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August 27, 2020

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Fishing Causes Bird Death at Frank Melville Park

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM At Frank Melville Memorial Park, remnants of fishing gear have created a nuisance that has led to wildlife injuries and even death, even though the activity isn’t allowed at the private park.

Recently, park personnel discovered a dead cygnet in the millpond. The young swan was pulled from the water, and it was entangled in a fishing line with a large lure hooked into its neck.

Anita Jo Lago, the park’s wildlife coordinator, said most likely the cygnet, after becoming entangled in the fishing line, drowned.

“It was a rainy day so I think that’s what delayed people seeing it,” Lago said. “Finally, when the rain stopped, we had a park visitor who saw it and reported it. If it was a sunny day, we would have known earlier and maybe have been able to untangle it before it drowned.”

Lago called the death of the cygnet, who was just about to learn how to fly, horrific.

“It was so avoidable just with help and courtesy from fishers,” she said. “Please don’t fish, and when you do, have some responsibility.”

Lago visits the pond every day to check on the wildlife. The incident isn’t the first time that animals were injured after fishers left gear behind. Lago said there have been snapping turtles with lines around their necks and hooks up their noses. Many of the creatures also have ingested hooks and lure, and she said two years ago a heron’s leg was amputated from a line.

Geese have been found wrapped in netting, and dogs regularly step on hooks during walks around the park. One time a cygnet’s chest was sliced by a fishing line to the point where the internal organs could be seen. She added that when ingested, fishing lines move up and down and sever an animal’s intestines.

“When bobbins are laying on top of the water, the cygnets go and they eat them,” she said. “They think they’re toys or food.”

The staff has conducted cleanups to rid the pond of debris and posted signs in the park and messages on social media forbidding fishing, but Lago said the fishers keep coming into the park to fish. She said the millpond is only 2 or 3 feet deep, which isn’t as deep as the average pond, so it means fishing lines just sit on top. Line also gets tangled in tree branches that she said are difficult to reach from land or even in a boat.

“I get very anxious when I see the wildlife swimming in that area, and they’re so fast,” she said. “They think that the lure is a leaf or piece of vegetation.”

At one time, fishing was allowed in FMMP. Kerri Glynn, director of education for the park, said in 2005 Phil Brady, at the time a junior in Ward Melville High School, asked her if the park could start an educational program to teach Boy Scouts how to fish responsibly, including keeping track of and cleaning up one’s gear.

“We had a fishing club run by a wonderful young man, and it definitely kept people on the straight and narrow for several years but then we started having these issues,” Glynn said.

She added that after Brady went to college, the club lasted a while longer but then ran its course. It was then that board members decided to prohibit fishing at the park, once again, due to lure and filament accumulating, and they would try to guide people to other spots where they could fish. She said it seems as if many fishers aren’t paying attention to what they leave behind.

“We were always aware it was problematic,” the park’s education director said. “We tried to deal with it in a responsible way, and in a way that allowed people to continue to fish as long as they were responsible fishermen. That didn’t happen. They just took advantage and didn’t pay attention to the rules or anything else, so that’s why we had to shut it down.”

John Turner, a local environmentalist and former director of Brookhaven Town’s Division of Environmental Protection, said he has seen similar situations on Long Island.

He said at many fishing locations such as Stony Brook, Port Jefferson and Mount Sinai harbors as well as West Meadow Beach there are filament receptacles. While fishing isn’t allowed at FMMP and there are therefore no containers, fishers can hold on to discarded

Staff members and volunteers at Frank Melville Memorial Park often have found animals with hooks caught in wings, beaks and legs, such as the swans above and lower left. Recently, a cygnet, below, drowned after becoming entangled in fishing line.

Photos from Frank Melville Memorial Park

fishing lines and then dispose of them the next time they go to one of the other locations.

Turner said the filament is then collected and recycled into new fishing line.

He added that, besides a fisher disposing filament properly, there are ways to decrease the odds of having fishing line and bobbins getting caught in vegetation.

