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Overdue Fines Are Eliminated Permanently The staff of Emma S. Clark Memorial Library is back in the 1892 building, preparing for safety and social distancing measures.

The building had been closed as per the executive order of Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), but all at the library are pleased to be able to start a phased reopening of the physical services, in addition to the online services that were always offered and new virtual classes and programs that the library started providing during quarantine.

This week, library employees have returned to the building for Stage 1 of the library’s reopening plan. During Stage 1, only staff are permitted in the building, but patrons may begin returning items in the book drop. The library is thrilled to announce that the board of trustees voted recently to permanently eliminate overdue fines on most items. This includes items that patrons had during quarantine, as well as all overdue fines going forward. The library will be fine-free for all materials, with the exception of video games, museum passes, Playaway Launchpads and Library of Things items.

Contactless front door pickup is scheduled to begin Monday, June 15, which is Stage 2 of the plan. After patrons receive a notification from the library that their items are ready for pickup, they can go online at www.emmaclark. org for detailed instructions or call the library at 631-941-4080 to make a reservation for a

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For Stage 3 of the plan, which will begin on or about Monday, June 29, the building will be open to the public. There will be some modification of facilities and no public events or gatherings, in order to maintain social distancing measures.

Each of these stages is subject to change and will depend on the status of the area metrics and guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control, Suffolk County and New York State. For more information on the phased reopening plan and the most updated library news, the public is advised to continue to monitor the library’s social media pages — Facebook, Instagram and Twitter — and website at www.emmaclark.org.

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Three Village Clergy Members Make a Statement Peacefully

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Approximately a dozen clergy members stood for equality at a Setauket intersection June 5.

Members of the Three Village Interfaith Clergy Association gathered on the southeast and northeast corners of Route 25A and Bennetts Road/North Country Road. On the muggy Friday, with signs in hand, the peaceful protesters wanted to let the community know that black lives matter. The protest was in response to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of a police officer.

The Rev. Linda Anderson, community minister in affiliation with the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at Stony Brook, said it was important to organize the event with faithful people from different religions.

“We wanted to show people that we can stand together for peace and for justice, and that is what our faiths ask us,” she said.

The Rev. Gregory Leonard, of Setauket’s Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church and one of the founding members of the grassroots organization Building Bridges in Brookhaven, said when it comes to residents caring about an issue, it starts with the faith communities. The pastor said at this significant moment in history, the group couldn’t let it pass by without doing something.

“This is a big moment,” he said. “Something is happening, and it could be something good if we stand up and speak up, and it could be something negative if we just sit there and don’t say anything.”

Rabbi Paul Sidlofsky, from Temple Isaiah in Stony Brook, said the individual congregations have been emphasizing the importance of human rights, but he said it was important to come together as a community.

Members of the Three Village Interfaith Clergy Association stand on the corners of Route 25A and Bennetts Road/North Country Road to let residents know that black lives matter.

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“This is not something that affects one group, Though Leonard did notice a few negative one religion or one part of our society, but it gestures that didn’t deter his hope in people. affects everyone — everyone who believes “You know what, it’s the start of a dialogue, in freedom, who believes in justice and equal talking to each other,” he said. “When we talk rights,” he said. to each other, get to know one another then Elaine Learnard, a Quaker and hopefully things like what happened with George member of Conscience Bay Friends Floyd will become less and less. I think there will Meeting, said it was important for her to always be hatred and ignorance in the world. I take part. think that’s just the way “Quakers, since the it is, but today the Three beginning, have believed Village clergy and the other in equality of all, and people who have joined us like most of the nation, are making a statement we haven’t always lived that what’s going on is not up to our ideals, and it’s right. We need to respect important,” she said. each other. We need to get “This is a time to me of to know one another. We crisis with potential for need to build bridges to great change, and it’s one another.” important to be heard Sidlofsky said the and seen in support of the negative is expected equality of all.” as sometimes people —The Rev. Gregory Leonard misinterpret the message.

The majority of the drivers passing by were “We have to realize honking and giving nods that when we stand up for of approval. the rights of one group “I think our signs saying who we are, Three such as the African American community, Village Interfaith Clergy Association, I think that it doesn’t mean you’re denying the rights of helps people have goodwill and maybe make others, it means you’re enhancing human some of them think a little bit,” Anderson said. rights,” he said.

Leonard was not surprised.

Anderson said she has faith in the future.

“I have always known here in the Three “I always have faith and trust in the goodness Village there are more compassionate, good that’s in humanity and I think, I hope, that we people than there are those who are afraid and perhaps have hit a bottom and the only place to negative,” he said. go is up,” she said.

‘Something is happening, and it could be something good if we stand up and speak up, and it could be something negative if we just sit there and don’t say anything.’

The Rev. Ashley McFaul-Erwin, community outreach pastor for Setauket Presbyterian Church, who grew up in Northern Ireland, is also hopeful.

