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August 31, 2017

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Annual Greek festival draws thousands

Benefit organized to help Setauket music teacher with medical bills A4

North Shore residents enjoy Greek traditions, food, music — A13

Town supports governor, AG in lawsuit against EPA A3

Congressman Zeldin sits down for exclusive interview with TBR News Media A5 More students choosing gender-inclusive housing at Stony Brook University A12

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The Emma S. Clark Memorial Library has scheduled its budget vote for Sept. 27.

Upcoming library budget vote The Emma S. Clark Memorial Library budget vote will be held Wednesday, Sept.

27 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the Periodicals Room (historical section of the library).

A budget information hearing will be held before the vote Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Vincent R. O’Leary Community Room.

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The library also announced its board meetings for the remainder of 2017. Meetings will be held in the Vincent R. O’Leary Community Room Sept. 27, Oct. 18, Nov. 15 and Dec. 20 at 7:30 p.m.

The library is located at 120 Main Street, Setauket. For detailed budget information, visit www.emmaclark.org.

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Brookhaven supports NYS lawsuit against EPA

By Alex Petroski alex@tbrnewspapers.com New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is picking a fight with the federal government, and as of Aug. 28, he officially has backup.

Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R), joined by town board members, enviPage A26 ronmentalists and State Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket), announced the town’s support of a lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) Aug. 17 against the United States Environmental Protection Agency regarding the open dumping of dredged materials in the Long Island Sound. The lawsuit alleges the Long Island Sound Dredge Material Management Plan, which was approved by the EPA, violates the Ocean Dumping Act and Coastal Zone Management Act, and also cites a “failure to address environmental impacts on the Long Island Sound.” The plan allows for more than 50 million cubic yards of dredged spoils from Connecticut rivers and harbors to be dumped in the Sound for the next 30 years.

In 2016, the EPA increased the number of open water dumping sites in the Sound from two to three, despite a call from governors of both New York and Connecticut in 2005 to reduce and eventually eliminate the practice of dumping in the Sound. According to the suit, the dumping is also inconsistent with several investments of taxpayer dollars and policies that have sought to clean up the vital Long Island waterway.

Cuomo opposed the additional dumping site in late 2016, and Romaine and the town sent a letter to the governor in support of legal action against the federal agency.

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supervisor ed romaine voices support for a state lawsuit against the ePA Aug. 28.

“We’re here to send a very strong message — that we are opposed to dumping in the Sound,” Romaine said during a press conference Aug. 28 at Cedar Beach in Mount Sinai. “The state of New York and this governor, Andrew Cuomo, has done a great service to this state and to the residents of Long Island by working to enjoin, in the court, the EPA from allowing continued dumping in the Sound.”

Romaine accused the EPA of taking the expedient course of action rather than the most environmentally sound course with dredged materials, some of which are contaminated by pollutants.

Though a spokesperson for the EPA declined via email to comment on ongoing litigation, an April 2016 statement from the agency spelled out the motivation for continued dumping in the Sound.

“Dredging is needed to ensure safe navigation in the sound,” EPA spokesman John Martin said in an email to Times Beacon Record News Media. He added the agency felt the proposal struck “an appropriate balance between the need for dredging to maintain safe and efficient navigation and our desired outcome to restore and protect Long Island Sound.”

Kevin McAllister, the president of Defend H2O, a nonprofit organization dedicated to defending and restoring the quality of Long Island’s waterways, spoke in support of the town during the press conference.

“As a federally designated Estuary of National Significance, Long Island Sound is in need of greater protection,” he said.

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Representatives from the nonprofits Sierra Club Long Island and the Setauket Harbor Task Force also pledged support in opposition of the plan.

Englebright offered a suggestion for an alternative to the continued dumping.

“It is ironic that at a time when we’re watching a terrible hurricane devastating the great state of Texas and reflecting on the reality that sea level is rising, that the federal government is proposing to take a vast amount of sediment that will be needed to bulwark our coastal investments, our coastal communities from a rising sea level to augment our beaches with that sediment, to take it instead and use it in the most harmful possible way,” Englebright said. He added the dumping is “radicalizing the ecology” of the waterway, saying the sediment could be needed and should be used to strengthen coastlines.

Englebright cited a deadly 1953 storm in the Netherlands that inspired the same fortification he proposed, a practice that nation has continued since.

Brookhaven Town Council members Valerie Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station) and Jane Bonner (C-Rocky Point) also voiced support for the lawsuit. Romaine said he had been in contact with 1st Congressional District U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) regarding the town’s support of the lawsuit, and Romaine said the congressman is strongly opposed to dumping in the Sound.

Zeldin has sponsored bills designed to improve the health of the Sound in the past.

“The Long Island Sound shouldn’t be a dumping ground, especially when there are many viable alternatives to open water dumping, including recycling and safe disposal on land,” Zeldin said in an emailed statement through spokeswoman Jennifer DiSiena.

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Benefit planned to raise funds for beloved music teacher

By Rita J. Egan Rita@tBRnEwspapERs.com Community members are banding together to raise funds for an accomplished musician and music teacher known throughout the Three Village area.

Richard Rabatin’s friends and fellow musicians knew they had to do something when medical bills started piling up for the owner and teacher at the Stony Brook School of Music in Setauket. In June, 67-year-old Rabatin was diagnosed with giant cell myocarditis, a rare cardiovascular disorder that can be fatal. He was put on a transplant list for a new heart, and an operation was performed to implant two heart pumps. A few weeks ago, the teacher received a transplant and is currently recuperating at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, while his wife Mary Emerson has taken an extended leave from her job as a nurse at Stony Brook University Hospital to care for him.

A GoFundMe page, which has raised nearly $40,000, was set up, and friends including Alan Jones, Richard Wiederman and Frank Licitra began planning a benefit concert for Sept. 9 to help the husband and father of 8-year-old Thomas manage his expenses. Wiederman said Rabatin, a Port Jefferson Station resident, has been running the Stony Brook School of Music for 35 years, and plays guitar in the Whiskey Rebellion, a blues-jazz band that performs regularly at the Country Corner

bar, located below the music school.

Wiederman, who plays trumpet with the Whiskey Rebellion, said Rabatin does all the arrangements for the band — which is currently on hiatus until the guitar player recuperates. The trumpet player said he’s been performing with Rabatin for 17 years and first met him in 1979.

“He’s just had such a profound impact on so many people,” Wiederman said.

The two met when Wiederman, who now teaches music at Setauket Elementary School, was attending college. He said Rabatin was a great help to him while he was studying music and would send him jazz transcriptions.

When Wiederman would show them to his professors, he said they were so impressed because they had never seen such detail before.

Jones considers Rabatin his best friend and said he’s like a brother to him. He met Rabatin when they were freshmen at Suffolk County Community College in 1968, and they began performing together a year later.

“He’s an extremely intelligent, kind and generous man,” Jones said. “A wonderful father, husband, teacher and friend.”

In addition to his musical talents, Rabatin is a licensed attorney who holds multiple degrees, and is a contributing author to a number of scholarly works on English writer G. K. Chesterton and other notable figures, according to Jones. He said the teacher has been a mentor to many local musicians.

“It’s been said that the difference between

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Richard and the other fine guitar and music instructors in Suffolk is that the rest of them have been Richard’s students,” Jones said.

Licitra, who owns a music school in Sayville, said he began teaching because of Rabatin. After touring with various musicians in his 20s, Licitra said he wanted to marry and settle down and thought about going back to college. It was then that Rabatin called and asked if he would like to teach piano at the Stony Brook School of Music.

“He taught me how to teach and convinced me that all my experiences as a performer would be really useful to young people,” Licitra said.

Licitra has played piano with Rabatin’s Whiskey Rebellion and said the guitar player is an expert at transcribing and analyzing music and then showing on paper to his students what is going on in the music and why a song can be emotional.

“He probably taught all of the better known players [in the area] who went on to be professionals,” Licitra said. “He either had a hand or influence in a lot of guys understanding and ability to play music.”

Wiederman said Rabatin has been recovering well but will be unable to attend the event, and he plans to live stream it for him and anyone who is unable to attend.

The benefit concert “A Change of Heart for Richard” will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 380 Nicolls Road, East Setauket, Sept. 9 from 5:30 to 10 p.m.

Tickets cost $40 per person and include food and beverages. The evening will feature performances by Andrew Fortier, The Claudia Jacobs Band, and jazz guitarist Matt Marshak and his band. The Whiskey Rebellion will feature guest player Teddy Kumpel, a member of Joe Jackson’s touring band, sitting in on guitar and Licitra on keyboards.

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NatioNal Zeldin talks Trump and more during exclusive interview

By Alex Petroski alex@tbrnewspapers.com From the podium at The Emporium in Patchogue Nov. 8, 2016 after his race against Anna Throne Holst (D-Southampton) was officially called and his near-20point victory was secured, U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) said he was looking forward to the opportunity to “make America great again.”

Zeldin has become synonymous with President Donald Trump (R) locally, and though he said during an exclusive interview with the Times Beacon Record News Media editorial board he still supports the president, just short of 10 months removed from his re-election, Zeldin also said he is not a “proxy” for Trump, or anyone else.

During the 90-minute interview, the congressman preached bipartisanship, addressed the future of health care, discussed Trump’s Twitter account and inflammatory speeches like the one he made in Arizona Aug. 22, criticized the president for his response to the Charlottesville, Virginia, protest and addressed the state of his support for Trump going forward.

“I don’t give anyone my proxy.”

Despite being a strong supporter of Trump during their parallel 2016 campaigns, Zeldin had a strong response when asked if the president had his unequivocal support.

“I don’t give anyone my proxy,” Zeldin said, though he did say he supports the president and wants him to be successful.

He added if he had to vote for Trump again today, he ultimately would. “It’s not 2020, but if you asked me Aug. 25 of 2017 if I was casting a vote right now and he was running unopposed, yeah. If he was running against someone else and there was a compelling reason to go some other direction, then you factor into it.”

Zeldin pushed back on the perception of a large group of his constituents who believe he is the local embodiment of Trump. He cited several examples in which he has been critical of the president, including when Trump made a Holocaust remembrance statement that made no reference to Jewish people, or when he voted in line with many House Democrats against a bill that would roll back internet privacy protections, which Trump ultimately signed into law.

The congressman also reiterated a statement he has made publicly in the past, that the meeting between Donald Trump Jr., other members of the Trump administration and people with ties to the Russian government alleging they had damaging material on Hillary Clinton in June 2016 should have never taken place.

“If you really wanted to ask yourself, is this guy just going to be or has he been some proxy or some stooge who is refusing to say where he disagrees, you would have to ignore like 20 different examples where it’s not even taking my word for it, this is stuff that I’ve said on national TV,” Zeldin said. He surmised the perception he is too tightly connected to Trump comes from people who can’t wait for the day Trump is no longer in office.

Zeldin added although he disagreed

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Above, U.s. rep. lee Zeldin speaks during an interview at tBr News Media; and below, Zeldin celebrates his 2016 election night victory in Patchogue. with former President Barack Obama (D) on issues, at no point did he view him as anything other than his president.

