The Village Times Herald - August 23, 2018

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Vol. 43, No. 26

August 23, 2018

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University plans for new engineering building Sens. LaValle and Flanagan secure $25M for new facility on SBU campus

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BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM In the days of Kindle, one senator recognizes libraries still play a major part in communities.

Recently, state Sen. John Flanagan (R) announced that four libraries in his district, including Setauket’s Emma S. Clark Memorial Library, would be receiving state funding to offset the cost of construction projects.

“Public libraries are more than books — they are community centers that provide valuable programs and services,” Flanagan said in a statement. “They are a proven resource for residents of all ages and we need to continue to work with the leaders of these facilities to provide them with the funding they need to fulfill their mission.”

The construction grants, which were allocated in the 2017–18 state budget for public library construction and broadband infrastructure projects, total $209,638, and are administered by the New

York State Education Department and the New York State Library, according to a statement from Flanagan’s office.

Emma Clark Library received $9,638 for the installation of energy-efficient LED fixtures and bulbs. Ted Gutmann, library director, said the LED project is already complete, and the grant is a reimbursement for the project cost.

“This is win-win for our patrons who won’t have to directly fund the project, and at the same time will get a more efficient library that will help save them money for years to come,” Gutmann said. “Senator Flanagan’s efforts in supporting libraries are much appreciated, and on behalf of the board of trustees and myself, thanks again for being a friend of the Emma S. Clark Memorial Library.”

The Legislature approved an additional $34 million in funding for projects as part of the 2018–19 state budget. The approved projects for that funding will be announced in the summer of 2019, according to the statement.

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University

SBU president, senators announce $25M state funding for new building Two state senators are doing their part to engineer a better future for Stony Brook University and Long Island.

New York state Sens. John Flanagan (R-East Northport) and Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) joined SBU President Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr. Aug. 16 to announce the award of $25 million in state funding to the university for the initial phase of developing a new engineering building on campus — one that is estimated to cost $100 million in total. The 100,000 square-foot facility will include industrial-quality labs, active-learning classrooms and prototyping/manufacturing shops.

The official announcement was made at the university’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences building with representatives of local engineering companies in attendance, including VJ Technologies, Cameron Engineering & Associates and H2M Architects & Engineers.

“We have the opportunity to provide funding, sometimes discretionary, and this is a very strong investment,” Flanagan said.

He thanked the owners and board members of the local engineering companies who traveled to Albany a few months ago to discuss the needs of engineering companies as well as the

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Dean Fotis Sotiropoulos, SBU president Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr., Sens. Ken LaValle and John Flanagan in front of the current engineering building at the university.

importance of recruiting talent and retaining students on Long Island.

LaValle, chairman of the Senate’s higher education committee, said he believed the new building will attract preeminent students to SBU, and thanked Flanagan for helping to secure the funds during a time when spare money isn’t plentiful.

“I think it will go a long way in ensuring that we enhance where we are today in terms of providing students and faculty with an optimum

state-of-the-art facility,” LaValle said.

Stanley recognized the senators as visionaries for acknowledging how critical the university is when it comes to building the technology that Long Island needs.

“The demand is tremendous,” Stanley said.

“So, we really need to grow this school. We’re turning away qualified applicants from the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences because we don’t have enough space and

because we need more faculty to teach.”

Fotis Sotiropoulos, dean of the engineering college, said the number of students applying to SBU has grown 60 percent since 2012, and the university has become more selective due to the lack of space. Currently, engineering students need to score at least 1400 on the SATs and to be in the 95th percentile in their class.

The dean said the research conducted at the school, in addition to impacting the economic development on Long Island, also affects the state and nation. The university focuses on engineering-driven medicine, artificial intelligence discoveries and energy systems for sustainability.

“This is where we are going to develop the medicine of the future,” Sotiropoulos said, adding SBU wants to be the hub for the state in artificial intelligence research.

Sotiropoulos said as the university develops the new facility the curriculum will be reconstructed to build learning around projects that start early in a student’s college years and continue all the way to incubating startup companies.

He said one of the goals is to keep students local after graduation.

“We want to grow the size of the engineering workforce for Long Island and the state, but we also want to educate the new kind of engineers,” Sotiropoulos said.

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Obituary

Retired Three Village school teacher, Stony Brook resident Dolores Crane Dolores Eileen Crane, 85, a longtime Stony Brook resident, died Aug. 1 at Island Nursing and Rehab Center in Holtsville.

Born in Brooklyn, Jan. 18, 1933, she was the daughter of Emil and Elizabeth Daley Karmin.

She was raised in Freeport and lived on New York Avenue in Stony Brook since 1965, prior to moving to Sayville last year due to health concerns.

She completed her Bachelor of Arts in biology at Hofstra University and earned her teaching certification at SUNY New Paltz. She continued and completed her master’s in education from SUNY Empire State College. Dolores and her husband, James, married June 11, 1954.

She was a well-respected and much loved elementary school teacher in the Three Village Central School District, most notably teaching at North Country Elementary and Setauket Elementary schools. The writer Brad Henry penned the saying, “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” Dolores was fiercely devoted to her students and believed that education was the foundation on which much of life was based.

Growing up in poverty, she was able to propel herself from the ground up to live a lifestyle representative of her determined work ethic and spirit; she was always appreciative of all she had, but she

and her late husband, James, worked hard to be able to provide for themselves and their family.

The juxtaposition from her childhood to adulthood was never lost on Dolores, and it was one of the things that made her such a great teacher.

She believed everyone deserved a chance to see the greatness they had within themselves and cultivated that philosophy in all of her relationships.

Denying her own sense of humor, she was known for her wit and quick comebacks. Able to feed an army of her children’s friends on short notice, Dolores was very generous in every sense.

She gave of her time and talents for whatever family and friends needed, but was also giving of her spirit and simply tried to make this world a better place each and every day through her actions. She desired her legacy to be one where she effected change in a positive way.

Longtime members of Stony Brook Yacht Club, Dolores and James greatly enjoyed the water and, in fact, all of nature. They had two boats over the years, Crane’s Bill and Crane’s Bill II. Her work at the club included becoming the first female full member.

An avid gardener, she used each day to appreciate nature’s beauty and radiance. She was a longtime member of the Appalachian Mountain Club as well as the Sierra Club. As much as they loved

the water, Dolores and James greatly enjoyed hiking, and she was a staunch supporter of the environment and its protection.

