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Long Island Catering Halls Rally for 50% Capacity

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Elected officials stand with brides, business owners and concerned community members asking Albany to change the executive order from 50-person events to 50% capacity. Photo by Julianne Mosher

Brides, business owners and elected officials all stood together outside the H. Lee Dennison Building in Hauppauge Oct. 2 begging Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to increase the capacity of events like weddings, Sweet 16s and other catered parties.

Right now, restaurants have been allowed to operate at a 50% capacity, while catering venues are still capped at just 50 people. Those at the rally said desperate families, who have waited their whole lives to celebrate their special day, are more likely to host events elsewhere, instead of safely inside their chosen venue.

“These events haven’t stopped, these events moved,” said Gennaro Tallarico, manager of The Inn at Fox Hollow in Woodbury. “They moved into people’s homes, to their backyards. They moved into event spaces where they don’t have liquor licenses and who are not afraid to open up and break the rules. … By limiting us, it’s creating a more dangerous situation.”

Kiran Wadhwa and Indu Kaur of Port Jefferson Station’s The Meadow Club also showed their support, especially since their venue has three separate ballrooms. After having to close due to a fire in 2018, the club has been under renovation for more than two years, and then had to delay its reopening because of the pandemic.

“Not being able to open at 50% capacity would be devasting to our family business,” Wadhwa said. “We need to be able to recover the loss of two years of income, and we won’t be able to break even with 50-person events.”

Friday’s event was headed by Riverhead Town Councilwoman Jodi Giglio (R), who is also a candidate for New York State Assembly. She said the current 50-person limit these events are allowed is detrimental to not only anxious brides and grooms, but to the Long Island economy.

“Facilities with the capacity for 300, 500 and 700 guests are being forced to operate as if they were all the same size,” Giglio said. “They are going bankrupt and need to feed their families.

We need the governor to let them safely serve their customers, put their employees back to

work and pay their bills.”

Caterers across the state have filed a classaction lawsuit against Cuomo saying their businesses can be just as safe, if not safer. They argue that with many venues being able to hold more than 300 people, a 50% cap would still allow social distancing, with guests still being able to celebrate.

With the wedding industry on Long Island generating an estimated $6 million a year in sales tax, according to a representative from Scotto Brothers, as well as being one of the state’s largest employers, no one has made a profit this year thanks to COVID-19, and many businesses are on the brink of closure.

“An industry that is supposed to be happy is losing hope,” Giglio said. “It’s crushing the dreams of a fairytale wedding. … All of our local businesses have suffered. Our message to the governor is we can do this safely, we can adjust — and flexibility is a must.”

Along with the maximum-person cap, mingling and dancing are also prohibited under the state’s executive order.

Heather Cunningham, founder of the website and online-based bridal group Brides of Long Island, said she is just seeking fairness.

“I’m not asking for a packed dance floor,” she said. “I’m asking for that moment where a father can dance with his little girl.”

“We need to look at things differently,” Suffolk County Legislator Kevin McCaffrey (R-Lindenhurst) said at the event. “They are responsible business owners. They know how to keep their customers safe.”

John Salkowsky, owner of Lindenhurst-based Silverfox, said that “catering halls are the heart and soul of our community.” Businesses, like his photography and videography service, then follow. “I hope this shines a bright light,” he said.

“I hope this makes a change.”

The general feeling among owners is if things continue this way, many of them might have to close for good.

“We hope Governor Cuomo has heard our industry’s plea because we are suffering and cannot go on like this for any longer,” Wadhwa said.

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East Setauket Bakery Celebrates 25 Years Despite Pandemic

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David Dombroff, above, opened the Rolling Pin 25 years ago with former business partner Beth Litt . Photo by Rita J. Egan

and completed the program with his associate in occupational studies degree by 19. After working in the culinary field for a hotel chain in both Boston and Long Island, he said he realized the corporate culinary business wasn’t for him.

He went on to work in his father’s bagel store for a few years, he said, and when he heard the former Glendale Bakery was for sale, he bought it. At first, Dombroff went into business with Beth Litt-Wahl. After five years, she went on to work for Whole Foods and now has a line of brittles called Brittle & Beyond.

Litt-Wahl said she is proud of Dombroff for keeping the bakery open for 25 years and wished the Rolling Pin team continued success.

“Through the ups and downs of running a

small business, he was able to pivot and make it work throughout it all,” she said. “He has wonderful support from his Rolling Pin bakery team, family and friends.”

While Dombroff no longer has a business partner, store manager Rene Augello has worked for the bakery for more than 19 years.

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Hitting a milestone such as 25 years in business is a sweet accomplishment to celebrate but, due to the pandemic, Rolling Pin bakery had to scale down its plans.

Owner David Dombroff said the hope was for current and past employees to come together at a gala at the Setauket Neighborhood House this year.

“We had gotten in touch with so many people — many who worked through high school at the bakery and now some have kids of their own,” he said. “Social media helped us get in touch with dozens of people from a long time ago.”

While the gala couldn’t take place due to state guidelines that limit indoor gatherings to 50 people or less, the Rolling Pin owner and employees still celebrated by giving out free cupcakes on the bakery’s anniversary Sept.

22 and then again Sept. 26 at its Three Village Shopping Center location.

The pandemic has been a big blow to bakeries. Dombroff said baking wedding cakes is a significant part of business, and while people are still celebrating and ordering cakes, the sizes of them are much smaller than usual.

“This was by far the biggest hit — we lost over 70% of the business — and are still down nearly that much — as all of our wholesale accounts have shut down,” the bakery owner said. “This time of year we would typically be making 45 to 55 wedding cakes per weekend.”

During the pandemic, Dombroff said the bakery adapted by offering curbside pickup and working with the food delivery service DoorDash.

Dombroff, who has lived in Setauket for 30 years, grew up in the local small business world. His father for 15 years was the owner of Bagel King that was once located in the same shopping center where Rolling Pin is today.

After high school, Dombroff attended The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park

Augello graduated from Suffolk County Community College’s culinary arts program, where Dombroff said he’s been teaching one class each semester for 15 years.

Augello said working for the bakery is an amazing experience.

“I love being a part of the community bakery,” she said. “I get such a sense of pride when I see the trucks out on the road knowing they are going all over the Island to make people happy, After 19 years of working for the Rolling Pin, I am still in awe at how much production can come out of one little store, and I’m so proud to be a part of it.”

