Why America must turn the corner of the failed, disastrous Biden-Harris administration and elect Donald J. Trump as our next President boils down to two simple sentences:
Kamala Harris broke the economy and the country.
President Trump is going to fix it.
Yes, we’ve heard the age old political adage “are you better off than you were four years ago,” and in Kamala Harris’s America the answer is clearly “no.”
You are paying a massive amount of money for prescriptions, to put food on the table, gas in the car, and to make your mortgage or rent payment every month.
Many folks across Suffolk County are maxing out credit cards to stay afloat. No one should dread when the phone rings or opening the mailbox, since it’s more than like a message from a credit card company that you’re two months past due on payments.
It costs more just to get by, but your paycheck for the most part has stayed the same.
The federal government spends $110,000 for each migrant in America. Free debit cards, meals, hotels, you name it.
When was the last time the Biden-Harris administration gave each one of your family $110,000?
Why are there homeless veterans in our country but the Harris administration spends a boatload of money putting migrants up in hotels across the country?
A sad example of a broken America is the wide open border that allows gangs and fentanyl to flow to every single corner of our country. With the stroke of a pen the Biden-Harris administration wiped away strong border security measures implemented by President Trump.
Kamala Harris Broke America. Donald Trump Will Fix It
Look no further than global turmoil at the stark difference between world safety under President Trump and the weak foreign policy of the Biden-Harris administration.
Leaders around the world feared President Trump. None invaded another nation on his watch as
The Musk Factor ELECTION 2024
ByRobertChartuk
Outside of President Donald Trump, another personality recognized worldwide is entrepreneur and inventor Elon Musk, who has hit the campaign trail to help make the 45th president of the United States the 47th.
Musk made a stunning foray into shaping public opinion by ponying up $44 billion to buy the Social Media pillar Twitter and recasting it as X, a site less attuned toward censoring Trump and his Conservative point of view. The eccentric billionaire instantly found himself with a target on his back from the Deep State and figured his only chance of survival would be partnering with the man who pledges to save the world.
Upon taking control of Twitter, Musk promptly dispatched 80%
of the company staff, saving $1 billion yearly and not missing a beat. The taxpayers hope he can do the same with the bloated US bureaucracy, and it looks like Trump may just give him the opportunity. The former president announced the creation of a DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, and put Musk in charge. Trump has long advocated for a “straightforward assessment of the state of our nation” and for a good house cleaning by a team headed by Musk, which could very well save taxpayers trillions.
“We’re going to get the government off your back and out of your pocketbook,” Musk promised when he took the stage at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally. “We will create the greatest economy in the history of the world. We will make America
affordable again.”
Trump brags of Musk delivering Star Link communications systems to hundreds of hurricane victims in North Carolina, putting the delivery in gear while he was still on the phone with him. The President said he was floored watching Musk bring a rocket back to Earth and docking it for reuse.
“He’s one of our great geniuses, and we have to protect our geniuses,” Trump said, comparing him to Thomas Edison. “He’s one of our very smart people, and we want to cherish those people.”
Musk’s appearance at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pa., wearing a black Make America Great Again hat, set off a stir. He called himself “Dark MAGA” and made the hats the hottest-selling item in the Trump catalog.
in Chief.
When Kamala Harris and Joe Biden entered the White House, the globe became a powder keg that exploded. Putin invaded Ukraine.
Hamas attacked our greatest ally in Israel. We are now multiple steps away from World War III.
Yes, I’ve heard the argument from folks who are “one the fence” on whether or not they’ll cast a ballot for President Trump. That decision is based more on personality and not policy.
Let me ask you this: do you dislike President Trump’s sometimes brash persona more than you love your country or your family?
Bank your vote. Do not wait to cast your ballot. Head to your early polling place now to vote for Donald J. Trump for President of the United States.
Don’t stop there.
There’s no use in sending President Trump to the White House if he doesn’t have a Republican House and Senate to pass his America First agenda.
Give President Trump the tools to Make America Great Again.
Vote like your family and nation depends on it. Because both do.
who wouldn’t have previously been drawn to the GOP candidate.
Musk’s appeal is on par with that of Joe Rogan, a top podcaster who drew 31 million views on his recent interview with Trump. The
campaign hopes these influencers galvanize voters
Commander
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Assassination attempt of President Trump
Elon Musk speaks at Trump’s Manhattan rally.
ByGeorgeSantos
October 27, 2024, will go down in history as the day President Trump brought his campaign to the heart of New York City’s iconic Madison Square Garden. Choosing this legendary venue as the stage for his final appeal to voters, President Trump made a bold case for the White House, addressing a fully packed arena filled with supporters and onlookers alike. Many political analysts were skeptical of this move, as New York has traditionally been Democratic territory. Nevertheless, Trump’s choice of this high-profile location underscored his aim to capture hearts and minds across the political spectrum.
The president’s lineup of speakers ranged from prominent business magnate Elon Musk to conservative media titan Tucker Carlson, alongside high-profile former Democrats, such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, both of whom have since endorsed Trump’s vision for America. The surprise appearance of Dr. Phil also added an unexpected element to the night’s proceedings,
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underscoring a message of unity, common sense, and a push for new political alliances. The rally aimed to highlight Trump’s crossparty appeal and his commitment to an inclusive vision that defies conventional political labels, and the Trump team succeeded in doing so. Trump’s emphasis on broad coalition-building drew sharp criticism from some of his political adversaries, with Hillary Clinton and Vice President Kamala Harris preemptively labeling the event a “a 1939 nazi rally revival.” However, Trump and his team maintained that the event was rooted in unity, patriotism, and shared American values and the event spoke for itself when you watched it.