“I really believe in the inherent goodness in all people,” she said, adding it will take hard work to continue building relationships. “I think at the heart of it, even though we’re very divided right now, there’s a goodness that I hope will come through.”

Leonard said, regarding Floyd’s death, the thing that sticks with him most is how he cried out for his mother who died two years earlier.

“When he called out for his mother, he called out for all mothers black and white, rich and poor,” the pastor said. “That was very meaningful for me and something to think about regarding the tragedy of his death.”

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Stony Brook Protest Brings Together Hundreds Against Racism

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Several hundred people crowded on to the north side of Nesconset Highway in Stony Brook June 7 in one of a series of protests against racial injustice and police brutality from all around Long Island.

Across from Smith Haven Mall, several hundred protesters gathered both along the busy intersection and a small field just behind the police barricades. At one point, police stopped traffic for a time to allow protesters to march down the road. Cars honked horns in support, and some drove by holding their own signs in solidarity with those at the rally.

Protesters shouted lines such as “No Justice, No Peace.” People also laid on their stomachs with their hands behind their backs, much as Minneapolis man George Floyd was May 25 when the now-fired officer Derek Chauvin pushed his knee into Floyd’s neck. The crowd shouted while on the ground, “I can’t breathe,” some of the last words Floyd spoke.

Suffolk County has had around 85 protests since the killing of Floyd more than two weeks ago, according to County Executive Steve Bellone (D).

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On June 1, the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons and North Fork held a debate between the four candidates vying for the Democratic nomination and who will then face off against incumbent Lee Zeldin (R-NY1) for the New York’s 1st Congressional District seat.

The nominees in the upcoming primary election June 23 are Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming (D-Sag Harbor), last year’s front-runner Perry Gershon, former educator Nancy Goroff and Gregory Fisher, who has run for multiple local offices over the years.

Though the debate went on for more than an hour and a half, it did not touch on points such as the current protests against racism and police violence currently rocking the nation.

Here’s what they had to say on a number of key issues and challenges facing the district.

1.On what issues do you think there is a reasonable possibility of enacting legislation to benefit the country?

Fleming: I’m known as someone who has reached across the aisle and looks at problems and challenges with an eye toward hearing from all stakeholders. Then taking on the tough decisions to move forward. I have a proven record on that.

There are a number of issues that face our congressional district. One, for instance, is immigration. Many people feel that the current immigration system needs comprehensive reform.

Individuals are so enamored with special interests.

Another issue is the epidemic of gun violence. There is a consensus in the country on commonsense background checks, on a ban on assault weapons, and a ban on high-capacity magazines. There are many issues upon which the country agrees but because of the influence of special interests and someone like Lee Zeldin, who has a perfect record from the NRA, caters to those special interests. We can get beyond that.

Gershon: The goal when I’m your congressman is to enact policy that we can do on a bipartisan basis whenever possible. There is a crying need for certain policies as we go forward and try to climb out of the coronavirus-based recession.

That’s building jobs. How do you do that? With infrastructure and investing in our economy. There was a glaring need for infrastructure even before coronavirus, and it’s doubled or tripled now.

From left, Perry Gershon, Nancy Goroff, Bridget Fleming and Gregory Fisher are running for State Senate D1. File photos

We have the opportunity for green jobs, green energy in a new economy. We need Democrats and Republicans cooperating with each other.

That obviously starts with getting [President] Donald Trump (R) out of the White House. With a uniter in the White House we can pass policies and take it beyond infrastructure, we can go to health care, the other real priority for America.

We can build on the Affordable Care Act. We can make sure Americans understand that health care is a right not a privilege.

Goroff: If I’m elected my top priority is to make sure we are taking meaningful action on climate change, which is the largest threat we face to our way of life, even today. I can do that by acting as a resource for members of Congress from both sides of the aisle — making sure they have access to the best information available, making sure all their questions are answered and holding their feet to the fire to ensure we are taking action. We will make sure we are setting ambitious targets as we strive for a carbon zero economy.

We invest in deploying existing technologies, in reusable energy, in clean vehicles, and in clean buildings.

Fisher: One of the important issues is that voters don’t feel like they are being listened to. They are looking at a lack of access to their representatives. We are crippled economically, people are out of a job and can’t pay their bills.

They want to know how you are going to get things done and get us out of trouble.

I subscribed to a philosophy called a decentralized autonomous organization, where citizens can input every detail, on what they want to influence. I have an economic plan that will eliminate the scarcity caused by this longterm economic shutdown.

2. As a congressperson what specific proposals would you support to improve our immigration system?

Goroff: We need to take action toward making comprehensive immigration reform.

We must prepare a pathway to citizenship for our Dreamers and we must make sure we are allowing families to be reunited. We can’t be separating children from their families at the border and we should be considering more effective/humane ways to help people coming

in who want to claim asylum.