Her faith was an important part of her life, and she was a longtime member of the Three Village Unitarian Church, teaching Sunday school at her home for many years before the building had classrooms. She stayed active with the Three Village Schools Retirees Association, helping with the annual scholarship awards each year.

She was preceded in death by her loving husband James in 1991, and her sister Helen Lucke.

Surviving Dolores are daughter Patricia McKnight Costell; son and daughter-in-law Matthew Daley

Crane and Arlene; daughter Ruth Elliott Crane; brother-in-law Robert Lucke; grandchildren Rob and his wife, Carrie Klaus, Rachael and Corinne Costell, and Kyra and Jeremy Crane; great grandchildren Mairin and Stella Klaus; and nephews Michael, Chris and Robert Kern.

Family and friends are invited to gather at the Setauket Neighborhood House, 95 Main St., Setauket, Saturday, Sept. 1, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. with a life celebration service taking place at 2:30 p.m. Anyone wishing to have anything read at the memorial, if they are unable to attend, are kindly asked to submit their thoughts by email to careteam@wrightfamily.com.

All arrangements are under the care and direction of Wright & Ford Family Funeral Home and Cremation Services of Flemington, New Jersey.

Cremation was private at the Chapel of Ewing Crematory, Ewing Township, New Jersey.

Dolores’ memorial may be visited at the website www.wrightfamily.com. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Three Village Retirees Association, P.O. Box 2397, Setauket, NY 11733 (checks should be marked “In memory of Dolores Crane” in the memo line). The family greatly appreciates any and all contributions which will help foster continuing education.

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THREE VILLAGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Above, Bev Tyler stands behind his daughters and wife, Barbara, before a bicentennial celebration.

Center, the historian circa 1953, and, right, at his 80th birthday party at the Three Village Historical Society. Below, Tyler with his mother in 1962 at his graduation from Farmingdale.

Focusing on the story of Three Village historian Bev Tyler

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Sometimes even a historian gets to enjoy a historic moment in his own life.

Members of the Three Village Historical Society celebrated Beverly Tyler’s 80th birthday Aug. 15, a milestone the historian reached four days before. The society’s main office was fittingly the setting for the celebration as the organization has been a part of Tyler’s life for more than half of his 80 years.

In 1974, when he began to organize a local bicentennial committee in anticipation of July 4, 1976, Tyler said he joined the Three Village Historical Society. He asked Bill Minuse, the society’s president at the time, for seed money, and the members agreed to donate $1,000. During the two years of the committee’s existence, the members worked on projects that included planting Bradford pear trees along Route 25A from the Stony Brook train station to the memorial park in East Setauket and placing a memorial stone in front of St. James R.C. Church. The committee also published the “Three Village Guidebook” written by Howard Klein and illustrated by Patricia Windrow, which provided a summary of the historic neighborhoods in the area.

It was during this bicentennial year that Tyler first wrote for this newspaper, when it was known as The Village Times, to promote the committee.

Later, he wrote biweekly history articles for once competitor The Three Village Herald, and after the two papers merged, he became the history columnist in 2002 for The Village Times Herald, as he is to this day.

During his decades with the historical society, Tyler said he has served in many capacities including president, chairman and newsletter editor. He became historian in 2003, when he

began working with historical society education director Donna Smith.

“Bev has been instrumental in bringing local history to our students in Three Village through his program Founder’s Day and his field trips for students across Long Island about the Culper spies,” Smith said. “He relates so well to the students, from fourth grade to high school.”

A love for local history was instilled early in Tyler’s life — a passion he credits to his family and living in Setauket.

“This was always a community where history was right there in the forefront,” he said.

While the historian’s family tree has deep roots in the Three Village area, Tyler was born in Brooklyn at Methodist Episcopal Hospital in 1938. He said his parents moved back to their family home in Setauket when he was a year old. His father, a violinist, had moved to the city in hopes of finding work as a musician.

When his father couldn’t find enough work, the family moved back, and they lived with Tyler’s grandmother until he was 11.

The historian said they soon moved to the family’s house on Main Street across from the post office where his mother lived until her passing in 2016 at 102 years old. After graduating from Setauket Elementary School, when it was open to students from kindergarten through ninth grade, he attended Stony Brook Boys School. He said his grandmother had written a letter to the school administrators when he was 3 or 4 asking them to hold a spot open for him. However, he said he didn’t like the school and then attended Port Jefferson High School for a year. The historian, who has written a number of books, admitted he was a lousy student, who didn’t even like history class because he said it felt like it was just about wars and dates.

“I wasn’t interested in school because it was

too easy,” he said. “So, I read. I read voraciously.”

During his brief stint at Port Jefferson High School, he played in the school band with his now wife, Barbara, but he said they didn’t know each other well.

“She played the saxophone, and I played trumpet,” he said. “She didn’t like trumpet players because we always sat behind the saxophones.”

Tyler said he eventually attended and graduated from the military school Admiral Farragut Academy in Pine Beach, New Jersey, on the banks of the Toms River in 1957. He started dating Barbara in 1960 after they met once again at the Port Jefferson Yacht Club, where Tyler was running the club’s launch.

Tyler’s military education came into play when he joined the Navy. He served for two years and was a reservist for eight. The quartermaster, who worked on the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, said he fell in love with travel while in the armed forces.

“I took advantage of every single chance I could get,” he said. “I went to Rome, Paris, Venice, Lake Como, Barcelona, Madrid, Greece.”

His time on the high seas though would soon be replaced with a career in the air. After he graduated from SUNY Farmingdale with an associate degree in photographic technology, and a short stint as a photo chemist for a photography manufacturing company, he decided to get his private and commercial pilot licenses.

Tyler said he worked at MacArthur Airport for an air service, and about a year or two later he applied to the Federal Aviation Administration to be an air traffic controller — a job he held from 1968 until he retired Jan. 3, 2002.

Tyler and his wife have two daughters — Jen, who now lives in North Carolina with her husband, and Amy, who runs Amy Tyler School of Dance and Harbor Ballet Theater in Port Jefferson.

They also have eight grandchildren.

The historian said he is currently focusing his research on the shipbuilding era, 1844–1880, and the Revolutionary War, especially the Setauket Culper spies. When it comes to his favorite spy, the historian said it’s Caleb Brewster, who carried messages from Benjamin Tallmadge in New York City to the spies on Long Island. “[Brewster] is self-starting and a risktaker, and he is fearless and a proven leader who takes care of his men and follows orders well,” Tyler said.

When it comes to reaching the milestone of 80, Tyler has simple advice for those who want to follow in his footsteps.