“It’s being aware of the environment around you and putting yourself in a place to fish that’s not likely to cause any entanglements or snares,” he said.

Turner said when people come across an animal in distress to try to move it to a quiet and sheltered place if possible and then call a wildlife rehabilitation center. He said it’s possible to help a small bird when a line is around its beak or limb by calming down the animal, holding the beak and cutting the line.

He added that it’s frustrating that many feel they don’t need to follow the rules of private parks such as FMMP when the foundation’s board is serving the community by making the grounds available to the public.

“These regulations and rules are put together thoughtfully and with recognizing that you’re trying to balance sometimes competing activities, competing uses, and you’re trying to strike a balance,” he said.

“If the foundation says that fishing is not an activity that’s appropriate then the public needs to really respect that and not just decide

to do what they want to do.”

The park’s board has asked that if people see anyone fishing in the park to call 631-689-7054.

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BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Stony Brook University will not let the actions of some students derail the on-campus living and learning experience for the majority.

This past weekend, days before the start of an unusual fall semester Aug. 24 amid ongoing concerns about the pandemic, the university found a “small number of violations” of the university’s COVID-19 health policy. Several students have been put on interim housing suspension for violations pending the conclusion of a conduct case, Maurie McInnis, who became the sixth president of SBU in July, said in an interview. The students in question have not been suspended from their academic studies.

McInnis said the school would suspend other students “if that is necessary.” She added that it is “very important that we give the students who are acting responsibly the opportunity for the in-person residential experience that they are working hard to protect.”

The school’s disciplinary actions follow similar measures taken by other universities such as Syracuse University and the University of Connecticut, which are trying to provide students with an opportunity to benefit from an on-campus experience while protecting faculty,

staff and students from the spread of COVID-19.

McInnis added she appreciated the chance to be a part of the excitement that comes from the first day of what is likely to be one of the most challenging in the school’s 63-year history.

“It feels so great to have students back on our campus,” she said. “While, yes, it is under circumstances that are different than we’re used to, the same energy and excitement is there.”

The new university president said she enjoyed meeting students and their families as they moved onto the campus prior to the first day of classes.

The new president, who is a cultural historian and author of “Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade,” said she feels confident in the school’s ability to navigate through the challenges of on-campus living and learning.

Students “understand that the way we are all going to have a great semester” is to act “personally responsible, wearing our masks and being socially distant,” she said.

SBU has created a dashboard that will track the number of tests the school is conducting on campus and the number of positive cases, if there are any. So far, the school has only had negative tests.

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Maurie McInnis was named SBU’s sixth president. Photo from SBU

stonybrook.edu/commcms/irpe/covid-19. phpleadership. It shows that the hour in the week in which the number of students registered for in-person classes is the highest is Tuesday, between 11 a.m. and noon, when 2,721 students were registered for in-person classes. In that same hour in the fall of 2019, 13,836 students took in-person classes.

The university will monitor its dashboard closely and will alter its policies as necessary to protect the campus community.

McInnis said the school was preparing for a possible second wave of the pandemic in the fall, as well as the possibility of the coincident timing of an outbreak of the flu.

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Daughter Remembers Mother’s Wisdom As 3V Community Debates Reopening Plan

BY STEFANIE WERNER My mother, Diane Werner, was by far the most influential person in my life. She was a teacher for more than 30 years, most of which was spent in the social studies wing of Ward Melville High School and was the inspiration behind my career choices. During her tenure in Three Village she was a highly respected educator and mentor with a passionate nature that empowered even the most resistant student to not only show up for class, but more importantly, achieve to the best of his or her abilities. Her sudden death only five years into her retirement produced an immense outpouring of love and compassion that exemplified how much she meant to her students and the community at large.

Fast forward 14 years and we find ourselves at a crossroads in the Three Village community.

In these unprecedented times, my mother’s voice echoes in my head a trillion times a day.