As the event unfolded, many attendees felt a strong sense of pride, security, and optimism.
Speaking to people along 34th Street and 6th Avenue, I encountered a range of perspectives. Most New Yorkers were unfazed by the sight of MAGA hats or the Trump rally in their midst; for many, the city’s relentless pace made it just another day. A Manhattan native
remarked, "In New York, we’ve always got somewhere to be." Still, some passersby expressed satisfaction in witnessing a rare gathering of politically likeminded individuals in the heart of Midtown. One man noted, “It gives me a sense of security and hope,” capturing the spirit of the evening.
For others, including Carlo, a former Trump Organization employee, the rally served as a reminder of Trump's longstanding commitment to the American economy. "I want to see Trump not just make America great, but make it greater," Carlo shared, echoing a sentiment many in the crowd felt as they looked to Trump for economic revival. The atmosphere was electric, and despite heavy security, my time there was marked by a noticeable absence of negative or hostile encounters. Standing there for six hours, I witnessed firsthand the energy and optimism of Trump’s supporters, many of whom saw this as a final call to rally around his vision.
With this ambitious move, President Trump reaffirmed
Early Voting Underway in Suffolk
ByMichaelJ.Reistetter
‘Tis not just the season for funfueled fright and fear-inducing festivities. Looking past Halloween and ahead to next month on the calendar, it's already high time to show your voice matters in good times and bad, and can certainly make a difference if you allow it to, as early voting has begun at a polling site near you.
Offered annually for those who cannot make it to the polls on the first Tuesday of November and wish not to mail in their selections, eligible voters have plenty of sites to pick from when completing their right of action constitutionally afforded their way when they turned 18.
In 2024, a presidential election year that pits sitting Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump against one another on the Democratic and Republican tickets, respectively, the opportunity to vote ahead of the madhouse melee of minced words, or worse, that will be November 5th could therefore never be more prescient.
Thus, dropping by any local polling location over a stress-filled weekend in New York for sports fans,—with the Yankees falling 2 games to 0 to Los Angeles in the World Championship, and the Jets falling to 2-6 on the season to the Brady and Belichick-less Patriots,— actually produced one pleasant and paranoia-free sight.
No campaigning was detected
outside well-organized systems at both the H. Lee Dennison Building in Hauppauge and Brookhaven Town Hall in Farmingdale. Here and elsewhere, Long Island-residing Americans from all walks of life— some with their children in tow— filed in cohesion fashion and exited just as cordially, surely relieved to know that regardless of where the results swing down-ballot, they can always say they put forth their best foot; that those who vote recognize their ability to make an impact, and redeem it.
The politically impassioned have revved up their strategies in convincing “undecideds” or “indifferents” that getting involved is integral to preserving the integrally beautiful fabric of our great nation. With the fate of the nation hanging in the balance from the to-be-determined top staring down, it is equally wise for one to do their homework regarding the candidates on the local front who do not earn as much press; to not head into the polls blind or with blinders is one in a litany of key components that help keep the spirit of healthy voting alive.
In Hauppauge, one HispanicAmerican Smithtown resident in her 50s who wished to remain anonymous spoke with The South Shore Press about her decision to vote on Sunday, as opposed to Election Day.
“We usually vote on the same day, but we have a trip coming—we have a wedding to attend in Texas. We went to the website—and saw it on
his commitment to addressing America's economic challenges.
As he outlined his plans to combat inflation, create new job opportunities, and restore the nation’s global standing, Trump left his audience with a message of resilience. This rally, held in the "belly of the beast," exemplified his resolve to bring his agenda to every corner of the nation, including regions that traditionally oppose him.
the news—that we could early vote,” she said.
Though more-or-less satisfied with the experience—proudly sporting her “I Voted” sticker on her shirt afterward, she did have suggestions for those coordinating early voting efforts on how to improve their operations. “You know, I think they need a bigger room for next time; it was a little tight,” she said. “I think it was a little loud.”
As this was the closest site to their
Smithtown stomping grounds, the woman and her husband elected the Hauppauge site for their election participation this year. The latter noted in conversation that one thing they could not complain about: the amount of potential polling sites at their disposal when weighing when to vote early and where.
In Suffolk County, these sites are: The North Amityville Fire Department, the North Babylon Fire Department, the Wyandanch Public Library, the Greenlawn
As the campaign draws to a close, Trump's supporters view this event as a defining moment in his bid for re-election, one that underscores his willingness to bridge divides and champion American values. Regardless of the election outcome, October 27, 2024, will stand as a day when President Trump reached out to all Americans, delivering a message of unity and strength from the heart of New York City.
