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Dr. Deborah Birx Praises Stony Brook University’s Coronavirus Efforts

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

The head of the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force visited Stony Brook University last week to talk to faculty, students and administrators about college life during the pandemic.

On Wednesday, Oct. 7, Dr. Deborah Birx met in a private roundtable talk with SBU representatives to gauge how everyone feels returning to campus, as part of a severalmonth-long tour of colleges across the country.

The meeting lasted more than two hours, president of the university Dr. Maurie McInnis said, deeming it a successful discussion.

“She was excited about what we’ve been doing on campus and at the hospital,” McInnis said. “We also learned an enormous amount from her about what we can expect in the fall.”

The roundtable went over time, and so Birx only gave about 15 minutes to assembled reporters.

With recent news of many colleges across the state struggling to stay open with an uptick in COVID-19 cases on their campus, Birx praised the university for how they initially handled the pandemic back in March, up until now.

She added that she was particularly excited to visit Stony Brook because the university and hospital “stood out at one of the most difficult times in March, April and May in a really open, transparent and careful way.”

“I was listening to the research activities that they started from day one,” she said. “And

it thrilled my heart to hear from them that their number one thing was collecting data and collecting information in real time.”

Birx said the university’s research was fundamental in the beginning, by comparing and trying to understand how to find solutions with better care for patients.

“That’s why we have medical research institutions,” she said. “I think you could really see the strength of that here.”

She commended staff for their “months of planning” by implementing social distancing throughout the campus with signs, stickers on the floor and seating placed six-feet-apart from each other — things she hopes other colleges and universities will follow.

“We want to find a pathway forward for other universities, and when we want to use what we have learned to make it available to others,” she said. “It’s been really a privilege to be here.”

Reporters asked the head of the president’s coronavirus task force about President Donald Trump (R) testing positive for COVID-19, his trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and his most recent return to the White House, especially his apparent eschewing of wearing a mask for photo ops despite being contagious.

Birx replied, “We have been on the road, so I’ve been very concerned about what’s happening in the rest of America.” She added she would not question the judgement of the Walter Reed doctors, and she is “very proud of the physicians, between the Navy and the

Dr. Deborah Birx at Stony Brook University’s Wang Center Oct. 7. Photo by Julianne Mosher

Army, that are caring for him.”

During her visit, she asked for insight from students, asking them for their comments and concerns for the remainder of the school year.

“Meeting with students and really understanding what the university did to make sure that the students and the community were safe, I think really needs to constantly be applauded,” Birx said. “And I think understanding what’s happening with the commuting students and ensuring that they’re safe, has also been really important.”

Birx asked students for insight regarding communication with family members during holiday gatherings this upcoming season.

“I think there are still people waiting for the epidemic to look like it looked before,” she said.

“It’s not going to look like that. It’s not going to be a workplace driven epidemic. It is going to be what we’ve seen across the south — where it involves family members, social occasions and spreading silently in communities before and outside of the workplace.”

But she also mentioned what she’s anticipating, and her own, personal, concerns.

“I feel like at this moment, in many of the areas of the Northeast county by county, we still don’t have enough what we would call ‘eyes on the epidemic,’” she said. “What do I mean by that?

Really active surveillance sites so that we can see early infections before we see hospitalizations, so we can do community mitigation.”

By having eyes on the virus, it can be more easily contained especially among non-sick asymptomatic individuals.

“I think working with the county, the university can use their data and their ability to translate information to be in regular communication with the community about where the virus is and where it isn’t,” Birx said.

“We’ve demonstrated that we can learn, live and work together safely,” McInnis said.

But before Birx left, she gave one big piece of advice for heading into the fall season.

“Please get your flu shot.”

Suffolk Unveils Part of 2021 Operating Budget, Showing Significant Reductions

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM After weeks of warnings and missives about an upcoming budget shortfall, Suffolk officials finally published this upcoming year’s budget, one that has to take into consideration an apparent $437 million deficit over the next two years. Cuts won’t be instituted until the middle of 2021.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) revealed a 2021 recommended operating budget of $3.197 billion, representing $33 million less than the current year’s budget. It is a reaction to a total revenue shortfall of $325 million in 2020.

In a proposed budget released Oct. 9, the county would be letting go 500 full-time employees. The county exec said it would also mean a reduction in health care and mental health services, the loss of two full classes of trainees at the police academy and the elimination of 19 bus routes.

Most cuts will be implemented July 1, 2021.

County officials said this gives time in case

some federal aid is received in the future.

“We have submitted a COVID-19 budget with cuts that would have been unimaginable just a short time ago,” Bellone said on a call with reporters Oct. 13. “These cuts should not happen, these are cuts that are devastating in many ways and would in effect undermine our recovery.”

The budget accounts for a sales tax loss from 2019 to 2020 of an estimated $131.7 million.

The anticipated sales tax for 2021 is still $102.5 million less than 2019’s figures.

Among other losses across the board, the one increase seems to be property taxes from a real estate boom on Long Island. Suffolk County received $4 million more than last year, and anticipates $18.6 million more in 2021 than this current year.

In expenditures, contractual expenses and employee benefits are also set to marginally increase.

The county expects a negative fund balance for 2021 of about $176.98 million. Overall, Bellone said Suffolk could be looking at a cumulative $460 million deficit within the next year.

This year’s budget was originally set to roll in back in September, but it has since been delayed until the start of this month. The projected budget also may be another general cry for help to the federal government. Suffolk officials also decry the withholding of state aid to the tune of $1.9 billion to local municipalities.

Cutting employees would save about $25 million next year. The bus route cuts, along with reductions to the Suffolk County Accessible Transportation bus service affecting a total of 2,500 riders of both systems, will save $18 million. The police class cuts will save approximately $20 million, while a 50% cut across the board for contract agencies, which include substance abuse clinics, mental health providers, domestic violence shelters and gang prevention programs, would save another $8 million in 2021 and annualized savings of $16 million.

The budget also shows an overall 1.9% increase in taxes for the police district, though that remains under the New York State tax cap.