“There are people who think nothing has gotten done.”

Zeldin pushed back on the idea that partisan gridlock, which has long characterized the country’s perception of Congress, is getting worse or is being amplified

by Trump. He said bills are being passed and bipartisan discussions are being had everyday by members of the House.

“People have this perception that when the House is in session and we’re all on the floor together that it’s an old school Aaron Burr duel taking place amongst all members all the time,” he said. “Where everyone’s basically literally trying to kill each other on the floor.”

Zeldin said he isn’t going to sugarcoat it, or try to make the discussions sound all rosy. He pointed to the over 50 bills passed since Trump has taken office as proof of Republicans and Democrats working together to get things done.

He said these topics tend to get overshadowed by what is broadcasted on TV news.

“People get very discouraged when you put on the news and you’re only coming in contact with bad news,” Zeldin said. “It’s almost like [it’s] not even newsworthy to talk about what got done that day. What’s newsworthy is what may be the biggest, most dramatic confrontation or battle that might be going on. That’s the news everyday.”

He attributed heated political rhetoric and the notion Congress is struggling to work together to the business model of the three major 24-hour cable news stations — CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. “The information they’re coming in contact with is deliberately targeting them to stir emotion, because that’s how they get traffic,” he said.

The congressman recalled several times when he was slated to do a cable news in-

terview on a particular topic, which the president would be happy to see gain coverage, only to be asked questions about the investigations into Trump’s ties to Russia during the campaign because of a Tweet he sent moments before the interview.

He admitted the president has the power to steer the conversation in the right direction.

“There is no person in the United States of America with more of an ability to drive the conversation,” he said. “I don’t know of the last time we had an individual in the United States of America with a bigger soapbox than the president of the United States.”

“He’s willing to sign 50,000 different versions of this bill.”

Common ground exists between Republicans and Democrats on the future of the federal health care law, according to Zeldin, though he said he’s skeptical of the Senate’s ability to reach a majority on a replacement of the Affordable Care Act. At no point during the 90-minute conversation did the congressman use the phrase “repeal and replace,” though he discussed,

at length, some of the issues with the individual market and what it would take to repair it in a way that works.

“Beyond partisanship there’s an ideological difference on the insurance piece, and what do you do with the ACA,” Zeldin said. “They just absolutely, genuinely to their core disagree on certain components of what direction [to go in].”

Zeldin was extremely critical of the process that led up to the ultimately failed Senate vote on health care and stressed the need to return to regular order.

The health care vote revealed three Republican senators as willing to oppose the president on major legislation. As a result of that vote and other circumstances in which Republican senators have spoken out against Trump, Zeldin encouraged the use of the president’s “bully pulpit,” like the way he spoke about Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Arizona) during his trip to Phoenix Aug. 22.

When asked if the president is doing enough to grow his base of support rather than just appealing to those he already has in his camp, Zeldin was also critical.

“There are opportunities for him to do more to broaden that coalition,” he said.

He also indicated the president is prepared to compromise on a health care bill.

“He’s willing to sign 50,000 different versions of this bill,” Zeldin said.

“There is no moral equivalency.”

The congressman was most critical of the president on his response to the events in Charlottesville. He repeatedly stated there is no moral equivalency between marchers on the side of the KKK and Nazism and those who attended the rally to oppose hate, a point that was contradictory to statements Trump made publicly on the subject. Zeldin said he did agree though with the president’s point that members of the “alt-right” were not the only one’s who arrived at the Virginia rally for the purpose of inciting violence.

“If you are a good person showing up to that march and you realize once you get there that by being associated at all with that march that you are associating yourself in any way, shape, or form with the KKK or Nazism, a good person, immediately, instinctively completely disengages,” Zeldin said.

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Is the current political climate impacting your everyday life?

by Kevin Redding kevin@tbrnewspapers.com With the polarized nature of politics today, we took to the streets of Port Jefferson to see if the tension is having an impact on people’s daily lives.

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Ed Gunder, Mount Sinai

Scott McMullen, Smithtown

In a way, yes. It makes me depressed, concerned and a little unsure of the future in terms of economics and just the stability of the nation. Sometimes I don’t sleep at night because I’m thinking about it. There are some family members my wife and I are careful not to discuss politics with.

We’ve never discussed politics as much in our lives as we do now; it’s an everyday topic of discussion. Today it’s a daily thing where I’m committed to find out what other bizarre thing has happened.

Minimally. I see the news, I’m aware of what’s going on, I’m worried about what the future brings for my grandchildren. But there’s an adverse effect and I think it has to be everybody. You learn not to talk to certain people who have different political views than you do and you try to stay away from that in order to avoid getting into a conflict with them. You keep your political views to yourself, except your wife, you argue with your wife [laughs]. I watch the news tentatively less now than I ever have because then it becomes an overload; and they go over the same issues over and over again, nothing gets resolved, and it’s like little kids bickering. It’s a shame what the political system has come to. I’d like to see the whole political climate change, I’d like to see people get along and for both parties to come to a common ground and realize elected officials are here to support the people. I think both parties have lost sight of what they should be doing. They’re both equally at fault. Trump, for whatever it’s worth, was elected; and I just think we should try to support him no matter what you think of his views. I think whoever the elected official is, give him a chance.

Jacqueline Gunder

Personally it is aggravating and frustrating ... on both sides of the aisle. They never give up, repeat themselves a million times and accomplish nothing.

Alan Hirshman (right), Port Jeff

It makes me very uncomfortable and makes me want to go out and try to do something. I do whatever I can to try and make something get better than what we have. We’re in bad shape in my opinion in terms of what’s going on and what happened down in Charlottesville. I mean, that was unbelievable.

Jack Rosenthal (left), Port Jeff,

He’s not a good president. Everybody who has any sense tosses and turns about it. I was for Trump to be president until he did things that I don’t like, about three or four months into his term. He should learn from his mistakes but he doesn’t learn.

He’s not learning. He is for himself only.

He doesn’t accept that he can be wrong.

No matter what he decides, that’s the right way and there’s no debating. If you go against him, you’re out. I’m very surprised that he doesn’t learn and ultimately he shouldn’t be president.

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Incidents and arrests Aug. 22–28 Crackdown

A 38-year-old man from Port Jefferson Station possessed crack cocaine while near the intersection of Route 25A and Railroad Avenue in Port Jefferson Station at about 10 p.m. Aug. 24, according to police. He was arrested and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. Upon his arrest, police also discovered he sold a previously reported stolen 1998 Mazda to Gershow’s Recycling in Medford Aug. 31, 2016 after falsifying the title to the car, police said.

He was charged with third-degree criminal possession of stolen property.

Crystal clear

On Crystal Brook Hollow Road in Port Jefferson Station Aug. 23 at about 10 a.m., a 35-year-old woman driving a 1999 Chevrolet was pulled over for a traffic stop and found to be driving with a suspended license, according to police. She was arrested and charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

Reality check

At a home on Oxhead Road in Centereach April 10, a 35-year-old woman who lived at the home wrote bad checks to pay for fuel oil, according to police. She was arrested in Centereach Aug. 25 and charged with issuing a bad check.

Crash and flee

A 36-year-old woman from Centereach was driving a 2007 Chrysler north on Old Nichols Road in Ronkonkoma Aug. 9 at about 8 p.m. and was involved in a crash with a 2015 Chevrolet and fled the scene without exchanging information, according to police. She was arrested Aug. 23 and charged with leaving the scene of an accident with property damage.

Pawned off

At a pawn shop on Middle Country Road in Centereach May 26 at about 4:30 p.m., a 30-year-old man from Centereach pawned three Nintendo video games belonging to the Middle Country Library, according to police. He was arrested Aug. 23 in Centereach and charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property.

ATV attention Ally Paranicas, Sound Beach

Yeah, and I think it’s with families the most. There’s family division because we have different views. The family gets angry with each other. I know it’s the same thing with a lot of other people with their families. They’re like, “Oh yeah, anytime we have a family gathering, all we do is argue.” I think it’s because the younger people are more open-minded and the older people are more set in their old ways. My dad’s even unfollowed some of my family on Facebook because all they post is stuff in support of opposing views.

At about 11 a.m. Aug. 25, a 28-year-old man from Middle Island driving a Honda all-terrain vehicle on Route 25 in Coram was passing other vehicles between marked lanes, causing a disruption of traffic and forcing other drivers to swerve out of the way, according to police. When he was pulled over by police, the man gave a false identity, and police discovered he was also driving with a suspended license.

He was arrested and charged with reckless driving, false personation and third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

Lawn care

A 46-year-old man from Port Jefferson Station drove a car on the lawn of a home on Honey Lane in Miller Place Aug. 20 at about midnight, causing damage to the front porch, railings, columns, posts and the lawn, according to police. He was arrested Aug. 24 and charged with thirddegree criminal mischief.

LEGO lifter

On four separate occasions during August, a 30-year-old woman from Calverton stole LEGO toy sets — three times from Target on Pond Path in Setauket and once from Target on Horseblock Road in Medford, according to police. She was arrested Aug. 24 in Selden and charged with two counts of petit larceny and two counts of fourthdegree grand larceny.

Untelevised

At about 10 p.m. Aug. 28, three men stole three 55-inch televisions from Walmart on Nesconset Highway in Setauket, according to police.

Biker gang

At about 6 p.m. Aug. 27, an “overwhelming number” of dirt bikes, motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles drove down East Broadway in Port Jefferson, driving recklessly and disturbing pedestrians, according to police. Port Jefferson Village constables contacted the Suffolk County Police Department, police said.

Did not compute

A computer was stolen from a home on Old Town Road in Port Jefferson Station at about 2:30 p.m. July 12, according to police. A report was filed Aug. 26.

Shattering expectations

The glass door at Terryville Card Shop on Old Town Road in Terryville was broken at about 3 a.m. Aug. 25, according to police.

Purse pinched

A purse was stolen from within a 2007 Honda parked outside of a home on Jefferson Avenue in Terryville at about 6 a.m.

Aug. 25, according to police.

Doctor shopping

Medical products were stolen from RiteAid in the Jefferson Shopping Plaza in Port Jefferson Station at about 10:30 a.m. Aug. 23, according to police.

Spare no expense

A Louis Vuitton handbag containing a matching wallet and credit cards was stolen from the passenger seat of a 2012 Ford while parked outside Made to Move Tennis and Wellness in Setauket at about 5:30 p.m. Aug. 22, according to police.

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Residents gather outside of Renaissance technologies in setauket aug. 23 to protest Robert mercer’s alleged funding of alt-right causes.

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According to a press release from the North Country Peace Group, Robert Mercer, billionaire co-CEO of the Setauket-based hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, and his daughter Rebekah have allegedly contributed millions of dollars to alt-right causes due to his alliance with the online media company Breitbart News.

The group held a rally in front of the company’s entrance on Route 25A Aug. 23 because members feel Breitbart News has provided a forum for white supremacist, sexist and other racist voices.

Approximately two dozen protesters were in attendance with signs in tow. During the rally, Charles Perretti of Setauket grabbed a megaphone and addressed the crowd.