I hear her telling me to fight for what I believe in, to advocate for my child and to use my voice to defend that which I believe to be just. As we

debate the guidelines for our return to school in September, I wish that my mother was here to add her two cents —more like twenty — to the on-going deliberations. She would be confounded by the dissension that has arisen in the community regarding the safety protocols required for our school reopening plan. Her mind would be awhirl with thoughts of how parents, teachers and community members should be united in this cause, creating a universal practice, not drowning in a “you do you, I’ll do me” mindset. Mrs. Werner would be feverishly scribbling lesson plans in her collegeruled spiral notebook, all the while remaining vigilant in her pursuit to educate her students despite the nonsensical squabbling of parents over mask mandates and plastic shields. Social distancing and face shields would be no match for the force that was Diane Werner at the head of a classroom, and no one would be more determined to keep kids safe and learning.

Although most of the old guard is gone from the halls of Ward Melville High School, many of my mom’s former students are now parents in this district. A handful of her former colleagues are

Writer Stefanie Werner, right, and her mother, Diane. Photo from Stefanie Werner

now administrators making the most important decisions that have ever confronted Three Village Central School District. Nineteen years may have passed since Diane Werner blissfully strolled into the sweet land of retirement, but she left behind a legacy of strength and determination the likes of which this district needs to channel right now. The students of this

community, including the grandchild my mother never met, deserve a comprehensive, rock-solid plan that exemplifies the need for a safe and secure learning environment during this global pandemic. In her day there would have been no flip-flopping on mask enforcement, and no questions left dangling at board of education or district meetings. Of course, she would have appreciated the debate, she did teach You and the Law and Mock Trials after all, but in the end, the result would be the same. Mrs. Werner would pull on her orange mask (her favorite color), walk into room 239 (her footsteps were distinct), make sure that every desk was 6 feet apart and students were masked, sign-in to Google Classroom (although she preferred chalk) and rock this place like nobody’s business. I am my mother’s daughter, and I will accept nothing less than 100% for mine. And mom would have given nothing less for yours. Miss you mommy!

Stefanie Werner is a mother, teacher and social worker. She is a lifelong resident of the Three Village community and a graduate of SUNY Oneonta, Long Island University and Stony Brook University.

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Elizabeth Ann (Betty) Cassidy, a longtime resident of Stony Brook, died peacefully at the Long Island State Veterans Home Aug. 14 at the age of 94.

Betty shared her love and wisdom generously with her family, friends, neighbors and especially with her late husband, Hugh (Joe) Cassidy. Betty first met Joe in kindergarten at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Brooklyn and they remained friends until Joe enlisted in the Coast Guard at age 17 to serve his country during World War II. As reported by Susan Bridson in the Three Village Herald in 1993, Betty met her future husband in grammar school — and met him again in 1946 at a church dance. “I spotted Joe in his uniform,� she remembered. “We started to dance and we’ve been dancing ever since.�

Betty was a tireless volunteer who always tried to make a positive difference in peoples’ lives. She helped to bring Meals on Wheels to the Three Village community. She served for many years on the board of directors of Stony Brook Hospital’s auxiliary, and Betty volunteered at the Long Island State Veterans Home with her husband Joe from the day it opened on the Stony Brook University campus.

Betty was a devoted Eucharistic minister who practiced Christianity at Saint James R.C.

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Continued from A6 “We are watching and monitoring all that carefully,� she said, which includes having enough personal protective equipment and a plan in place for health care personnel, among other measures.

McInnis said it is “too soon to speculate on� what the university policy might be if and when researchers develop a vaccine for COVID-19. “As a part of SUNY and a public institution, we would be working with state partners and the [New York] Department of Health in making any sort of decision� about a vaccination for students or faculty, she said.

McInnis, who shared a detailed and open letter with the community and the public about the university’s difficult financial condition, said the budget remains a “fluid situation.� She added that the university “needs to get to work straight away as a community� in an “open and collaborative fashion to bring the best ideas for collaborating and working together better for leveraging opportunities, for efficiencies on our campus� and to develop ways to generate new revenue.