Bellone has constantly reiterated Suffolk’s

need for federal funds over the past few months, holding press conference after press conference to reiterate loss of services because of COVID19-induced budget shortfalls. Republicans in the Legislature, however, have consistently attacked the executive for what they have called fiscal mismanagement over the past few years, citing Suffolk’s bond downgrades and a report from Tom DiNapoli (D), the New York State comptroller, saying Suffolk was the most fiscally stressed county in the state in 2019.

Bellone, on the other hand, claimed he inherited in 2012 a $500 million deficit but that the County finished 2019 with a surplus. He added the county would have been on track for $50 million surplus in 2020 that would have wiped out the accumulated deficit prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Suffolk did receive $257 million in CARES Act funding in April, as well as an additional $26.6 million for public transportation.

Officials have said most or all that funding has been spent or earmarked, and it does not help cover overall losses.

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Wind-Power Project Cements Plans for Home Base/Training Center on North Shore

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM A potentially huge economic boost for Port Jefferson, Setauket and the whole North Shore could soon be down the pike as more details of a regional wind-power project takes shape.

Sunrise Wind, a combined venture with U.S.-based Eversource and Denmarkbased Ørsted, plans to create a 110-turbine, 880-megawatt wind farm 30 miles off the coast of Montauk. Announced back in 2019, project managers and local officials touted Port Jefferson as the new home base for the project, with offices located nearby and a repair ship to be stationed within the harbor itself.

Things are moving forward in a big way, according to Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R), who confirmed in a phone interview that Eversource has landed a new office space, specifically at a 59,525-squarefoot office/warehouse located at 22 Research Way in East Setauket.

Romaine, who recently was on a Zoom call with company representatives, said while the front part of the space is likely to be an office, the back portion of the property is to be a training center for the people who will go out on the ship to work on and repair the massive turbines in the ocean. What’s more, since these offshore wind projects are still progressing with an ever-increasing demand for renewable energy, the supervisor suggested such a facility could gain national significance.

“You’re seeing offshore wind energy far more accepted, particularly with this crisis of climate change,” Romaine said. “This is a shot in the arm to the area, and wind energy will benefit the economics of all northern Brookhaven.”

Sunrise Wind reps have previously talked about their plans to work with Suffolk County Community College for a training program, but in response to questions Eversource and Ørsted reps said in a statement they will have more details in the coming weeks about this new property.

“This facility will serve a major role in our plans to make New York a leader in the U.S. offshore wind industry,” the statement read.

What those in the facility would be training for is to go out on a new 260-plus foot service operations vessel. The ship is planned to hold 60 passengers, and then take trained technicians back and forth to take care of the turbines on the basis of two weeks on and two weeks off.

Sunrise Wind is also boasting that the chartered vessel is Jones Act compliant, a law that mandates new ships be manufactured in the U.S. The point, company reps said in an email to Romaine, is that offshore

‘You’re seeing offshore wind energy far more accepted, particularly with this crisis of climate change’

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wind projects “can drive domestic jobs, manufacturing and investment growth.”

Port Jefferson Mayor Margot Garant said that the idea of the area becoming a nationally recognized hub for such technology would be a “home run.”

To help operate this vessel, Eversource and Ørsted reps have previously stated they would come into Port Jefferson Harbor for a 24-hour period in order to take on crew and resupply.

The Town of Brookhaven has also sent letters of support for both the facility improvements in Port Jefferson Harbor as well as for any grant for a training facility that could be of national significance.

Garant said there are multiple benefits for some kind of update to the pier, which is owned by the town. Such improvements could also, in effect, make the Port Jeff power plant property more valuable, something village officials have been aggressively arguing with the Long Island Power Authority, which owns the plant.

She said project managers have already done work to try and minimize the impact to the surrounding community, as the vessel will only be offloading people and resources once every two weeks.

“It’s a win-win for so many reasons: Our harbor is being utilized, and wind power is where I think we have to go on a global national scale,” the mayor said.

The project was originally slated to finish in 2024, but company reps have experienced some degree of opposition from those on the South Fork regarding, among other things, where the company can place the high-voltage cables. Instead of having the cables come in through that area, Romaine has proposed the cables come in at Smith Point, come up through Shirley and north up William Floyd Parkway. The town, he said, wouldn’t have the same hiccups as the South Fork had since major cables already run underneath the length of William Floyd, and there are existing buildings that Sunrise Wind can use as substations.

Negotiations are still ongoing, though the Brookhaven supervisor said there will be a hosting fee that will go toward benefiting the local community.

This empty building located at 22 Research Way in East Setauket could be Sunrise Wind’s new office site, as well as a training center for those meant to go out on boats to work on the offshore wind project. Photo by Kyle Barr

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SC Legislators join Dr. David Fiorella, fourth from right, in congratulating the Mobile Stroke Unit’s efforts after it was launched last year. Photo from William Spencer’s office

Legislators Laud Mobile Stroke Unit

In March of last year, Dr. David Fiorella went before the Suffolk County Health Committee chaired by Legislator William “Doc” Spencer (D-Centerport) and announced the launch of Long Island’s first Mobile Stroke Unit program aimed at reducing death of stroke victims. Fast forward 18 months and Fiorella has reported to the same committee Oct. 1 that since deployment, the MSU has been on over 1000 total calls.

Findings during the first-year show Stony Brook Medicine’s units have successfully facilitated the diagnosis and rapid delivery of time-critical therapies to stroke patients at the point of care resulting in substantially improved outcomes.

“We are also very grateful to all of the members for the Suffolk County Legislature for their help in promoting the program’s success and look forward to further improving upon these outcomes and expanding this program to service even more residents of Suffolk County in the future,” said Fiorella, a neurointerventionalist and Director of the Stony Brook Cerebrovascular Center and CoDirector of the Stony Brook Cerebrovascular and Comprehensive Stroke Center.

Fiorella also mentioned their intent to locate two more stroke units to add to the current slate located at Long Island Expressway Exits 57 and 68. Each unit is equipped with telehealth capability to communicate with physicians

at Stony Brook University Hospital. When a suspected stroke call comes in, the mobile stroke unit is dispatched and the team works quickly to determine the type of stroke the patient is experiencing using the features on board including a CT scanner and CT angiogram.