The fact that people have to wait for months or years, and now we are imprisoning them — is unnecessary and unconscionable. We should be looking at why we have such a stream of refugees coming to our border. There are programs that were started in Central America by the Obama administration to help refugees on the ground, so they don’t have to leave.

We need to make sure we are reinstating these programs that can keep refugees from thinking the only opportunity is to walk 1,000 miles across Mexico. Our policy must be humane and must live up to our American values.

Fisher: Most citizens want several points addressed. They want registration, they don’t want a secret population, they want taxation, they want to make sure they are paying their share.

The other one is assimilation and education so that those people are ready for our society.

There are people out there that are starving for the opportunity to be a part of this American dream.

Fleming: The immigration system in the United States is deeply broken and needs comprehensive immigration reform. It needs to be the top priority of anyone’s agenda who is looking to take a job on Capitol Hill.

We need to fix our broken visa system.

Luckily in Suffolk County, we have allies in the farm community who have been deeply hurt by the system and can’t find enough workers to harvest their crops. That is an alliance we can lean on in Suffolk County to move that process forward and make reforms.

We need to end separations of families at the border. It is inhumane and unacceptable. We need a clean DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] bill, we need to restore TPS [Temporary Protected Status]. We need to ensure that the border is secure, but secure because we have undertaken a system of immigration that is fair and humane.

Gershon: It’s no secret that immigration was a challenge in this country even before the election of Donald Trump. We have been trying to solve our immigration issue for many years and under many different presidents.

Trump has made a bad situation and made it worse. We’ve got to take care of the Dreamers, people who are in this country through no fault of

their own, who did not commit a crime, and have no nation they call home except America. We need to give them a path to citizenship, we need to take care of TPS recipients. We need to have defensible borders, we need to have a system where people do not just flock into America. We need to be able to secure our borders and be able to maintain them while we take care of the people here.

3.How can we bring affordable housing, job creation to LI, especially for millennials?: Goroff: Now with COVID-19, millennials are facing another challenge in getting their careers started. As a lifelong educator, I believe in making education available to people and to make it affordable. That means making sure we have sufficient Pell grants for our students. So people and families can afford excellent degrees and they can get good jobs.

We also need to make sure all jobs are paying a true livable wage and that means investing in new jobs here, like clean energy and increasing the minimum wage. We also need to address the health care issue because it is a burden on businesses.

Fisher:We have created a generation of homeless millennials. Why? Because they can’t leave their parents’ homes, they can’t afford to buy a house or pay the rent for an apartment.

They are living late in life at their parent’s houses. My plan would include a revamp of the tax system, so we have money to invest [in the economy]. Education should be a right, we need to build America. We need to fundamentally make a new commitment to young people and realize that we have betrayed them.

Fleming: This is one of the critical challenges here in Suffolk County and in NY1.

It is something at the county legislature we have attacked with real intention and real success. For instance, look at the Village of Patchogue and the surrounding areas.

The developments of these vibrant downtowns are encouraging young people to stay on Long Island and make a life here.

I’ve been fighting for affordable housing since my time on the [Southampton] town board.

Gershon: People want to stay here and not to be forced to move away because of better jobs.

The way we fix that is get better paying jobs here on Long Island so that young people can move here. Also, we need to improve their educational prospects by not having them come out of school massively burdened by student debt. We need to do things like reducing the cost of student debt.

The federal government should not be making a profit off it by lending to our students so they can afford to go to college. The government should be facilitating college education.

We can give people the opportunity to pay off some of their student debt in exchange for national service. Let them be teachers, let them do things that will improve our own society.

On affordable housing, we need to bring money into Long Island. We need to fund housing for the middle class, we need to find a way that doesn’t force people away. The government can do that, it can be a federal policy. We need fair development as well.

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Community News Setauket

Town of Brookhaven Councilwoman Valerie Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station) and her daughter Noelle showed their support June 7 by visiting “A Wishful Gesture,” a peaceful installation of the Three Village Community’s support for black lives and unity in the nation. The artwork is displayed outside of Gallery North.

The organizers have invited people to share wishes of love, peace and hope by placing flowers, plants, paintings, drawings, sculptures and messages in the courtyard at Gallery North, according to a press release. Those who would like to participate can leave their peaceful gestures either around the wishbone sculpture on the lawn between Gallery North, 90 North Country Road, and the Studio at Gallery North, 84 North Country Road in Setauket, or along the cedar fence that faces North Country Road directly adjacent to the lawn.

“I was pleased to be contacted by organizers Annemarie Waugh and Tali Hinkis about this project,” Cartright said. “In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd and the systemic racism and discrimination that has plagued our country for centuries, there is no better time than now to direct our energy towards peaceful demonstrations and meaningful legislative and policy change. I

have a great deal of respect for the artists and community members who are participating in this beautiful piece of installation art. I was proud to show my daughter such a positive example of people using their individual talents to highlight what our communities need and make our voices heard.”

