Setalcotts, they found an area rich in resources, surrounded by bays, inlets, hidden coves, wetlands and the Long Island Sound. These early settlers, purchasing the land from the descendants of the indigenous peoples who were the first humans on the North American continent, built houses, barns, fences and named the new settlement Brookhaven. As more land was acquired, eventually stretching from Stony Brook on the west to Wading River on the east and south to the Atlantic Ocean, they began to call the original settlement area Setauket, after the small group of Algonquian indigenous people whose land was their inheritance of historic and cultural value.

For the English settlers, representative government and almost complete autonomy

continued until 1664 when the English Duke of York took Manhattan from the Dutch and Long Island from the Colony of Connecticut at Hartford. For the next 111 years, the rights of these immigrants to govern themselves and to grow both politically and economically was steadily and forcefully eroded.

Finally, in 1775, the infant colonies rebelled, formed a new government, appointed George Washington as commander-in-chief of the yet-to-be-organized Continental Army and began an eight-year-long war with England. General Washington took command of the Patriot militias surrounding the British headquarters in Boston and eventually forced the British to abandon Boston by secretly bringing cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to the heights above Boston. The first move on the chessboard of war went to Washington; however, the next was a victory for British General Howe on Long Island and a dramatic escape for half of Washington’s army which was able to secretly retreat back to Manhattan.

Long Island came under British control in August of 1776 with General Washington’s defeat at the Battle of Brooklyn.

Almost equally divided between Patriots and Loyalists, Long Island became a hotbed of resistance and conflict. The Town of Brookhaven, with its political center in Setauket, provided a largely unknown number of citizen spies for the secret world of intelligence gathering. Sixty miles from the main British Army and Navy base in New York City, Setauket and Brookhaven residents were well-placed to carry out covert actions. By February 1777, Major Benjamin Tallmadge, a Setauket native son, was running a covert spy operation on Long Island, utilizing Major John Clark.

Tallmadge, who had just recently been promoted to the rank of Major, had been asked by General Washington to run the spy on Long Island and had also been assigned as second in command to General Scott, Washington’s Chief of Intelligence.

Major Benjamin Tallmadge. Photo from SPIES! exhibit at TVHS

To be continued.

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

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Traveling memories

Three Village’s Nassakeag Elementary School second grade students in Tina Rapaglia’s class have created a travel blog as part of their recent opinion writing unit.

The students chronicled their favorite vacation spots, including Key West, Montauk, Cape Cod and Disney World.

Included in their written recommendations

were highlights of what can be found when visiting the recommended travel sites. Once complete, the class shared their recommendations with some of the building’s older students and all can enjoy the product of their writing unit by visiting: https://sites.google.com/3villagecsd.org/ nassakeagnavigatorsblog/home.

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Eight Ward Melville students were accepted into and completed the annual 16-week Healthcare Career Exploration Internship Program at St. Charles Hospital.

This opportunity is offered through the Career Jump Start course in the business department. The students were recently honored by New York State Senator Mario Mattera (R-St. James) and presented with their certificates for their participation in this hands-on exploratory program in the field of health care. Due to COVID-19, the lineup of 2021 HCEIP medical staff presenters were virtual.

Toward the end of the program, students capped off their experience with a final project in a current topic of health care. For example, Maliha Nauman

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Winning zone

Ward Melville High School students Jackie Stein and Richard Kryjak recently were named this year’s Suffolk Zone Award Recipients by the New York State Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance.

This award is presented annually to the top

male and female senior physical education leaders in each of the Suffolk County high schools.

Jackie was nominated by her physical education teacher, Mr. Heck. Richard was nominated by his physical education teacher, Mr. Chacon.

On May 21, the founders of Junk Dump Magazine, Ward Melville students Grace Brouillet, Mia Schoolman and Dlisah Lapidus, hosted an exhibit and pop-up store at Gallery North.

Visitors were able to view artwork from young artists who have been featured in Junk Dump. The students also presented the third issue of their publication, “Pants on Fire.”

The magazine debuted in December, and features artwork, photography, fashion designs and writings from students all over the world. The first two issues of the magazine sold-out.

The three have invited people to contribute to the magazine via Snapchat, and the submissions have also led to an Instagram page and website.

They chose the name Junk Dump because they wanted the magazine to be a place where artists could share anything, even if their piece wasn’t completed.