Once that is determined, first responders in the unit can begin administering time-sensitive stroke treatments.

Data from the program further shows stroke patients transported by the MSU had much greater rates of discharges directly from the hospital to home after treatment, higher rates of independent clinical outcomes after stroke and much lower rates of death from stroke when compared to national averages, county average, and Stony Brook’s own data preceding the MSU program.

“The work that Dr. Fiorella and his team are doing is extraordinary,” Spencer said. “The reduced time it takes their units to reach and care for stroke victims is yielding measurable improvements to the lives they touch.”

Spencer also noted the legislature’s goal in expanding the program.

Strokes are a major public health concern nationwide. Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States suffers a stroke and every four minutes someone dies on one, according to the American heart Association.

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Deer Rutting Season Presents Dangers on the Roads

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Deer grazing near roadways may look innocent but they can pose a possible hazard — even a deadly one — for drivers.

As fall arrives, the animals’ presence becomes an even greater danger. A higher percentage of deer are now more likely to dart out into the road as they are in the midst of their rutting season, which runs from October through December.

Driving during dusk and dawn exacerbates the problem with reduced visibility.

According to a press release from AAA Northeast, there were 36,445 animal crashes in New York State in 2019, and the number of crashes has increased over the past five years.

Suffolk County was found to have the third highest amount of animal crashes with 1,415.

In 2019, Brookhaven had 423 animal crashes while Smithtown had 120.

The data was taken from the Institute for Traffic Safety Management and Research, an affiliate with the University at Albany’s Rockefeller College of Public Affairs, which does not cite which animals were involved in the crash. However AAA Northeast said in its press release that “data from New York and other states previous years found deer were involved in 88 to 98 percent of crashes.”

“Striking a deer can be extremely dangerous, with the animal possibly going through the

windshield, seriously injuring or killing the driver and passengers,” said Robert Sinclair Jr., spokesman for AAA Northeast.

AAA Northeast recommends drivers brake gently and avoid swerving when encountering any animals.

“Going to the right could send the vehicle into a ditch, tree or light pole,” the AAA Northeast press release said. “Swerving to the left could result in a lethal head-on crash. Even hitting the brakes hard could send the front end of the vehicle into a nosedive, promoting the animal rolling up the hood and through the windshield.”

Other tips from AAA and insurance companies include: ● Be extra cautious when you see a deercrossing sign along a roadway. The sign means that there have been deer-vehicle collisions near the sign location. ● Decrease speed when you approach deer near roadsides as they can bolt out or change direction quickly. If you see a deer, look for others as they are herd animals and usually travel in groups. Especially during rutting season when a buck may be chasing a doe. ● Move your vehicle to a safe place if you hit an animal. If possible, pull over to the side of the road and turn on your hazard lights. If you must leave your vehicle, stay off the road and out of the way of any oncoming vehicles. ● Call the police. Alert authorities if the animal is blocking traffic and creating a threat

Drivers need to proceed with caution when they spot deer on the side of roadway. File photo by Rich Schiavone

for other drivers. If the collision results in injury, death or more than $1,000 in property damage, you must fill out an official crash report and send it to the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles. ● Look for leaking fluid, loose parts, tire damage, broken lights, a hood that won’t latch and other safety hazards. If your vehicle seems unsafe in any way, call for a tow truck.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recommends not getting out of your car and approaching an injured animal as they can strike out with their legs or hooves. In Brookhaven, residents can call the Animal Shelter at 631-451-6950 to report deceased deer on the road or curbside.

Town employees cannot remove animals found on front lawns, backyards or on driveways.

WMHO to Host Experience-Based Auction to Benefit Historic Park The Ward Melville Heritage Organization will host a New Beginnings Online Auction to benefit the restoration and maintenance of T. Bayles Minuse Mill Pond Park in Stony Brook village between Oct.19 and Nov. 16. The auction will include East End getaway packages, priceless experiences and extraordinary private tours.

The New Beginnings Auction is as easy as eBay and will feature items starting at $50 to items that have a priceless value. Included in the auction are a six-hour, private six-person fishing charter, dinner for four at Duryea’s Orient Point, rare liquor, pizza every month for a year, an exclusive champagne toast and drinks for six at The Explorer’s Club with club President Richard Wiese and a variety of other items and experiences.

A travel package sponsored by the Stony Brook-based information technology company RJG Consulting Group includes seven resort accommodation certificates that range from $2,100 to $3,800. Each certificate provides resort accommodations for seven nights for up to two or three rooms, depending on the resort.

Destinations include Antigua, St. Lucia, Barbados, the Grenadines and Panama.

“RJG Group believes that the mission of the Ward Melville Heritage Organization is critical to the local community and Long Island,” said Ron Gonzales CEO of RJG Consulting Group.

“WMHO provides educational and cultural programming, they also preserve our local historical sites and wetlands. These sites are part of our identity as a community. Preserving them as well as providing culturally diverse events and education are the pillars of our company’s core values at RJG Group.”

To register to bid on the auction items is free, and credit cards of the highest bidders will not be charged until Nov. 16, when the auction closes. Participants will be notified when they have been outbid.

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BY BRIAN WINTERS

East Setauket. What a blessing and gift to live here. Such a beautiful spot on Long Island. We are so lucky to have Frank Melville Memorial Park and its pond and to have it available to the general public to enjoy for free. It’s like walking into paradise … away from the rest of the world around us. The lake and waterfall, the old wheelhouse and barn, the beautiful old stone bridges. The walking trail along the water in the woods.

There is also the variety of wildlife that you can sit on one of the many benches and watch and listen to in the quietness of the park. Or, watch the turtles climbing onto the floating logs. Or the geese and ducks landing and taking off from the water in groups. Or a squirrel scurrying up a tree.

What a wonderful place to take your children or walk your dog or walk with a friend or loved one holding hands.

Unfortunately, we have a lot of people that use the park with disrespect. Free bags are offered for dog waste. And a garbage can for the waste. The can says, “For dog waste only” but it fills up fast with all kinds of other garbage.