For eight years, the bakery owner also ran a second Rolling Pin location in Bay Shore.

Dombroff said while he loved the area and people, “we couldn’t replicate the magic from Setauket” and closed the doors to that store last year.

Looking toward the future, while he and his wife Marlo, who works at Stony Brook Medicine, have two children Benjamin and Sydney, he said he doesn’t foresee them going into the business.

Through the quarter of a century, Dombroff has seen dramatic changes in the bakery industry, especially with supermarkets and warehouse clubs selling baked goods, so he’s thankful for Three Village and nearby residents.

“Thankfully, the community has supported us through the years by shopping local,” he said. “This is what allows us and other small businesses to survive against these chain stores. Otherwise, we will all be left with just a few places to shop and none too close or very good.”

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Port Jeff Harbor Health Scores Well Among 50 Bordering Long Island Sound

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

A new report by a regional environmental nonprofit says a little under half of all bays on either side of the Long Island Sound were given a poor-to-failing grade. It’s a continuing problem, but more and more local groups are stepping up to dedicate their time and energy to trying to maintain the water as a strong habitat.

At a press conference Tuesday, Oct. 6, Save the Sound, a Connecticut-based environmental nonprofit funded by a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant, released its biennial 2020 Long Island Sound Report Card that described the general health of 50 bays from Long Island and Connecticut based on the previous year’s data.

Officials and experts revealed that, of those monitored, Suffolk County North Shore harbors were largely better off than those in Connecticut, Volunteers for the Setauket Harbor Task Force have monitored the health of Port Jefferson Harbor for the past three years. Photo by Kyle Barr but several still had issues. Port Jefferson, at least ends in October. The study also looks at the general health the outer and middle portions of the harbor, was ranked in the top 10 most healthy, with experts saying it state of the Sound itself. It’s long been clear that the most likely has to do with how well the harbor flushes daily. closer one is to New York City, the less healthy the water Meanwhile sites like Northport and Centerport is. The Western Narrows portion of the Sound received harbors were ranked C- and C respectively. Northport an F grade on all marks, while the Eastern Narrows, Harbor received a F grade for its excess of chlorophyll, which runs from Northport to the edge of Hempstead a measurement of how much microalgae is in the water, Bay, received a C grade overall. Areas to the east were and its low level of dissolved oxygen, an important factor reported as much healthier in general.

BY KYLE BARR Jamie Vaudrey, an assistant research professor of for the health of fish. Centerport had similar difficulties, marine science at the University of Connecticut, said but also had issues of excessive seaweed accumulation.

KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Perhaps the most concerning of North Shore Suffolk likely the biggest factor for the health of bays in a modern What does it take to monitor the health of your local waterways? For County’s waterways was the innermost part of Cold environment is how well the water flushes in and out of the people who month after month do just that, all it takes is a love for the Spring Harbor which received F grades in chlorophyll, the harbor. Water like that trapped into the southernmost place one lives. tip of Cold Spring Harbor is more impacted by any real seaweed and dissolved oxygen.

The Setauket Harbor Task Force was one of the most active of the 22 U.S. Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-NY3) and Lee Zeldin (R- increase in nitrogen. groups involved with Save the Sound and its bay water recording initiative.

“They just have this large nitrogen burden coming in NY1) were both present to offer their support of bipartisan The immense amount of work is taken up by a squad of volunteers, some funding for this and future studies as well as initiatives to that’s not being flushed out,” she said. “In systems like of whom have been active during the May through October months of the keep local bays clean. Suozzi said in the past four years, that, really pushing down that nitrogen load is important.” last three years.

Nitrogen has been called public enemy No. 1 for the Long Island Sound Caucus has extended the EPA The Setauket Harbor Task Force originated as a way to monitor the Long Island Sound program to 2023 and increased the coastal waters as it’s the leading cause of hypoxia, health of what they considered the lone “orphaned” bay on the North Shore, $4 million appropriated to the Sound to $21 million. The namely low or depleted oxygen causing major problems but their activities eventually spread over the border into Port Jefferson House has already passed a bill to up that to $30 million, for marine life. This can cause fish or other sea creatures as well. While the task force originated in 2015 to help maintain the local to die off and lead to an excess of seaweed or algae. but has not yet been taken up by the Senate. waterways’ wellbeing, in 2018 the group joined the United Water Study Zeldin said the low grades of so many bays only Some of these algal blooms have even been dangerous to program under the EPA’s Long Island Sound Study, and since then has done emphasizes the need for more federal funding for further animals or humans. monitoring in 10 different locations in Port Jeff and Setauket harbors.

Though Port Jefferson Harbor’s general health was studies and additional relief.

Hoffman, of the task force, said they have dedicated much of their “Working across the aisle and across the Sound, we’ve rated high, it too has experienced its share of dangerous time and energy to the project, especially maintaining rigorous scientific made great progress in preserving this critical waterway, algal blooms, including a so-called rust tide back in 2018. standards. They have gone out in foggy mornings where you could barely but with nearly half of the waterways measured in this Though this specific bloom doesn’t present a threat to see a few feet in front of the boat. Once, their craft’s engine stopped report as receiving a D grade or below, there’s still work human beings, it kills fish quite rapidly. Those who study working, and they had to be towed back to harbor. There have been times water quality have become very concerned with how to do,” he said. their small craft has rolled in early morning swells, but they keep on going.

George Hoffman, a co-founder of the Setauket often these blooms have appeared since the early 2000s.

“With climate and environment, there’s so little that most people can do,” he For some of the struggling bays in the Town of Harbor Task Force that monitors Port Jeff, also said. “Every day you read about a new thing — ice shelves melting, whales being acknowledged a great deal of why the bay has done Huntington, New York State Sen. Jim Gaughran beached … I find when I talk to volunteers, it’s just being able to do something.” comparatively well is because of its flushing capacity. (D-Northport) called for a funding stream from the Every participating organization must take readings of the water twice a Another factor, he said, may be the hundreds of federal government on down that can really start to make month, no less than 10 days apart. Because monitoring must be performed thousands of oysters and shellfish the Town of a dent in Suffolk County’s lack of sewage treatment three hours before sunrise, volunteers are up well before dawn, getting into Brookhaven seeds into the bay. The shellfish do a great facilities and get the ball rolling on nitrogen-reducing the small craft and wading out into the harbors. Their recording instrument, septic systems, which individually can cost a homeowner job of filtering organic particulates from the water. a sonde meter that records all manor of water quality metrics, costs close Save The Sound’s Unified Water Study program $10,000 to $15,000 apiece without government funding. to $20,000.