“Do things you enjoy and enjoy things you do,” he said.

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LEGALS SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK ______________________ INDEX NO. 601668/2018 U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET SECURITIES CORPORATION MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005GEL3, Plaintiff, vs.

KATHLEEN PAGARTANIS; STEVEN PAGARTANIS; MICHAEL E. KHOURY; if living, and if she/he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; UM CAPITAL, LLC; CAPUTI, WEINTRAUB, & NEARY; PINTA LLC; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants. _______________ Plaintiff designates SUFFOLK as the place of trial situs of the real property

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Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 29 VARSITY BOULEVARD EAST SETAUKET, NY 11733 District: 0200 Section: 307.00 Block: 08.00 Lot: 021.000 To the above named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $650,000.00 and interest, recorded on September 5, 2003, at Liber M00020491 at Page 238, of the Public Records of SUFFOLK County, New York, covering premises known as 29 VARSITY BOULEVARD EAST SETAUKET, NY 11733.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

SUFFOLK County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the

mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: May 30, 2018 RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: ANDREW FILIPAZZI, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 669 8/2 4x vth and ptr NOTICE OF SPECIAL DISTRICT MEETING OF THE THREE VILLAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT OF BROOKHAVEN AND SMITHTOWN, SUFFOLK COUNTY, NEW YORK ON BEHALF OF THE EMMA S. CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Special District Meeting of the qualified voters of the Three Village Central School District of Brookhaven and Smithtown, Suffolk County, New York, will be held in the Periodicals Room of the Emma S. Clark Memorial Library, Main Street, Setauket, on Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. prevailing time, to vote upon the annual operating budget of the Emma S. Clark Memorial Library for the calendar year 2019.

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Police Blotter

Incidents and arrests Aug. 11–20

Drug possession

A 21-year-old man from Rocky Point allegedly possessed oxycodone without a prescription while at a location on Pipe Stave Hollow Road in Miller Place Aug. 18 at about 2:30 p.m. according to police. He was arrested and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. A 20-year-old man from Rocky Point was with the other man at the same location for the alleged purpose of using the drugs obtained from what police called a “known drug location.” He was arrested and charged with loitering for the purpose of using a controlled substance.

Vacuum stealer

At CVS Pharmacy on Horseblock Road in Medford Aug. 16 a 27-year-old woman from Port Jefferson Station allegedly stole a vacuum and a vacuum sealer, according to police. She was arrested Aug. 19 in Selden and charged with petit larceny.

Miller Place assault

A 37-year-old man from Ridge allegedly punched another man in the face and body multiple times while at a home on Sylvan Avenue in Miller Place Aug. 11, according to police. He was arrested and charged with assault.

BB gun on school grounds

On Aug. 16 at about 8:30 a.m., an 18-year-old male from Centereach allegedly walked on school grounds at Centereach High School with a BB gun, according to police. Police said he was spotted by a coach during a sports team practice, and the coach immediately called 911. He was arrested and charged with third-degree criminal trespassing and unlawful possession of a weapon on school grounds.

Tires slashed

The tires on a 2010 Dodge were slashed while it was parked on Furrow Place in Miller Place at about 9 a.m. Aug. 20, according to police.

Purse taken

A purse containing cash, credit cards and prescription medication was stolen from within an unlocked vehicle parked at Cedar Beach on Harbor Road in Mount Sinai Aug. 20 at about 2:30 p.m., according to police.

Glass door damaged

A sliding glass door at a residence on Bleeker Street in Port Jefferson was shot and damaged with a pellet gun at about 9:30 a.m. Aug. 19, according to police.

Stealing from Target

A 41-year-old man from Amityville allegedly stole luggage and sporting goods from Target on Pond Path in South Setauket Aug. 18 at about 1:30 p.m., according to police. He was issued a field appearance ticket.

Business break-in

The front glass door was broken to The Wine Authority on Nesconset Highway in Mount Sinai Aug. 15 at about 4 a.m., and cash was stolen from the register within, according to police.

Trees taken

Four assorted living plants were stolen from 4 Corners Produce on Boyle Road in Terryville Aug. 18 at about 7:30 p.m., according to police.

Vacant home vandalized

The storm door at the rear entrance of a vacant home on Nesconset Highway in Terryville was damaged and 12 glass windows were broken at about noon Aug. 13, according to police.

Gas and go

Someone filled their car with about $20 worth of gas at Speedy Gas on Route 112 in Terryville Aug. 15 at about 11 a.m. and left without paying, according to police.

— Compiled by Alex Petroski

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Town

Judge rules in favor of LIPA, ‘no promises’ to school districts Legal challenges over tax assessment of power plants can go forward A New York State Supreme Court judge has ruled Long Island Power Authority “made no promises” to the Town of Huntington, Northport-East Northport school district and Port Jefferson School District not to challenge the taxes levied on its power stations.

In decisions dated Aug. 15 and 16, Judge Elizabeth Emerson dismissed the lawsuits brought forth by the Town of Huntington and the two school districts which alleged LIPA broke a promise by seeking to reduce the power plant’s taxes by 90 percent.

“The court’s decision affirms our customers’ right to pay reasonable taxes on the power plants,” LIPA said in a statement from spokesman Sid Nathan. “We remain committed to reaching a fair settlement for both the local communities and our 1.1 million customers to put an unsustainable situation back on a sustainable path.”

The judge’s ruling is a big victory for LIPA as it allows tax certiorari cases to continue to trial, rather than being dismissed, and could have a widespread impact across Long Island for other municipalities with similar disputes against the utility.

“Obviously, we disagree with this decision and plan to appeal,” Northport Superintendent Robert Banzer wrote in a letter to district residents. “Please understand that Justice Emerson’s decision is not the end of our fight in this case.”

Port Jeff school district also responded to the development.

“While this decision is not the outcome the district was hoping for, we vow to continue to explore our options as we work to protect our school district’s financial future and the needs of our community,” the district said in part in a statement. “The district will work to keep the community apprised of any updates on the matter.”

In her 24-page decision, Emerson denied any notion that chapter 21, section 16 of the 1997 Power Supply Agreement — which has been referred to as “the 1997 promise” — signed by LIPA when it took over Long Island Lighting Company was intended to benefit the school districts by preventing LIPA from challenging the tax-assessed value of its power plants.

Rather, she found it was to ensure other parties, including LILCO and GENCO, which owned the plants at the time, could not start initiating tax claims during the takeover process.

She also dismissed all claims that town governments or school districts were intended third-party beneficiaries of the contract.