That’s bad enough … the can is then stuffed full and overflowing, and garbage is on the ground and blown by the wind all over. Also, sitting on any of the benches, garbage cans can be seen in the bushes by the pond. I have seen people eating on the bench and leaving all their food containers and drinks on the bench and walk away.

The best ones are the people who pick up the

A dog waste receptacle in Frank Melville Memorial Park overflowing with garbage. Photo by Brian Winters

dog waste in the plastic bag and tie it and leave it on the ground, wherever they are. Shame on them. They would get angry and question that if you did it on their property.

I hope this littering problem and the latest fishing problem do not get worse. If they do, I would not be surprised if the Frank Melville Memorial Park is closed off to the general public.

How sad that would be for the respectful people who truly enjoy this beautiful park.

Brian Winters is a Three Village resident who visits Frank Melville Memorial Park regularly.

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).

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Obituary

Old Field Village Officials Remember Ted Rosenberg Ted Rosenberg, Lawyer and Old Field Village Justice

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Old Field Village Justice Ted Rosenberg, who died Sept. 27, is remembered fondly by his fellow village elected officials.

Rosenberg was a former Old Field trustee who in 2018 ran against 20-year village justice incumbent Ron LaVita and won. He served as justice in the village until his passing. In addition to his roles as justice and trustee in Old Field, he was an associate justice, deputy mayor, commissioner of roads and harbor commissioner throughout the more-than 20 years he lived in the village. The 67-year-old was a founding partner of Rosenberg & Gluck LLP. Mayor Bruce Feller said he and Rosenberg would engage in “spirited debates” but they always ended with “a warm handshake.” Feller described Rosenberg as having “a balanced but aggressive approach to preserve the quality of life” in Old Field in his capacity as village justice.

‘Above everything else, [Ted] was an incredible husband, father and friend.’

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“Ted had a long and close relationship with various village initiatives during his residence in Old Field,” Feller said.

“Those activities spanned the gamut from his introduction of seed oysters in Conscience Bay to help restore the oyster population and the associated water purification consequences, to tireless advocacy for the repaving of all village roads during his tenure as a trustee on the village board.”

Former mayor Michael Levine described Rosenberg as a “presence” who would not be forgotten.

“Ted was bigger than life,” Levine said.

“He was constantly entertaining and an incredible joke teller. He was also one hell of a lawyer: passionate, caring, engaging and brilliant. He kept adversaries on their heels at all times.”

Levine said Rosenberg showed how deeply he cared about the village and his neighbors through his service as a trustee and justice. The former mayor said he will also remember Rosenberg for his passions in life.

“When it came to cooking, his pizzas and oysters from Conscience Bay were world class,” Levine said. “He also had an encyclopedic knowledge when it came to

Ted Rosenberg, pictured with his wife Deborah, was remembered for his passion for life. Photo from Sean Rosenberg

wines. Above everything else, he was an incredible husband, father and friend. He was taken from us way too soon. I will miss him and remember him, forever.”

Steve Shybunko, trustee and deputy mayor, said Rosenberg “placed his family above all else” and loved the Three Village area where he would enjoy biking, boating and the beach.

“Ted gave back and enhanced the community with his service to village government and political engagement on a regional and national scale,” Shybunko said. “He had strong political beliefs. We served together on the village board, where Ted worked tirelessly. During his tenure, the village installed extensive stormwater retention systems which protected and helped to clean up the bays and Sound.”

Shybunko said in addition to Rosenberg raising oysters in Conscience Bay, he also had an extensive garden in his yard.

“Food was a focal point of his entertaining, with his prized outdoor pizza oven,” Shybunko said. “We will miss those evenings of wine, food and tremendous humor and wit. I never saw Ted in a courtroom but witnessed his ability to hold the attention of a group of people with his unmatched jokes and storytelling. He was an entertainer.”

The Village of Old Field justice seat will remain open until the next election in March 2021 when two trustee seats will also be up for grabs. Associate court justice, Mitchell Birzon, will oversee cases until the election.

Ted M. Rosenberg, Old Field village justice and founding partner of Rosenberg & Gluck LLP with offices in Holtsville and Garden City, died peacefully Sept. 27 surrounded by family in his home.

He was born Sept. 2, 1953. Ted graduated with honors with a degree in political science from Boston University, where he was a member of the wrestling team. He received his Juris Doctor from St. John’s University School of Law in 1982.

As a lawyer, Ted was a preeminent trial attorney and was incredibly committed to his profession. He was a director at the Suffolk County Bar Association, a chair of the Suffolk County Bar, and a Photo from Sean Rosenberg lecturer and member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Ted was also an adviser to the Ward Melville High School mock trial team.

For several years, he served as a trustee of the Village of Old Field and was the village justice from 2018 until his passing. Ted was also a board member at Temple Isaiah in Stony Brook.

Outside of work, Ted pursued a myriad of passions. He was an avid cyclist, gardener, fisherman, baker, cook, family man and friend.

He was generous and empathetic, and devoted his time to making the people around him happy. Ted was quick with a joke for any situation and loved to make people laugh. He also loved to play host, entertaining guests with homemade pizza, fresh oysters from the bay and produce from his garden.

Ted is survived by his beloved wife and soulmate Deborah Powell-Rosenberg. He was the loving father of Amy and Stephen Strobel, Sean, Rebekah and Robert Rosenberg. He is the cherished grandfather of Cassandra and Julia Strobel. Ted is survived by his siblings Jay Satenstein and Paula Rosenberg. He also leaves 11 nieces and nephews, three great-nieces and one great-nephew to cherish his memory. Ted was predeceased by his father Harold Rosenberg and mother Elaine Rosenberg (née Robinson), and his brothers Mark Satenstein and David Rosenberg.

Ted’s family was the most important part of his life. He truly lived life each and every day to its fullest, and he will be missed more than words can ever convey. A celebration of Ted’s life will be held at a later date.

Donations in his memory can be made to the Lustgarten Foundation at events.lustgarten.org/ted.

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Transportation

Officials Say New Diesel Engines on PJ Line Will Set Back Electrification MTA: All Projects on Standby, All Contracts in Jeopardy Without Federal Aid

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM As the MTA prepares its budget for the next few years, potentially reducing a massive amount of service due to the pandemic, local officials are saying some of that money earmarked for the Port Jefferson Branch line can get put to better use.