For more information on Junk Dump magazine, visit www.junkdumpmag.com.

and Sarah Khan teamed up to study and present the topic of “Substance Abuse Effects on Teens During COVID-19.”

Maliha and Sarah completed two consecutive HCEIP opportunities in 2020 and 2021.

Pictured above, left to right, Maliha Nauman, Ishan Mohan, Alexander Petersson, Steven Budnick, Riley Frohreich, Julia Erlich and Olivia Adam. Inset picture, Sarah Khan.

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The loss drops the Patriots to 12-5 with one game remaining before post-season games begins Tuesday, June 15.

Pictured clockwise from above left, Ward Melville senior Joshua Russo on the gas; sophomore shortstop Jack Friend applies the tag in a rundown for the out; and Ward Melville sophomore Robert Looney drives one straight way to deep centerfield for the Patriots.

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Editorial

Parents gathered at an ‘Unmask Our Kids’ rally last week in Hauppauge. Photo

by Kimberly Brown

Andy vs. Lee in the mask game

The last week has been really confusing surrounding children wearing masks in schools and during recess.

With under three weeks left of classes, parents across Long Island have been rallying outside the county offices, demanding that Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) ends the mask mandates for little ones.

But it became political, fast.

We agree: Masks are annoying, and we can only imagine how it’s impacting children in schools emotionally and physically. The weather has been hot — field days and outdoor sports have been starting back up in high and humid temperatures. But public health is still a top priority. It should not be political.

And while U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY1) and Andrew Giuliani (R) held the same exact rally, in the same exact spot just a week apart, something must have worked because Cuomo announced a change in the state mandate two days after Zeldin’s gathering.

But then that changed because the state Department of Health said it isn’t time for kids to be maskless inside yet — outside they can.

Parents were confused, upset — and rightfully so.

Districts had to send out letters every other day updating what was allowed and what was not allowed.

We’re all very tired. We want this to end. What we don’t want, though, is for things to happen prematurely. Is it better for the kids to spend the next few days with a mask on and then its summer break? Remember only people over 12 can be vaccinated, leaving many students in schools unvaccinated either because of age or their family’s choice.

In this case we think patience is a virtue. It’s not completely over yet. Be safe and be smart.

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Letters to the Editor Not a reasonable or equitable approach to public education The three main areas of public concern surrounding public schools are, in order of importance, education policy, financing and social issues. It is almost impossible to get anyone interested in education policy (trust me, I’ve tried). The funding of schools grabs the attention of the public only rarely, when something egregious happens. Social issues are forever ready for their close-up.

We are now somewhat focused on an egregious financial issue — the effort by the school board/administration/ union leadership to pierce the property tax cap. The tax cap is a good law. It has two intertwined purposes: to promote education equity and to limit price gouging. It was voted into law by a large bipartisan majority of state Republican and Democratic legislators. It is the rare law that actually does what it was intended to do, limit price gouging for education

services by Long Island school districts.

Long Island has the most expensive education costs in the nation, higher than very high-cost areas like Boston, or the Bay Area. Based on 2019 census data, our own school district ranks third highest in the nation for education costs among school districts with an enrollment greater than 4,000. One consequence of these unusually high costs is that Long Island has one of the most inequitable education systems in the nation. A number of smaller school districts on the Island have driven up education costs to the point where they have priced most middle-income families out of their districts. Our own school district is headed in the same direction.

This is not a reasonable or equitable approach to public education. A good public education should be affordable to as many as possible. Young middleclass families are now finding it difficult

to afford to live in the Three Village district. Clear evidence for this is the 43% decline in enrollment across grades in the local schools for 2019. Some of the people priced out of our district are young university faculty. It is almost surreal that it is now necessary to appeal to an equity measure in order to protect the interests of people who work in what were once considered upper middle-class professions.

In attempting to pierce the cap, the school district is taking a stand against a successful education equity measure that has been endorsed by all major political parties. If they are successful, they will be imposing a significant and ongoing social cost on the district. Vote “no” to piercing the property tax cap. Voting takes place at Ward Melville High School on June 15.

David McKinnon East Setauket

Agree to disagree regarding school budget revote Can we agree to disagree agreeably?