Annemarie Waugh said she wanted to do something to support the Black Lives Matter movement. “’A Wishful Gesture’ is a peaceful symbol of the Three Village Community’s support for black lives and unity in our nation,” Waugh said. “As an artist, I wanted to do something thoughtful and sensitive in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, and I feel this memorial/installation at Gallery North is a wonderful peaceful gesture for the Three Village Community.”

Tali Hinkis said it was also a way to show support during a time of social distancing.

“A week ago I went to a local protest,” Hinkis said. “I have been practicing pretty extreme social distancing for a while to keep my family and the community safe. It occurred to me that many of my neighbors might not be comfortable being in large groups but that they, too, wanted to make their voice heard and stand

up for justice and unity.

Memorials are always a powerful site, and as an artist, I am frequently drawn to the raw emotions and spontaneous actions on display at protests and memorials. Cardboards, handwritten statements, catchy phrases, abundance of flowers are a visual vocabulary of historical times of political and social change, pain, and solidarity. Art and culture, in my view, reflect our society, and so the memorial/installation of ‘A Wishful Gesture’ came together in Gallery North, a place for art and for our community.”

For more information about “A Wishful Gesture,” contact Hinkis at thinkis@gmail. com or Waugh at amg253@gmail.com. For more information about Gallery North, visit www.gallerynorth.org.

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BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Despite the turbulence the country has been enduring for the past few months, Three Village residents and those in surrounding areas are showing support for all human beings.

Signs featuring the colors of the rainbow with additional black, brown, pink and blue stripes, and bearing the messages, “Our faith community celebrates diversity” on one side and “Our faith community celebrates diversity” on the other, have popped up on random lawns the last couple of weeks. The signs are the result of a committee made up of local clergy members and lay people from various faith communities, according to the Rev. Ashley McFaul-Erwin, community outreach pastor at Setauket Presbyterian Church.

The pastor said the group was in the early stages of planning the first Three Village pride walk for June but then the pandemic happened.

The members threw around the idea of a car parade but weren’t sure how they could do that safely and decided the signs would enable them to display the message in front of their homes and religious buildings.

McFaul-Erwin said it was an important

message to share with many Christian churches having discriminated against the LGBTQ community in the past. The blue and pink stripes were added to represent transgender people and black and brown stripes are to show unity with people of color.

The Rev. Linda Anderson, community minister in affiliation with the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at Stony Brook, said she thought it was a brilliant idea.

“The signs will last longer than a parade,” she said. “They can be spread out more widely.

It’ll just keep saying the message of peace, love of humanity, justice and fairness.”

Elaine Learnard, a Quaker and member of Conscience Bay Friends Meeting, agreed.

“I think it’s a great way to do it and very creative during this time where everything is so crazy,” she said.

Barbara Ransome, director of operations of the Greater Port Jefferson Chamber of Commerce, was part of the committee as a member of Conscience Bay Friends Meeting.

She said she has one on her lawn and also placed one in front of the chamber office.

“With all the stress going on — George Floyd’s death, rallies, COVID-19, etc. — this

One of the new signs on a local lawn. Photo from Setauket Presbyterian Church Facebook

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McFaul-Erwin said the Setauket Presbyterian Church also placed a pink triangle on the Village Green with 51 flags.

She said the flags are “in memory of all who have been harmed by churches throughout the years. We want to repent for harm done as well as celebrate.”

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Residents Raise Concerns About Gyrodyne Sewage Treatment Plant Proposal The Suffolk County Sewer Agency will meet June 22 to discuss granting provisional approval of plans to construct a Sewage Treatment Plant on the Gyrodyne property, Route 25A in St. James. The STP would be in the watershed of Stony Brook Harbor, a major source of the North Shore’s clean water supply. Based on testimony from independent environmentalists and water quality experts, we believe building this STP presents serious health, safety and environmental concerns affecting residents of the towns of Smithtown, Brookhaven and across the North Shore of Long Island. We caution the Sewer Agency not to act hastily without full review of environmental and health impact studies.

Six Reasons the Gyrodyne Sewage Treatment Plant Should Not be Built in its Proposed Location 1. Biohazard and medical waste usage requirements. Medical and health care facilities — two primary tenants of the proposed Gyrodyne redevelopment — pose special sewage-treatment needs, including advanced filtration systems to safely process radioactive and biohazardous medical waste products. However, toxicity and other special needs have not been addressed in the approval

process. In fact, a 2012 study by the Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences cited the unexpectedly high level of radioactive iodine in Stony Brook Harbor traced to effluent from Stony Brook Hospital.

2. Noncompliance with government laws and regulations. Under New York State’s Environmental Quality Review Act, the conditional approval being considered by the SC Sewer Agency is premature and illegal. As a subordinate agency in the SEQRA process, Suffolk County can only provide approvals after SEQRA is complete and accepted by the permitting authority (in this case, the Town of Smithtown). Smithtown has not completed the process.