Though the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has a $12 billion cash shortfall in its 2021 budget, its 2020-24 capital plan still includes plans to purchase new dual-mode (electric/diesel) trains for $150 million to replace older locomotives on several Long Island Rail Road lines, including Port Jeff.

A representative of the MTA could not give any fresh updates on these new trains or other initiatives as all of them are on hold due to economic uncertainty, but whether or not the $16.7 billion annual-expenditure entity gets the aid it needs in time, officials are still against any new diesel trains without electrification first.

For years, area officials from all levels of government have been promoting electrifying

the Port Jeff rail line, transforming it into a system like that of Ronkonkoma for faster, greener public transport. That initiative has been ongoing for years.

In March this year, the environmental advocacy group Sierra Club Long Island held a kickoff event for its green transportation initiative, holding one of its events at the Stony Brook train station. Village, town and county officials have stood behind them at this and past events.

Sierra Club Green Issues chair, Mayer Horn, is also a Dix Hills-based transportation consultant and has worked with Port Jefferson Village before. He said purchasing new diesel trains was “a very foolish thing to do.”

Back in December of 2018, Horn published a report on behalf of Port Jefferson about the North Shore rail line which described a general lack of full-time direct service between Port Jeff and Penn Station, and how current dual-mode could be used to provide such service now.

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Miller has often used the refrain that people all across the North Shore, even as far east as Calverton and as west as Greenlawn, take the longer drive to places like Ronkonkoma rather than catch the closer train, only because it is both less reliable and efficient.

“Basically, you’re not entirely eliminating vehicles or cars when you have these two diesel lines on the North Shore and South Shore,” Miller said. “People aren’t factoring in pollution.”

On Sept. 17, the MTA put out a press release saying all its contracts are in jeopardy if it does not receive the $12 billion stimulus from the federal government. Some of these multibilliondollar contracts are for companies that create and sell train and rail parts.

The September 2019 presentation of the LIRR’s capital improvement plan had included 160 new electric cars, nearly 20 coach cars and over 10 new locomotives.

Plans have changed due to the pandemic, as the MTA looks to close a $5.8 billion budget gap for 2021. Rail lines like Port Jefferson to Huntington will still run hourly at peak periods, but others with lower ridership will not likely be so lucky. Fares are also expected to increase beyond the anticipated 4% for 2021 through 2024, and riders who are taking trips to the city will feel it in their wallets the most.

Yet the new diesel engines remain on the docket, making local advocates and officials severely question if they are still coming when so much service is getting cut.

In the MTA’s July preliminary budget presentation, it stated that a reduction or delay in the 2020-24 capital program will have a limited impact on the operating budget because, for one, the MTA’s portion is back ended, having already been funded from several tax sources. Using those sources to fund the operating budget instead would “consume cash and reduce liquidity.”

Still, there has been talk of removing some parts of the capital plan. Newsday has reported the MTA has plans to put the $230 million north/south link between the Ronkonkoma and Babylon branches on pause.

There is no money in that capital plan for Port Jeff electrification either.

The 2018 Port Jeff report by Horn notes that the Ronkonkoma line, once the LIRR expanded electrification from Hicksville to Ronkonkoma in 1987, jumped daily trips from 6,200 to 16,000 by 2007, a result of people no longer taking the Port Jeff or Montauk branches to both north and south. Less local traffic also meant a decline in the economic vitality of Upper Port.

The MTA has planned for additional diesel trains on the LIRR, including the Port Jeff line, but because of COVID, nothing is certain. File photo

These new diesel trains are just another factor of what Horn calls “a real lack of planning.” He lamented why the MTA, or America in general, doesn’t try to learn from countries with much better, faster and more efficient train systems like South Korea or Japan.

The greatest need, however, has been the addition of a third rail for the Port Jeff line, something that has been trumpeted and sometimes praised to be coming soon.

State Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) has long been a proponent of electrification. As the chair of the Assembly environmental conservation committee, he said he, along with his state Senate counterpart Todd Kaminsky (D-Rockville Centre), met with Phil Eng, the head of the LIRR, late last year to talk about these new trains.

“Quite frankly, he was not able to give us any assurance he was going to do anything but plow ahead,” Englebright said. “That was a couple months before COVID crisis basically created a whole new set of distractions.”

New York State, in the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, has set the lofty goal to limit statewide greenhouse gases to 40% of 1990 levels by 2030, and 85% by 2050.

“It looks to me like LIRR is basically telling us that they are going to proceed as if exempt from CLCPA, which is outrageous,” the local assemblyman said. He added these trains could have a lifespan of 50 years.

In a letter sent to Englebright in March 2019, MTA president, Patrick Foye, said that the LIRR had been reviewing proposals for a $4 million study on Port Jeff electrification and other projects, and that it could be awarding a contract for the electrification study in early summer 2019. That study has not yet materialized and, with the MTA saying it has no updates, it’s likely it won’t any time soon.

History Close at Hand

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Olga Reboli: Stony Brook Was Her Pride and Joy

BY BEVERLY C. TYLER DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM “My father came from Czechoslovakia ...

He has always had a very, very good name ... we’ve tried to live up to,” Olga Reboli said in a 1986 interview.

Mrs. William P. Reboli lived her entire life in Stony Brook. She was born Olga Agnes Jicinsky Aug. 1, 1901. She was the youngest of four children born to Joseph Jicinsky (1853-1929) and Annie Kopriva Jicinsky (1866-1903).

Olga’s brother Frank Jicinsky and sister Marie Jicinsky Conklin also lived in Stony Brook. Her sister, Anna Louise Jicinsky, (born 1893), was struck and killed by an automobile in Stony Brook Sept. 5, 1961, as she was returning to the Bank of Suffolk County (now the Reboli Center) where she worked.

Joseph Jicinsky actually came to America from Bohemia, a province in the Habsburgs’ Austrian Empire. The year Jicinsky immigrated to America, 1867, the Emperor of Austria signed an agreement with Hungary which centralized the empire and provided even fewer rights for the Slavic people of Bohemia than they had under the Austrians.