Church in Setauket. Betty started each morning praying that her day would be filled with “peace, joy, patience and love.� For those who loved Betty, we know that her prayers were granted uninterrupted for more than 94 years.

Beloved by Joe, her adoring husband for more than 63 years, Betty was the loving mother of Hugh, Thomas, John and Joseph; daughters-in-law Suzanne, Lee and Claudia; and cherished grandmother of 10 and greatgrandmother of nine.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Long Island State Veterans Home at Stony Brook University.

Meanwhile, the university has spent the summer “significantly improving� the quality of the remote and distance learning for students engaged with the online platform, she said.

In addition to being the new university president, McInnis is also a parent of a college-age son. Her son’s school was going entirely nonresidential and remote, so he decided to take a gap year.

At Stony Brook, the total number of students registered is 26,130, which is about 200 fewer than last year, suggesting that deferrals haven’t affected the matriculation rate much this fall.

McInnis said she appreciated the ongoing support of the university and surrounding communities. “What we have been hearing, again and again, is, ‘How can we help?’� she said. “It is so great as president to be part of the community that clearly has the devotion of so many people.�

As for the transition to Long Island from Texas, where she was provost at The University of Texas at Austin prior to her arrival, McInnis said she and her family are enjoying the area. “We all love the water and have enjoyed walking along the beach, kayaking and exploring Flax Pond, especially watching all the fiddler crabs,� she said.

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Editorial Letters to the Editor Need for Universal Empathy Republican Strategy Is Voter Suppression We’re a small paper, really a small company, and just like so many small companies, the pandemic has done a number on us, except for an explosive growth on the internet. That’s how it is, and if you’re reading this, we cannot fully express how much we appreciate your support, even if it is just picking up this paper to read it.

It’s such a little thing, but knowing somebody is there holding our words in your hands is the reason we get up every morning to do this. To know we might be impacting somebody on a weekly basis is enough, or it should be enough.

We write about the small things. The small town government — towns, villages, school districts. We include the small donations to local nonprofits or our libraries, veterans groups, and on and on.

It’s easy to say we just report on what’s happening, that we exist to regurgitate the facts of what somebody said at a meeting, or give you statistics about who is running for what public office.

But more is needed. Humanity can’t subsist off of data points. Democracy can’t continue without somebody to put facts in context.

That is why we enjoy giving you profiles of people doing extraordinary things, from young people fresh out of college working on their own farm seven days a week to a financial adviser who supports the art community on the North Shore..

Because those stories do more than offer interest and escape from day-to-day drudgery, they offer something much deeper, a shared sense of empathy and community.

If we can break through the veil into each other’s lives, understand the hardships of other people, find that they have so much more in common than they don’t have in common, then that helps bridge divides, builds upon that universal sense that humanity itself is a sacred thing.

We cannot let partisanship craft our belief systems for us.

Something that should be as universally understood as the need for the means for people to vote outside of polling places has become yet another red or blue issue. What does it matter if not what political aisle you shop for your beliefs, the end result should always be to at least attempt the betterment of the biggest number of people, and to add support for those who fall through the cracks like water drops through and open hand.

We cannot and should look at something like the COVID-19 pandemic without noticing how it disproportionately impacts people with fewer resources. Those with jobs in service industries, those that pay little and are staffed mostly by those of limited means, were much likelier to get the virus during the height of its spread through New York. It impacted communities of color such as Brentwood and Central Islip, whose school districts are largely Black and Latino, and had many more cases, even considering size, compared to our North Shore communities.

You can argue what is best for people, but really there is no mistaking empathy. Empathy is when local soup kitchens and food pantries along with many, many volunteers worked to feed people unable to provide for their family and themselves in the past few months.

Empathy is when a local volunteer animal rescuer takes away some abandoned roosters knowing the only other likely fate for the birds is to be hit by a car or eaten by a predator.

It’s not enough to know why these people do what they do.