“People can’t do that on their own — we need tax includes 22 organizations covering 50 harbors on both PJ HARBOR MONITORING Continued on A6 sides of the waterway. Monitoring begins in May and credits, we need funding,” he said.

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Brookhaven Promotes Donor Day in New York State on Oct. 8

Recently, Councilwoman Jane Bonner (R-Rocky Point) and fellow organ donors Brookhaven Town Historian Barbara Russell and Town Chief of Staff Emily Pines joined together to help spread the word that Oct. 8 is Donor Day in New York State. Donor Day was created to increase awareness and reinforce the importance of organ and tissue donation.

“To be a donor is truly a gift of life to a recipient,” Russell said. “Someone out there needs you.”

There are nearly 10,000 New York residents on the waiting list for a lifesaving organ transplant and currently the state ranks last among all 50 states in the percentage of people who are registered as organ and tissue donors.

“Although it was some years ago, I still keep in touch with the person whose life was saved because I made the decision to be an organ donor,” Pines said. “I encourage

everyone to visit the website and find out all you can. It only takes a few minutes to register and you’ll be happy that you took the first step to saving a life.”

In recognition of Donor Day, Councilwoman Bonner also produced a special video for Stony Brook University Hospital, which is available for viewing on the Town of Brookhaven website.

“Every 18 hours a New Yorker dies waiting for an organ transplant, and that’s one person too many,” Bonner said. “As a living organ donor, I can say first-hand that nothing compares to giving the gift of life to someone in need. Go to the website and register today. It is one of the most rewarding things that you will ever do.”

The learn more about becoming a living organ donor, or to register as one, people can visit the New York State Donate Life Registry at DonateLife.NY.gov/ref/LiveOnNYDD104.

PJ HARBOR MONITORING

diver, got into the project thanks to a friend and has been active for three years.

“I took marine biology in high school, but I’m totally not a scientist,” Goldstein said. “I care about the earth, and the marine — it’s all one.”

Bert Conover, a retired veterinarian from Port Jeff, said he has always been on the water “from Delaware River to Ocean City.” Long ago, he majored in chemistry and biology, but went to grad school for zoology and then went on to veterinarian school.

“Now that I’m retired it gives me a chance to give back,” he said. “And hopefully the data will redirect how to approach a healthy harbor.”

Alice Leser has lived in Stony Brook for 49 years, and is a life-long Long Islander. She has taught programs about Long Island waters as a teacher and alongside fellow environmentalists at the Long Island Museum. When three years ago the task force offered her a training program at the Village Center, she snapped up the opportunity.

“I’ve been surrounded by water my entire life,” she said. “I’ve canoeed all the rivers, and I’ve taught programs about Long Island waters, so I really care about the purity of the water.”

Laurie Vetere, the fellow co-founder of the task force, said they have not had anyone drop out in three years.

“When we first started this program, we found that we had more volunteers than we needed,” Vetere said. “People are attracted to the water.”

Hoffman agreed, saying there is something about Long Islanders and their connection to their coasts.

“Long Islanders are coastal people,” he said.

“I think what keeps us on Long Island is we all have a love for the water.”

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Steve Antos, one of the task force board members, also owns Setauket Landscape Design.

Though he and others in his group have lived in the area for decades, the idea of water quality has really taken a hold on many of its participants.

Antos enjoys constructing rain gardens in his regular job, which are critical for preventing water runoff flowing from people’s yards down toward the Sound.

“In the past, everyone tried to get their properties to drain onto the road … and eventually it just runs into our bays and takes all the pollution and dog waste with it,” Antos said. “A lot of it is way beyond our control, but whatever we can do, just little things, it all adds up.”

Before working with the task force, many of the 10 or so volunteers wouldn’t have known what most of the readings, from the chlorophyll levels or turbidity (the water clarity) meant, but now have become a kind of citizen scientist, able to comprehend measurements using a very technical device. Their backgrounds range from a retired veterinarian to retired teachers, but what brings them together is their long time proximity to the bays and waterways of the North Shore. It’s what drove them to want to make sure the water was being maintained.

Tom Lyon, of Mount Sinai, and Mark Smith, of East Setauket, are the boat captains, and have lent their experience and water crafts to the project. They are small runabouts, one an 18-foot and the other 16.

Nancy Goldstein, herself a trained scuba

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Three Village Father Set to Walk More Than 100 Miles for Fundraising Effort

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Last Friday, a South Setauket resident started walking, heading east on Route 347 with the hopes of possibly making it to Riverhead.

He wasn’t worried about the distance, as the long journey wasn’t his first.

Michael Ehrlich, 49, is in training to walk 107 miles Columbus Day weekend with the goal of raising $50,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The nonprofit funds Type 1 diabetes research, provides community services to T1D patients and advocates for them. Ehrlich will walk from the Manhattan side of the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge to Orient Point beginning Sunday, Oct. 11 at 10 a.m. He estimates that it will take roughly 50 hours.

The T1D battle is a personal one for him, as his 16-year-old daughter Rachael was diagnosed with the condition in 2016. At first his family had to wait for the insurance company to approve a much-needed insulin pump for her, and a couple of years ago she was finally able to get it. With the pump and continuous glucose monitoring, the Ward Melville High School student is doing well.

Ehrlich has raised money for the foundation

before by walking more than 100 miles. In 2017, the father, who was featured in a TBR News Media article for his effort, garnered nearly $35,000 by walking from Manhattan’s Times Square to Montauk Point. He had hoped to participate in other events to raise money for JDRF, and in 2018 walked from his house to Manhattan and was training to run in the New York City Marathon to represent JDRF, but an ankle injury acted up. Despite the injury, he raised an additional $32,000 with smaller events.

The injury is one he has suffered with on and off since his 2017 walk, but he knew it was important to get back out there walking to raise money for the foundation.

“It must be really hard to fundraise as a nonprofit when they can’t have their balls and charity events,” he said. “You really have to retool how you fundraise, and I was like, ‘You know what, it’s my calling. I need to go on another walk.’”

To deal with his injury he wears Hoka sneakers, which he said aren’t the most attractive but provide good support, and he utilizes Chi walking when his foot hurts.

He learned the method, which uses the core principles of T’ai Chi, before his 2017 walk.