Joseph Jicinsky bought the house opposite the end of Harbor Road, on Main Street, in 1910, and turned the building behind the house into a business of his own. A postcard of the period is labeled “JoS. Jicinski - STONY BROOK LI - Weines, Liqours - Ale & Lager Beer - CIGARS & Tobacco - Pool Parlor.”

Olga Reboli recalled the first decade of the 20th century.

“We were all born in that house up there [on Harbor Road, past the Stony Brook Grist Mill) ... [My father] he was the saloon

keeper. He rented from Mr. Emmett, Mr. Emmett owned it. And the saloon was across the street.”

Olga Reboli was married to William P. Reboli (1900-1975) Oct. 29, 1932. They raised three children, William, Virginia and Joseph.

Olga went to work for L.C. Clarke Real Estate in 1925 and was a full-time employee until 1965. When Mr. Clarke interviewed her for the job, he convinced her, “You can try.”

He told her later, “If you always tell the truth you’ll never get in trouble.”

She remembered her working career fondly.

“The house right next to the [Christian Ave.] School, the white house ... that was the first sale I made in Stony Brook. I remember when I applied. I was recommended for the job. And I remember a Mr. & Mrs. Walker walking in — wanted to buy a house — and I showed them that house and they gave me a 500 dollar deposit. And I called Mr. Clarke and I said, I sold a house and I don’t know what to do with the money (she laughs). He says, ‘wait there,’ he says, ‘I’ll be right there.’

He didn’t expect me to do anything like that — 500 dollars.”

In 1965, Olga said she was semi-retired and listed as a field officer of the company.

She also remembered working, when she was a young girl, in the general stores of Mr. Terry and Mr. Dickerson, earning about $30 a month. She also liked to tell a story of when her husband was a boy.

“My husband worked summer times for A. M. Brown … He lived up Harbor Road in Head of the Harbor … He [Mr. Brown] used to have a horse by the name of Blondie and [Bill] he’d bring the horse down to Conklin’s blacksmith shop and leave her there. And all they’d do is pat her on the back when they

A postcard circa 1880, above, shows Bill and Olga Reboli’s home. Below right, the first Stony Brook Post Office after it became the L.C. Clarke Co. with Mr. L.C. Clarke and Olga Reboli, who started work June 20, 1924, outside. Below left, a postcard, circa 1920, features Jicinsky’s Saloon with entrance in the rear. From Beverly C. Tyler’s collection

finished [shoeing her] and she’d come home — all by herself.”

Olga also enjoyed telling a story about her house.

“When we bought the house, we put a fire sign on it [A marker used to identify fire department serviced homes in subscription fire districts], one of those old ones we got up in Rhode Island. My husband was working outside and this woman come along and she said, ‘Mr. Reboli, what is that sign on your house?’ He says, ‘I’ll tell you lady, this is the only house in Stony Brook that has a mortgage on it.’ Then she looked at ‘em, she said, ‘I don’t believe you.’ He always was kidding [she chuckled].”

Olga’s love of Stony Brook was very evident in what she said about the people and the different areas of Stony Brook that she knew so well.

“I have a really close feeling for Stony Brook. I worked down the village, I was associated with all those people down there — got along beautifully with everyone of them. Stony Brook has really been my pride and joy … Yesterday I came along with a basket of groceries and a wagon and a woman stopped her car and said, ‘My son’s going to help you.’ Now who else would do that? The town has really been wonderful to me, I can’t say enough about it.”

The Three Village Historical Society will present a live virtual program, Stony Brook Before and After Ward Melville, narrated by

Donna Smith and Beverly C. Tyler, Monday, Nov. 9, 7 PM. For details and to register, visit Events-Lecture Series at www.tvhs.org.

Beverly C. Tyler is a Three Village Historical Society historian and author of books available from the society at 93 North Country Road, Setauket. For more information, call 631-7513730 or visit www.tvhs.org.

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Novenas PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN (Never Known To Fail).

Oh, most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel, fruitful vine, splendor of heaven, blessed mother of the Son of God, immaculate virgin, assist me in my necessity. Oh star of the sea, help me & show me here in, you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth, I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to succor me in this necessity. There are none who can withstand your power. Oh show me herein you are my mother.

Oh Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. (3 times).

Oh Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands. (3 times).

Holy Spirit, you who solve all problems, light all roads so that I can obtain my goals. You gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me, and that in all instances of my life, you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things as you confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you in eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy toward me and mine.

The person must say this prayer 3 consecutive days. The request will be granted. This prayer must be published after the favor has been granted. Thank you again. M.S.

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Editorial

Far Beyond COVID

In 2016, Stony Brook University rebranded itself to a new campaign called Far Beyond.

The idea behind the campaign was to highlight the wide range of programs and activities the school offered, since everyone normally acknowledges the university for its medicine, science and technology specialties.

But this year in 2020, the institution proved that it indeed has gone “far beyond” with protecting public health.

Dr. Deborah Birx, head of the White House’s coronavirus task force, visited SBU last week, a stop in a several-month-long tour of different colleges and universities across the United States. But her visit to the local university was different, and she made that clear.

During her press conference, she spoke highly of how Stony Brook has handled the COVID-19 crisis. She said from the start, it was going, well, “far beyond” what other schools, and even hospitals, were doing.

She said that back in March when the university shut down and patients with the virus were filling the rooms, Stony Brook did something different from other institutions — it actually collected data, while continuing to take care of the patients.

“I was listening to the research activities that they started from day one,” she said during the press conference. “And it thrilled my heart to hear from them that their number one thing was collecting data and collecting information in real time.”

It’s right to give credit where its due, and Stony Brook, both on the medical and campus side, has done good work in keeping the number of cases down. The university’s COVID dashboard reports just two students, one university employee and four Stony Brook Medicine employees have currently tested positive as of Oct. 11. Better yet, the school has been upfront in where those cases are located and how it is handling them.

This is compared to places like SUNY Oneonta, which had to close back in August after hundreds of students tested positive after a large super-spreader party. The Oneonta dashboard reports 712 confirmed cases among students since the start of the fall semester.