“What does [the Mercer family] want?” he asked.

“They want to control the public dialogue. They want to advance their attitudes and values at the expense of true representative government and the spirit of one man and one vote.”

Perretti said Mercer supports the current Republican presidential administration, referring to that of President Donald Trump (R).

“What do we want, the people on the corner?” he said. “We want concern for the common good.”

The statement inspired protesters to respond repeatedly: “Concern for the common good.”

In recent months, the local peace group has organized or participated in several rallies covering various topics including Trump’s proposed transgender military ban, climate change, alleged use of force by police and a sister event to the Women’s March on Washington.

Peace group member Rosemary Maffei, of Setauket, has been in attendance for much of the group’s protests. She said attending political demonstrations is something she feels she needs to do for herself personally and for the country, and she appreciates being around like-minded residents.

“I feel it’s important to let people see that there is resistance to Trump and the Republican Party, especially here on ‘red’ Long Island,” she said. “Sitting home and doing nothing while the country is being torn apart is something I don’t understand.”

Mercer did not respond to a request sent through an executive assistant at his company for comments about the rally.

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LEGALS NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: SUFFOLK COUNTY JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; Plaintiff(s) vs. FRANCIS J HEALY; et al; Defendant(s) Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill, New York, 12524, 845.897.1600 Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale granted herein on or about April 1, 2016, I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738.

On September 13, 2017 at 2:30 pm.

Premises known as 56 PINEDALE AVE, FARMINGVILLE, NY 11738 District: 0200 Section: 695.00 Block: 03.00 Lot: 037.000 ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven Suffolk County, State of New York, known and designated as and by Plot Number One Hundred Eightytwo (182) and One Hundred Eighty-three (183) on a certain map entitled “Map of Woodedge Park, Sheet One, situated at Selden, Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, Property of Woodedge Realty Co., Inc., surveyed

by Herman P. Hawkins, Civil Engineer”, and filed in the Suffolk County Clerk`s Office at Riverhead, August 30th, 1945 as Map Number 1445.

As more particularly described in the judgment of foreclosure and sale.

Sold subject to all of the terms and conditions contained in said judgment and terms of sale.

Approximate amount of judgment $84,366.49 plus interest and costs.

INDEX NO. 00144-14 Francesco P. Tini, Esq., Referee 506 8/10 4x vth NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK Wells Fargo Bank, NA, Plaintiff AGAINST Kenneth Vidal a/k/a Kenneth C. Vidal; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated July 1, 2016 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Townhall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738 on September 13, 2017 at 10:00AM, premises known as 802 Old Town Road, Selden, NY 11784. All that

certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of NY, Section 337.00 Block 05.00 Lot 033.019. Approximate amount of judgment $456,241.08 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 1314212.

Robert A Caccese, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: July 6, 2017 511 8/10 4x vth NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: SUFFOLK COUNTY NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC; Plaintiff(s) vs. DIANA ILOWITE; et al; Defendant(s) Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill, New York, 12524, 845.897.1600 Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale granted herein on or about September 29, 2016, I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738.

On September 12, 2017 at 10:00 am.

Premises known as 224 LOWER SHEEP PASTURE ROAD, SETAUKET, NY 11733 District: 0200 Section: 202.00 Block: 02.00 Lot: 011.000 ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in Setauket, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York.

As more particularly described in the judgment of foreclosure and sale.

Sold subject to all of the terms and conditions contained in said judgment and terms of sale.

Approximate amount of judgment $362,779.40 plus interest and costs.

INDEX NO. 064879/2013 Andrea DeNicola, Esq., Referee 512 8/10 4x vth NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: SUFFOLK COUNTY WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.; Plaintiff(s) vs. SAADET MUTLU; et al; Defendant(s) Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s):

ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill, New York, 12524, 845.897.1600 Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale granted herein on or about May 12, 2017, I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738.

On September 18, 2017 at 9:00 am.

Premises known as 79 BIRCHWOOD DRIVE, PORT JEFFERSON STATION, NY 11776-3518 District: 0200 Section: 256.00 Block: 07.00 Lot: 007.000 ALL THAT PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate, lying and being a part of a Condominium in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York, known and designated as Unit Number 79, together with a .4107% undivided interest in the Common Elements of the Condominium hereinafter described as the same is defined in the Declaration of Condominium hereinafter referred to. The Real Property above described is a unit shown on the plans of a Condominium prepared and certified by Siegmund Spiegel, Registered Architect, and filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk on the 16th day of July, 1973 as File No. 22, defined in the Declaration of Condominium entitled, Sagamore Hills Condominium, made by Birchwood Condominium Developments, Inc., under Article 9-B of the New York Real Property Law dated July 16, 1973 and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Suffolk County on the 16th day of July, 1973 in Liber 7442 of Conveyances at Page 492, covering the property thereon described.

As more particularly described in the judgment of foreclosure and sale.

Sold subject to all of the terms and conditions contained in said judgment and terms of sale.

Approximate amount of judgment $291,481.29 plus interest and costs.

INDEX NO. 610733/2015 Anthony M. Parlatore, Esq., Referee 527 8/17 4x vth NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT DATED AS OF AUGUST 1, 2006 SECURITIZED ASSET BACKED RECEIVABLES LLC TRUST 2006-HE1 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-HE1, Plaintiff,

Against Index No.: 29602/2012 RICHARD MAURO, DENISE MAURO, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered in the Suffolk County Clerk’s Office on 06/08/2017, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738 on 9/19/2017 at 10:45 am, premises known as 65 Randall Road, Wading River, NY 11792 and described as follows: ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at Wading River, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York and designated on the tax maps of the Suffolk County Treasurer as District 0200, Section 083.00, Block 03.00 and Lot 004.003.

The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $671,513.05 plus interest and costs. The premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 29602/2012.

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid.

The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney.

Christine Grobe, Esq., Referee.

Leopold & Associates, PLLC, 80 Business Park Drive, Suite 110, Armonk, NY 10504 Dated: 7/25/2017 SLC 539 8/17 4x vth NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK Ditech Financial LLC f/k/a Green Tree Servicing LLC, Plaintiff AGAINST Michelle Niemczyk a/k/a Michelle Reilly, Matthew Reilly a/k/a Matthew J. Reilly, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 1-252016 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, County of Suffolk, New York on 9-202017 at 12:30PM, premises known as 37 Lake Promenade, Lake Ronkonkoma, NY 11779. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Lake Ronkonkoma, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York,

SECTION: 761.00, BLOCK: 02.00, LOT: 039.000, District: 0200. Approximate amount of judgment $360,891.36 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index#: 25173/2011. Daniel J. Sullivan, Esq., Referee Frenkel Lambert Weiss Weisman & Gordon, LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 01-038442-F00 47779 547 8/17 4x vth NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK CIT Bank, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST John P. Oliver As Executor of the Estate of Francine Percyz Oliver, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated July 20, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738, on September 28, 2017 at 1:30PM, premises known as 1552 STONY BROOK ROAD, AKA 1522 GOULE ROAD, STONY BROOK, NY 11790. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York, DISTRICT 0200, SECTION 247.00, BLOCK 02.00, LOT 004.000.

Approximate amount of judgment $539,305.22 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 605196/2016.

Theresa A. Mari, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 562 8/31 4x vth Notice of formation of NID Studio Designs, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/06/2017. Office location: Suffolk County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to the LLC: 53 West Meadow Road, Old Field, NY, 11733. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

571 8/31 6x vth Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, on the fourth day of August, 2017, bearing Index

Number 04040-17, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at 310 Center Drive, Riverhead, New York grants me the right to assume the name of Adam Ryan McDonald. The city and state of my present address are Rocky Point, NY; the month of my year of my birth are October, 1996; the place of my birth is Smithtown, New York; my present name is Amanda Rose McDonald.

573 8/31 1x vth PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to New York State Town Law Section 202-c, a public hearing will be held by the Town Board of the Town of Brookhaven at the Town Auditorium at One Independence Hill, Second Floor, Farmingville, New York, on September 14, 2017 at 6:00 P.M., to consider the dissolution and discontinuance of the Strongs Neck Water Supply District, pursuant to a Proposed Dissolution Plan.

At said public hearing, any persons interested shall be given the opportunity to be heard.

DONNA LENT, TOWN CLERK TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN Dated: August 10, 2017 Farmingville, New York 574 8/31 1x vth PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to New York State Town Law Section 202-c, a public hearing will be held by the Town Board of the Town of Brookhaven at the Town Board Auditorium at One Independence Hill, Second Floor, Farmingville, New York, on September 14, 2017 at 6:00 P.M., to consider the dissolution and discontinuance of the West Setauket Water Supply District, pursuant to a Proposed Dissolution Plan.

At said public hearing, any persons interested shall be given the opportunity to be heard.

DONNA LENT, TOWN CLERK TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN Dated: August 10, 2017 Farmingville, New York 576 8/31 1x vth SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF SUFFOLK FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff against ANTHONY LOMONACO A/K/A ANTHONY LO MONACO; FRANCINE LOMANACO, et al Defendant(s).

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LEGALS LEGALS con’t from pg 8 tered on June 21, 2017.

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the front steps of the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, N.Y. on the 5th day of October, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. premises described as follows: All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York.

Said premises known as 198 Southaven Avenue, Medford, N.Y. 11763.

(District: 0200, Section: 840.00, Block: 03.00, Lot: 006.000).

Approximate amount of lien $ 316,272.73 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale.

Index No. 37021-11.

Michael Cox, Esq., Referee.

McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot Street Suite 210 New Rochelle, New York 10801 (914) 636-8900 589 8/31 4x vth NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN

permission for proposed 2nd story residence addition. (0200 15300 0600 039000) 24.

Jon Sandberg, 7 Sedgewick Ln., Stony Brook, NY. Location: East side Sedgewick Ln. 302’ +/- South of Sycamore Circle, Stony Brook. Applicant requests permission for existing inground swimming pool located less than the required 25’ from overhead electrical wires (19’ & 22’) not built in conformance with permit # 15B103595. (0200 30600 0200 015000) 30.

Thomas & Kelly Lanzilotta, 22 Blinker Light Rd., Stony Brook, NY. Location: Northwest corner Blinker Light Road and Dakard Court, Stony Brook.

Applicant requests relief of the Historic District Advisory Committee (HDAC) recommendation regarding fencing (vinyl requested - wood recommended).

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Jin Wang, 304 Old Town Rd., E. Setauket, NY. Location: Northwest corner Partridge Lane and Old Town Rd., E. Setauket.

Applicant requests front yard setback variance from Partridge Lane for existing 2nd story deck exceeding 4’ x 8’ permitted (10’ x 16’). (0200 17900 0200 005000)

PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE IV, SEC. 85-29 OF THE BUILDING ZONE ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS WILL HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING AND AT ONE INDEPENDENCE HILL, FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. (AUDITORIUM – 2nd FLOOR), ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 COMMENCING AT 2:00 P.M. TO CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING:

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NOTICE OF MEETING TIME CHANGE BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS SETAUKET FIRE DISTRICT PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the following BOFC Business Meeting previously scheduled for Thursday September 14, 2017at 7:00 p.m. has been rescheduled for Thursday September 14, 2017 at 6:00 pm by the Setauket Fire District Board of Fire Commissioners. The meeting will take place at 26 Hulse Road, E. Setauket, NY 11733.