“It’s not the most intuitive walking style but it’s definitely the most pain-free way to do it,”

Three Ways to Vote This Election

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM There are several different ways to make a difference in this year’s election.

The Board of Elections recently sent out a memo to help voters understand the options on how to vote during the 2020 election.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the state is allowing voters to receive an absentee ballot in case they do not feel comfortable visiting a voting location. By marking “temporary illness” on the application, voters can receive an absentee ballot.

Voters interested in receiving an absentee application are recommended to visit the portal at absenteeballot.elections.ny.gov, mail an application to the Board of Elections at P.O. Box 700, Yaphank, NY 11980, or email a request with a name, address and date of birth to absentee.voters@suffolkcountyny.gov.

Applications can also be dropped off inperson to the Board of Elections office, called in at (631) 852-4500, or faxed to (631) 852-4590.

All applications — except for in-person — must be sent to the board no later than Oct. 27. Applications for in-person drops are

available up to Nov. 2.

Note that the post office cannot guarantee timely delivery for ballots applied for less than 15 days prior to Election Day. Voted ballots must be delivered to the board or postmarked

by Nov. 3.

Early voting is available in-person at several early voting sites starting Oct. 24 through Nov. 1.

In the Town of Brookhaven, voters can visit Brookhaven Town Hall, located at 1 Independence Hill in Farmingville, and Mastic Recreation Community Center at 15 Herkimer Street, Mastic.

Voters can also go to Babylon Town Hall Annex, Windmill Village, Dix Hills Fire Department, Huntington Library Station Branch, Islip Town Hall Annex, Knights of Columbus in Brentwood, Riverhead Senior Center, Nesconset Elementary School, Stony Brook University Southampton Campus and Southold Senior Center.

Times vary, but voters can visit from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. (Oct. 24-26), 12 p.m. through 8 p.m.

(Oct. 27), 8 a.m. through 4 p.m. (Oct. 28 and 29), 12 p.m. through 8 p.m. (Oct. 30), 10 a.m. through 3 p.m. (Oct. 31 and Nov. 1).

Michael Ehrlich, left, is walking more than 100 miles to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. His daughter Rachael, right, was diagnosed with the condition in 2016. Photo from Michael Ehrlich

he said. “It’s just having the discipline because you do have to think about a whole bunch of things at the same time.”

To get ready for the trek, Ehrlich has been walking for hours at a time, sometimes late at night or in the early morning hours which will prepare him for walking overnight. When he’s done with his practice walks, he’ll either call his wife to pick him up, or if it’s late, he’ll use Uber to get home.

During his first fundraising venture in 2017, Ehrlich said he chose the South Shore because it had less of an elevation increase than the North Shore. But this time, he wanted to travel through places such as the Three VIllage area.

“It’s not like you’re hiking a mountain, but there are a lot of hills,” he said Another change from his 2017 walk is that Ehrlich won’t be carrying a backpack with several essentials. He said he plans on having a waist belt with water, an energy bar and batteries. To eat and drink along the way he’ll rely on friends and anyone who hears about his journey. A couple of friends have also offered to walk part of the distance with him.

Carmine Inserra said he hopes to join Ehrlich on part of the walk if his schedule allows. The two belong to the Facebook group Three Village Dads and recently the both of them completed the virtual Michael P. Murphy Run Around the Lake Half Marathon.

“Mike is a passionate guy that loves his family, community and the outdoors,” Inserra said. “This walk to Orient and his previous one to Montauk just shows how committed he is to them and juvenile Type 1 diabetes.”

Inserra added that Ehrlich has raised

awareness that diabetes isn’t just about poor dietary habits and there is a need for more research.

Ehrlich has raised nearly $35,000 already, he said, from 291 donors toward this year’s $50,000 goal. The father said many have donated through his professional network in the mortgage industry, as well as previous donors Three Village Dads members.

“Before the walk, during the walk or after the walk, I really want to get that $50,000,” he said. “I think I will. People are pretty generous.”

Maureen Fitzgerald, executive director of JDRF’s Greater New York City chapter, said the foundation was started 50 years ago by volunteers who wanted to see a world without T1D for their children. She said Ehrlich is one of the people who carries on that vision and in a “highly unique” way.

“When Michael walked from Times Square to Montauk in 2017 to bring attention to JDRF and to the daily struggle that his daughter Rachael faces as she manages her Type 1 diabetes, we marveled — not only at his stamina, but at his clear love for his daughter and his willingness to raise awareness and funds, whatever it took,” Fitzgerald said. “Today, as Michael prepares to embark on this journey for a second time, our JDRF team marvels all over again — at his energy, his enthusiasm, his love for Rachael, and his power to teach many about what the 1.6 million Americans living with T1D face every day.”

For more info on the fundraiser and Ehrlich’s arrival times for the walk visit his Facebook page, Manhattan2Montauk.

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Obituaries Jason Brubaker

Jason Kurt Brubaker, 51, of Tampa, Florida, died in April. He always looked on the bright side. Jason loved his daughter, his family, and his music.

Jason grew up in Setauket. His family moved to Connecticut, where he graduated from Mitchell College and received his Bachelor of Science at Central Connecticut State University.

Jason was a Senior Exstream Developer for TEKsystems. Known for his “Go get it attitude,” he was able to speak computer talk to all.

His love was his daughter Melissa Concolino, of Tampa. He loved his siblings, sister Gail and Jeff Lebert of Glastonbury, Connecticut; brothers John Brubaker and his wife Jane of Wethersfield, Connecticut, Jim Brubaker and Nancy of Bridgewater New Jersey, and Chris Brubaker and Christine of Tampa, Florida. He enjoyed gatherings with the Concolino family in Setauket.

Recently, he revisited his love of playing the drums. He joined Comin’ Home The Band and began writing and performing. Before his death the band recorded a CD titled “All In.” A Celebration of Jason’s Life will be held at Bryant Funeral Home on 411 Old Town Road in Setauket on Saturday, Oct. 10 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. In lieu of flowers, please purchase the CD “All In” to support Comin’ Home The Band.

Florence Morrison Meyer Gillen (Fluffy)

Florence Morrison Meyer Gillen died peacefully at age 100 in Denville, New Jersey Sept. 29.

She was born in Brooklyn to the late Cord Alonzo Meyer and Mabel Gray Morrison Meyer Aug. 8, 1920.