Fire Department, the Huntington Library Station Branch, the Dix Hills Fire Department, Nesconset Elementary School, Kings Park High School, the H. Lee Dennison Building (Hauppauge), St. Anne’s Hall (Formerly Knights of Columbus in Brentwood), Islip Town Hall Annex, the West Islip Senior Center, Greenbelt Recreation Center, the Connetquot Public Library, the Rose Caracappa Senior Center, the South Country Ambulance, Bayport-Blue Point Public Library, the Suffolk Board of Elections (Yaphank), the Robert Reid Recreation Center (Shoreham), Brookhaven Town Hall (Farmingville), the Mastic Volunteer Ambulance, Manorville Fire Department, Windmill Village (East Hampton), the Shelter Island Youth Recreation Center, SUNY, Stony Brook Southampton (Gym), St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (Westhampton), the Southold Town Recreation Center (Peconic), and Riverhead Town Hall
Saturday through Monday, Oct. 26-28, voting hours were 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Up until Election Day, the remaining voting hours each day are as follows:
Tuesday, Oct. 29: 7 a.m - 3 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 30: 7 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 31 - 12 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 1 - 12 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 2 - 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 3 - 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
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Early Voting Location: Denison Building in Hauppauge
President Trump at Madison Square Garden
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ByRobertChartuk
She’s a passionate and hardworking state representative with private sector experience. He’s a former prosecutor committed to fighting crime and making Long Island more affordable. Together, they make up a legislative team that gets local concerns heard in a state Capitol dominated by progressive interests.
When an organized group of reckless drivers came to Suffolk to terrorize local streets, Assemblywoman Jodi Giglio and Senator Tony Palumbo had legislation drafted that Monday to up the penalties for “Fast and Furious” incidents. They are a loud and consistent voice to repeal the dangerous cashless bail laws of the Democrats and are the first to condemn anti-police rhetoric. They fought against sealing the criminal records of job seekers and sponsored laws to protect the men and women of law enforcement.
Representing the rural East End, they ascribe to the mantra, “No farms, no food,” and can be counted on to protect farmland, open space, and the natural resources that residents depend on and keep tourists coming. They support a public vote on raising
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Suffolk’s sales tax an eighth of a cent for sewers and private septic systems, a source of revenue that will be enhanced by the visitors who come to enjoy our water resources.
The lawmaking duo is tuned to economic growth and affordability. Giglio’s background in the construction industry and service as a Riverhead Town Board member makes her wellversed in what it takes to create jobs and keep costs down. Her Rescue New York agenda includes cutting regulations and mandates, reducing government spending, and pausing the state fuel tax.
On the Senate side, Palumbo’s very first piece of legislation was a tax-cut bill aimed at saving the average Suffolk resident over $2,500 annually. He accomplished a rare feat for a freshman Republican assemblyman by winning passage of the Peconic Bay Region Community Housing Act to help first-time homebuyers and younger residents realize the dream of homeownership. They are on the front lines of the battle against the governor’s attempt to usurp local zoning authority to build multi-family housing and block illegal immigrants from being
transported to the East End. Unlike their Democrat opponents, they stand for a secure border to stop human trafficking, terrorists from entering the country, and the flow of fentanyl and other deadly drugs that are killing New Yorkers in record numbers.
Giglio and Palumbo are part of a Long Island delegation that makes sure suburban taxpayers get their fair share of state resources, especially education aid, which the urban legislators want to steer to the cities. They’ll play an essential role in directing funds from the state’s $4.2 billion Clean Water, Clean Air, and Green Jobs
Environmental Bond Act and the $1 trillion federal transportation bill, which flows through Albany.
Long Island is an expensive place to live, and the main reason is the policies of the Democrat politicians of New York and the state’s other big cities that control the Capitol. It is critical that we have elected leaders such as Jodi Giglio and Tony Palumbo to stand firm for the suburbs. Representing the 1st Senatorial District, Palumbo was succeeded by Giglio in the 2nd Assembly District. The South Shore Press endorses them both for reelection.
South Shore Press in Rarefied Air with Trump Endorsement
ByRobertChartuk
The South Shore Press has set itself apart from the national media by endorsing Donald J. Trump for reelection. For the first time in decades, outlets from coast to coast have either declined to endorse his opponent or did not choose at all.
“The South Shore Press is proud to stand in the rarefied air of media outlets that have the courage and the foresight to endorse the obviously superior candidate,” stated News Director Stefan Mychajliw. “The national publications, the country’s largest, know that Kamala Harris would be a disaster and just could not bring themselves
to support her.”
USA Today announced Tuesday that it won’t make an endorsement in the race, saying it will leave it up to its readers to “make informed decisions.”
The publication is among the five largest in the country that endorsed Biden four years ago but won’t back his running mate this time around. Among the publications are:
The Washington Post decided to nuke their presidential endorsements for good rather than endorse Harris-Walz—the paper's first non-endorsement since 1988.
The Los Angeles Times—the largest newspaper in Kamala's
home state—declined to endorse for the first time in decades.
Multiple other major newspapers—all of which had endorsed Biden in 2020–have either withheld endorsements or declined altogether, including the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit Free Press, and the Minnesota Star Tribune, the hometown paper of Tim Walz.
“Kamala Harris broke the economy and the country.
President Trump is going to fix it,” the South Shore Press said in its endorsement. “When Kamala Harris and Joe Biden entered the White House, the globe became a powder keg that exploded. Putin invaded Ukraine. Hamas attacked our greatest ally, Israel. We are now multiple steps away from World War III.”