Dated: August 25, 2017 Cynthia Hubbard Fire District Secretary 597 8/31 1x vth NOTICE TO BIDDERS SEALED BIDS ONLY will be received by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Poquott at the Poquott Village Hall, 43 Birchwood Avenue, Poquott, New York 11733, during the regular Village business hours Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. through 4:00 p.m. from September 1, 2017 through and until 3:00 p.m. on September 14, 2017. All bids will be opened and read aloud at the Board of Trustees meeting on September 14, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. The Contracts will be awarded as soon thereafter as practical and as the Mayor and Board of Trustees so determine, for; VILLAGE OF POQUOTT SHARON AVENUE AND HIGHVIEW AVENUE CURBING AND PAVING CONTRACT 2017 Bid and Contract Documents, including Plans and Specifications, may be obtained and examined at Office of the Village Clerk at the Village of Poquott Village Hall during regular Village hours beginning September 1, 2017, or by electronic mail.

Each interested party requesting a printed set of Contract Documents will be required to pay a non-refundable fee

of FIFTY DOLLARS ($50.00) payable to the Village of Poquott.

Each Bid submitted with respect to this Contract must be accompanied by a non-collusion statement to the submitted Bid pursuant to Section 103 of the General Municipal Law. No Bid shall be considered by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Poquott that is submitted by any contractor, person or entity that is in arrears to the Village of Poquott, or that is in default as surety or otherwise upon any obligation to the Village, and no Bid will be considered that is submitted by any contractor, person or entity whose performance of any previous contract with the Village has been unsatisfactory in the opinion of the Board of Trustees. Such a contractor, person or entity whose performance has been unsatisfactory shall not be deemed to be a responsible Bidder.

The Village of Poquott reserves the right to reject any and all Bids received, to waive informalities and to increase, decrease, or omit any portions of the Contract Specifications. Subject to the foregoing, the Village of Poquott will award the Contract to the Bidder which in the opinion of the Board of Trustees is the lowest responsible Bidder qualified by past experience to satisfactorily perform the work required by the Contract and furnishing the required security.

The successful Bidder must maintain Worker Compensation Insurance within the statutory limits, Automobile Liability Insurance, and General Liability Insurance Policy with limits of $1,000,000 each occurrence and Property Damage limits of not less than $1,000,000 each occurrence, with $2,000,000 aggregate for the benefit of the successful Bidder and naming the Village of Poquott as an insured party.

Originals of the required policies shall be provided to the Village of Poquott with

the copies of the Contracts that have been executed by the successful Bidder as required.

All Bids must be submitted on the prescribed forms as bound herein and returned to the Village of Poquott intact with the complete book of Contract Documents. All blank spaces for Bid prices or information required to be provided must be filled in or completed, both in words and figures as indicated. Any Bid, submission or proposal that contains any omissions, erasures, alterations, additions or items not called for in the itemized proposal, or that contains irregularities of any kind, may be deemed by the Board of Trustees to be nonconforming or nonresponsive and to constitute sufficient cause for rejection of that Bid. In the event of any discrepancy in the price or amount of the Bid for any item in the proposal, the price as expressed in words shall govern. Any request by a Bidder or Bidder’s representative to the Village or any other person or party for information, clarification, or interpretation must be submitted to the Village of Poquott Village Clerk, in writing only, not less than five (5) days prior to closing date for the submission of Bids.

Bidders are cautioned not to submit proposals until after having inspected the site of the proposed work and having made themselves familiar with the Village’s local conditions. ANY AND ALL COMMUNICATION WITH THE VILLAGE OF POQUOTT, ITS OFFICERS OR EMPLOYEES REGARDING THIS BID AND PROJECT FROM 12:01 A.M. SEPTEMBER 1, 2017 THROUGH AND INCLUDING 3:00 P.M. SEPTEMBER 14, 2017 SHALL BE WITH THE VILLAGE CLERK ONLY, AND NO OTHER PERSON WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF THE VILLAGE CLERK UNDER PENALTY OF DISQUALIFICATION. The Contract and project is a public works contract covered by Article 8 of the Labor Law or a build-

ing service contract covered by Article 9 thereof, and neither Contractor’s employees nor the employees of its subcontractors may be required or permitted to work more than the number of hours or days stated in said statutes, except as otherwise provided in the Labor Law and as set forth in prevailing wage and supplement schedules issued by the State Labor Department. Furthermore, Contractor and its subcontractors must pay at least the prevailing wage rate and pay or provide the prevailing supplements, including the premium rates for overtime pay, as determined by the State Labor Department in accordance with the Labor Law. This project has been registered with the New York State Department of Labor as a pubic works project and a schedule of prevailing wages for Suffolk County is available from the New York State Department of Labor and will be provided to the Contractor with the Contract herein.

The Village of Poquott is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, ancestry, disability or handicap, marital/financial status, military status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age or national origin with respect to employment or any employment related matter and the Village of Poquott requires that all contractors participating in contracts for public work in the Village of Poquott and all subcontractors of those contractors comply with that same requirements. The Village of Poquott encourages bids for public contracts and public contracts with the Village of Poquott and subcontracts of those contracts by minority and women owned contractors and entities and the Village of Poquott may solicit bids and contracts from such entities with respect to the public work noticed herein.

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Community news Three Village

Photo from John Case

Batter up Photo from Three Village Kiwanis Club

Kiwanis cares

The Three Village Kiwanis Club donated five pediatric trauma kits to the Three Village Central School District, one for each of the district’s five elementary schools.

Funds for the kits were raised by the clubs first annual Kiwanis Kares Tribute Concert in March and donated to the district during its June board of education meeting.

Pictured above, from left, are Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Center board members Thomas and Roxanne Mollo, Three Village Board of Education President William Connors, Superintendent Cheryl Pedisich, Three Village Kiwanis Club President Scott Sanders, Kiwanis Lieutenant Governor Julie Watterson, club member Stevie Coropelo and Three Village Kiwanis Club Secretary Allison Kane.

South Setauket

The Three Village Under 12 baseball team competed in the Cooperstown baseball tournament Aug. 18. The tournament attracted teams from all over the country.

The boys have been together since third grade. After a first-place finish in the spring Suffolk County PAL league and a trip to the

semifinals in the Town of Brookhaven league, they were excited to go upstate and represent the Three Village community. The boys finished the tournament 3-3.

The team consisted of Michael Accardi, Rhys Allister, Brandon Bottellerri, Daniel Case, Nick Cinelli, Michael Dargan, Andrew Donfrio, Sean Donnelly, Jackson Golub, Jacob Henretta, Ryan Locarni, Michael Mencaroni and Colin Woods.

Setauket

Chemical recognition

The American Chemical Society has named Stony Brook University chemistry professor Nicole Sampson, Ph.D., to the 2017 class of ACS Fellows, which recognizes scientists who have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments in chemistry and have made important contributions to the ACS. Sampson, of Setauket, was recognized for her work translating the mycobacterial cholesterol metabolism pathway into drug targets and the development of precision polymer chemistry and probes to unravel receptor interactions in mammalian fertilization.

She served as chair of the Joint BoardCouncil Committee on Publications and was counselor for the Division of Biological Chemistry and on ACS national awards committees.

At Stony Brook, the Sampson laboratory focuses on understanding the relationship between protein structure and protein function

Photo from Stony Brook University

and synthesizing chemical tools to understand and control biological functions. The research has implications in cancer metastasis, lipidprotein interactions, mammalian fertilization and tuberculosis steroid metabolism.

obituary James Duckham

Photo from Jefferson’s Ferry

Second life

Jefferson’s Ferry, a not-for-profit life plan community in South Setauket, has made a donation of household goods to Habitat for Humanity of Suffolk.

The donations, which will be ongoing, include lightly used major appliances, kitchen cabinetry, air conditioners, sinks, faucets and lighting fixtures. They are being generated by the renovation and upgrades of cottages and apartments at Jefferson’s Ferry. Many of the

donated goods are getting a second life in Habitat for Humanity building projects.

The remainder is being sent to Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore outlet, which sells appliances, furniture and building materials to the public. All sales benefit Habitat for Humanity.

Recently, Jefferson’s Ferry’s Vice President of Hospitality Services Chris Adamo, pictured center above, met with Habitat for Humanity volunteers Dennis Castiglia, on left, and John Daquet, on right.

James Duckham, 85, died Aug. 16. The South Setauket resident was an ex-commissioner and ex-chief of the Setauket Fire Department.

James served in the Army during the Korean War. He was married to his wife Doris for 36 years and worked at Long Island Lighting Company for nearly 40 years.

James joined the Oyster Bay Fire Department Company 1 at the age of 18. The department was called The Teddy Boys after the town’s famous resident Teddy Roosevelt.

After moving to Suffolk County, he con-

tinued serving as a volunteer firefighter with the Setauket Fire Department and remained an active member until his last day, for a total of 53 years.

He served as the first captain of the department’s Engine Company 9 and rose through the ranks to chief of the fire department in 1973. He also served as fire commissioner and fire protection coordinator for the district.

The firefighter is survived by his sons Jimmy and Brian, daughters-in-law Robin and Sue and his brother Billy. He was also a proud grandfather to his grandchildren Nicole, Jimmy, Joey, Mike, Matt and Caitlin.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Bryant Funeral Home in East Setauket. A Firematic Service was held Aug. 20. James was interred at Calverton National Cemetery.

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university

Photo on left by Rita J. Egan; photo above from Ian Rose; photo below from Stony Brook University

Clockwise from left, Derrick Wegner stands in the gender-inclusive room he shares with his best friend Sydney; Ian Rose, right, and friends settle in their three-bedroom suite after a long day; and Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr., Stony Brook University president, helps a student move into a residence hall Aug. 25.

Gender-inclusive housing increases in popularity at SBU

By RItA J. EgAn RItA@tBRnEWSPAPERS.Com Stony Brook University has been doing its part to make campus life feel more like home for most students, by offering gender-inclusive housing.

For a decade, the option has allowed students to share a room with friends or siblings no matter what their gender, or choose housing based on the gender they identify with. The only requirements are that students have to be 18 or older and sign a contract stating they will respect everyone in their residence hall.

On Aug. 25, move-in day for freshmen and transfer students, resident assistant Derrick Wegner, who is transgender, was on hand to greet newcomers. The senior psychology major said he was happy to have the option when he came to Stony Brook. Wegner, who lives in Wurtsboro, said college is a great opportunity for a fresh start, especially for young people looking to transition.

Wegner said the gender-inclusive housing option at Stony

Brook creates a happy and safe environment, and he feels being happy and healthy plays a big part in being a successful student.

“You’re of value, and you belong here,” he said.

This year the senior is thrilled to be sharing a dorm with his best friend Sydney Monroe Gaglio, who he met early on in college through mutual friends.