Her father Cord was a prominent real estate developer and most famously known for his naming and developing of Forest Hills, Queens. Florence was married to the late Thomas F. Gillen in 1952 and worked at Marine Midland Bank in New York City as a switchboard operator before retirement to Stony Brook where she spent many happy years. Before moving to Franciscan Oaks in Denville at age 90, she lived for 20 years in LeisureTowne in Vincentown, New Jersey.

The youngest of five girls, her previously deceased sisters include Helen Meyer Doyle, Christine Meyer Douglas, Agnes Meyer and Elizabeth Meyer. None of her sisters lived

beyond age 50. Affectionately known by her family as Fluffy, she is predeceased by her nephew Bruce M. Doyle of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. She is survived by grandnieces Cynthia J. Heaton of Hopatcong, New Jersey (Kenneth), and Katherine L. Doyle of Maple Shade, New Jersey; grandnephew William N. Doyle (Jed Pearsall) of Newport, Rhode Island; and great grandnephew Tyler Muszynski of Maple Shade, New Jersey.

Arrangements by family will be private.

Ruth Frankel Goldmacher

Ruth Frankel Goldmacher, 90, former resident of Stony Brook, died Aug. 26 at her daughter’s home in McLean, Virginia.

Ruth’s life was greatly enriched by Jerry, her beloved husband of 70 years, who died last year, her devoted family and many dear friends.

As a founding board member of the Society of Clinical and Medical Electrolysis in the 1970s, Ruth was instrumental in developing a certification program to raise professional standards. She was among the first group of electrologists to become a certified clinical electrologist and practiced electrolysis in Stony Brook for more than two decades.

A lifelong citizen activist and advocate for civil rights, after she retired to Florida, the Highland Beach Coastal Democratic Club established the perpetual Goldmacher Award for Outstanding Community Service in 2017 for her dedication to getting out the vote.

Known for her sharp mind, intellectual curiosity and generosity, Ruth had an innate empathy for others.

Born in the Bronx in 1929, Ruth was a runway model for the luxury department store B. Altman and Company before meeting her husband, a World War II veteran, and later vice president at Grumman Aerospace (now Northrop Grumman). Both their children were raised in Stony Brook and graduated from Ward Melville High School.

In addition to her daughter, Helen Sullivan (Edward) and daughter-in-law Sheila, widow of Ruth’s son Paul who predeceased her by 34 years, Ruth is survived by four grandchildren, Shane (Sophie), Juliet (Ryan), Olivia (Aaron) and Paige, and six great-grandchildren.

Interment of Ruth and Jerry together will take place at Arlington National Cemetery in the future.

Barbara Kinzie

Barbara A. Kinzie, of Stony Brook, died Aug. 11. She was 80.

She was the beloved daughter of the late John and Janet Burke and sister of the late

John “Skipper” Burke; the loving mother and best friend of Tracey Mingrone and her husband Joseph; beloved grandmother, Mimi, and best friend of Ava and Christopher.

Mimi devoted her life to her grandchildren.

In addition, she was the cherished friend of Terry Sotelo. She is loved and missed by her Mahjong buddies and her friends Sharon, Lil, and many more.

Barbara was a voracious book reader, loved chocolate and adored her Westie, McDuff.

We remember Barbara for the kind words she had for everyone she encountered; always happy and upbeat, very funny, and she always enjoyed a good-laugh.

Services were held at St. James R.C. Church, Aug. 16. Interment followed in the Cedar Hill Cemetery in Port Jefferson.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Bryant Funeral Home of Setauket. Visit www.bryantfh. com to sign the online guest book.

The National Shrine of St. Jude was an important facet of Barbara’s life. In lieu of flowers, please consider donating by visiting shrineofstjude.org/the-shrine.

Alexander Kozikowski

Alexander Kozikowski, of Setauket, died Aug. 11. He was 86.

He was born June 4, 1934, in Port Jefferson, and was the son of Sophie and Julian Kozikowski.

Alexander was an Army Veteran of the Vietnam War and had retired from North Shore Crane.

Left to cherish his memory are his daughter, Patricia; sons, Mark, Andrew, Bruce, Christopher and Scott; nine grandchildren; along with many other family and friends.

Committal services were held in private along with full military honors.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Bryant Funeral Home of Setauket. Visit www.bryantfh. com to sign the online guest book.

Rosemary Lauterbur

Rosemary Lauterbur, a 57 year resident of the Three Village area, died peacefully Sept.23 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Rosemary was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She worked in radio and TV, at WQED, where she worked on the “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” show. Later, she worked at Carnegie Tech where she met her husband, Paul Lauterbur. In 1963, they moved to East Setauket when Paul accepted a position as professor of chemistry at SUNY Stony Brook, which was still in its infancy.

During their marriage, Rosemary (and to a lesser extent their daughter, Sharyn)

inspired Paul to invent MRI. (He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2003.Stony Brook has honored him and been honored because of him in myriad ways, named a dorm for him, and if you go to the new Advanced Medicine Center, you will drive up on Lauterbur Drive.)

They divorced in 1984 and remained friends.

Rosemary was active in local theater and was a founding member of the Carriage House Players. She was involved with the former Slavic Cultural Center in Port Jefferson, running the box office and once costarring in a play with the actor known as the “Polish Robert Redford.” In the late 70s, Rosemary was hired as the box office manager in the student union at Stony Brook, much to the delight of her teen daughter who attended concerts for free.

Rosemary was a passionate, though unobtrusive, activist for civil rights, animal rights, women’s equality and was very socially conscious about politics. Her subscription to MS magazine was number 62. She was a proud and lifelong member of NAACP and C.O.R.E. She was one of the first members of Suffolk County NOW. In the 50s, she traveled alone to tour the deep South.

Being full Italian whose skin darkened considerably in the summer sun, she explored the South obeying the segregation laws. She knew if she didn’t sit in the back of the bus, and only use facilities for non-whites, it would lead to potentially violent confrontations. She wouldn’t argue about her true race because it would imply superiority to others and truly enjoyed being with African American people rather than largely racist Caucasians. It was her most memorable adventure.

After her retirement from Stony Brook, Rosemary enjoyed volunteering at The Village Times alongside paid staff. She formed wonderful and lasting friendships and the work gratified her.

She will be remembered for her intelligence, wit and humor, compassionate heart, love for animals (especially cats), loyalty and devotion to friends, hard work — whether for a cause, paid job or volunteer position. She was an avid and voracious reader and instilled the love of reading and learning to her two children.