“The Power Supply Agreement is clear and unambiguous and that it does not bestow any

TBR NEWS MEDIA

BY SARA-MEGAN WALSH & ALEX PETROSKI

Editorial comment Page A22

The tax assessment of the property that houses Port Jefferson Power Station in Port Jeff Village has been the subject of a legal battle between LIPA, Brookhaven Town, the school district and the village for the better part of a decade.

enforceable third-party-beneficiary rights on beneficiary “was wrongly decided.”

This recent decision could have large and the plaintiff,” Emerson wrote.

The judge pointed to the PSA saying it profound impact not only on Huntington, “does not expressly name” either the town or Northport-East Northport and Port Jeff schools, but for all other municipal government and school districts as a third-party beneficiaries.

“She applied contract law, not third-party school districts that have LIPA’s power plants.

On page 18 of her decision, Emerson wrote beneficiary law,” said John Gross, the attorney representing Northport-East Northport school not only did the PSA contract not protect the district. “That’s what we think she made the Town of Huntington, Northport or Port Jeff school district taxpayers but mistake on.”

Gross said New York State ‘While this decision is not “other similar situated school law allows entities, like the the outcome the district districts and municipalities.”

“This result was to a very school districts, to be recogwas hoping for, we vow large extent expected by the nized as third-party benefito continue to explore village, and that’s why the ciaries based on third-party our options as we work mayor and the board of trustconversations, letters and to protect our school ees very early, initiated and promises. The school districts have filed thousands of pages district’s financial future drove settlement discussions with LIPA to resolve the isof documents with the courts, and the needs of our sue,” Port Jefferson Village according to Gross, that incommunity.’

Attorney Brian Egan said. clude official correspondence The village board of trustand records of conversations — Port Jeff school district ees and Mayor Margot Garant former LIPA chairman Richin April passed a resolution ard Kessel had with school approving “settlement conadministrators and Huntington Town officials allegedly promising not to chal- cepts,” and the two sides are exchanging details of terms, expected to reach conclusion “at lenge the tax assessment of its power plants.

The judge ruled these “extra-contractual any time,” Egan said.

“When we’re a taxing jurisdiction and promises” made largely by Kessel “were gratuitous promises for which there was no consid- we’re going to subject ourselves to the back eration.” As such, the former chairman’s words taxes on a long shot, that is not what we do with taxpayer dollars,” Garant said. “We have “did not contractually bind LIPA.” Gross said the school’s status as a third-party an obligation to not gamble, so to speak.”

Huntington town attorney Nick Ciappetta said the town plans to file an appeal of the judge’s decision.

“We believe there’s only one logical and legal way to interpret that provision,” he said.

“That provision was there for the benefit of the taxpayers of Huntington.”

The town, Northport and Port Jefferson school districts will have 30 days to file an appeal once the decision is officially entered into court records, according to Ciappetta. He estimated an appeal of the decision could take 18 to 24 months.

“The decision does not affect the pending tax certiorari case between the Town of Huntington and LIPA scheduled for trial in December, nor do we expect it will impact the parties’ willingness to proceed with mediation,” Banzer wrote to the community.

Gross confirmed that Northport school district is still looking forward to sitting down for the first mediation session with the Town of Huntington, LIPA, National Grid and third-party neutral attorney Marty Scheinman slated for Sept. 26.

Officials in the Town of Brookhaven Law Department could not be immediately reached for comment, though the town has also said it is nearing a settlement in its case, though Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) said Aug. 21 he was glad the town opted to pursue a settlement. Egan speculated settlements for municipalities attempting to resolve cases out of court might be held up by mediation in Northport and Huntington Town’s case.

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University Town SBU professor sued for sexual harassment Brookhaven and other local towns seek grant for cyber security

A Stony Brook University student has alleged that a professor sexually harassed her.

professor partnered women together on projects and not men as a sign of Frohman’s belief in their capabilities.

Frohman has not responded to requests for comment by press time.

The lawsuit continues that Mosier brought her complaints to Paul Gootenberg, the history department chair of the social studies program, but that he first asked Mosier “What is your appearance and how are you acting to be treated like this?” and that he further commented about how she was not the first to bring complaints to him about Frohman.

Gootenberg declined to comment saying the university does not comment on pending personnel questions.

The suit claims Mosier’s Title IX complaints were mishandled by the university, that the investigation took six months instead of a promised 60 days to finish the investigation and that the office did not adequately give information as to the status of her complaint. On Oct. 30, 2017, Mosier received a letter from the Title IX office saying the case was “closed” and her complaints were “substantiated” but she did not receive any details on what actions the university would take against the professor.

Stony Brook spokeswoman Lauren Sheprow said that the university does not comment upon ongoing litigation.

“The university does have policies and procedures in place to fully investigate claims that are brought to our attention,” Sheprow said.

Heller said he is still waiting for Stony Brook to be formally served and initial hearings won’t begin until December.

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BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The Town of Brookhaven is looking to beef up its cyber security.

At the Aug. 2 Brookhaven Town board meeting councilmembers voted unanimously to apply for a $50,000 grant under the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Cyber Security Grant Program. If the town attains the grant, Brookhaven will use town funds under specified cyber security initiatives and seek reimbursement through the grant.

The grant will make $500,000 available for any county, town or village in the state at a maximum of $50,000 per entity. Other municipalities in Suffolk County such as the Town of Smithtown are applying for the grant.

According to the state grant application, the money can be used for a number of items, including hiring a cyber security consultant, software packages for items such as firewalls and encryption, new equipment such as servers or hardware used against cyber threats, and for staff training involving cyber security awareness.

Jack Krieger, communications director for Brookhaven Town, said the town does not comment on current or future cyber security measures when asked what the money might be used for.

In June 2017, the Town of Brookhaven’s website, among 76 other municipalities, was successfully hacked by what was described as a “pro-ISIS group.” ISIS is referring to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the group that took over parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014 and is now being pushed back by U.S.-backed

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A 2018 Stony Brook University graduate has filed a lawsuit against a Stony Brook history professor claiming he verbally and sexually harassed her while giving preferential treatment to the male students over female students.

Erin Mosier, 24, filed a $3 million suit under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 in Manhattan federal court Aug. 9 saying that Stony Brook associate professor Larry Frohman sexually harassed her and degraded her for her looks and gender, sometimes together during his office hours and other times in front of her peers during class.

Mosier enrolled at Stony Brook for the fall 2015 semester desiring to become a teacher. She entered in the social studies education program in spring 2016 where Frohman was the sole undergraduate adviser, according to the court filings.