“She’s my best friend, and I’m her best friend,” he said.

“Just having somebody that I know I can go home to, and this hap— Ian Rose [say] pened, and she’s like ‘I’m sorry.’

She just gets it.”

Ian Rose, who majors in engineering chemistry and applied mathematics and statistics, was thrilled when he heard of the gender-inclusive option. The junior said last year he made friends with Daniel Mahoney, Brandon O’Rourke, Bianca Mugone and Brittany Voboril, and they all became great friends. They lived in the same residence hall — the males in one room on one floor and the girls in their own room on another floor.

Many nights last year they would find themselves in each other’s

‘I just want this to show everyone that guys and girls living together isn’t weird or uncomfortable .’

rooms studying or talking and decided to live together.

“We’re friends just hanging out,” Rose said.

This academic year the five are living in a suite with three bedrooms and one bathroom. Rose said at first his only concern was how things would work out in the bathroom, but so far things are going smoothly.

“I just want this to show everyone that guys and girls living together isn’t weird or uncomfortable,” Rose said. “You’re living with your friends; friends are friends.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a boy or girl or different skin tone. It doesn’t matter; we’re all the same.”

Catherine-Mary Rivera, director of residential programs at SBU, said the program began as a small pilot initiative at the university 10 years ago, and grew slowly through the years. In 2016, approximately 40 students took advantage of the housing option, while this year more than 200 students — out of 10,683 living on campus — chose gender-inclusive residences across the campus.

She said the university wants to ensure that all students feel safe and welcome because it’s their home, and they have received plenty of positive feedback regarding the housing.

“The fact that it has grown from 42 to 200 has shown us students feel that they have a place here, and that they don’t have to

either feel not comfortable being themselves or feel that Stony Brook doesn’t have a place for them, or they have to remain quiet about who they are or how they express themselves,” Rivera said.

“That freedom has come through very clearly that this is a place they can thrive and be their true selves and live with their friends.”

The housing option also allows couples to live together; however, the university does recommend romantic partners think twice before making that decision.

“We want you to branch out and build a stronger community and have healthy relationships, and it may not be best to live

with your significant other at this point,” Rivera said.

In addition to gender-inclusive housing, she said SBU offers all-gender, multi-stall bathrooms throughout campus and on the main floors of residence halls, in addition to all-men and all-women restrooms.

Software updates have also been made to the school’s system allowing students and faculty members to choose their preferred names and pronoun if they would prefer to be addressed by something other than their legal name. The change means that identification cards and email addresses now show the name a person uses on a regular basis instead of their legal name.

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TOWN

56th Greek Festival in Port Jeff delights like the first

Photos by Kevin Redding

From Aug. 24 to 27, the grounds at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Assumption on Sheep Pasture Road in Port Jefferson were filled with vendors selling Greek art and jewelry, carnival rides, happy faces and a whole lot of food for the 56th annual Greek Festival.

Residents chowed down on gyros, moussaka, souvlaki and spanakopita while kids took to the merry-go-round and giant slide. Guided tours of the church and grand raffle prizes were available throughout the weekend, and Greek music from the festival could be heard for miles.

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County

Narcan now available for low cost at pharmacies

By Kyle Barr The opioid crisis on Long Island has left devastation in its wake, and as opioid-related deaths rise every year, New York State Department of Health has created an additional, more affordable way to combat it. To deal with the rash of overdoses as a result of addiction, the state has made it easier for people with prescription insurance to afford Naloxone, a common overdose reversal medication.

On Aug. 7, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced starting Aug. 9 that people with prescription health insurance coverage would be able to receive Naloxone, commonly referred to as Narcan, for a copay of up to $40. New York is the first state to offer the drug for such a low cost in pharmacies.

“The vast majority of folks who have

health insurance with prescription coverage will be able to receive Naloxone through this program for free,” said Ben Rosen, a spokesperson for the state department of health.

Before the change, the average shelf cost of Narcan, which is administered nasally, was $125 without prescription with an average national copay of $10. People on Medicaid and Medicare paid between $1 and $3, Rosen said.

This action by the state comes at a critical time. More than 300 people from Suffolk County died from opioid-related overdoses in 2016, according to county medical examiner records. On Aug. 10, President Donald Trump (R) declared the opioid issue a national emergency, meaning that there is now more pressure on Congress to pass legislation to deal with the crisis, as well as a push to supply more funds to states, police departments and health services to help address the problem.

The drug is available in more than 3,000 pharmacies across New York and well over 100 pharmacies in Suffolk County. This includes major pharmacies like CVS Health, Walgreens and Rite Aid, but also includes a few local pharmacies that already participate in the state AIDS Drug Assistance Program, Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage program and Medicaid, according to Kathy Febraio, the executive director of the Pharmacists Society of the State of New York, a nonprofit pharmacists advocacy group.

The program is only available for people who either have Medicare, Medicaid or health

insurance with prescription coverage. Otherwise, officials said that those who lack insurance and need access can get it through a number of free Narcan training courses.

“We think that anything that can have an effect on this crisis is a good thing,” Febraio said. “This will certainly help. We need anything that will get Naloxone into the hands of those who need it.”

While county Legislator and Presiding Officer DuWayne Gregory (D-Amityville) likes the idea of additional access to Narcan, he is skeptical about whether those who get it know how to properly administer it. “You don’t need a Ph.D. to know how to use it, but there is some training that would help people be more comfortable, such as how to properly use it in an emergency situation and how to store it so that it is accessible while making sure children can’t get their hands on it,” he said. “Unfortunately the epidemic is so widespread. Everyone knows someone who is affected.”

Christina Loeffler, the co-owner of Rely RX Pharmacy & Medical Supplies in St. James, one of the few non-major pharmacies in the county participating in the program, said though the business has not yet received many calls for Narcan, the state requires pharmacists to demonstrate how to use it.

“You have to counsel the patient and show them how to use it,” she said. “We were shown videos, we were given kits to practice on before we were certified to do it. I feel like it’s a good thing that they’re doing it.”

Boater safety tips ahead of Labor Day weekend

By HerB HermaN It’s Labor Day weekend and a great time to go boating. You get the family in the car and go to the marina. Being a responsible boater, first you check the weather forecast and make sure that you won’t face any surprises out on the water. You or someone else will remember the sandwiches and drinks. You get to the boat and go through the required check-off items: examine the fuel level; check oil; see that the personal flotation devices are in the right place — at least one per person and easily accessible in an emergency — check if the anchor is set up for easy deployment; that flares and other emergency items in order; that the hand-held VHF radio is charged and readily available.

Being a responsible boater, the final thing to do before you cast off is to inform the passengers and crew as to where the emergency items are and how to use and wear them. And if you are a diligent boater, you file a float plan with friends, so that in the eventuality that you aren’t where you’re supposed to be in the coming days, they can inform the Coast Guard of a potential problem.

All of the above seems like a lot of hard work to go out for a day trip to the local anchorage.

But with some experience, and perhaps after some nasty events, you will tend to do these things automatically — better yet, have an actual check-off list so you forget nothing. Then you’ll have a beautiful day to go boating.

Coast Guard teaches, rather preaches, to their boat crews and to the Coast Guard Auxiliary situational awareness. That is, what’s going on around you. In the parlance of the local guru, mindfulness — the state of knowing the environment in which your boat plows ahead.

File photo

These include water state, weather now and what’s to come, wind, other boats and buoys and all the impediments that exist on local waters. There should also be a designated lookout in case someone falls overboard.

Above all, know the rules of the road. This includes what to do when boats approach one another. These regulations, also known as colregs, are devised to avoid collisions at sea.

The main elements should be learned by way of courses given on Nautical charts, which are available for the waters in which you wish to sail. The chart, unlike a land road map, gives you broad swaths of safe passages and also tells you which regions to avoid due to shallow depths and rocks.

If you’re a power boater or a sailor with an accessory motor, you should know about the innards of the beast. Have you enough fuel for your planned voyage? Will you check the oil dipstick, or do you assume marina personnel

do it for you? They won’t unless you ask them to. Are all your oil, water, fuel and water filters clean, and can you change out a clogged filter?

Are water cooling sea cocks open? Can you troubleshoot easy problems? Do you have the essential tools for such work? Most aspects of inboard and outboard motors can be handled by a layman with a little study. A quick course on troubleshooting your power plant by the marina mechanic can also pay off.

Paddle craft safety is of growing concern to the Coast Guard, with some 22 million Americans enjoying the sport. According to industry figures, some 100,000 canoes, 350,000 kayaks and a very large number of stand-up paddleboard are sold annually. A tragic consequence of these large numbers is that as of 2015, 29 percent of boating deaths were related to paddle crafts. In response, the USCG has generated a Paddle Craft Vessel Safety Check, which is administered by a USCG-approved vessel

File photo above by rohma abbas; photo below by Kyle Barr

Narcan kits, above, are now available for low cost at many New york pharmacies, such as rely rX in St. James, below.

The county currently provides Narcan training courses for locals, where they receive training and free supplies of the life-saving drug. County Legislator Sarah Anker (DMount Sinai) said that she will be co-hosting a free Narcan training course Oct. 5 at Rocky Point High School with support from the North Shore Youth Council.

“Narcan is almost a miracle drug — it brings people back from death,” she said.

“However, people need to know what they’re doing so that it is administered correctly.”

A list of participating pharmacies can be found on the New York State Department of Health’s website at www.health.ny.gov/ overdose.

Items to check for as you head out to sea •Personal Flotation Devices — at least one per person on board •First Aid Kit and blanket •Very high frequency radio •Flashlight •Operational navigational lights •Depth sounder, lead line, sounding pole •Bilge pump or other de-watering device, portable pump •Serviceable and sufficient number of fire extinguishers — should be tested occasionally •Watch or clock •Visual distress signal •Sound-producing device •Compass •Chart for operating area •Deviation tables •Navigational tools •Binoculars •Tide tables •Adequate fenders •Anchor and anchor line (rode) •Boat hook •Cleats in order — sufficient strength — through hulls •Tools for emergency repairs examiner, such as Coast Guard Auxiliary personnel. Paddle crafters should wear personal flotation devices and have a sound-producing device, like a whistle, on them at all times.

Herb Herman is a member of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, 1st Southern District, Division 22, Flotilla 06, Port Jefferson.

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Town

Photos by Kevin Redding

Above and below right, hundreds of residents gather at The Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s educational & Cultural Center to eagerly and attentively listen to Sebastian White, the great-grandson of nikola Tesla’s architect Stanford White, discuss the importance of Tesla and his work, below left.

Nikola Tesla through the eyes of his architect’s kin

By Kevin Redding kevin@tbrnewspapers.com More than 100 years after his great-grandfather designed and oversaw the construction of Nikola Tesla’s Wardenclyffe laboratory in Shoreham, Sebastian White, a renowned physicist and St. James native, filled a local lecture hall to discuss all things surrounding the Serbian-American inventor.

White, whose famous ancestor Stanford White’s architectural achievements include Washington Square Arch, the original Madison Square Garden and what is now the Tesla Science Center, took time out of his busy schedule as a particle physicist for CERN — the European Organization for Nuclear Research — to engage a roomful of science lovers Aug. 27.