And it's not just major news outlets running away from Harris-Walz. The International
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Traditional booths populate each stopgap. However, moving forward, the county has allocated $35 million to technologically advanced replacements in an effort to maintain voting integrity, Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine promised.
On paper, touch-screen capabilities scans as a bill of goods marketed to be pretty effective; but, in practice, it has only led to horror thus far, as our neighbors in the Garden State have learned all too well.
In New Jersey, Congressional Candidate Darius Mayfield saw his district’s Dominion voting machines shut down before
the voting even began. “I don’t know what the final vote was because they couldn’t even count the ballots in Mercer County,” Mayfield said of his 2022 campaign.
He was up against Bonnie Watson Coleman in the 12th District, the House’s most progressive representative. He’s running again, and lawsuits are pending to stop the cheating this time around, and more poll watchers in an election Mayfield said he would easily win if it were free and fair. “Even though they shut the machines down, l came the closest to beating the incumbent in her 33-year career.”
In Suffolk, we polled the same
Brotherhood of Teamsters withheld endorsing the Democrat ticket for the first time in almost three decades, while the International Association of Fire Fighters opted against endorsing the Democrats for only the second time since at least 1976.
“Humiliating” is what the Trump Team called the failing candidacy of Kamala Harris, and we agree.
Smithtown couple who had just come from the polls on the prospect of electronic touchscreen use in their neck of the woods.
“I don’t know, some people might get confused—especially the older people. There are plenty of people giving instructions, but even today I had to put my vote [in] three times.”
Exactly. Have you ever sent an Instagram reel a few times by accident, glitch be damned?
What if you sent your vote in three times? What then?
That’s right: In the virtual space, there is no “un-send.”
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Assemblywoman Jodi Giglio
Senator Tony Palumbo
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Some national newspapers refuse to endorse a candidate for President
ByRobertChartuk
Early voting all this week will culminate on Election Day, November 5, when the public will decide on a new president and who represents them in Washington and Albany. On the ballot will be former President Donald Trump vs. Vice President Kamala Harris, along with candidates for Congress, the state Senate and Assembly, and various judicial offices.
Flipping the ballot over, voters will see two propositions: a controversial measure to enshrine certain rights into the state Constitution and increase the sales tax an eighth of a penny for sewers and private cesspool upgrades.
Trump and Harris, a lastminute replacement by the Democrats for a faltering Joe Biden, are locked in an epic battle that many are calling one of the most consequential in American history. Trump is running on a Make America Great Again platform of rescuing the U.S. economy, paring down inflation, closing the border, stopping the drug scourge, and halting the crime wave, all problems he says Harris and Biden created.
Harris has been running an anybody-but-Trump campaign and the cache of being the first
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woman president and woman of color to run for the nation’s top office. She’s been scant on details of what her administration would like to accomplish and says she can’t think of anything she’d do differently than Biden. Running with Harris is Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, while Ohio Senator J.D. Vance is backing up Trump.
Control of the House of Representatives could very well depend on New York as it did in 2022 when Long Island Republicans helped wrest control from Nancy Pelosi. The balance of power got a little tighter with the expulsion of George Santos and the GOP losing his seat to Tom Suozzi. The Republicans are looking to hold onto the seats of first-termer Nick LaLota, Andrew Garbarino, and Anthony D’Esposito. Former Rep Lee Zeldin’s running mate for governor in 2022, Alison Esposito, is making a spirited run in the Hudson Valley’s 18th District, a race that could give the Republicans some breathing room in the 118th Congress.
Though Trump declares he could win the Empire State and has had two rallies here to buck up the vote, the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate, Mike Sapraicone, is seen to have an uphill climb to beat 15-year incumbent Kirsten
Gillibrand.
Democrat control of the state legislature is not considered threatened this year due to their large pluralities in both houses. East End incumbent Tony Palumbo is fighting a well-financed run by former legislator Sarah Anker. Both candidates have qualified for public campaign financing funds, with the senator nailing down $151,000 to his challenger’s $375,000.
His running mate on the other side of the legislature, 2nd District GOP Assemblywoman Jodi Giglio, is considered safe from her challenge by Tricia L Chiaramonte, as is Assemblyman Joe DeStefano in the 3rd, who’s up against Democrat Trina Miles. Looking to fill the shoes of longtime Assemblyman Fred Thiele in the 1st are Southampton Town Board Member Tommy John Schiavoni, the Democrat, and Shelter Island attorney Stephen Kiley. In the 4th District, oneterm incumbent Ed Flood is looking to stave off Rebecca Kassay. Flood received $84,000 in public funds for his race, while Kassay got $251,000. In the 8th, long-time Republican incumbent Mike Fitzpatrick is considered safe against Steven Basileo.
Another local senator
approved for public campaign monies was Dean Murray, who’s facing a challenge from Democrat Michael Conroy. Craig Herskowitz, who also qualified for public financing, is challenging Senator Mario Mattera in the 2nd who did not, while his fellow Republican Senator Alexis Weik is up against Francis Dolan in the 8th.
There is no contest for Supreme Court justice this year as all eight candidates are cross-endorsed by the three parties: Democrat, Republican, and Conservative, making a write-in candidate highly unlikely. The Democrats didn’t put anyone up for Suffolk County Court judge, ceding the two open seats to the GOP.