The lawsuit claims that during Mosier’s first semester at Stony Brook she took a class with Frohman and within weeks he started to privately and publicly make demeaning comments at Mosier based on her looks. The comments continued on into 2017 during her time in the social studies program. At one point during office hours Frohman told Mosier she “talks too much,” and that “all women should use their mouth for men’s pleasure.”

The lawsuit also alleges on another occasion April 2017 that after applying oil to her hands to calm herself, Frohman stated to her in front of her class, “What would calm me down is taking you through a ride on the beaver car wash with me,” alluding to a sexual act with Mosier.

Mosier’s legal representative, Brian Heller, an attorney from Manhattan-based Schwartz Perry & Heller LLP that focuses on employment harassment and discrimination law, said with this case he hopes more people will speak out about sexual harassment in education.

“These are the kind of painful experience that can destroy a young person’s confidence and impact them for the rest of their lives,” Heller said.

“I hope that by coming forward [Mosier] is able to reclaim part of her self-worth and her confidence.”

The suit further claims Frohman gave preferential treatment to male students, giving higher grades to male students on average rather than female students. The lawsuit also claims the

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Iraqi forces and the Syrian army.

The group, Team System DZ, created a static webpage using the Town of Brookhaven servers, but it did not affect the official Brookhaven website. A link was set up through town servers to a static, look-alike webpage.

Deputy Town Supervisor Dan Panico (R-Manorville) said at the time they did not see any information extracted from the servers. The town’s website was taken down temporarily but was restored within a few days.

Much emphasis has been put on cyber security by government officials of late, as it was revealed that Russia had made efforts to hack into Democratic National Convention servers during the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, taking information which was later released via several outlets including WikiLeaks, an international whistleblower organization.

U.S. intelligence officials have warned that Russia is already attempting to influence the 2018 midterm elections through multiple electronic means including phishing scams that target people’s passwords and by setting up fake accounts on social media, according to Bloomberg News recently.

Meanwhile, the Suffolk County Board of Elections is also keeping tight-lipped about cyber security measures as Long Island and the rest of the country heads toward a heated midterm election taking place Nov. 6.

“The board generally doesn’t comment on its security measures because we understand that doing so could aid nefarious individuals in their attempts to exploit our voting processes,” said Republican board of elections commissioner, Nick LaLota, when asked about the board’s preparedness to ward off security threats.

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AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that personal registration of voters is required either pursuant to Section 2014 of the Education Law or Article 5 of the Election Law. If a voter has heretofore registered pursuant to Section 2014 of the Education Law and has voted at an annual or special district meeting within the four years preceding September 26, 2018, he/she is eligible to vote at this special district meeting; if a voter is registered and eligible to vote under Article 5 of the Election Law, he/she is also eligible to vote at this special district meeting.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that applications for absentee ballots will be obtainable from the District Clerk beginning September 4, 2018; between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., prevailing time, during all days on which school is in session.

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Dated: July 19, 2018 Stony Brook, New York Kathleen Sampogna, District Clerk Three Village Central School District of Brookhaven and Smithtown, Suffolk County, New York 685 8/9 4x vth STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF SUFFOLK WELLS FARGO BANK, NA, A/K/A WACHOVIA MORTGAGE, A DIVISION OF WELLS FARGO BANK, NA, F/K/A WACHOVIA MORTGAGE, FSB, F/K/A WORLD SAVINGS BANK, FSB, vs.

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GEORGE RUSSELL A/K/A GEORGE RUSSELL III, PATRICIA PIERRE A/K/A PATRICIA RUSSELL, et al., Defendants NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT In pursuance of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the office of the County Clerk of Suffolk County on March 17, 2017, I, Theresa Ann Mari, Esq., the Referee named in said Judgment, will sell in one parcel at public auction on September 6, 2018 at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, County of Suffolk, State of New York, at 1:30 P.M., the premises described as follows: 5 Fairview Dr Shirley, NY 11967 SBL No.: 028.00-05.00043.000 ALL THAT TRACT OF PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York The premises are sold subject to the provisions of the filed judgment, Index No. 35665/11 in the amount of $244,043.20 plus interest and costs.

Elizabeth A. Clarke, Esq. Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP Plaintiff’s Attorney 700 Crossroads Building,

2 State St. Rochester, New York 14614 Tel.: 855-227-5072 693 8/2 4x vth NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK U.S. Bank N.A., as trustee, on behalf of the holders of the J.P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust 2006-CH2 Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-CH2, Plaintiff AGAINST Victoria Martini a/k/a Victoria Peters as Heir at Law and Next of Kin of Keith Peters; Deborah Peters as Heir at Law and Next of Kin of Keith Peters; Sandra Peters as Heir at Law and Next of Kin of Keith Peters; Capital One Bank (USA), NA; Eastern Infectious Disease Association; Incorporated Village of Patchogue; John Doe 1 through 50; Jane Doe 1 through 50, intending to be the unknown heirs, distributes, devisees, grantees, trustees, lienors, creditors, and assignees of the Estate of Keith Peters who was born in 1966 and died August 4, 2009, a resident of the County of Suffolk, their successors in interest if any of the aforesaid defendants be deceased, their respective heirs at law, next of kin, and successors in interest of the aforesaid classes of person, if they or any of them be dead, and their respective husbands, wives or widows, if any, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the Plaintiff; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated May 21, 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, New York, 11738 on September 6, 2018 at 11:00AM, premises known as 23 Kirby Lane, Lake Ronkonkoma, NY 11779. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk, State of NY, District 0200 Section 620.00 Block 02.00 Lot 008.000.

Approximate amount of judgment $545,526.12 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 601021/2015.

Daniel Ross, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: July 17, 2018 707 8/2 4x vth NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK Ditech Financial LLC f/k/a Green tree Servicing LLC, Plaintiff AGAINST David A. Kaufman, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 2-282017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738, on 9-13-2018 at 9:15AM, premises known as 79 Willow Wood Drive, East Setauket, NY 11733. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being part of a condominium in South Setauket in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York, SECTION: 278.10, BLOCK: 01.00, LOT: 027.000, District 0200. Approximate amount of judgment $417,108.20 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #1046/2009. For sale information, please visit Auction. com at www.Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832. Dara Martin Orlando, Esq., Referee Frenkel Lambert Weiss Weisman & Gordon, LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 01-030362-F00 55884 717 8/16 4x vth NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COUNTY

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WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR FIRST FRANKLIN MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006FF15, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-FF15, Plaintiff, AGAINST ANNETTE GIULIANO A/K/A ANNETTE T. GIULIANO and ANTHONY GIULIANO, ET AL, et al. Defendant(s)

Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale duly entered on January 5, 2018.