We must look at both them and at their shining hearts as well as the social reasons those things happen. That is what we do, and as we fight to keep reporting amidst a backdrop of decline for the entire newspaper industry, we hope that our readers will find that a communal sense of empathy is the best, and perhaps the only way to survive in times like these.

An excellent editorial and letter from David Friedman, defending the United States Postal Service and mail ballots, appeared in The Village Times Herald Aug. 20. I’d like to add two notes.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said he would “suspend” further sabotage of the USPS, but explicitly refused, testifying Aug. 21, to repair the damage already done or to restore the highspeed mail-sorting machines he had removed, precluding, as he had earlier warned, effective mail-in voting in 46 states. President Donald Trump (R) keeps repeating, with zero evidence, his false claims that mail balloting will lead to massive voter fraud, and that he will block, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R) gleeful aid, the $29 billion needed to assure mail voting and keep the USPS running. Republican strategy has always been voter

suppression, by gerrymandering, by voter purges or, more slyly, by causing hourslong lines by drastically cutting polling stations in urban minority districts.

Trump admitted why, commenting on the first pandemic relief bill March 30: “The things they [Democrats] had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”

Trump has fatuously insisted that people voted in person during World War II, so why not in 2020? Of course, civilians did not risk dying of COVID-19 in the 1940s. But there is another lesson there: Right-wing partisan politics successfully prevented millions of Americans from voting. Recall that we were then emerging from the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt had been reelected president to a third term, the

A Threat to Stony Brook Harbor Residents of Head of the Harbor are happy to see an increasing population of ospreys and bald eagles fishing in Stony Brook Harbor. We want this to continue, so we are very watchful.

A sewage treatment plant has been proposed as part of a development of the Gyrodyne property. The Gyrodyne property is 160 feet higher than Stony Brook Harbor, and the flow of effluent discharged by the sewage plant at Gyrodyne will be governed by gravity.

Mr. John Cameron Jr., a consulting engineer acting for Gyrodyne, brings more information in his Aug. 13 article in The Times of Smithtown. [See “Gyrodyne Development Plan Is Environmentally Responsible” at tbrnewsmedia.com.]

Cameron says the NYS Stony Brook University sewage plant processes waste water from both the university and the medical center and discharges into Port Jefferson Harbor. Cameron also says the SBU Research and Development Park at the former Gyrodyne property discharges untreated wastewater into the ground. Further, Cameron says the businesses on Lake Avenue in St. James presently discharge high nitrogen loadings into Stony Brook Harbor.

This all sounds pretty bad; we need to understand the impact on our waterways.

Our village is calling for more independent environmental impact work on any major development in our community such as Gyrodyne. We want clean ground and surface water for the next generations, and

Congress of Industrial Organizations was in its heyday (Ford, the last of the Big Three, had just been unionized), northern farmers had not yet largely been driven off the land by agribusiness (the Minnesota party was the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party), and Blacks were kept from voting in the South by poll taxes, impossible “literacy” tests and, when necessary, by lynch terror. Now millions in these groups were in the armed services, away from home. Democrats tried to facilitate absentee ballot voting with the Soldier Voting Act of 1942. So how to suppress their votes? Republicans and white-supremacist southern Democrats joined to gut the act: Less than 1% of the millions and millions of men and women serving were able to cast ballots in 1942 and 1944. Sound familiar?

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we don’t want any surprises to the contrary.

Cameron says Gyrodyne management prides itself as being a good neighbor. I tell you that I worked for Grumman for 24 years up until 1998, and during this time no company was ever a better neighbor than Grumman. Before, of course, the widespread ground pollution was uncovered in Bethpage.

I ask that all residents find out for themselves what all of this means to the future of our community. I ask that you tell your legislators that you want more independent and comprehensive environmental studies so we all can be more intelligent about this issue.

Doug Dahlgard, Village Mayor Head of the Harbor

Will Republicans Be Part of Biden’s American Mosaic At the Democratic Party Convention, five Republicans crossed the aisle to speak and endorse Joe Biden for president.