Rosemary actively journaled throughout her life. She will be missed by many.

Rosemary is survived by her daughter, Sharyn (Selden) and son, Dan (Michigan) and her brother Eugene and large extended family (Pittsburgh.)

Should anyone wish to remember her, she said she would appreciate donations to Best Friends Sanctuary or the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Lacking any kind of financial aid from county, state or federal sources, Brookhaven town is having to do a lot of the heavy lifting themselves in its 2021 budget, despite the pandemic.

Under the new budget, the average resident could be paying just under $8.93 more than they did in 2020 in town taxes, though that may not include the taxes from those living in special districts, and it is likely less for those living in an incorporated village. That includes

an increase of around $14 in regular town expenses but is offset by $4.75 for highway-related property taxes. Town taxes represent approximately 5.67% of a resident’s own total tax bill. The highest percentage, at over 70%, remains local school districts.

The state’s stay at home order resulted in residents producing 13% more garbage than last year, town officials said. The new budget has an annual fee for a single-family home of $365 a year.

The Town of Brookhaven’s $307,089,636 spending plan is contending with a loss of funds from landfill revenues, building department revenues, fire marshal revenues, just to name a few.

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Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) said during a budget briefing Thursday, Oct. 1, that despite everything, they are staying within the New York State tax cap of 1.56%. He also boasted that the 2021 planned budget is not using any fund balance, or the town’s rainy day funds, to balance the budget. The town will likely have to dip into the fund balance this year, according to town Director of Operation Matt Miner, due to expenses not just from COVID-19 and subsequent shutdowns, but from Tropical Storm Isaias.

Through an incentive program and other staffing cuts, the town is less 42 full-time employees compared to 2020, as well as several part timers, many of whom were in summer programs which never came online due to the pandemic. The exit incentive program offered full-time staff the opportunity to retire early with $700 in their pocket for every year they worked for the town. Though because of benefits increases, the town is only saving $700,000 from staffing cuts.

“The one thing that I can’t do that the federal government can is I can’t spend money I don’t have,” Romaine said. “When you can’t do that, we could see our revenues were going down precipitously … their retirement at this time in a very difficult year for us was very helpful.”

The town is making the assumption that COVID-19 will be here to stay for the next several months and has set the tentative date for services and recreation spots, such as the Centereach pool complex.

“It does allow for some return to normalcy with some of our summer programs,” Miner said.

In terms of the highway department, Isaias did a number to their finances to the tune of approximately $5 million, including around $3 million in overtime payments, as well as contractor payments and equipment rentals. The town had offered all town residents the opportunity to get rid of their plant storm debris, but more residents also used it as an opportunity to get rid of plant debris that had not come down from the storm.

The town will have to eat those costs, Romaine said, as they have received no Federal Emergency Management Agency funding, and they do not expect any to be coming their way.

The reduction in highway property taxes are due to a decline in the 2021 snow removal budget, having not spent all the money budgeted for the past several years and carrying over a $5.4 million snow reserve.

Road resurfacing, Miner said, is remaining fully funded in the capital budget at around $15 million. The town does anticipate a 20% loss in state CHIPS funding, which helps with local road repair, so the overall road repair budget is likely much less than last year.

“If anyone did that to the state budget, I’d figure they’d have problems, but I guess they figure they can do it to towns and villages … it’s too bad,” Romaine said.

This year, elected officials’ salaries are staying the same.

Suffolk County officials, meanwhile, have been frantically urging the federal government to provide additional aid to local municipalities. Though Suffolk received $283 million in CARES Act funding, Romaine said the county did not relinquish any to help town governments despite their pleas. Brookhaven itself did not receive any aid because it did not meet the minimum resident population to qualify.

Whether or not Republicans and Democrats on the federal level will come together to pass a new aid package, which the supervisor did not hold out much hope for, how it may impact the budget comes down to how much they get. Top of the list for Romaine, however, could be paying down debt.

“I’m not going to be supervisor forever, and I want to keep reducing the amount of debt the town has,” he said.

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Thousands Attend Back the Blue Rally in Hauppauge

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The H. Lee Dennison Building lawn in Hauppauge was a sea of flags Oct. 4 as participants showed support for law enforcement officers across the state.

A few thousand people gathered around the war monuments in front of the Suffolk County building waving American, thin blue line and Trump 2020 flags at the “Back the Blue” rally organized by law enforcement associations and unions representing more than 80,000 law enforcement officers from the New York metropolitan region.

Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association President Noel DiGerolamo, Nassau County Police Benevolent Association President James McDermott, New York City Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch, U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-NY2), family members of fallen officers and more were on hand to address the crowd during the two-hour rally.

Genesis Familia Villella, of the Bronx, was one of the first speakers and was visibly emotional. Her mother, New York Police Department Detective Miosotis Familia, was killed July 5, 2017, by a gunman while she sat in her mobile police command post in the Bronx.

The 12-year veteran was 48 years old.

“Ever since that night, my life has been somewhat of a living nightmare,” the daughter said. “My mother was targeted for her blue uniform that she proudly wore for over a decade.”

The daughter remembered the last time she saw her mother alive when she asked her for another hug before saying goodbye. She said after her mother’s murder she has helped raise her younger brother and sister. Officers like her mother at times sacrifice time with their families to protect all New Yorkers, she said, and she wanted to remind everyone that police officers are “human beings with families and loved ones

who need them to come home, just like I needed my mom to come home to me that night.”

Kathy Vigiano, president of Survivors of the Shield, an advocate group for fallen police officers’ widows and children, had a plea for the press to report the “real numbers” regarding crime. Vigiano is a retired police officer and the widow of Joseph Vigiano, a police officer who died in the line of duty on 9/11.

“How many times do police officers put their lives on the line to take illegal guns off the street?” she asked. “New York City police officers took 607 guns off the street in the month of September alone without incident.”

She said officers put their lives in danger every time they stop someone.

“He doesn’t know who he’s stopping,” Vigiano said. “He doesn’t know when he pulls you over for a broken light who you are, but we all know who he is. It’s his job to ensure our safety. It’s his job to come home to his family.

To the criminals I say, ‘How dare you? How dare you put his life in danger resisting whether passively or violently.’”

According to a press release from Suffolk PBA, crime is up in the state. It cites national numbers as of mid-July where the number of cops killed in the line of duty was 32, an increase of 28% compared to the previous year’s numbers. It also cites the murder rate in New York City which was up by 50% in August, according to NYPD data.