3. Instant overcapacity. The proposed STP is slated to accept 100,000 gallons per day for treatment. Gyrodyne officials have stated their intention of allowing Lake Avenue (St. James) business district to hook up to the STP adding another 70,000+ gallons per day. The Lake Avenue sewage volume would immediately put the plant above overcapacity.

4. Location. Sited in a Rapid Groundwater Transport area less than 8,000 feet upstream from Stony Brook Harbor, the proposed plant

Civic groups protested in front of the Gyrodyne property March 2. Photo by Rita J. Egan

will discharge thousands of gallons of effluent daily into grounds abutting the harbor — and ultimately seep into the harbor itself, killing off the ecosystem.

5. Waterway vulnerability. Stony Brook Harbor is a relatively narrow waterway with meager flush capacity taking up to 12 days for full water exchange with Long Island Sound.

In addition, due to the unique configuration of Smithtown Bay, waste products will remain

for exceptionally long periods in the harbor until finally removed by the tidal exchange.

6. Nitrogen exposure. Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) has named nitrogen “Public Enemy #1,” calling it Suffolk County’s largest cause of water quality degradation. Nitrogen is associated with marine hypoxia and habitat destruction leading to excessive algae blooms and “green water syndrome.” As nitrogen cannot be fully filtered from effluent flow, permitting construction of this STP on Gyrodyne property would dramatically undermine the county’s $4 billion campaign to reduce nitrogen exposure We urge the Suffolk County Sewer Agency to wait until the New York State’s Environmental Quality Review Act is complete or, better yet, recommend a more appropriate location for what is quickly becoming a regional sewer treatment plant on environmentally sensitive lands.

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BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM “Hello?” “Can you hear me?” “Would that person please mute their mic?” “We can hear your dog barking/child yelling/ lawn mower going …” and on and on.

These are comments well known to anybody who’s been paying attention to government meetings, of municipalities large and small, in this time of pandemic.

When Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed an executive order which temporarily nixed the requirements for local governments to hold in-person meetings, many organizations quickly had to come up with some sort of workaround to still hold their legally required meetings, though staying as socially distanced as possible while still remaining open for public view.

Zoom meetings, YouTube Live video, these are the new tools for conducting government business, but not all are equal in just how “open” these meetings are.

New York Coalition for Open Government, a small nonprofit organization, known until recently as Buffalo Niagara Coalition for Open Government, came out with a report May 12 grading different levels of government on their transparency, with all meetings being held online. The New York State Committee on Open Government, which is run from Albany under the Department of State, has opined that governments would still have to host visible livestreamed meetings to conform to both the governor’s executive order and the current Open Meetings Law. Some governing bodies have interpreted the governor’s order to mean a body could meet without allowing public access. The coalition organization instead points to opinions by the committee and people from the governor’s office that says agencies and all local governments should allow access to livestreamed meetings.

Kristin O’Neill, assistant director for the state Committee on Open Government, said in a phone interview that local governing bodies “must afford remote access to the meeting while the meeting is going on.” This does not have to be a video livestream, but it must allow the public the ability to listen to that meeting. She said it is not enough to post a transcript or video after for the public to listen to or read.

The nonprofit’s report found only four of 21 governments surveyed from

all of New York state had met all their criteria, including having all meetings livestreamed, having videos/audio posted online after the meeting and having all meeting documents posted online prior to the meeting.

The coalition included another metric though it’s not required by the Open Meetings Law, specifically asking whether a government was soliciting public comments that are heard and/or seen during the meeting.

The open government coalition president, Paul Wolf, an attorney in upstate New York, said he feels it’s important for local governments to be judged on their willingness to listen to the public, despite it not being required by law.

“All right, there’s a pandemic going on, but you” can still hear from the public and hear their concerns,” he said. “[We had] some pushback and controversy on grades, but you have to somehow rank people and and have some calculation who’s doing good.”

Suffolk County and the Town of Brookhaven were given “B” rankings by the committee, noting both were not addressing public comments in their meetings. As of their last meetings in May and early June, both town and the county board meetings still were not enabling public comment.

“It’s good to push for this stuff, and that seems to be one of few ways to get elected officials’ attention that seems to prompt some change,” Wolf said.

That’s not to say it hasn’t been difficult for local government to make the adjustment to online meetings.

Suffolk County Legislature Presiding Officer Rob Calarco (D-Patchogue) said the governing body had to figure things out on the fly. The last time all legislators were together for in-person meetings was May 17. He added it took time to get proper guidance from the state regarding hosting meetings. So far during the pandemic, the legislature has only allowed comment during public hearings.

Calarco said some legislators have made comments that current meetings have not been sufficiently open.

“I get that, and it is important for us to be transparent, but we have been trying to do it as effectively as we can,” he said. “For local government [having public comment] is an integral part of how our meetings operate — for residents to have ability to speak to us in public fashion.”