My question is prompted by letters to the editor by Graham Kerby and Joanne Tereshko in the June 3 issue of The Village Times Herald regarding the Three Village Central School District budget revote. There is no “right” answer to the size of the budget for our schools. We walk in different shoes, we vote for those who represent us, we express our view at the polls and in letters to the editor.

Is it necessary to write, as Mr. Kerby does, that “the district has betrayed its fiduciary duty to expend public monies prudently”? Where is the betrayal? Our

elected representatives have presented us with a budget. This year it has been rejected. We have been asked to consider it again on June 15. We will do so and live with the results as we do every year.

I disagree with Mr. Kerby that “shameful, shameful” voter suppression “has been brought to the Three Villages by limiting voting to Ward Melville.”

I did not believe there was education suppression when our children’s bus ride to our one high school was among the district’s longest. I did not believe there was reading suppression when the Emma S. Clark Memorial Library budget vote was held at a single site. I

do not believe voter suppression has been brought to the Three Villages.

As one with more than 50 years of school budget voting in this community, I was amused to read Mr. Kerby finds me a likely “no” voter. I have never faced the long walk and waited “in a crowded room with no air conditioning on a hot June day” to cast my ballot in a school district budget vote as Mr. Kerby projects. If I had to, I would, but there is no reason to believe this year will be different unless you believe there should be no revote.

Forrest McMullen South Setauket

Judging Cuomo by the company he keeps One can judge a person’s character by the company they keep. Did you receive an invitation to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s [D] latest campaign fundraiser to be held in New York City on June 29? Tickets are only $10,000 or two for $15,000. You can enjoy rubbing shoulders with New York state’s 1%, favorite “pay-to-play” and Democratic Party elite. Cuomo already

has $16.8 million in cash on hand to run for a fourth term. Like most ordinary New Yorkers, I can’t afford the price. I am willing to park limousines, bus tables, mix drinks or check coats.

Cuomo is currently under investigation for potential scandals related to nursing home deaths, sexual harassment and his multimillion-dollar book deal. He has

hired outside legal counsel at a cost of as much as $2.5 million at government expense. Why not use some of the proceeds from his upcoming fundraiser and current campaign kitty to pay for his legal representation rather than pick the pockets of taxpayers to foot the bill?

Larry Penner Great Neck

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Opinion Close call on the highway could have been something much worse

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ou don’t have to look hard to see them alongside the road. They aren’t even always on the sharpest curves or the steepest hills.

There, along the median or over there, by the right side of the road, are the homemade crucifixes, the flowers, the stuffed animals and the personal effects of people who never made it wherever they were going, their lives ending on or near asphalt as other vehicles collided D. None with theirs.

My family recently of the above took a road trip, where

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF we easily could have become another statistic, and our family or friends could have just as easily been visiting the spot where it ended for one, two, three or all four of us.

I was driving during a recent weekend, excited by the open road and eager to remove the family

from the neighborhood patterns that have defined our lives for well over a year.

My wife navigated, checked her email, exchanged texts with friends, and regularly asked if I wanted her to drive, if I needed a drink, or if I was hungry.

Our son was napping behind me, his head tilted back and to the left. Our daughter was immersed in virtual interactions with her friends, head down, a Mona Lisa smile plastered on her face.

With my peripheral vision, I traced the flow of the taller and shorter trees that passed by, the familiarity of the Texas, Indiana, Ohio and California license plates on nearby cars and trucks, and the click, click, click of the road that churned beneath our wheels.

Up ahead, the driver of one of the thousands of SUVs that dot the American landscape hit his brakes. My wife instantly saw it and closed her eyes. Unlike me, she typically hits her brakes as soon as she sees the red lights at the back of the car in front of her.

I immediately take my foot off the accelerator, where it hovers over the brake. As we rapidly approached the car in front of us, I applied the brake with some force, coming to an almost

complete stop just feet before reaching the bumper.

I exhaled in relief, while immediately hitting the hazards. I wanted the cars behind me to know I wasn’t merely touching my brakes, but that I, and all the other cars around me, were stopping.

For a moment, I chatted with my wife. I have no idea what she or I was saying, when I noticed a truck coming towards at an incredible rate of speed.

“Hold on! This isn’t good!” I shouted, waking my son and drawing my daughter away from her phone.