I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738 on September 10, 2018 at 9:30 AM premises known as 10 STARFIRE DR, CENTEREACH, NY 11720.

All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York. District 0200 Section 392.00, Block 01.00 and Lot 025.000.

Approximate amount of judgment $576,256.32 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment. Index #23317/2011.

JOHN JULIANO, ESQ., Referee, Aldridge Pite, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 40 Marcus Drive, Suite 200, Melville, NY 11747 729 8/9 4x vth VILLAGE OF POQUOTT BOARD OF TRUSTEES NOTICE OF SPECIAL PUBLIC MEETING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on Thursday, August 23, 2018, at 6:00 p.m. at the Poquott Village Hall, 43 Birchwood Avenue, Poquott New York 11733, the Board of Trustees of the Village of Poquott will hold a special public meeting.

Dated: August 13, 2018 Joseph Newfield Village Clerk Village of Poquott 43 Arthur Street Poquott, New York 11733 754 8/23 1x vth

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MILLER PLACE 190 Miller Place Rd. Secluded lovely 4 BR rambling ranch on 1.67 acres with pool. $549,000.

SUNDAY 8/26 12:00-2:00PM OLD FIELD 100 Mount Grey Rd. Wine and Chesse! Village of Old Field Tudor, 2.5 acres lot. $1,300,000.

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Opinion

Editorial

LIPA fallout coming

We get it — if you read our newspapers or just about any other media that cover Long Island, you’ve heard enough over the past decade about the legal battles going on between several school districts and townships versus Long Island Power Authority.

If you feel like you’re on LIPA overload, we have some significant news — a major development occurred in the cases last week.

A New York State Supreme Court judge determined that the 1997 Power Supply Agreement between National Grid, which owns the power plants, and LIPA, which transmits that electricity to customers, did not contain any language, or “promise,” that prevented the utility companies from seeking to have taxes they pay on the power stations reduced.

The good news is this decision may signal there’s a light at the end of the tunnel to this endlessly drawn-out court battle. We fear the positives may end there.

LIPA has said that its intention in filing these lawsuits is to be able to reduce energy bills for its customers, as it hopes to pay out less in property taxes. On its face, the company’s goal appears to a good thing for residents of Huntington and Brookhaven townships, who will likely see a reduction in their monthly electrical bills should LIPA be victorious, except for the residents in Northport and Port Jefferson, who will see a property tax increase. These odds seem an increasingly likely fact in recent weeks as courts have ruled twice in LIPA’s favor.

However, these legal battles have been waged for nearly a decade, racking up what we can only imagine are substantial legal bills from lawyers hired to represent the municipalities and the school districts involved. Then adding in fees paid for a third-party mediator when sit-downs begin in September, we find ourselves asking, “At what cost?”

We hope to find out just how much taxpayers’ money has been spent on legal fees for the duration of the saga, so keep an eye out for that. And for what? The “Hail Mary” play that a court would determine the 1997 PSA had implied a legally binding promise that LIPA wouldn’t seek a reduction in its property taxes.

It was such a risky play for Brookhaven Town and Port Jefferson Village that those two municipalities have agreed to settle the cases out of court to avoid exposure to the risk of years of back pay should the issue actually end up in a trial loss for the two entities. Still, why did it take Brookhaven and Port Jeff until 2018 to finally reach a settlement while legal fees kept accruing?

All of this can also be looked at against the backdrop that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has set a goal for 50 percent of the state’s energy to come from renewable sources by 2030. Who’s going to pay for the solar and wind producing plants necessary, for example, to get on track in reaching that goal? We don’t think we’re going out on a limb in speculating that at least some of that cost will fall on LIPA’s customers.

While we’d like to think we’re inching closer to a day when we no longer have to report on legal issues pertaining to LIPA, a positive resolution for all stakeholders is going to take significantly more work. In reality, it should have been resolved long ago.

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Letters to the editor

Trump’s trade policies are hurting America On Tuesday, July 24, President Donald Trump announced plans to provide $12 billion in emergency aid to farmers harmed by his trade policies. Just so we all are clear, this means that the president started a trade war which hurt farmers because of retaliatory tariffs on soybeans and pork, and in response the president offers the farmers welfare which is paid for with money he’s borrowing from the countries (e.g., China) he started the trade war with.

So instead of profiting from the sale of American food to China, Trump’s trade policy has the U.S. paying money (interest) to China while U.S. farmers become dependent on our government.

The criticism of the president’s trade policy is not only coming from the polit-

ical left. Members of his own party have said on the record: • “If tariffs punish farmers, the answer is not welfare for farmers — the answer is remove the tariffs,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.); • “This trade war is cutting the legs out from under farmers and White House’s ‘plan’ is to spend $12 billion on gold crutches. America’s farmers don’t want to be paid to lose — they want to win by feeding the world,” Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.).

Trump responded to these critiques by saying “be a little patient.”

It would be easier to be patient if the president’s Republican policies of tax cuts for the wealthy and increased spending were working to greatly expand the economy and

pay down the debt. In 2017 Trump pledged to eliminate the national debt over a period of eight years. But here we are a year and a half into his presidency, and the national debt surpassed $21 trillion for the first-time ever.

So far, a year and a half in, Republicans have managed to increase our debt and our deficit, with no gains in real wages for working Americans. Color me unimpressed by Trump, Zeldin and the Republican leadership in Congress.

So forgive me, Mr. President, if I have trouble being patient when you spend $12 billion on welfare to farmers who are harmed by your policies, and continue to raise the national debt.

Jaymie Meliker Port Jefferson

Supporters need education on Zeldin It’s amusing to me how quickly those who support U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin will believe everything that is written by fellow supporters. Perhaps the writer, Isabel Cosentino, of “There must be more to this” in the Aug. 16 edition of The Village Times Herald should educate herself a bit more about how her congressman conducts himself with constituents who do not share his beliefs and his disparaging loyalty to this destructive, disgusting administration.

Cosentino is quick to defend the actions taken at Zeldin’s fundraising event against those who dare to defy this congressman.

The writer shows true ignorance about the

indefensible way this congressman treats those who do not support him and his abhorrent refusal to hold town halls for all to attend. including those that will be voting him out of office in November.