The presentation was in conjunction with the center’s summer-long Tesla exhibit in Stony Brook and ended with a screening of clips from “Tower to the People,” a documentary made by a local filmmaker about the laboratory.

The physicist, and chairman of the Tesla Science Center’s Science Advisory Board, examined the litany of Tesla influences in modern-day technology and the late-19th century culture that helped shape his genius.

“Today it’s very clear that Tesla is trending in much of the science that’s showing up, such as wireless transmission of energy, which is a new field, and the Tesla car, but I think we shouldn’t only remember him for what he did, but also the incredible time in America he became part of,” White told the 130 residents packed into the lecture hall on the top floor at The Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s Educational & Cultural Center. “I think the story of Tesla, who many of my colleagues don’t even know, is an important one as it tells us how we got to where we are.”

White explained how Tesla’s grand vision for wireless transmission of energy, which eventually culminated in a torn-down tower on the Shoreham site in 1917, remains a much-pursued concept.

“There’s a very lively industry happening today, mostly because people keep forgetting to charge their iPhones and they want to find a way to do it without needing cords,” he said.

Through a process called energy harvesting, industry scientists are actively working on ways to charge cellphones while they sit inside pockets by capturing energy just from the environment.

“It’s an enormous field now — new companies are very interested in it and a lot is happening,” White said, pointing out other examples of wireless power transmissions over the years.

“In 1964, on the Walter Cronkite TV show, a

guy named William C. Brown demonstrated a model of an electric helicopter powered by a microwave. The United States, Canada and Japan have experimented with airplanes powered by radio waves. I would say, probably, if Tesla were around today, he’d be more happy about all the things people are inventing with new techniques rather than always quoting him and saying, ‘Well, Tesla said this.’”

White said Tesla’s emergence as one of the most influential scientific minds of all time coincided with what he referred to as “an incredibly important time” in the late 1800s, a period referred to as the American Renaissance.

Among the prolific figures with whom Tesla interacted were writer Mark Twain, physicist Ernest Rutherford, American businessman John Jacob Astor IV, and, of course, Stanford White. The physicist said a huge year for Tesla was 1892, when he lectured and demonstrated his experiments at the Institution for Electrical Engineers at the Royal Institution in London.

Speaking on his great-grandfather and Tesla’s friendship, which proved itself through many projects prior to Wardenclyffe, White referred to one particular exchange.

“Stanford White [once] invited Tesla to join him for an outing with William Astor Chanler, an explorer,” he recounted. “Tesla said, ‘I’m busy in the lab.’ White kept pushing him and then wrote to him, ‘I’m so delighted that you decided to tear yourself away from your laboratory. I would sooner have you on board than the Emperor of Germany or the Queen of England.’”

David Madigan, a Tesla Science Center board member, said after the lecture that having White’s perspective on this near-and-dear subject was integral.

“It’s important having Dr. White give the talk, who’s a physicist himself and whose grandfather was Stanford White, who was intimately involved in Tesla’s advancement

of his many ideas both as an investor and also as an architect,” Madigan said. “It’s a good triangulation of today’s event, the Tesla exhibit, and Dr. White bringing in the scientific and family history.”

White said he has always felt a strong connection with his great-grandfather, who had a home in Smithtown, since he was young.

“He was part of our life for sure,” he said.

“We all felt very close to him. My son is an architect, my aunt and uncle were architects, my grandfather was an architect, and even continued in the same firm.”

East Setauket resident Michael Lubinsky said he was drawn to the lecture through a lifelong interest in Tesla.

“I always felt that Tesla was not appreciated that much in his time,” Lubinsky said, laughing that much of the lecture went over his head with its scientific terms.

Paul Scala, a software engineer living in Centereach, said he too gravitated to the event to explore more of Tesla’s story.

“I think [Dr. White] did a very nice job,” he said. “It’s very cool seeing that in the tech world they’re still trying to harness wireless energy.”

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When you need to leave town, why disrupt your pet’s routine. Let your pets enjoy the comforts of home while receiving TLC from a PSI Certified professional Pet Sitter. Experienced, reliable.

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GRAND OPENING SONNY’S PIANOS 1507 MAIN STREET PORT JEFFERSON 631-475-8046 pre-owned Steinways and other brand name pianos, wholesale prices, visit us in person or on line at www.sonnyspianotv.com

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Operate a passenger-carrying vehicle transporting residents with disabilities to and from various locations within the township.

Monday & Tuesday schedule – flexibility a plus.

Requirements: must possess valid NYS CDL “C” license with endorsement for 16 or more passengers.

Submit Resume and Copy of Driver’s License to: Personnel Department

$16.80/hr.

 Full-Time Food Service Workers  Part-Time Food Service Workers  Substitute Custodians  Substitute Security  Substitute Food Service Workers Submit letter of interest/resume to: Brian Heyward Asst. Supt. for Human Resources 250B Route 25A Shoreham, NY 11786 bheyward@swr.k12.ny.us

Clinical Instructor in Neurosurgery Nurse Practitioner Two positions

Town of Smithtown 65 Maple Ave., Smithtown, NY 11787 • personnel@tosgov.com

The Town of Smithtown is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Clinical Instructor in Neurosurgery Physician Assistant Two Positions

Department of Neurological Surgery

Department of Neurological Surgery

The Department of Neurological Surgery at Stony Brook Medicine is seeking candidates for two Nurse Practitioner (NP) positions at the faculty rank of Clinical Instructor of Neurological Surgery. The NPs will join a team of more than 25 Physician Extenders covering a busy neurosurgery practice including spine, neuro-oncology, movement disorders, pediatric neurosurgery and cerebrovascular at the only Level 1 trauma hospital in Suffolk County, New York.

The Department of Neurological Surgery at Stony Brook Medicine is seeking candidates for two Physician Assistant positions at the faculty rank of Clinical Instructor of Neurological Surgery. The PAs will join a team of more than 25 Physician Extenders covering a busy neurosurgery practice including spine, neuro-oncology, movement disorders, pediatric neurosurgery and cerebrovascular at the only Level 1 trauma hospital in Suffolk County, New York.

Required Academic and Professional Credentials: Applicants must have a current NYS RN license; a Master’s degree in Nursing; NYS certification or eligibility as an adult or family nurse practitioner; and two years of experience in neurosurgery, neurology, general surgery, med-surge, emergency or intensive care. NIHSS certification and ACLS certification is required upon start. Emergency Neurological Life Support (ENLS) certification is highly desirable. Preferred candidates will have dual certification as an adult and pediatric NP; or will have experience performing procedures such as lumbar punctures, ventriculostomies, placement of ICP monitors, placement of lumbar drains and VPS taps.

Those interested in this position should submit a State employment application, cover letter and CV to http://www.stonybrook.edu/hr/facultyjobs/, or to:

For a full position description, or application procedures visit: www.stonybrook.edu/jobs (Req. # F-9810-17-08).

AA/EOE. Female/Minority/Disabled/Veteran

Required Academic and Professional Credentials: Applicants must have a Bachelor’s degree from an AMA-approved Physician Assistant program and a NYS Physician Assistant license. Applicants must be NCCPA certified or must have in possession by start date, and one year of post graduate experience in the ER, operating room or other appropriate inpatient setting. Preferred candidates will have experience with neurosurgery or neurology patients and/or a Master’s degree from an AMA-approved Physician Assistant program.

Those interested in this position should submit a State employment application, cover letter and CV to http://www.stonybrook.edu/hr/facultyjobs/, or to: Ricardo Aranguren, PA-C, Chair, Search Committee c/o Elizabeth Bosler, MPH Department of Neurosurgery, HSC T12, room 080 Stony Brook Medicine Stony Brook, New York 11794-8122 Fax: 631-444-1535 Elizabeth.Bosler@stonybrookmedicine.edu For a full position description, or application procedures visit: www.stonybrook.edu/jobs (Req. # F-9811-17-08).

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DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS INTERVIEW DAY Wednesday, September 6th *9am-3pm Maryhaven’s Administration Building 51 Terryville Road Port Jefferson Station, NY, 11776 Bring Resume *On-Site Interviews. Full Time, Part Time & Per Diem Positions. All Shifts Available. Salary rate up to $12/hour. Excellent opportunity for CNA or Nursing Students to gain experience, relevant to field of study, by caring for individuals with multiple disabilities at our Setauket residential site.

Due to our extensive network of programs and services, the opportunities for career growth are significant. Qualified candidates will possess a High School Diploma/GED and valid NYS driver’s license within agency criteria. No experience necessary. Must obtain and maintain SCIP and AMAP following hire.

Maryhaven offers an excellent benefits package including medical/dental/vision coverage, pension plan, extensive holiday and vacation time off, and tuition reimbursement.

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LITTLE FLOWER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES OF NY SEEKS: Waiver Service Providers RN’S RN Supervisor Residential Clinical Director Nursing Supervisor Budget Analyst Medicaid Service Coordinator Direct Care Workers Child Care Workers Healthcare Integrator Valid NYS Driver’s License required for most positions.

Little Flower Children and Family Services in Wading River NY. Send resume to: wadingriver-jobs@lfchild.org or fax to: 631-929- 6203. EOE PLEASE SEE COMPLETE DETAILS IN EMPLOYMENT DISPLAY ADS OFFICE CLEANERS P/T IMMEDIATE. Experienced, East Setauket, Port Jefferson Station areas, 6:30pm M-F, Call, 631-926-6541 PJ FERRY SEEKS COMMISSARY/FOOD PREP To work on-board. FT/PT, early morning & afternoon shifts available. Excellent pay/benefits pkg. Good attitude and people skills a must.

Call 631-331-2167 between 10am-1pm or fax 631-331-2547 P/T E MINI BUS DRIVER-$16.80/hr.

Operate vehicle transporting residents with disabilities within the township. Mon. & Tues. flexibility a+.

Requirements: NYS CDL “C” license w/endorsement for 16+ passengers. EOE Submit Resume/Copy of Driver’s License to: Personnel Department Town of Smithtown 65 Maple Avenue Smithtown, NY, 11787 personnel@tosgov.com PT, OCCASSIONAL ODD JOBS, Own transportation.

Lifting, painting, etc. Nonsmoker, no drugs. References. Northport. 631-262-0169, leave message.

P/T RECEPTIONIST With possible data entry.

Medical type office in Port Jefferson area. Approx.14 hrs/wk with 10am-5pm Fridays a must. Fax resume: 631-331-8507 Shoreham -Wading River Central School District has multiple vacancies. Please see the display ad for more information.

STONY BROOK Clinical Instructor in Neurosurgery Physician Assistant Two Positions. Department of Neurological Surgery For complete information, see TBR’s Employment Display section.

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PUBLISHER’S EMPLOYMENT NOTICE: All employment advertising in this newspaper is subject to section 296 of the human rights law which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, creed, national origin, disability, marital status, sex, age or arrest conviction record or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination. Title 29, U.S. Code Chap 630, excludes the Federal Gov’t. from the age discrimination provisions. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for employment which is in violation of the law. Our readers are informed that employment offerings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.