I reflexively tapped my accelerator and drove my car directly towards the nearly stopped SUV on my right side. The truck, meanwhile, dove into the thin shoulder.

As it flew by, the truck somehow missed us completely. The car next to me honked in frustration, as the driver, who must have moved to her right, glared. I wanted to tell her that a truck might have crushed our family if the driver and I hadn’t each made last second adjustments.

Her lane kept moving, and she likely didn’t give my sudden maneuver another thought. With my hands in a vice grip on the wheel and my breathing rapid, I stared at the truck in front of me. I wasn’t

sure whether I would have liked to punch or hug the driver, who didn’t notice me slowing down, see my hazard lights or leave himself enough room to stop. At the same time, though, he — and it could have been a woman, because I never saw the driver — turned onto the small shoulder, finding just enough space to squeeze past me without destroying my car, my family or my life.

For the next several minutes, I struggled to drive, as the image of the speeding truck with nowhere to go in my rear view mirror replayed itself in my head.

“Are you okay? Do you need me to drive?” my wife asked anxiously.

My family and I were okay. We weren’t a part of a sad story that ended on an American highway.

Skid marks left on the road weren’t a marker for the final seconds of our lives.

We are grateful for the combination of factors that turned a close call into a near miss. Perhaps this happened for a reason beyond giving us more opportunities to extend the journeys of our lives.

Perhaps one of the purposes is to provide a warning to everyone else to remain vigilant, to brake early and to stay sharp and focused on the roads.

Ever heard of a white tick? Please read on

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ere we go again. I have had another encounter with a tick, but this time, to make the story more interesting, the villain is a white tick. At least it can appear white when it is engorged with blood. My blood. Just the thought of it is enough to make one’s skin crawl, right?

Well, it’s tick season particularly now, and you don’t have to go into the woods to find them. They can be in the beautiful lawn at your house or in the bushes that you brush against when you take out the garbage. Unless Between you are wearing long you and me pants that are tucked

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF into your socks and a long sleeve shirt and hat, you could be a victim.

More likely, your dog could appear to a tick as a delicious steak on four legs, and if bitten, the dog can inadvertently carry the tick into your home. I think the white tick found me as I was sitting on the cement edge of a pool and wearing just shorts and a short sleeve shirt in the recent 90-degree weather. (Chicken that I am, I found the water still too cold to jump in.)

We all know that ticks can carry Lyme disease. But there are other diseases that could potentially be transmitted through their bite.

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is another, and despite its geographical designation, this malady can occur throughout the United States and yes, even on Long Island. A local internist I know tells me he has seen several cases in the course of his practice.

RSMF, as it is sometimes referred to, is a bacterial disease that typically begins with a fever and fierce headache. A few days later a rash develops, made up of small spots usually starting on the wrists and ankles. Other symptoms may

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include muscle pains and vomiting.

To my surprise, when I had routine blood work done for an annual check-up a couple of years ago, I discovered that I had indeed had RSMF from that previous tick bite but with no symptoms.

Asymptomatic versions do indeed occur, and I was one such example. Now I have again been bitten, and the question is whether I could get the disease again, if the tick carried RSMF, or if I have antibodies sufficient enough to make me immune. Then again, I cannot be sure that this recent tick did not carry Lyme disease or some other microbial agent of infection.

What to do?

It never helps to have a medical problem on a weekend. I apparently was bitten on Saturday afternoon and found the tick behind my right knee on awakening Sunday morning. My hand was drawn to it because of a severe itch.

At first, because it was small and white, we thought it was a skin tab that had spontaneously

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appeared. But upon pulling, it came off and began crawling away. Since I had experience with a tick bite before, I knew to capture the tick in a plastic sandwich baggie and save for the physician to send for testing.

As the day progressed, I could feel a tiny lump where I had been bitten, and the area around the lump became red and warm, with the same intense itch that had originally drawn my attention. By Tuesday, I had an appointment with my physician, and I had more than only the tick to show him. The red area had increased from the size of a silver dollar to that of my palm. I am now taking doxycycline, the antibiotic of choice, as well as an antihistamine for what is probably an allergic reaction.

I share this with you as a cautionary tale to urge you to check yourselves daily for ticks that might have targeted you as a good meal. And further, don’t just assume a tick on you will be black and therefore readily spotted. Take heed from my experience. They can also be white.

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