There is a race for three Family Court seats. The Democrats are running Stuart Besen, Darlene Jorif Mangane, and Jordan Katz, while the Republicans are going with Carl Copertino and Christopher Brocato.
Five candidates are running for three seats on Brookhaven’s 6th District Court: Democrats Margot Garant and Dorothy Cavalier and Republicans Patricia Blake, Kenneth Lauri, and Evan Tanenbaum. The GOP candidates also have the Conservative line, giving them an edge over the Democrats.
Reporter Appalled by Anti-Trump Bias
ByRobertChartuk
After 43 years as a reporter, I’m appalled by what has come over the profession. Rather than cover the news, the vast majority of my counterparts in the mainstream media are fixated on vilifying Donald Trump and pushing anything and everything that runs counter to his Make America Great Again agenda.
From the stage at his rallies, Trump lambasts the “Fake News Media,” challenging them to file at least one positive report about him. At his recent event in Manhattan, l was seated with them in the press pool. When the President said, “Look at all the Fake News back there,” I scanned the faces of my colleagues. They looked miserable. I imagine it must get to them after a while following the mandate of their
corporate bosses to “Get Trump.” They give full credence to the phrase “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
Trump spelled out a comprehensive plan on how he was going to rescue the U.S. economy, fight inflation, close the border, stop the drug scourge, halt the crime wave, and Make America Healthy Again. He shared the stage with an A-list of supporters and a family that makes Hunter Biden look like the drug-addled degenerate that he is. But the mainstream media would have none of it.
The Associated Press followed up the rally with the headline: “Trump's Madison Square Garden Event Features Crude and Racist Insults.” Newsday, Long Island’s daily newspaper, ran with the AP slant, stating in
its lead that the former president turned “what his campaign had dubbed as the event where he would deliver his closing message into an illustration of what turns off his critics.”
I can’t believe we were at the
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same rally. The famed arena was packed to the rafters with more than 20,000 Trump fans in the heart of one of the biggest Democrat cities in America, with an estimated 180,000 more trying to get in. Writing my own stories about the historic event, l made the mistake of going to Google to check on a few facts. I thought l was on the Soviet Pravda homepage. Item after item trashed Trump; I couldn’t find a single nice thing about him. Even the so-called factcheckers skewed reality with an endless stream of negativity. If you relied solely on Social Media to form your opinion of the 45th president, you would agree with the Hail Mary accusation by his opponent, Kamala Harris, that he’s a Hitler-praising Nazi hellbent on destroying the American democracy.
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ByRobertChartuk
When he took over as America’s 45th President, they did everything they could to kneecap his administration. He was subjected to a steady stream of media hits and censored. They said he was a Russian asset and launched a special counsel investigation. They unleashed a barrage of lawfare against him and impeached him twice. They tried to keep him off the ballot. And when all that didn’t stop Donald Trump from running for reelection, they tried to kill him, twice.
The travails of the most vilified president in U.S. history were not lost on the A-List of surrogates speaking at his Madison Square Garden rally or the 200,000 supporters who flooded midtown Manhattan, Trump’s home city, for a chance to see him. With early voting already underway for what many called the most consequential election of our time, Trump put it all on the line.
To thunderous applause at a storied arena packed to the rafters, the front-running candidate lit up his rivals and detailed a Make America Great Again agenda he promises will usher in a new “Golden Age.” It was music to the ears of citizens suffering under the crippling inflation, faltering economy, crime wave, and illegal immigration caused by the policies of his rival, Vice President Kamala
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Harris, who speaker after speaker ridiculed for saying she couldn’t think of a thing she would have done differently from the Biden administration.
You know the Trump campaign was serious when the president’s intro song, Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” was sung by the artist himself. Trump’s two sons, Eric and Don, Jr., made passionate appeals to the crowd, as did his wife, Melania, who, the president gushed, has a book at the top of the New York Times Best Seller List. Adding even more heft to the event were Trump’s running mate, Senator J.D. Vance, House Speaker Mike Johnson, America’s Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Dr. Phil McGraw, Hulk Hogan, UFC President Dana White, primary challenger Vivek Ramaswamy, and Democrats Robert F. Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard, the former Hawaii Rep who famously left her party because it lurched too far left.
“New York City made Donald Trump, but Donald Trump also made New York City,” Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump and cochair of the National Republican Committee, told the partisan crowd. “He put his heart and soul into this city, and it made him a household name. It truly made him the American Dream.” Making a play for a state that hadn’t seen a GOP presidential candidate succeed
since Ronald Reagan, Don Jr. added: “The King of New York is back to reclaim the city that he built.”
A Trump childhood friend, David Rem, told a story about what happened when his dad suddenly passed away in their Queens neighborhood. The family was visited by Trump’s father, who said he was a trustee of the Kew-Forest School, which the two attended.
“From this day forward,” Rem said his mom was promised, “I, Fred Trump, out of my own pocket, am going to be paying for your three children’s tuition at Kew-Forest because l don’t want the kids to go back into the public school system.”