“The number of police officers killed in the line of duty has surged 28% nationally, as anti-police rhetoric, protesting and riots continue across the nation,” the local PBA said in the release.

During the rally, attendees would sporadically chant, “Back the blue,” and play sirens and blow horns, while drivers passing by on Veterans Highway could be heard honking and shouting words of encouragement.

— Photos by Steven Zaitz. Vist www.tbrnewsmedia.com to see more photos from the event.

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Wedding Industry Needs Vote for Facts Over Wishful Thinking Room to Recover

We weren’t surprised when business owners in the wedding industry held a press conference Oct. 2 to appeal to Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D). For months, while restaurants have been able to operate at 50% capacity, reception locations can only allow 50 guests at an event.

The 50-guest cap and arbitrary state guidelines have been concerns of several business owners in the wedding and party industry. These locals have shared their experiences with TBR News Media for articles in the last few months, and vendors weren’t quite sure what they could do or not do, as they have had little direct communication with the state.

While we understand the need for Cuomo’s administration to keep gatherings down to a minimum, there needs to be more continuity and empathy in the guidelines. With the support of legislators, a class-action lawsuit is being filed by caterers. Business owners at the press conference said they feel they can provide a safer party than those being thrown in homes and backyards since they have more space to social distance and need to follow higher cleanliness standards. Owners said they realize following the guidelines is imperative for not only safety but to keep their licenses — something a homeowner doesn’t need to entertain.

The business owners may have a chance. This summer a federal judge issued a temporary injunction to allow an upstate golf club to operate at 50% capacity for two weddings after the couples and co-owner of the club sued New York State. That owner said his restaurant had the capacity to seat 438 people, but while operating as a restaurant one night he could have more than 200 people, on a wedding night he could only have 50.

This example may leave one wondering how a person visiting a restaurant could potentially be around more than 50 strangers, but cannot sit with more than 50 family members, friends and acquaintances at a party, especially since many wedding venues are committed to following current public health guidelines, including discouraging dancing.

Like so many businesses, COVID-19 has had a tremendous negative financial effect on the wedding industry and many are hoping to get back on track or else they may have to close their doors forever. During the shutdowns, venues had no money coming in while still needing to pay rent and utility bills. This has had a trickle-down effect where photographers, videographers, DJs and bands are called for less work, and while bakeries may have made some wedding and other celebratory cakes, the orders are smaller in size than usual.

If venues get their way, it’s imperative that owners and employees follow public-health guidelines such as 50% occupancy, social distancing, banning dancing and enforcing mask wearing when people are not seated. Seeing how restaurants in our coverage areas have been able to come up with creative ways to serve their patrons safely, including turning parking lots into outdoor dining areas, using tents — even small ones for individual parties — we believe wedding venue owners will do the same.

Of course, keeping our local businesses open works both ways.

It will take more than residents signing a petition to help these businesses stay afloat, it will also require people to follow public health guidelines. So, we implore individuals to be responsible as well. It’s up to all of us to stay 6 feet away from each other, wear a mask, wash our hands regularly and stay home when we are feeling ill.

There’s a certain positive energy in the air when people come together to celebrate, and even if they can’t hug, kiss or show off their moves on the dance floor, we’re sure the majority will appreciate being there for their loved ones just as much as having dinner at their favorite restaurant.

We in Congressional District NY-1 have an important vote coming up, between incumbent Lee Zeldin [R] and Nancy Goroff [D].

Zeldin gets full points for his efforts on behalf of veterans and military families. On other subjects I find him disappointing and misleading.

I waited in vain for Zeldin to join Republican colleagues in criticizing President Trump’s refusal to denounce white supremacy in the Sept. 29 debate.

And while he has stated that the police officers responsible for the death of George Floyd acted wrongly, he shows no understanding that Black people die at the hands of law enforcement in heartbreaking, unconscionable numbers.

Relatedly, Zeldin’s ads falsely link his opponent Nancy Goroff with violent protest (there is no record of her involvement in violent protest) and “defunding the police,” although Goroff

states on her website, “I do not support defunding the police.” A voiceover refers to her as a “radical scientist.” Is “scientist” here supposed to be scary?

The accompanying photo shows her responsibly wearing personal protection equipment while presumably working with a hazardous substance.

Fortunately, voters know not to get information on a candidate from the other side’s attack ads.

Scientists work to understand our world. They develop ways to answer questions, double- and triple-check the answers, and submit their conclusions to peer review. Scientists are trained to look for the truth, even if they don’t like it.

I fervently wish the president a quick and full recovery. At the same time, we need to face the fact that he has based policy and behavior on wishful thinking, not facts. In February he said COVID-19 would go away one day, “like a miracle.”

In March he said the virus would go away

by Easter, and in September he told a rally the virus “affects virtually nobody.”

Sadly, none of these statements were true.

Meanwhile, Zeldin’s coronavirus information page makes no mention of the most basic scientific recommendations for all of us to avoid spreading COVID-19, masks and social distancing. You probably saw the photo of him flouting these guidelines, smiling in the packed maskless crowd in the VIP section of President Trump’s Tulsa rally — which Tulsa city officials link to a surge in infections.

We need scientists to get out of this situation. President Trump, the First Lady, and his colleagues all depend on scientists to recover. We need leaders who listen to scientists. Who better than a scientist? Thankfully we can vote for Nancy Goroff.

Teresa Dybvig Stony Brook

Finding an Accurate Reading of Voter Preference Vox Populi. Please leave your politics at the door. Enter with logic, math and honest opinions only. Thank you.

The Constitution provides that the Senate shall have the power to accept or reject presidential appointees to the judicial branch.

Former President Barack Obama [D], having 11 months remaining in office, was denied the process by the Republicans President Donald Trump [R], having a few weeks remaining in office, was approved by the Republicans to proceed with the process.

We have 100 senators, each with a six-year term.

Unlike congresspeople, only one third of the senators are up for election in November.

Majority Leader, Mitch McDonnell [R] explained, “Americans re-elected our majority in 2016 … because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary.” He went on to explain that the people voted and that their opinions must be honored.

The fact is — if facts still matter — is

that the 30 Senators who are up for reelection were voted in six years ago, in 2014, two years before Trump’s election.

So ask yourself this, if one truly wants to get the preferences of the voters, would one go back six years to see how the voters felt then, or go forward 30 days to see how the voters feel now?