The next general meeting, June

9, will be the first time in two months the legislature will have a timeslot for public comment. People can visit the legislature’s website at scnylegislature. us and scroll down to the link for submitting public comment.

Brookhaven, on the other hand, is looking more toward a time when they can host in person meetings again, according to town spokesperson Kevin Molloy. He said Brookhaven has had to work through technical difficulties, but is complying with the law and the parameters of the governor’s executive order, adding there were no current plans to createa a public portion during online meetings.

The town allows for comment on public hearings, which can be submitted either in writing or with the person joining the town’s online meeting in video form. Molloy said the town has tried to push back non-time sensitive public hearings until later dates.

“We’re certainly trying to improve it, that means improvements in technology and the board is always trying to improve access to public,” Molloy said.

Despite this, different levels of government, including school districts, have found varying levels of success keeping their meetings open and responsive to the public.

TBR News Media has run through all school districts, villages and towns in our coverage area to check if its meeting four simple criteria. The point is not to degrade some and promote others, but to offer a means of comparison and give examples for how they can improve their openness to the public. Because of this, we have eschewed a letter grading system for our local governing bodies.

Port Jefferson Village is allowing for public comment via chat on YouTube but, as it has done in the past, has only hosted public portions every other week.

Though this may have worked until now, the circumstances of the pandemic mean it may be time to change that policy.

School districts were perhaps the most consistent among municipalities for providing documentation and at least some communication of meetings and inquiries from residents. The Comsewogue school district has hosted a bevy of online options for students and district residents, including a website dedicated to offering stress relief for students, multiple Zoom meetings directly with students and a video of the budget hearing. However, the district has not posted any of its online board meetings after the fact to its website.

Grading Criteria (according to New York Coalition for Open Government) • Are meetings being live streamed?

• Are meeting videos/audio posted online after the meeting?

• Are all meeting documents being posted online prior to the meeting?

• While not required by the Open Meetings Law, are local governments soliciting public comments that are heard/ seen during the meeting?

Suffolk County 3/4 Meetings are being livestreamed through county website Meetings video/audio/documents available after meeting Meeting documents available before meeting Public are not able to comment on agenda Town of Brookhaven 3/4 Meetings are being livestreamed and can be accessed by cable Channel 18 Meetings video/audio/documents available after meeting Meeting documents available before meeting Public are allowed public comment only during public hearings Village of Belle Terre 3/4 Meetings are held via Zoom with notifications sent to residents Meetings video/audio is not readily available post meeting Meeting documents are posted before meetings are held Public is available to make comments during regular meetings Village of Port Jefferson 4/4 Meetings are being livestreamed Meetings videos/audio/agendas posted online Meeting documents posted before meeting Comments being posted through YouTube then addressed by board, but only every other meeting Village of Old Field 3/4 Meetings are being livestreamed with links sent to residents via Zoom Meetings audio/video not posted online though minutes are Meeting documents not posted before meetings Trustee meetings regularly allow two public comment periods Village of Poquott 3/4 Meetings can be accessed via dial-in code Meeting video/audio of latest meetings not available Documents are posted prior to meetings Public is able to make comments during meetings Three Village School District 3/4 Meetings are not being livestreamed Meeting video available after meeting Documents are available prior to meeting Questions are not being addressed at meeting Port Jefferson School District 3/4 Meetings are being livestreamed Meetings audio/visual/documentation available post meeting Meeting agenda available before meeting Public is not able to make comments during meetings Comsewogue School District 2/4 Public has access to meetings via livestream Meeting audio/video not available post meeting Documents are available prior to meeting via BoardDocs Questions are not being addressed at meetings

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One thing we should all find comfort in is that people are not willing to let injustice go unanswered.

Anyone who has a shred of decency and an ounce of moral concern knows that what happened to Minneapolis man George Floyd was brutal, cruel and a significant abuse of power. Police officer Derek Chauvin placed his knee on the neck of a man for just under nine minutes, despite video evidence showing he did not present any danger to officers at the scene. Three other police officers looked on while Floyd called out for his mother, dying, without them raising a finger to help or make any point of protest.

To some, this seems just a singular instance of cruelty, but for the massive numbers of protesters rallying and marching around the country, and now the world, it was just another instance of continued injustice on our minority communities.

That is why the protests have been nearly unrelenting. That’s why the movement has spread to all parts of the country, including our backyard.

So far on Long Island, all protests have remained peaceful and have taken place at sites meant to facilitate large gatherings, all with a police presence. There have been some tense moments, and so far two people in Suffolk have been arrested relating to a protest in Shirley, but nowhere on Long Island have we seen the violence taking place in major cities. It’s important we recognize that while those protests have seen injury to both protesters and cops as well as property — though let’s remember that the life of any one individual vastly outweighs any and all damage to structures — there are many instances of police using extreme force on protesters, medics and journalists, as if proving the very point of the need to end such injustice.