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S E R V IC E S COME HOME TO A CLEAN HOUSE! Attention to detail is our priority. Excellent References.

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Decks DECKS ONLY BUILDERS & DESIGNERS Of Outdoor Living By Northern Construction of LI, Inc. Decks, Patios/Hardscapes, Pergolas, Outdoor Kitchens & Lighting. Since 1995. Lic/Ins. 3rd Party Financing Available.

105 Broadway, Greenlawn 631-651-8478 www.DecksOnly.com

Electricians ANTHEM ELECTRIC Quality Light & Power since 2004. Master Electrician.

Commercial, Industrial, Residential. Port Jefferson.

Please call 631-291-8754 Andrew@Anthem-Electric.net FARRELL ELECTRIC Serving Suffolk for over 40 years All types electrical work, service changes, landscape lighting, automatic standby generators.

631-928-0684 GREENLITE ELECTRIC, INC. Repairs, installations, motor controls, PV systems.

Piotr Dziadula, Master Electrician. Lic. #4694-ME/Ins. 631-331-3449

Fences SMITHPOINT FENCE. Vinyl Fence Sale!

Wood, PVC, Chain Link Stockade. Free estimates.

Commercial/Residential 70 Jayne Blvd., PJS Lic.37690-H/Ins. 631-743-9797 www.smithpointfence.com.

Floor Services/Sales FINE SANDING & REFINISHING Wood Floor Installations Craig Aliperti, Wood Floors LLC. All work done by owner.

25 years experience.

Lic.#47595-H/Insured.

631-875-5856

Furniture/Restoration/ Repairs REFINISHING & RESTORATION Antiques restored, repairing recane, reupholstery, touchups kitchen, front doors, 40 yrs exp, SAVE$$$, free estimates. Vincent Alfano 631-286-1407

Gardening/Design/ Architecture DOWN THE GARDEN PATH *Garden Rooms *Focal Point Gardens. Designed and Maintained JUST FOR YOU. Create a “splash” of color w/perennials or Patio Pots.

Marsha, 631-689-8140 or cell# 516-314-1489

Handyman Services JOHN’S A-1 HANDYMAN SERVICE *Crown moldings* Wainscoting/raised panels.

Kitchen/Bathroom Specialist.

Painting, windows, finished basements, ceramic tile. All types repairs. Dependable craftsmanship. Reasonable rates. Lic/Ins. #19136-H. 631-744-0976 c.631 697-3518

Housesitting Services TRAVELING? Need someone to check on your home?

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ALL PHASES OF HOME IMPROVEMENT From attic to your basement, no job too big or too small, RCJ Construction www.rcjconstruction.com commercial/residential, lic/ins 631-580-4518. *BluStar Construction* The North Shore’s Most Trusted Renovation Experts.

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SUPER HANDYMAN DTA CONTRACTING WE CAN FIX OR BUILD ANYTHING. Kitchens/Baths, Tile Flooring, Doors, Windows/Moulding, Painting; Interior/Exterior, All credit cards accepted.

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EXTERIOR CLEANING SPECIALISTS Roof cleaning, pressure washing/softwashing, deck restorations, gutter maintenance.

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Ins./Lic. Suffolk#17963HI, Nassau#2904010000 O. 631-368-8303 C.631-241-7923

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Lawn & Landscaping GOT POISON IVY We are Poison Ivy & Invasive Vine Control Experts! Free flagging, free estimates.

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ISLAND PAVING AND MASONRY Specializing in Driveways, Patios, Interlocking pavers and stones, steps, walkways and walls. Free estimates and design. 25% Off Any Job for Summer.

Suffolk Lic #55740-H. 631-822-8247

Mortgages Bought/Sold WE PAY OFF Your Debts from Credit Cards to Mortgages. Minimum $5,000-$500K. Put cash in your pockets. No application fees. Must be open accounts. 347-349-4168

Painting/Spackling/ Wallpaper ALL PRO PAINTING Interior/Exterior. PowerWashing, Staining, Wallpaper Removal. Free estimates.

Lic/Ins #19604HI. 631-696-8150, Nick COUNTRYSIDE PAINTING A Company built on recommendations interior/exterior power washing, expert painting and staining, all work owner operated, serving The Three Villages for 23 years, neat professional service, senior discount, affordable pricing, 631-698-3770.

COUNTY-WIDE PAINTING INTERIOR/EXTERIOR Painting/Staining. Quality workmanship. Living/Serving 3 Village Area Over 25 Years.

Lic#37153-H. 631-751-8280 GREG TRINKLE PAINTING & GUTTER CLEANING Powerwashing, window washing, staining. Neat, reliable, 25 years experience. Free Estimates. Lic/Ins.#31398-H 631-331-0976

PRS CARPENTRY No job too small. Hanging a door, building a house, everything in-between.

Custom cabinets, windows roofing/siding/decks.

POWER WASHING. Serving North Shore 40 years.

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SWAN COVE LANDSCAPING Lawn Maintenance, Cleanups, Shrub/Tree Pruning, Removals. Landscape Design/Installation, Ponds/Waterfalls, Stone Walls. Firewood. Free estimates.

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LaROTONDA PAINTING & DESIGN Interior/exterior, sheetrock repairs, taping/spackling, wallpaper removal, Faux, decorative finishings. Free estimates.

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THREE VILLAGE HOME IMPROVEMENT Kitchens & Baths, Ceramic Tile, Hardwood floors, Windows/Doors, Interior Finish trim, Interior/Exterior Painting, Composite Decking, Wood Shingles. Serving the community for 30 years.

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References. Free estimates.

Lic./Ins. SINCE 1989 Ryan Southworth, 631-331-5556

ALL SUFFOLK PAVING & MASONRY Asphalt Paving, Cambridge Paving Stone, Belgium Block Supplied & fitted. All types of drainage work. Free written estimates. Lic#47247-H/Ins. 631-764-9098/631-365-6353 www.allsuffolkpaving.com

WORKING & LIVING IN THE THREE VILLAGES FOR 25 YEARS. Owner does the work & guarantees satisfaction. COUNTY-WIDE Lic. & Ins. 37153-H 631-751-8280

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Lic#18902HI. Free estimates.

631-246-5377 CLOVIS OUTDOOR SERVICES LTD Expert Tree Removal AND Pruning. Landscape design and maintenance, Edible Gardens, Plant Healthcare, Exterior Lighting.

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OpiniOn Editorial

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Assemblyman Steve Englebright suggested an outside-the-box fix to the problem of what to do about dredged spoils during an Aug. 28 press conference.

Planning LI’s future It is a poorly kept secret that the condition of Long Island’s waterways is worsening. Elected officials from town, county, state and federal levels of government have all made improving the ecosystem of the Long Island Sound and other local water bodies a top priority in both their policies and public rhetoric.

We were glad to hear the announcement made by Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R), along with council members Jane Bonner (C-Rocky Point) and Valerie Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station), during an Aug. 28 press conference. The town intends to support a lawsuit filed earlier in August by New York State officials against the United States Environmental Protection Agency regarding a dumping plan slated to drop dredged spoils from Connecticut waterways in the Sound for the next 30 years. Some of the spoils could be contaminated with polluted materials, according to some environmental experts.

Standing up to oppose a plan set forth by the federal government because of its hazardous potential impact on the local environment is a great start, but we understand something needs to be done with the millions of cubic feet of dredged sludge.

To that end, we were extremely intrigued to hear a suggestion made

by State Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) during the press conference, which is even more topical today with severe flooding devastating Houston. Englebright told a story of a 1953 storm in the Netherlands that resulted in a catastrophic flood and killed thousands of people. In response to the disaster, the country formed the Delta Committee, which was tasked with coming up with solutions to prevent anything like the 1953 flood from happening again.

An element of the response, albeit a lengthy and expensive process, was to use in part dredged materials to create a barrier to protect the coastline.

A solution like this to Long Island’s problem of what to do with dredged materials in lieu of further harming the Sound would run in perfect lockstep with a mantra frequently heard from Romaine, a longtime advocate of environmental responsibility: “Reduce, Recycle, Reuse.” It would also provide increased protection from flooding, as experienced during Hurricane Sandy, and aid in strengthening the coastline from the effects of erosion and sea level rising amid the inevitable effects of climate change.

Outside-the-box thinking from political leaders is going to be a requirement over the coming decades if Long Island is to continue to be livable.

If the health of the Long Island Sound can be improved in the process, we can’t think of a reason why a solution like this shouldn’t be explored.

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Your recent letters to the editor in The Village Times Herald Aug. 24 issue reminded me of the positive example of “mindfulness” provided by former governor and current United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley. This daughter of immigrants became the first person of Sikh heritage to hold statewide office in South Carolina when she was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 2004. She successfully ran for governor in 2011 and prevailed despite bigotry on both sides of the political aisle.

A Republican state senator referred to her as a “raghead,” and a Democratic representative said “voters do not consider her to be a minority, but more of a nice conservative with a tan.”

The Confederate flag has flown for many years at the South Carolina State House.

After attending the funerals of the 2015 Charleston Massacre

victims, Nikki Haley said there was a place for the flag, a place that preserves history, not a place where people gather to plan the state’s future. “I will be grateful if you stand with me, but if you choose not to, I will hold no ill will.” There is a powerful message here regarding dialogue with people from different perspectives.

“The State House grounds are a place everybody should feel part of.” She realized black people driving by the State House felt hurt and pain. “No one should feel pain.”

She recounted an experience from her youth when her Sikh father purchased fruit at a produce market in Columbia, South Carolina. Two policemen were called to keep an eye on him. As her father went to the register, he shook hands with the vendor, and said thank you.

Although nothing was said, she knew what had just happened.

The produce stand is still there, and every time she drives by it, she feels the same pain. People driving by the state capitol in Columbia no longer feel the pain caused by the Confederate flag.

While many leaders of both parties failed previously, Nikki Haley succeeded in removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House. In doing so, she personified mindfulness, “being aware of how behaviors impact others, and attending to her own assumptions, beliefs, and emotions, while simultaneously attuning to those of others.”

I hope this powerful example of inclusion helps guide all of us as well in our interaction with others, especially those we disagree with, whether they be our neighbors, our congressmen or the president of the United States.

Dan Kerr Stony Brook

Invalidating the letter of a reverend The Rev. Robert Stelzer’s letter in the Aug. 24 edition of The Village Times Herald [“What’s next if we tear down statues?”] has three sections: a repeat of President Donald Trump’s red herring — if a statue of Robert E. Lee goes, who’s next, Washington, Jefferson?; an extended — and sanitized — paean to Lee; and a hysterical apocalyptic coda.

Trump’s goal is obvious, despite lip-service condemnation of the Nazis, KKKers, and white supremacists rioting in Charlottesville, to accuse, against all evidence, the counter-demonstrators of the same violence and to pretend that there were many good people there simply trying to preserve their heritage against a huge “politically correct” movement to wipe it out. Hence Trump’s and Stelzer’s equation of Lee with Washington and Jefferson — all slaveholders. But Washington and Jefferson risked their lives to win independence from royal England and build a new republic. Lee did not simply refuse to raise a hand against his children and resign his commission, he betrayed his solemn oath to defend the United States and took up arms to destroy it, to preserve slavery in the South

and extend it to the western territories if possible.