Which would be the most accurate and up to date reading of voter preference?

Be honest.

Bruce Stasiuk Setauket

Asking for the Return of Stolen Surf Casting Rods Over the weekend, I realized that someone had stolen two of my surf casting rods and their reels from my shed next to the Caroline Church.

These rods have special meaning for myself and my son as I have had them for years, and he learned how to surf cast with these rods, and we have very fond memories of this.

It really is a terrible feeling knowing that some stranger has invaded our private space/property to steal things. I have never locked the shed. Never was there a reason to, now I have a lock on it.

The return of these rods and reels would be most appreciated.

Chris Gerard East Setauket

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Every so often, my dog gets on one of his benders where the entire neighborhood has to hear him. He races into the backyard and barks at shadows that my eyes, and the eyes of my son, who runs to the back door and turns on the D. None light, can’t see either.

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time. There’s the guy who drives too fast.

We all glare at him, but he doesn’t seem to notice. He probably can’t see us because he’s moving too quickly and exists in a different space-time continuum. Don’t you love a word like continuum that dares to have two “u’s” in a row?

Then there’s the neighbor whose house is under constant construction. No matter what season, time of the month, or time of day, construction people are always there, digging, pulling, pushing, installing, removing, re-laying, resurfacing, ripping up, putting back down.

Who needs all that continuous fixing?

I don’t even live in their house and I’m exhausted by the constant change. Sure, it’d be nice if that bulb above my wife’s head in our bedroom actually worked, but my arms are too short on the ladder and the bed is in the wrong place. I put my son on my shoulders and he reached up and turned, but the bulb and the fixture kept spinning.

On the other side, we have a lovely neighbor who is so nice that even the people who frown at the bunnies and deer, which prance through our neighborhood as if they were responding to a cue from a Disney director, smile at her. Her smile and laughter seem like a starter’s gun, waiting for a small cue to explode to the surface.

Anyway, the rest of her family is friendly enough, but doesn’t share her ebullience.

They do, however, love their cars. The louder the sound, the more impressive the car, or so it seems. Their driveway hosts regular revving contests. Okay, how many columns have words with two consecutive “u’s” and two consecutive “v’s” in them? Revving continuum, anyone?

Somehow, despite the constant cacophony from the driveway, their house attracts an abundance of magnificent birds, even when they use the leaf blower to keep their immaculate backyard free of the few leaves with the temerity to fall on their property.

Then there is the talker. She’s incredibly sweet, insightful and intelligent. The two

challenges are that the polite banter doesn’t seem to have a natural end, and she is so soft spoken that I find myself nodding and raising my eyebrows, hoping I’m offering the proper response to questions I can’t hear. I can’t move closer to her because we react to people as if they were porcupines, with six foot quills.

Then there are the adorables. These are the families that have young children who giggle, laugh and play, blissfully unfocused on the pandemic and thrilled that they are out on a bike or that they can identify a bird that passed overhead. They race each other on tiny bikes, ask me why I’m wearing the same sweatshirt again, and skip to the sound of music I can’t hear. They also see the nonstop trucks delivering materials to the construction house as a source of entertainment. One of our young neighbors was on her way to school on a recent morning.

Her mother stopped her car and rolled down the window so she could tell me about Mrs. Cathy and Ms. Mary. Those happy adorables are the block winners.

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Her story, a “panoramic account of espionage from Weimar Germany through the Cold War is, above all, a woman’s story.” It is based on Sonya’s own journals, in which she captures “the stressful balancing act of spymaster, mother and lover of several men during the most dangerous decades of the 20th century.

Like many supremely successful women, Sonya benefited from men underestimating her.” And by the way, the name, Sonya, means dormouse in Russian.

Are you hooked yet?

The scene shifts from Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists and Mao Zedong’s Communists to Japanese-occupied Manchuria, to the bucolic Cotswolds of England, where she lived during much of WWII as a housewife and mother. In

addition to caring for a husband (who was himself a lower level spy with no idea of his wife’s top level position) and two children, she managed spy drops and transmitted coded messages as an expert radio operator and in Morse code, all the while eluding the German, British and American secret services hunting for her.

Without ever wearing a military uniform, she held the rank of colonel in the Soviet army. “Domesticity was the perfect cover,” according to reviewer Marton.

Sonya was right up there at the top of intelligence gathering. She was the spymaster to pass along secrets about the atom bomb from brilliant German theoretical physicist Klaus Fuchs. Fuchs worked in Britain and Canada and ultimately at Los Alamos, and she was his handler, sending critical information to Stalin and the Soviet Union. Throughout the war, Fuchs played a seminal role in helping to develop the powerful new weapon. He ultimately confessed to the British to having spied for the Soviets and served a nine-year sentence there, then promptly emigrated to East Germany.

The reviewer delights in descriptions of

the flat-footedness and sexism of the British secret services as revealed in the book. Only one member of British M15 “smelled a rat” regarding the Cotswolds “housewife,” another woman, Millicent Bagot. “But her less shrewd (male) colleagues prevented [Bagot] from bagging her prey.” Sonya was interrogated twice inconclusively in 1947

by British intelligence agents. Years later, she was dubbed by the media as “Stalin’s best spy.”

Sonya too spent the Cold War years in East Germany, leaving England the day before Fuch’s trial began. He did eventually unmask her. And this is the part that tickles me the most. She became an author, assumed the pseudonym of Ruth Werner, and wrote knowingly about spy adventures. Her books became best sellers.

She died in Berlin in 2000 at age 93.

Almost all the spies she worked with were caught at some point, but she survived two intense decades, the 1940s and 50s.

She led a fascinating life and was clearly exceptionally intelligent. The only pity is that she worked on the wrong side of history, believing in an ideology that was made up of lies.

Balancing a Life as Wife, Mother, Homemaker, Lover ... & Spy

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or some reason, this book tickles me, maybe because of the ending. And maybe because I am always interested in how women manage to balance being a wife, mother, housekeeper and cook with a demanding job outside the home. I haven’t read the book yet, only the review, but that was enough to hook me.

The book is, Agent Sonya, by Ben Macintyre, and yes, it is a spy story. The reviewer, Kati Marton, writing in the Book Review section of Between the Sunday New you and me York Times, calls

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF the author “John le Carre’s nonfiction counterpart.” The main character in the book, Sonya, is based on a real person, Ursula Kuczynski. Born in a prosperous, bourgeois German family, she suffered a

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