But though those kinds of protests are not happening on Long Island, by reading some residents’ opinions on social media, you would think protesters are all walking down suburban streets ready to attack anyone who crosses their paths.

Activists across Long Island have been working very hard to maintain civility with these protests against injustice. That’s not to say events haven’t gotten heated, as in the case with protests in Merrick which faced plenty of racist sentiment and in Smithtown where one young man claims he and his friends were attacked. In Huntington, one restaurant owner came under fire for being caught making racist comments about “throwing watermelons at protesters” as they marched through downtown.

He has since made a video apologizing for his remarks.

We all have to understand why these people rally and march.

Long Island remains a very segregated place, as evidenced by a three-year Newsday report displaying racial bias on the part of many real estate agents and agencies. The COVID-19 pandemic has only laid bare the inadequacies, as minority communities have been disproportionately infected while their schools have struggled harder than most to teach their children when many don’t have access to online technology.

We commend the conscientious work of protest leaders, activists, local officials and police to facilitate these rallies and make sure they remain on point and peaceful, and also protect those who rally from being the target of violence as well.

To those residents who look on protesters with concern, often the best way to understand them is to simply speak with them. Start a dialogue. Understand where they’re coming from.

Protests such as these aren’t designed to give certain populations benefit over others, but to reach an equality mandated under the words of the Constitution.

Just remember, if you yourself say you can separate good cops from bad cops, then you can separate peaceful protesters from rioters.

Mario Mattera, (“Long Islanders Working Together,” June 4), named by the Suffolk County Republican leadership as candidate for New York State Senate District 2, follows the Trumpist playbook’s standard selfserving lie that it is “without a doubt no one’s fault” that hard-hit states like New York ran short of PPE and hospital space at the height of their COVID-19 pandemic. I am sick and tired of repeating this but, no, Mr. Mattera, it’s the fault of your idol President Trump [R]. Warned as early as mid-January, as was South Korea and the World Health Organization, he failed utterly to do what every national leader who successfully limited the spread of COVID-19 had done: Use national funds to get PPE and test kits, mobilize health resources to areas the tests indicated and institute “social distancing.” Instead, he first called it a “Democrat hoax to spook the (stock) market,” and then repeatedly claimed

Protests on LI Remain Civil It’s the Fault of Your Idol Donald Trump that the problem was minor and would disappear “soon.” As of June 9, 113,000 Americans have died!

As far as “working together” is concerned, while ordinary people have certainly risen to the occasion, Republicans have always put their probig corporation agenda first. President Trump [R] told Democratic governors — who can’t run deficits — to go find their own medical supplies to buy; and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell [R] told the now cashstrapped states to go bankrupt — that is, to start cutting budgets left and right, firing teachers and other civil servants.

The $3 trillion stimulus that McConnell blackmailed Democrats into gives way too much to well-connected corporations — some were shamed into givebacks — with mom-and-pops getting crumbs, and state and local governments and the Post Office (!) out in the cold. It still doesn’t provide for government-funded PPE, mass testing

or mandatory safety standards: Trump wants businesses running in November if it kills us.

I also have a problem with anything (e.g., Long Island) “first”: We’re supposed to be one nation, and the song isn’t “Solidarity for Never,” but which government is supposed to make “smart” investments in infrastructure and manufacturing? What agency will determine what the next crisis might require? The state won’t have the money unless Washington changes. The Trump government hasn’t lifted a finger on infrastructure for three-and-a-half years, and corporations still prefer buying dirtcheap factory workers overseas.

Finally, Trump’s response to George Floyd’s murder shows, as Gen. James Mattis forcefully stated, that the greatest obstacle to “working together” is Trump. Who’re you kidding, Mr. Mattera?

Arnold Wishnia Setauket

When Inappropriate Behavior Goes Unpunished Thankfully, I had the opportunity to serve tens of thousands of young adults in my professional career in education.

The behavior would range from A to Z, some of which would be hurtful to themselves and others.

Within the educational model there was discipline taught. Webster’s New World Dictionary defines discipline as a branch of knowledge or learning, training that develops self-control, character, orderliness and efficiency, treatment that corrects or punishes. When a young

adult demonstrated behaviors that were inappropriate in a school environment, interventions would take place to correct. When the interventions were not taken seriously and the behavior not corrected then perhaps a different environment would be considered. The existing behavior would not be permitted to continue in the present environment.

There existed an accountability of the behavior within this model.

So, why is it that we have a commander-in-chief of America, who

on a frequent basis displays hate, hurt, disrespect, nastiness, meanness, unkindness, and bigoted prejudices. We have allowed this to become the norm with no consequences is unacceptable.

The behavior shows no signs of improvement or accountability. The behavior is out of control and appears to be getting worse. Does the constitution need to be revised and updated to prevent these types of behaviors to continue?