It’s also not to say that SBU has not made stumbles, especially in communicating with students.

Right off the bat during the start of the pandemic, students were rightfully upset at how the university handled the virus. In March, dorming students were shocked when each received an email saying they needed to move out, go home or find shelter elsewhere because the campus was officially closed.

Students said they felt rushed, and felt the university wasn’t being truthful or transparent with everything being so abrupt.

Some international students couldn’t even go home since their countries were in lockdown.

But the students are back, and cases remain low. Is it because of the incentives the university has taken with social distancing guidelines, removing of sports and recreational activities, hybrid learning and sanitizing stations? Or is it just because Stony Brook is not a “party school” and the students there really don’t congregate as at some of the schools upstate, like Oneonta. It’s also important to note the number of students living on campus has fallen from 39% in 2019 to 17% this fall.

With a new president installed at SBU, Maurie McInnis, we think that communication with students has improved. Every person, every institution has been impacted by the pandemic. The students, who feel they are paying a lot for what at times must feel like a mostly online education, need that person-on-person interaction to let their voices be heard, even if it’s behind a clear plastic barrier.

Nonetheless, Stony Brook gets high praise from both us and those involved in the national response to COVID-19, as well as Birx, for going “far beyond.” We kindly ask that the university keeps it up, for the sake of both your students and the wider community.

Letters to the Editor

Republicans Don’t Promote Disruptive Behavior In a Sept. 3 letter to The Village Times Herald, Susan Blake told us a story about an unwelcome confrontation involving her, her family and her community, and some peaceful protesters. According to the story, her group was conducting a peace and equality vigil, when a man appeared and expressed his opposition to their positions, using verbiage that may be fairly described as unfriendly and confrontational, including the dreaded N-word, the C-word and the B-word.

A week later, the story relates, the peace and equality vigil reconvened, the peaceful protester made a return visit, and a second disagreeable verbal confrontation ensued. This time, the police were present, and again no one was injured and no property was damaged.

Two weeks later, the story continues, a second peaceful protester appeared, and this one tore down signs on Ms. Blake’s property: “Not once, but twice.”

Furthermore, this man was quoted as saying, “BLM is a terrorist organization and he is proud of his white skin.” For some reason a policeman was again present, and he told the second peaceful protester to stay away and never have contact with Ms. Blake’s group again. This admonition has apparently been observed, although some miscreant has allegedly been dumping

garbage on Ms. Blake’s property, in violation of Brookhaven’s ordinance which prohibits unlawful littering.

While Ms. Blake is understandably not pleased with having to deal with peaceful protesters who do not agree with her political and social positions, one has to wonder if she has been observing the exciting events that have been occurring this year in Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, Washington, D.C., New York City, Rochester, Birmingham and other cities too numerous to enumerate, all of which share the common characteristic of having Democrat mayors and Democrat governors. These events have been widely covered, and the distinctions between peaceful protests and violent anarchy, including looting, arson, destruction of property and murder, have been made quite clear, particularly by the Democrat politicians and district attorneys in charge. For example, we have been told that the following activities are reasonable parts of peaceful protesting, and are not to be condemned or restricted: (1) Advocating special preferential treatment for members of your own race.

(2) Threatening or menacing physical confrontation. (3) Physical removal of signs with which you do not agree. (4) The use of any conceivable profanity,

including the N-word, the C-word, the B-word and most especially the F-word.

We have been told by our leading Democrat political leaders that all of these activities are reasonable parts of peaceful protesting and are worthy of support and even praise. Furthermore, these same leaders have generally declined to condemn the violent anarchy that sometimes follows the peaceful protests, except in the most extreme cases, and even go so far as to support defunding the police. Only very recently have they begun to even mildly disapprove of the antisocial violence, and then in the most tepid possible terms, obviously designed to show their constituents that they do not really mean it.

The notion that it is Republicans, such as U.S. Lee Zeldin (R-NY1) and President Donald Trump (R), who promote disruptive behavior is preposterous. If Susan Blake has a problem with visits from uncivil peaceful protesters who are unwanted and uninvited, this is clearly a case of the chickens coming home to roost. If she doesn’t like it, I suggest that she vote for Lee Zeldin and Donald Trump, along with any other Republican whose name may happen to appear on the ballot.

George Altemose Setauket

Do Not Conflate Facts with Partisanship I guess the rules have changed. I can remember when we weren’t supposed to blame an entire group of people for the actions of a few. But now, it seems in the name of politics, that is no longer the case. Examples include the narrative being used against the police. Facts of individual cases are blatantly disregarded to advance political agendas. Defunding the police is having catastrophic results on communities. Need proof? Shootings in New York City are up more than 140% over last year with a 51% increase in murders between May and August. Our area is approximately 50 miles from the city. Feel safe now? Is this a reflection on our current leadership and their policies?

The Democratic New York mayor, Bill de Blasio, and the entirely Democratically

controlled state government are failing us all. Look at the policies, then compare them to the outcomes.

Yet some people conflate facts with partisanship. A frequent letter writer, Shoshana Hershkowitz, recently tried to tie Republican members of the Brookhaven Town Board to the incident involving the confederate flag on a fire truck by saying they have not done enough to stand up to racism. Her proof? She shamelessly invokes the Marcelo Lucero incident from 12 years ago and tries to connect it Brookhaven’s GOP elected officials. She then mentions the word Republican and GOP at least seven times in negative ways throughout her letter and closes by saying justice, equality and decency should not be partisan issues. Really? It doesn’t take

a scientist to see a partisan attack for what it is.

I hope people that believe in facts and enjoy the quality of life in our area that we cherish, remember to vote for Congressman Lee Zeldin [R-NY1]. He will fight to preserve law and order, and not let Long Island turn into the next Seattle or Portland with nonstop riots and “fiery but mostly peaceful protests,” as CNN so euphemistically put it. The time has come to remember we are all Americans and stop with the identity politics that are pulling us apart. And more importantly, start living the way a very wise man once dreamed, by judging people by the content of their character.

Charles Cozzolino Setauket

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

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Opinion My Lunch at CSHL With a Future Nobel Prize Winner

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hree years and a different world ago, I attended a scientific conference at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on a gene editing technique called CRISPR, or more technically CRISPR-cas9.