Zeldin evades phone calls from those who dare to question him, holds supposed “mobile office hours” during times he knows very few people are available to visit, and deletes any comments on Facebook from those who dare to contest that which he touts as accomplishments. The only choice left to those who are supposed to be represented is to attend campaign events, meant for the handpicked few, and attempt to get questions answered. The

plan to “disrupt” this event proved that it takes an undeniable tenacity to gain an audience with Zeldin in order to discern where he stands on the issues that are most pertinent to this voting cycle.

Cosentino should be more concerned with why it would take this type of an effort to simply speak to the person who is supposed to represent all of Congressional District 1, not just the Republicans who continue to support him and his unfathomable complicity in the Trump administration.

Stefanie Werner East Setauket

Response to last week’s editorial Recent polls indicated nearly three-quarters of Americans have little or no faith in mainstream news. This is primarily due not to attacks on the free press, but on the performance of the free press.

Fair, unbiased, balanced truth telling is what is necessary to restoring faith in journalism, ratings, readership and fiscal

health to news media in America.

Most public purveyors of news and views function as the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party and the never-Trump resistance. The real squelching of the free press is done by censors within both the mainstream media and alternative modern forms of communication, such as

Facebook, Twitter, etc.

By the way, in the interest of full disclosure and transparency, I’m curious: How many of your editors and reporters voted Republican last election?

The Rev. Ronald Stelzer Our Savior Church and School Centereach

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AUGUST 23, 2018 • THE VILLAGE TIMES HERALD • PAGE A23

Opinion

Suggestions for an untapped baseball entertainer

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aseball is missing out on an entertainment gold mine. In most games, the third base coach is practically invisible, wandering in and out of a rectangular box that’s missing its back line.

Indeed, most of the time, the coach isn’t anywhere near lines that were drawn specifically for him.

If those lines aren’t necessary, why draw them? And, if they are where D. None the coach is supposed to be, then of the above shouldn’t umpires

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF enforce that rule?

What kind of lessons are we teaching our children if the coaches can’t stay between the lines?

Are we telling them it’s OK to leave the

lines? Or, maybe, we cleverly imagine that allowing them to stray from their limitations encourages children to exceed whatever limits others put on them — as happens in this space on occasion, but I digress.

No, you see, the third base coach spends an entire game performing: He appears to be simply scratching an itch on his nose, tapping his cap and motioning for sunscreen as he rubs his hand down his arm. Yet those gestures are a series of complicated signals that indicate what the batter and the runners should do before, during or after the next pitch.

Why does every team need to be so restricted and why does the coach’s facial expression always have to look like he’s trying to memorize a phone number written on a blackboard 90 feet away?

We are a creative culture, the endless Hollywood sequels to movies that shouldn’t have been made in the first place notwithstanding.

Why can’t we encourage the third base coach to add entertainment and perhaps levity to a sport

in which the home audience routinely watches players and managers shove sunflower seeds into their mouth and then expectorate them onto the field of dreams?

I have a few suggestions to bring more eyeballs to the third base coach and, perhaps, away from teams that long ago gave up hopes of a playoff berth. A coach could: • Attempt to bring his hands together behind his back. Sal, as we’ll call him, could turn his back to the hitter, put one hand behind his back from below while reaching down from above with the other.

• Break into a one-person kick line. Who doesn’t love a great Broadway number? Sal could kick out his leg and raise his hat at the same time.

• Combine line dances. Sal could start with a Macarena, add a second of the wobble and then conclude with the hustle.

• Attempt to start a lawn mower. The coach could bend down as if he were fixing something on the ground and then pull straight up several

times, hoping the engine catches.

• Wash his hands. This could serve two purposes: It could signal to the hitter to clean up his swing or mechanics; and it could remind everyone watching about the benefits of good hygiene, all the spitting and rubbing dirt between their fingers notwithstanding.

• Put a leash on an imaginary dog and stroll in place.

• And, finally, Sal could walk around his small box, tapping imaginary heads and then mouth the word “goose” and run back to his original spot.

These are just a few of the ways the forgotten man on the field might spruce up the game a bit. Maybe, if he caused the other team to focus on him enough, he might give his team an edge, allowing a runner on first to break for second as an appreciative pitcher became distracted by a coach’s antics. And, even if it didn’t work, it might bring a few smiles to fans during the dog days of summer.

The census doesn’t count these neighbors of ours

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hey are a surprise to behold, the wildlife in the suburbs. When I was growing up in New York City, the extent of the animal population consisted of pigeons and squirrels in the park. So I marvel at Long Island’s Canadian geese, rabbits, squirrels, ducks, swans, seagulls, ospreys, raccoons and deer going about their business alongside us as we humans go about ours.

Sometimes they are beautiful to watch.

On one road I frequently use, Between the geese will you and me cross to the other side, holding up

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF traffic as they do.

Drivers slow to a stop and watch as the geese unhurriedly walk single file before them. Interestingly one of the geese stands in the mid-

dle of the road in front of the line of march, a sentinel protecting the rest. Only after the last one crosses does the lookout then join on the end. These geese are definitely traffic savvy, patiently waiting on the edge of the grass and avoiding the cars as they speed by, awaiting an opening before they start to cross.

My son likes to watch the ducks swimming along, one behind the other, and wonders aloud if there is a pecking order to the line. We also marvel at the birds in strict formation when they begin to migrate.

We have a wacky rabbit that lives on our property and races the car down the driveway as we arrive home. One of these days, we are going to have rabbit stew if it isn’t careful.

There are gorgeous butterflies occasionally, rising together like an umbrella of color when startled, and the buzzing bees encourage the likelihood of pollination.

The other day, as I was driving along a waterside road, two deer, one in front of the other, rushed out of the wetland grass in front of my car, crossed the road, gracefully jumped the post-and-rail fence on the oppo-

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site side and raced up the hill until they were hidden in some trees. It was a heart-stopping moment because they had come close. They were also so lyrical in their movements, their russet bodies glistening in the sunlight, that they took my breath away.

We have a woodpile that is visible from the windows on one side of the house, and early each day, it seems, there is a squirrel that runs back and forth, bushy tail held high, across the chopped logs. We have named him Jack and conjectured that he is doing his morning exercises. Later, he can be seen leaping from limb to limb among the lush trees, the ultimate gymnast gathering nuts, I suppose, for his meals.

Early in our lives here, we used to see an occasional red fox and sometimes plump pheasants, but I haven’t seen those in a long while. I do know when there is a skunk nearby, and should we just once leave the garbage cans unfastened, we are aware we would be visited by raccoons.