Holding back tears, Rem wondered: “Now, who would do that except President Trump’s father? And the fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
Trump riveted the crowd when he exclaimed: “Kamala, you destroyed our country, and we’re not going to take it anymore. Kamala, get out of here. You’re fired.” According to the 45th president, the Biden/Harris policies “shattered the Middle Class” and cost the average family $30,000 over the last three years. “If she gets back in,” Trump predicted, “the economy will never recover.”
He reiterated his vow to end the tax on tips, overtime, and Social Security and introduced the “Trump
Reciprocal Trade Act,” which would impose the same tariffs that any country charges United States companies. He proposed a tax cut for caregivers and deductions for buying a vehicle made in America, a plan he said already caused China to scrap a huge automotive factory planned in Mexico.
Trump showed videos of illegal immigrant gangs assaulting police officers, taking over apartment complexes, and providing gruesome reminders of “Biden Migrant Crime” that saw the deaths of young girls in communities across the country. He called for the mass deportation of those who crossed the border illegally and promised to push for mandatory 10-year prison sentences for deported aliens who sneak back in. Trump said those killing an American citizen or member of law enforcement should get the death penalty.
The candidate reminded his fans that the United States is sitting on the world’s largest supply of “black gold” and repeated his mantra, “Drill baby, drill.” Tapping the resource would be a huge economic shot in the arm and allow the country to pay down its enormous $35.8 trillion National Debt. It would help save Medicare and Medicaid which he charged Harris would destroy by giving it to the millions of illegal aliens she let into the country as its failed “Border Czar.”
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Pointing to the estimated 20 million illegal immigrants let in by Biden and Harris, Trump stated: “The U.S. is now an occupied country, and it will be occupied no longer. November 5 will be
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Liberation Day.” He pledged to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1789 to begin the biggest deportation in U.S. history, starting with MS13 and Tren de Aragua gang members under “Operation Aurora,” named for the Colorado city that saw apartment buildings taken over
by a Venezuelan prison gang. He also pledged to rescue the 325,000 missing immigrant children he said Harris lost under her open border policy.
Attending the rally was Suffolk Assemblyman Joe DeStefano, who
said the enthusiasm for Trump “blew me away.” Sharing the GOP ticket with the president on this year’s ballot, the Assemblyman stressed that his MAGA agenda is sorely needed.
“If you want to end the Biden-
Harris disaster, you have to get out and vote,” Trump urged. “There’s something happening that’s really good. It’s the biggest political event in the history of our country, the biggest, broadest coalition we’ve ever seen. People want to take back their country.”
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Even the international media got into the act. No friend of the United States, Al Jazeera set about to dispute nearly every claim Trump made. “At the rally, Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, said he presided over the most secure border in United States history (he did not), that the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not deliver hurricane relief because the government spent its money bringing immigrants into the country illegally (it did not) and that foreign nations were emptying their prisons and sending convicts to the US (they are not).” I’m sorry to inform them that a vast number of American voters believe all of this to be true.
To back up its claims, the foreign outlet steers you to Politifact, another Trump-deranged site that tears apart everything he says.
You can’t even get a straight scoop from Artificial Intelligence. When I asked Chat GPT about the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act, I got this: “The goal was to pressure countries into reducing tariffs on U.S. products, theoretically leveling the playing field for
American businesses. However, critics argued it could lead to trade wars, harm consumers with higher prices, and bypass Congress’s trade oversight.”
I experienced firsthand what the Trump Team thinks of the media. Interviewing the “Front Row Joes” waiting at the front of the line to get into the rally, a staffer saw my Press Pass and escorted me out of the queue. I was herded with the rest of the reporters to the media pool toward the back of the venue. Each time I asked to get a little closer to the stage to take a photo, I was firmly rejected.
Trump is running on a MAGA platform, Make America Great Again, an aspiration I imagine the media disagrees with since they’re working overtime to vilify the phrase. A successful businessman lauded for his accomplishments the world over—at least until he ran for office—Trump exudes confidence that he can bring about a new “Golden Age” for America. Making the task easier, he opines, would be an honest Fourth Estate not bending over backwards to take him out.
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Man on the Street: Trump Rally at Madison Square Garden
I’m here from the Flyover Country to get the pulse of America. This city looks like it’s going the way of San Francisco. There are veterans living on the streets; the homeless are everywhere. They are forgotten in favor of illegal immigrants.”
I support President Trump from a providential point of view. He has emerged at a time in history to return America back to its roots. He will confront evil both externally and internally.”
Ted O’Grady, Boston
Karen
ByRobertChartuk
Residents concerned about pressing issues in the TriHamlet Area are looking forward to a special meeting November 4 with Brookhaven Councilwoman Karen DunneKesnig.
The Pattersquash Civic Association's previous agenda has been put aside to host the meeting starting at 7 p.m. at the Mastic Beach Firehouse. According to President Frank Fugarino, the association will serve dinner to increase public turnout.
“We’re calling it Karen DunneKesnig Night,” said Fugarino, who put quality of life issues
I’m here at the Trump rally to campaign against New York Proposition 1. This would enshrine men in women’s prisons, boys in girls’ bathrooms, men in sports. We need to wake up from the madness of gender identity. Once it’s in the state Constitution, it will be impossible to take out.”
Trump is a man with no filter; he’s real, he tells it like it is. I give it to him. He’s
not like Kamala; she has secrets, she’s not telling us what she’s really going to do.”
at the top of the list to discuss with the town’s 6th Council District rep. “We really want to win her over. She’s with us for the next few years, and we want to maintain a close working relationship.”