Paul Feinberg South Setauket

Protesters Have Forgotten Chicago Victims I am amazed at how the protesters have forgotten and never have protested about the murders and killings that happen in Chicago minority neighborhoods. If black lives matter so much, where were these protesters

when 10 people were shot in Chicago on Memorial Day weekend? Where are they when hundreds of people are murdered each year in those same neighborhoods? Where are they when a retired black police captain in his 70s

was murdered by a mob in St. Louis this past week? His name was David Dorn.

These protesters have now turned into a mob.

David Jacobson South Setauket

The opinions of columnists and letter writers are their own. They do not speak for the newspaper.

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Oh, wait, there, I did it again. I’m so sorry.

Silly me, I’m talking about myself. And, whoops, I see from your frown that you’re not happy I touched your shoulder when I made that joke. I have to make sure I socially distance. In fact, I have this new touch-theshoulder-in-a-joking-way stick that’s exactly

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Yes, of course, I’m fine. Why do you ask?

I’m so happy we’re entering Phase Two this week, you know? It’s a relief. I’m desperate for a haircut and I’m sure you are, too.

No, I didn’t mean to say that I thought you needed a haircut. Your hair looks great and the customer is always right.

Anyway, so I see you’re looking at those boots over there. What an excellent choice!

You clearly have an eye for high fashion. I’m sure my daughter, who is on the other side of the plexiglass, wouldn’t mind taking them off and selling them to you.

Oh, you want new ones? Well, that may take a while because our shipment is in quarantine.

Oh, no, wait, the shipment hasn’t even reached

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What’s that? Oh, well, I’ve had a few cups of coffee this morning because I thought I’d need to be my sharpest and this stupid book kept me up all night. But, hey, I’m like a phoenix, returning to the world of selling and socializing and connecting with my customers, because that, after all, is the key to being successful in business.

Wait, no, please, don’t leave. I know your child is outside screaming. You can bring her in. It’s fine, really. In fact, can I give you a hug?

I was kidding. That was a test and you passed, so, yay for you.

Oh, I see you’re really going. Well, tell your friends about the store. Did I mention that your hair looks great?

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BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF of wearing a mask has been accepted by almost everyone, and with good reason. An example of the benefits can be found in Japan.

According to Motoko Rich, a reporter for The New York Times, face coverings are common in Japan during flu and hay fever seasons, on crowded public transportation when commuters commonly have colds and even when women “don’t want to bother putting on makeup.” Mask sightings are routine.

Could that be the explanation for Japan’s surprisingly low number of victims of COVID-19 compared to other countries?

Initially, we Americans were advised not to wear masks, that they were unnecessary and should be saved for hospital workers. We all know what happened next. Cases of novel coronavirus spiked and the number of deaths exceeded the capacity of morgues and funeral homes for weeks. We were directed to shelterin-place. Yet in Japan, which did not order a lockdown or massive testing or emphasize social distancing, and kept karaoke bars open and public transportation packed, terrible spikes in cases and deaths did not occur. The numbers there were 17,000 infections and 900 deaths. Yes, they have a smaller population, but in the United States, whose residents number two-and-one-half

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times that of Japan, some 1.9 million have fallen ill and 110,000 have died.

Eventually bars and businesses did close, and schools were shut early, as cultural and sports events were canceled, but note that none of those restrictions was mandatory. What the people did do was to nearly universally don masks. That response follows a cultural tradition of hundreds of years. Between the 17th and 19th centuries, mining workers used masks to prevent inhaling dust. The Japanese wore them during the 1918 flu epidemic and more recently during SARS and MERS outbreaks, as well as to protect against pollution and pollen. The country was “relatively unscathed,” during the epidemics, according to Motoko Rich.

Members of the scientific community weigh in on the matter. “I think there is definitely evidence coming out of COVID that Japan, as well as other countries which practice mask-wearing, tend to do much better in flattening the curve,” said Akiko Iwasaki, a professor of immunobiology at Yale, as quoted in the NYT. Masks can block respiratory droplets that are emitted when people speak, cough or sneeze.

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Those droplets may carry the virus, even when the wearer has no symptoms, and hence transmit the disease if not captured by the mask.

The reporter goes on to emphasize that masks alone are not sufficient to prevent disease, that social distancing is also required. Even with masks, crowds are a danger for the spread of infection. It will be informative to learn the unintended health consequences of the many protests against racism, triggered by George Floyd’s death under the knee of a police officer, that have occurred over the past two weeks. Most of those protesters, crowded together, seemed to be wearing masks.

From my travels to Japan, I would add a couple of cultural differences to this story. We found the Japanese to bow rather than shake hands and to be a little physically distant with each other rather than hugging often. Their country is, for the most part, amazingly clean and uncluttered, and they seem fastidious about themselves. These traits would also argue in favor of less contagion when disease is present.

I would also like to predict that masks — designer, decorated, color coordinated, whatever — will be with us well after the pandemic ends.

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