I rubbed elbows with some of the many talented scientists at an internationally renowned institution.

In a casual atmosphere filled with high-powered talks from people who speak the language of science with accents from all over the world, the grounds at CSHL, with its D. None winding roads and of the above personalized parking

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF spaces, offers a treelined backdrop for new collaborations and discoveries.

Back then, I invited one of the conference

organizers, Jennifer Doudna (pronounced Dowd nuh), who is a Professor of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, to lunch.

After a talk she gave to a packed Grace Auditorium, she and I strolled to the cafeteria to discuss a gene editing tool that has the potential to change the world.

Indeed, even today, labs around the world are using a technique based on the way bacteria recognize and fight off viruses to combat the effect of SARS-CoV-2, or the virus that causes COVID-19.

During that sunny July day in 2017, however, we were blissfully unaware of the challenges to come in 2020. We sat down at a central table outside, with people passing, nodding and acknowledging my tall and talented lunch guest.

While she responded to an appreciative crowd of casually dressed researchers, she was present and focused on the many questions I’d prepared for an upcoming Power of 3 column (see page B9 for another look at that column).

Like many revolutionary technologies and inventions such as splitting the atom, CRISPR is

neither all good nor all bad. Editing genes creates opportunities to cure or prevent diseases and to disarm a range of miniature invaders.

At the same time, gene editing puts the power of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein into the hands of scientists or doctors, offering the kind of tool that requires careful ethical considerations.

Indeed, just last year, a Chinese court sentenced a researcher to three years in prison for using gene editing in unborn babies.

Doudna, who moved to Hawaii when she was seven and is a passionate gardener, is in the third year of a four-year $65 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which monitors security concerns for the intentional or accidental misuse of the technology.

Eating with Doudna on a breezy, bright summer day, I appreciated how ready she was to tailor the conversation to my level of understanding of this technology, offering details about gene editing and making sure I understood her.

While she was impressive and articulate, she certainly didn’t seem as if she were speaking to me from on high. She shared a deliberate and

A Benefit Amid Pandemic Problems: Binging

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lame it all on the pandemic, but in an effort to practice social distancing from my refrigerator, I have seriously begun to binge. On what am I binging? I plead guilty to the following definition of binging from my cell phone browser: “watching multiple episodes of a television program over a short period of time.”

Now I am not exactly an innocent when it comes to watching a serialized story all at once. Given the opportunity, I did just that with the last year of Between “Downton Abbey.” you and me I got all the coming

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF installments at once in return for a donation to PBS, and I stayed up past three o’clock in the morning, too hypnotized to

turn off the TV until the series had ended. I guess that was the tip off to my plot-addicted personality. The reveal is that I love stories, and like the monarch lover of Scheherazade, Persian King Shahryar, in “One Thousand and One Nights,” I cannot leave a tale in the middle when I have the opportunity to see how it ends, regardless of my fatigue.

So on a recommendation, I started watching “The Crown,” and you guessed it. This marvelous series, a historical drama about Elizabeth II, the Windsors, and some of the events that have marked her reign, captivated me.

The first season starts with the marriage of Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 1947, to the end of her sister Margaret’s involvement with Group Captain Peter Townsend in 1955. After dinner each night, I turned on the television and watched all the stories filmed to this point until I fell asleep in my chair.

I eagerly await the start of the fourth season, which I believe will happen Nov. 15 and include Margaret Thatcher’s premiership and more on Lady Diana Spencer. The fifth and sixth seasons are to cover the years in the 21st

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century. Sadly, though, I will be limited only to one episode at a time because I am caught up.

The problem with a series is that sooner or later, they end. I guess they just run out of juice or the talented people involved want to move on to something else. Having gone as far as permitted with “The Crown,” I started casting around for another compelling show and stumbled upon “Grace and Frankie,” with an incredible cast: Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Sam Waterston, Martin Sheen and a seemingly endless list of talented actors.

Far from being an historical drama, this series could only run in today’s world. Begun in 2015 and scheduled to finish in 2021, after filming resumes, the story begins when the lawyer husbands of Grace and Frankie announce that they are not only business partners for the past 40 years but also have been lovers for the last 20. They are “coming out” and wish to be married. The two couples, their relationships redrawn, now have to deal with their revised circumstances, and as they move forward in this comedy-drama, their lives touch on so many current themes with sympathy and occasional belly-laughter results.

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directed intelligence, blending a combination of an explanation of what she’d done and thoughts on the next scientific steps.

Doudna, who lives with her husband Jamie Cate, who is also a Berkeley scientist, and their high school senior son Andrew, shared an appreciation for the history of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where she’d visited at different points in her career.

Back in 1987, she spotted a woman walking towards her. Nobel prize winner Barbara McClintock, whose name still comes up regularly in conversations with scientists at the site, strolled by in a tee shirt, giving Doudna a thrill.

The next time someone spots or interacts with the Berkeley Professor at CSHL, they will likely feel the same excitement, as Doudna was recently named a recipient of the Nobel Prize.

Then again, it was clear from the way the attendees at the conference reacted to Doudna three years ago that, Nobel prize or not, she was already a rock star in the scientific community whose foundational work may, one day, lead to the kind of breakthroughs that extend and improve life.

Both couples, forced to recognize their advanced years, deal with physical limitations, retirement issues, health insurance frustrations, bigoted elderly parents, interracial relationships, sexual needs and computer challenges. Both couples have adult children, who bring into the plots some of the pain and satisfactions of the twenty-somethings: raising young children, not wanting children, addiction, being able to afford buying a home, and worrying how to take care of older parents who don’t want to acknowledge aging.

It is primarily the story, though, of two women, Grace and Frankie, who could not be more different. They cannot stand to be in the same room with each other at the start, yet we see how they slowly come together in trying to deal with their mutually altered circumstances.

The characters are well drawn by the authors and actors, and they ultimately reveal much about the value of supportive friendships between women. Can Grace and Frankie, two women in their 70s, survive being outcasts?

The answer is a resounding YES! Be assured, there are already 78 episodes with more on the way, enough for a great binge.

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