With the dissolution of Mastic Beach Village, the area returned to town control, yet many of the issues remain. The civic has long been concerned with the proliferation of boarding houses and sober homes run by unscrupulous operators who don’t have a stake in the community. “People want a different look and change the negative perception,” Fugarino said. “You use Neighborhood Road and see the street people
and the vagrants and stuff that's bad. The absentee owners impact the quality of life, not only in the Tri-Hamlet area but throughout the town,” he said, adding that most of the group rentals are subsidized by the government.
According to Fugarino, only four of the 13 homes the civic knows of have town rental permits. Brookhaven and Suffolk officials have previously discussed denying Section 8 and county rental payments to landlords who don’t secure the permits. These would require inspections that would uncover illegal and unsafe conditions, which, residents hope, could lead to condemnation of the property if not rectified.
I believe Donald Trump is genuine and honest. He loves this country and will bring back the economy and change the lives of many. I trust him, which is hard to do for a politician.”
Why is Kamala Harris welcoming Liz Cheney to campaign with her?
Thousands of American servicemen and women were killed and severely injured, lost arms and legs. Why? Because her father lied to the American people.” Kirk Wilcox, Connecticut
Donald Trump represents the moral compass for the world. We need to take pride in upholding democratic values and freedom. It’s no coincidence that the world has spiraled out of control under the Democrats.”
The multi-family issue also came up at last month’s Pattersquash meeting which featured officers with the Suffolk Police COPE Unit and county Legislator Jim Mazzarella. They are pressing landlords to register trespass complaints to give law enforcement more power to enforce open container and loitering laws.
RobertChartuk It’s a diverse crowd at the Trump rally sharing the same vision: Make America Great Again. Here’s what they had to say.
Bobby Kenny, Cincinnati
Amanda Stulman, New York City
The Disruptor, Brooklyn
Susan Hurley, Long Island
Sophie Sassoon, Manhattan
Dunne-Kesnig Night Coming Up at Pattersquash
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ByRobertChartuk
Residents celebrated the history of a Colonial-era treasure by spending the day at the Manor of St. George in Mastic.
Accompanied by members of the Mastic Peninsula Historical Society, the public walked the historic 127-acre property and toured the museum housed in the stately mansion built by one of the area’s earliest settlers, William Tangier Smith.
The Manor has a storied history, having been taken over by the British during the American Revolution and recaptured by Col. Benjamin Tallmadge in 1780. Not losing a single man in the skirmish, the colonel headed back across Long Island along what is now famously known as the Tallmadge Trail and set fire to 300 tons of forage the British had stored at Coram for their cavalry. During his brief time at the Manor, Tallmadge turned a captured British cannon on an enemy ship anchored offshore and sunk it.
The recent visitors admired the cannons still standing guard at the estate and looked seaward to imagine British Warships in Bellport Bay. They could see the impressions in the earth where Red Coat barracks had stood and viewed the pottery barn, cooperage, and whaling shed that were central to Colonial living on Long Island.
“It was great to see such community interest in this historic gem right here in our backyard,” said former Mastic Beach Mayor Robert Miller. “The lessons of history here go back centuries and are part of the founding of our great nation.”
Public Tours the Historic Manor of St. George
Trees Do Their Fall Thing
ByRobertChartuk
Trees along Main Street in Center Moriches reminded us of the fall season by showing off their bright colors.
The first day of fall, the Autumnal Equinox, occurred on September 22, when there was an equal amount of daylight as night. The next celestial occurrence will be the Winter Solstice on December 21, the shortest day of the year. Days will become gradually longer until the Vernal Equinox on March 19. Tilting closer to the sun, the Northern Hemisphere will then start to experience longer daylight hours, leading to the warmer months of summer. The reverse will occur south of the equator as the days will begin to get shorter.
The rhythm of the sphere will continue into the Summer Solstice on June 20, the longest day of the year. The Northeast experiences its hotter months in July and August even though the days are getting shorter since it takes the sun time to heat up the Earth. The summer days give way
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One ownership group has 200 rentals in the Tri-Hamlet Area, which encompasses Mastic, Mastic Beach, Shirley, and another 400 across the town. “There’s no way they can keep an eye on everything that’s going on at their properties,” the Pattersquash president said. “We need to solve this problem, and having an open line of communication with our council representative is a good first step."
The civic group is also looking for an update on the Beechwood project, a townsponsored effort to completely rebuild the Neighborhood Road Business District. While many agree that the effort will
remake the downtown area and quell some of the qualityof-life problems, they are also concerned with the mandated acquisition of 140 properties within the 47-acre target zone. If landowners cannot settle on terms with the developer, the town has the right to condemn their property and leave the purchase price up to a judge. Some feel that the neglect the area is experiencing is designed to lower the property values and make the massive project less costly for Beechwood.
The group is also expected to discuss plans to provide sewer service to Beechwood and the surrounding area. Eliminating cesspools and their effect on local water quality has been an ongoing community concern for nearly half a century.
to the Autumnal Equinox when the cycle begins anew.
Credit: Robert Chartuk Trees show their fall colors in front of a historic house on Main Street in Center Moriches.