Stelzer quotes a letter from Lee to his wife saying slavery “is a moral and political evil,” but he doesn’t continue quoting: “Slavery was a greater evil to the white man”; “slaves are immeasurably better off here than in Africa”; and “the painful discipline they are undergoing is a necessity for their instruction as a race.”

White southerners have created a myth of a benign slavery — “Gone with the Wind” and “Old Black Joe” — but slavery was an abomination and slaves were treated like cattle, routinely whipped, sometimes to death to drive them and intimidate them.

The statues of confederates erected in the 1890s and again in the 1920s celebrate a peculiar southern “tradition.” The first 1890s set commemorated the return to power of white ex-slaveholders, after a KKK reign of terror that murdered thousands and stripped ex-slaves of almost all rights. The 1920s set celebrated the white riots against returning black veterans of World War I that emphasized that war service would not change “traditions” in the South.

At the end, Stelzer invents some powerful “We” as murderous as ISIS, bent on destroying any “civilization, religion, tradition or person with which ‘We’ do not totally agree.” Really? Are lefties abandoning the Enlightenment age, the rule of law, western literature, denying western science (the age of the earth, evolution, the equality of all humankind, the reality of climate change)? Is religion threatened by the clergy who counter-protested in Charlottesville? Are we burning evangelical churches, shooting humans at a prayer meeting? No. Stetzler means that he can’t impose his politicoreligious preferences on others, who instead support a woman’s right to choose to beget or bear a child, gay marriage and other LGBT rights. As to the threat to “person(s),” how many persons have been killed by civil rights groups? None that I know of, compared to white supremacists (many, notably Medgar Evers, Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner, Viola Liuzzo, four black schoolgirls in a Birmingham church bombing, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Heather Heyer).

Arnold Wishnia Setauket

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OpiniOn Making science work for you

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’m not a scientist and I don’t play one on TV. Nonetheless, I think science is undervalued in America. I believe the typical American takes science for granted, thinks science owes them something and figures they’ll never understand what scientists are saying.

Wrong, wrong and wrong.

For starters, science isn’t just about trying to create the best iPhone, the highest quality and thinnest televisions, or medicines that act like magic bullets, destroying evil our cells or

By Daniel Dunaief in our DNA without damaging the healthy ones.

Science often starts with a question.

Why or how does something work?

And, perhaps, if we change something about the way it works, does it get bet-

D. None of the above

ter or worse? The conclusions scientists draw when they solve one puzzle leads to the next set of questions.

It’s as if a child asks his parent if he can go west and the parent says, “No, don’t go west, but here are the keys to the car.”

The answer may seem like a non sequitur, but it’s also a way to navigate somewhere new, even if, for whatever reason, the car isn’t supposed to go west. Maybe, by learning more about the car and where it can go, the child also learns what’s so forbidding about going west, too.

We want science to succeed and we’re annoyed when science doesn’t solve our problems. We can’t get something to work or we can’t get ourselves to work and we blame scientists. After all, if we can send a man to the moon, why can’t we conquer the morning rush hour or the common cold?

Then again, how does the study of dark matter — neutrinos or sphingolipids — affect our morning commute?

We may not understand these areas, but that doesn’t mean basic knowl-

edge can’t or won’t lead to advances we can’t anticipate.

Knowledge, as we know, is power. If we know, for example, that an enemy is planning an attack and we know where and how that attack will occur, we can defend ourselves, even if that enemy exists at a subcellular level.

Learning the playbook of the enemy takes time, which technological innovation, dedicated researchers and people battling against a disease often don’t have.

Worst of all, though, science is somehow too hard to understand. That is a defeatist conclusion. Yes, scientists use technical terms as shorthand and, yes, they may not be selling ideas or themselves in the kind of carefully crafted tones often reserved for CEOs or politicians.

That, however, doesn’t mean they are planting a keep-out sign in front of them or their ideas. While scientists reduce a question to an attainable goal, they also often keep a larger goal in mind.

A few years ago, my daughter had to draw a picture of what she thought

a scientist looked like. Rather than imagine a person in a white lab coat with one pocket full of pens and the other holding a radiation badge, she drew a baby.

Science may be frustrating because scientists often come across as uncertain. For example, they might say, “We believe that the shadow in our telescope may be caused by an exoplanet orbiting a star that’s outside the solar system, and which is the same distance from its nearest star as Earth is from the sun.”

Scientists can be wrong, just as anyone can be wrong in their job, in their opinions or in their conclusions. That, however, doesn’t make science wrong.

Scientists are often most excited when a discovery they make defies their expectations or bucks conventional wisdom.

Just because conventional scientific wisdom changes doesn’t mean every part of it is wrong.

Science doesn’t have all the answers and it never will. The most likely person to tell you that, though, should be a scientist, not a journalist.

Hope after the horrors of Hurricane Harvey

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ouldn’t it be wonderful if the enormous energy of Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 storm for a time, could be harnessed to serve later in some practical way, perhaps to light the city of Chicago during one of winter’s darkest weeks?

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the unending rainfall brought

by Harvey, in some places in Texas more than 50 inches already, could be captured, stored and brought to areas that are arid and desperate for water?

By Leah S. Dunaief Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the disastrous effects and ruination caused by Harvey could somehow bring Americans back together, red states and blue states, conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats, forgetting their anger and moving compassionately together to help the tragic victims

Between you and me

of our fourth largest city?

Wait, I think destructive Harvey has done just that.

Am I imagining, or did I hear one of our more bellicose representatives, from Long Island no less, promise to bury the hatchet and vote aid for the state of his longtime adversary, despite not having received such aid in our time of terrible need? And wasn’t he bragging about his empathy?

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the unprecedented flooding caused by Harvey could incredibly make the prospect of nuclear war with Kim Jong-un secondary at the top of the news hour, beneath the fold on the front page of the daily newspaper and in the public consciousness?

Yes, it happened like that. Even President Trump disappeared from the news for a time. Harvey it seems, terrible as it is, can do strange things.

But the cost, in human agony, is catastrophic. Millions of people throughout the Gulf Coast have had their lives smashed, and that certainly is the main story for America this week. We have been glued to the television, watching the families with little more than the

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clothes on their backs, wading through the waist-high water to meet a rescuer in a rowboat, their homes behind them flooded to the windowsills. Where will they sleep? What will they eat? Will they have enough water? Did they remember to bring their medicines? Are their other loved ones somewhere safe?

So far, the number of wounded and dead has been low, certainly compared to the horrors of Katrina. But there are all sorts of wounds. Most of the people we see on the screen seem remarkably calm but are most likely in shock, trying to make sense of how their lives have violently changed. For some, their houses are totally gone, smashed and washed away in the floodwaters. For others, their homes will have to be razed to the ground because of mold and rebuilt — if there is money to do so. Unlike with Katrina, where some 50 percent of the homes were insured, it seems only around 20 percent in the Houston area have flood insurance.

Businesses, restaurants, automobiles, jobs, whole neighborhoods are gone.

Addresses mean nothing because streets are buried. Valuables and memorabilia of a lifetime have floated

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off. But most residents are “lucky”: They have escaped with their lives, their children in their arms.

The victims of Harvey have been grievously wounded. Our entire nation has been wounded.

We have, for now, lost a wide swath of the South, the ordinary, productive lives of the people who lived there and the many resources they gave us, from rice to oil and gas. After concerns for food and shelter are met for those rescued, there is the real threat of infectious disease, pollution and even the possibility of crime. And how will the affected states dispose of all the garbage Harvey will have left in its wake?

In some ways the rescue operation is a mini-Dunkirk. Good Samaritans, using all sorts of recreational vehicles, pickup trucks, fishing boats, motorized rubber dinghies and even Jet Skis, have rushed to help people trapped on roofs, in attics and in trees. The giant volunteer rescue effort, alongside official disaster responders, is a testament to the courage and basic decency of people throughout the country.

No one was asked whom he or she voted for. America, there is hope.

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Photos by Bill landon

Clockwise from left, Ward Melville junior running back nick Troy rushes with the ball during a practice; senior running back nick Messina breaks free of a tackle; senior quarterback Peyton Capizzi carries the ball; and senior wide receiver liam davenport makes a catch.

Patriots have unfinished business to tackle this season

By Bill landon The stinging loss in the Suffolk County championship game last fall left an open wound on every member of the Ward Melville football team, and the only effective medicine is redemption.

The 2016 season was history making, as the Patriots won three straight games to propel them to the county title game for the first time in 29 years. Trailing William Floyd by a touchdown, the team marched down the field only to be turned away in the red zone in the final minute of the contest.

“Obviously the kids want to get back there again, and these guys this season think they have something to prove,” Ward Melville head coach Chris Boltrek said.

“They want to show we didn’t just get there because of last year’s seniors, but that they were a big part of it as well.”

Ward Melville is the No. 5 seed in Division I heading into this season, with William Floyd taking the No. 1 spot. Lindenhurst, Longwood and Connetquot are also in the mix, but Boltrek said the Patriots won’t take any team lightly.

“They have a chip on their shoulder going into this season,” the head coach said of his players. “These kids put in the work in the off-season, they have the mentality that nothing is given to you — you have to go out and earn it every year.”

Senior defensive end and offensive tackle Jimmy Small said reaching the county title game is something he won’t soon forget, taking that experience and applying it to games this year in the hopes of feeling the intensity and enthusiasm again.

“Me and the rest of the guys from last year — we got a taste of playing in front of all those people, that excitement and the whole town having their focus on us, and that hasn’t happened in a long time for football,” the co-captain said.

He said he thinks his team has the right

tools to get back to the championship game and take home the title this time around.

“I think by far our brightest spot is our front seven on defense,” he said. “We have a ton of returning starters, but I think the question mark is our special teams, which was a big part of our game.”

Despite the loss of kick returner John Corpac, Small said the Patriots have two kids even faster than the Stony Brook University commit.

“If everything works out, I think we’ll be even better in that aspect,” he said.

Senior running back Nick Messina, a three-year varsity player, reflected on the amount of work that goes into reaching the championship round.

“Just to reach that goal last year — the people coming back know what it takes to get there and it makes us want it so much more,” the co-captain said. “I think we’re strongest on our offensive and defensive line, but we’re going to have to work on our defensive secondary where we have a lot of new players.”

Senior co-captain Thomas Kutchma said to prove to other teams that last season wasn’t a fluke, and show they aren’t out of gas just yet, the Patriots have their goals set even higher this time.

“If we can do what we’re capable of doing we could win a Long Island championship this year,” the guard and defensive tackle said. “We think about that loss every day in practice and we give it 100 percent.

We love the sport of football and we want to take advantage of it before it’s over.”

Ward Melville kicks off the season with a 6:30 p.m. home game against Central Is-

lip Sept. 1. The Patriots will travel to Connetquot Sept. 8 for the second game of the year. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.