They were John Kasich (former Ohio congressman, House Budget Committee chairman and Ohio governor), Susan Molinari (former Staten Island Congress member), Colin Powell (former Secretary of State), Christine Todd Whitman (former federal EPA administrator and New Jersey governor)

and Meg Whitman (former CEO of eBay and Hewlett-Packard).

Biden promised, if elected president, to have the most diverse cabinet and administration in history, representing the gorgeous American mosaic. He also promised to appoint the first female African American Supreme Court justice.

He promised a female African American running mate for vice president and delivered California Sen. Kamala Harris.

Republicans represent a significant portion of America. How many will be invited to serve in his cabinet and administration? Will any of these five Republicans be offered a job in a Biden presidency? Will Biden make a public commitment on this issue of inclusion for Republicans prior to Election Day? Voters want to know.

Larry Penner Great Neck

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

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Opinion

Imagining a National Convention Celebrating Babies and Puppies

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ext week, I invite you to the virtual and completely imaginary People’s National Convention, or PNC. It’s not a Democratic Convention or a Republican Convention. It’s just a fake gathering, virtually and invisibly, in which real people can stop worrying about partisan politics and enjoy the chance to live each day.

Now, this PNC won’t nominate any one person, because, let’s face it, no singular person is capable of succeeding D. None with the challenges of the above that face our nation

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF in this extraordinarily challenging year.

We’ll keep the speeches to a minimum because we don’t think people listen to most

of what others say at these things anyway. Our first speaker will come up with a mask and will start by rolling her large and expressive eyes.

She’ll try to convey, without using her mouth or her cheeks, which will be hidden behind her mask, a wide range of emotions. In fact, we might have a “guess-her-expression” game and the person who wins will receive absolutely nothing in the mail.

After that, we’ll launch into a rage presentation. Our speaker will bark, growl, throw himself around the room and urge you, with his arm motions, to get off your sofa and join him. He’ll work his way up to a fevered snarl and then he’ll bang his fists so hard against the TV set that he’ll shatter the screen. You’ll see the cracks on the TV, but don’t worry, the cracks and the blood — we won’t use real blood — are all on the PNC end. Your TV is fine. At the end of his speech, he’ll take a 2020 sign, or one of those 2020 New Year’s glasses with the holes for the eyes in the zeroes, put them on the floor and stomp on them.

After our rage speaker, we’ll have a fear speaker. He, too, won’t use words. He’ll move from left to right, then right to left and then, you guessed it, left to right again, on your screen, afraid of something over his shoulder. He might see a shadow. He’ll be frightened because, as the other conventions suggested, we must feel the need to fear something. He’ll run towards the letters PNC and will smile with relief, knowing that the PNC will protect him.

To offset this potentially overwhelming programming, we’ll offer a counterbalance of kids and pets accompanied by light-hearted music on a harpsichord. We call this portion of the programming the “Awwwww” segment.

We’ll show images of toddlers laughing, baby bunnies hopping around a flower-strewn meadow and dolphins cutting in and out of the surface of the water.

We’ll have the icon room, where you can stand up, or not, as you see fit when you see the images. We’ll start with the Statue of Liberty

and Ellis Island, where the ancestors of so many modern Americans arrived. We’ll add the Grand Canyon, the California coastline, Yellowstone National Park and Niagara Falls.

Then, we’ll have people trip and fall and try to juggle cell phones ineffectively. When the phones land, their screens, which might or might not have images of familiar faces, will crack. Will the entire segment be funny? Not necessarily. No one is always funny, but they promise to try because laughter might be our best medicine.

We’ll have a few actual speakers who use words, who tell inspirational stories about triumph over impossible odds. We’ll talk about people who were told many times that they couldn’t do something, until they went out and did it.

At the conclusion of the PNC, we’ll celebrate our friends and neighbors and the people who enhance every day and we’ll promise each other we’ll be better to them, and to ourselves.

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Time for ‘Thank You’ 17 Times & Many More

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onsider this a big Thank You card.