The variety of songbirds is lovely. In addition to the mockingbird, the cardinal and the blue jay, those little brown birds are loud and

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numerous. A pair of ospreys apparently have made a huge nest nearby because we can see them soaring high above. Ditto for the seagulls, crying out to each other as they glide on an air current looking for dinner.

It surprises me that the dogs in the neighborhood coexist so peacefully with the rest of the animal kingdom here. Yes, they will occasionally chase a rabbit, almost as a duty, but not for long. And they will bark at a chipmunk as it scurries along but not in any sort of vicious way. I suppose that means they are well fed by their owners. The cats, however, are a different story. We’ve got one on the block that’s a real hunter, a lion in miniature.

The cliché is that the suburbs are sterile places, but they certainly are more interesting for their variety of natural life than the pigeons I used to be thrilled by as they landed on the fire escapes and city windowsills. To take just a few moments from an otherwise busy day, draw a deep breath, and enjoy the beauty of living beings around us this summer is a pleasure we should allow ourselves.

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Sports

Centereach’s Jamie Ortega plays up to expectations “I feel I can push through adversities and the challenges defenders face me with.”

– Jamie Ortega

Centereach native Jamie Ortega, above right, playing lacrosse for the University of North Carolina, and, below, playing lacrosse for Middle Country in 2017.

broke a North Carolina record set by attacker Molly Hendrick the season prior.

“Jamie Ortega is a special player,” McCool told The Daily Tar Heel. “She’s only a freshman and the confidence that she plays with — you don’t see it often with freshmen.”

Ortega played her best lacrosse the second half of the season. She scored a career-high seven goals and closed out a 10-0 first-half run in a 20-10 win against Duke University April 21. The performance was one goal shy of the UNC single-game record set in 2002.

Ortega grew accustomed to the spotlight in high school, having experienced facing double-teams throughout her six years on her Middle Country high school team, which she led to its first Suffolk County title and state championship game in 2017. Even a switch from midfield to attack couldn’t slow her down this season.

“It just comes so natural to her, playing the game how it is supposed to be played,” Middle Country head coach Lindsay Dolson said. “Jamie’s did an awesome job on defense and offense for us. She definitely led the team in that aspect.”

Her senior year she tallied 98 goals and 45 assists, and finished as New York state’s alltime leader in points with 588 (402 goals and 186 assists). She was also a five-year varsity starter and two-time all-county pick on Centereach High School’s soccer team.

“I’m a pretty confident person,” Ortega said. “I think that’s really important for other players to have. I don’t let things get to me.

I feel I can push through adversities and the challenges defenders face me with.”

Through all her triumphs she also had some unique experiences as a Tar Heel, like when she faced her older sister Nikki, an attack for the University of Notre Dame. The sisters scored unassisted and back-to-back for the first goals for each of their teams in UNC’s comefrom-behind win.

“It was stressful, because you want them both to win,” their mother Susan said, laughing.

“I’m so proud of them, and one thing with Jamie is she’s always trying to get better and her hard work really paid off. Jamie is the most humble kid you’re ever going to meet. She doesn’t talk about herself, she doesn’t watch herself, and I think that makes it even more impressive to me because she’s all about the game and playing, and playing with her team, and having fun doing it.”

Jamie Ortega also had the chance to play minutes from her home when Stony Brook University hosted the NCAA playoffs for North Carolina, which made its 10th appearance in the NCAA tournament semifinals, including seven in the last 10 years. She had four goals and one assist in the team’s final appearance of 2018 against James Madison University, earning AllNCAA Tournament Team honors.

If that all wasn’t enough, Ortega is giving back to a sport that’s given so much to her.

She worked a camp called Top of the Class at Lawrence Academy in Massachusetts with her assistant coach Phil Barnes, who runs it with Harvard University head coach Devon Wills.

Many Ivy League schools and coaches were there, along with six of her UNC teammates.

She said working with the freshman to junior players felt natural.

BILL LANDON

University of North Carolina standout Jamie Ortega wanted to live up to the hype after being named Inside Lacrosse’s No. 1-ranked freshman attacker, and she did just that with a record-breaking first season with a Tar Heels team that reached the NCAA semifinals.

The Centereach native was tabbed National Rookie of the Year as well by the lacrosse-centric publication, and Freshman of the Year by the Atlantic Coast Conference, navigating her way to be the top goal-scorer on a deep North Carolina offense. She shot 57.4 percent for 70 goals and added 16 assists while starting in all 18 games, scoring multiple goals in each of the Tar Heels’ final 14 contests, including 12 in a three-game span in the NCAA tournament.

Her 86 points broke UNC’s single-season record while she led all ACC rookies and ranked fourth overall in the conference. Her 70 goals also broke a 2008 record (50) for most goals scored by a freshman in a season, ranked second overall in the ACC and tied for 11th in Division I. “She’s a tremendous talent,” 23-year North Carolina head coach Jenny Levy said. “[Myself and my coaching staff] have done this for a long time, and when you see ‘It’, you see it.

She really has multiple weapons — she can dodge, feed and play off-ball — and she’s done that for a long time. She’s had the most tremendous freshman year we’ve ever had.”

Levy, who is considered among the best coaches in women’s lacrosse history, ranking third in NCAA Division I history in career wins and is a two-time national champion and a two-time National Coach of the Year, said she challenged Ortega to perform at a high level after UNC graduated a huge class of seniors.

She said she hadn’t put that type of pressure on a freshman in a long time, and said she thought Ortega responded.

“I wasn’t really expecting being ranked the top recruit in the nation, and it did make me nervous because I felt like I had to live up to that expectation, but it also made me want to work harder, because I wanted to prove I was the No. 1 lacrosse recruit in the nation,” said Ortega, who was also named to the Inside Lacrosse ILWomen All-Rookie Team and All-America third team. “Being named the Rookie of the Year means a lot to me because it showed that through college — which is really hard, because it’s not like high school, everyone’s good — I can still stand out.”

She credited her teammates, like Marie McCool, a decorated player in her own right, for pushing her to become better, and giving her opportunities to succeed.

McCool said Ortega proved she was a force all her own, especially after the freshman recorded her 15th goal of the conference tournament, which

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“I didn’t feel like I was coaching — it felt like I was just hanging out with some lacrosse girls,” Ortega said. “This is definitely something I never expected, because I’m not one to brag, but being an idol to others really motivated you more. Lacrosse means everything to me, and to be able to play, and to still play at this level, making memories with my teammates, trying to succeed with them and giving back to others has been a privilege.”