First, thank you to the New York Press Association for awarding us 17 prizes in their annual Better Newspaper Contest for 2019.

Please check them out in the Arts and Lifestyles section of today’s paper or read about it on the web. These awards are normally given out at the spring convention up in Saratoga Springs in March for work done during the preceding year.

But we know that there is nothing normal about 2020, and so the good news arrived this Between past week via — you and me you guessed it — the internet. The

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF physical prizes, wood plaques and certificates, will follow at some future time, but the news of the winners was flashed to us digitally.

The purpose of the contest is twofold: to honor the winners and to help improve the more than 400 weekly and small daily newspapers across the state with examples of good work for the membership to view. It is indeed an honor to be selected by our peers, who are the judges, and we deeply appreciate the recognition.

There is a third consequence of the awards: bragging rights. We are able to share with our communities, whom we serve, the peer-reviewed quality of our efforts. We can do our jobs because you, our readers and advertisers, support us. So please accept this as a report card of sorts, along with our deepest appreciation for your continuing faith in us. We do our best to bring you the latest news and issues in the towns and villages we cover in an honest and unbiased fashion.

We also serve as a sounding board for opinions and analyses, clearly labelled as such. We enable others to have bragging rights too, for their family members and community groups and even pets, by proudly printing their accomplishments. And we like to amuse and entertain you with contests, beautiful photos and interesting stories just for the fun of it. The bottom line there is, Thank You to our communities.

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I would like to call your attention to the nature of our awards. We consider our job to be publishing both editorial and advertising content, the two together making up the news and our primary focus. So I am pleased to note that half of our prizes are for editorial excellence and the other half for advertising effectiveness. And for this distinction, I thank our talented staff and salute their commitment, especially during these times of few numbers both in the newsroom and in the art, production and sales departments.

And of course, we have to have the support of the business office to maintain our company and the circulation people to pick up the papers in the middle of the night and get them to the post offices and the newsstands in time for you to read them with the rest of your mail on publishing day.

But even as our staff numbers have shrunk, their work has increased. For we are no longer a weekly newspaper group but a daily and hourly news source, thanks to the internet.

We have brought you daily briefings and news stories about the various aspects of COVID-19 since March, along with other news scoops,

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Leah S. Dunaief GENERAL MANAGER Johness Kuisel MANAGING EDITOR Kyle Barr EDITOR Rita J. Egan

LEISURE EDITOR Heidi Sutton ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Kathleen Gobos ART AND PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Beth Heller Mason

breaking news and advertising — all for the most part in addition to the content in the newspapers — on our website and also on our social media platforms. This enormous effort was made possible by our overworked and underpaid staff.

So a heartfelt and deeply appreciated Thank You to the following, by departments: Kyle Barr, Rita J. Egan, Heidi Sutton, David Luces, Donna Deedy, John Broven, Ernestine Franco, Bea Ruberto and Daniel Dunaief in Editorial.

To Kathleen Gobos, Kathryn Mandracchia, Elizabeth Bongiorno, Robin Lemkin, Minnie Yancy, Jackie Pickle and Katherine Yamaguchi in display sales.

To Sheila Murray, Ellen Segal and Joann Brady in Classifieds. To Beth Heller-Mason, Janet Fortuna, Sharon Nicholson and Lauren Vohrer in Art and Production, and to Courtney Biondo in Legals and her team in Circulation.

To Sandi Gross, Meg Malangone, Diane Wattecamps and Cathie Kitz in Business. To Sheila Murray again in Business and Subscriptions. To Rob Alfano, for Internet Strategy. And to Johness Kuisel, our General Manager, who is everywhere.

Please all take a bow.

INTERNET STRATEGY DIRECTOR Rob Alfano CLASSIFIEDS DIRECTOR Sheila Murray BUSINESS MANAGER Sandi Gross

CREDIT MANAGER Diane Wattecamps CIRCULATION MANAGER Courtney Biondo SUBSCRIPTION MANAGER Sheila Murray

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