The Manor of St. George.
Getting pilloried, a Colonial form of punishment, are Edmond Giza and Lisa Wicks.
Getting into the historical spirit are, from left, Trevor Hardin, Vincent Monetti, Rhonda Monetti, and Bill Roach.
Fort St. George
Standing watch at the Manor of St. George.
Touring the historic Manor of St. George with guide Christina DeVito are, from left, Chrisann Cutro, Timmy Oldham, and Snookie Oldham.
The Grand Union Flag flies over the Manor.
At the pottery wheel is Bill Roach, vice president of the Mastic Peninsula Historical Society.
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Water Authority Gets the Lead Out
With a new federal rule going into effect that requires water companies to eliminate lead pipes, the Suffolk County Water Authority (SCWA) is already ahead of the game by completing a service line inventory and eliminating any potential hazards.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized its Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) mandate, regulations the authority said it has voluntarily adopted. The authority investigated the service lines connecting approximately 400,000 customers to its mains and found only 15 made of lead. It expects to replace these pipes over the next few weeks at no cost to its customers.
"Lead service lines are rare in Suffolk County, but we are addressing them to maintain our high standards,” SCWA Chairman Charlie Lefkowitz commented. “We are fully funding the replacement of these lines, including the private service lines that bring water into the homes because no one should have to worry that their water is impacting their health. It’s our mission to provide our customers with high-quality drinking water, and that is what we are doing by
making these replacements.”
Lefkowitz noted that SCWA owns and maintains the service line outside the customer’s property, but the service line on the customer’s property is the owner’s responsibility. The authority says it will pay to replace both lines because of the risk to public health.
Chief Executive Officer Jeff Szabo added, "We are fortunate that we don’t have a major problem with lead. SCWA has been testing for lead in its drinking water since the early 1990s, and we have never exceeded the allowable limit. That isn’t surprising, considering the small number of lead lines in our system, but we have continued to maintain industry-standard practices that protect public health even if lead was present."
SCWA uses strict corrosion control practices that ensure drinking water pumped through its system does not corrode plumbing in its customers’ homes. These practices ensure that even if lead were present, there would not be any leaching of lead particles into the water. Lead is not present in Long Island’s aquifer, the sole source of all drinking water in the area, and could only be introduced through the service line or the
customer's indoor plumbing.
The low number of lead service lines found reflects Suffolk County's post-World War II development, a time when lead was no longer widely used in plumbing, according to the water agency. Lead came into prominent use for drinkingwater pipes in the early 20th century because of its malleability. However, by the 1950s, it was no longer installed in most homes. It was banned from use in plumbing in 1986.
Lead in drinking water can pose health risks, particularly for children and pregnant women. The EPA's new requirement
further strengthens protections by mandating quicker identification and replacement of lead service lines. It also establishes new standards for testing, information that must be shared with customers, and new procedures if there is an event that could disturb the lead line.
Customers can view SCWA’s nearly completed lead service line inventory and follow its progress at www.SCWA.com.
In other parts of the region, the Long Island Water Conference (LIWC) said it wants to ensure that residents who receive a letter addressing the lead issue are not
alarmed by the communication sent by their water providers. It urges them to pay close attention to its contents as it will provide important details and next steps.
“As part of the Lead and Copper Rule change, the EPA is committed to having all existing lead service lines removed in the next decade,” said LIWC Chairman Jason Belle. “It is crucial that all residents understand that if there is an elevated presence of lead in their drinking water, it is not coming from the water they receive from their supplier, but rather, it’s leaching from the resident’s service line or other plumbing fixtures within their home that contain lead. The notifications being sent out by water suppliers are only going to those residents who do or could have a problem with their service line material as they are designed to provide steps for them to follow to have the issue resolved.”
With approximately 500,000 service lines needing replacement throughout New York State, the LIWC said it will advocate alongside the New York Section American Water Works Association in asking the State to allocate $500 million to establish a program to fund and expedite the replacement of service lines.
Some TLC for Historic Headstones From Local Scout
ByRobertChartuk
Dating back to the American Revolution, the historic cemetery at the Manor of St. George is looking better thanks to the hard work of a local scout.
Zach Koch Townsend has tackled the task of cleaning off decades of dirt and grime from the headstones marking the graves of Col. William Tangier Smith’s family, some of the area’s earliest settlers. The 13-yearold Tenderfoot from Mastic has devoted himself to the community service project as he strives to reach the rank of Eagle Scout.
Zack had reached out to Florida’s “Good Cemeterian,” a former Long Islander who’s an expert on restoring old headstones, to learn the best method of cleaning the ancient markers. On a bright Saturday morning, the scout made slow but steady progress using a soft brush and a solution of vinegar and water to make the dark stones nice and bright.
The most recently dated headstone on Zack’s to-do list belongs to Eugenia A. T. Smith, the last heir of the Colonel, who passed away in 1954. Her ancestor embarked on a meteoric career in the Royal City of Tangier, the capital of Morocco, in 1676 at age 22 and was soon appointed its governor by King Charles II of England. After an effort to control the city was abandoned by the crown, the young Smith was deeded thousands of acres in the New World by King William and Queen Mary at what would become Brookhaven Town.
Working just a few steps from where British troops occupied what they called Fort St. George during the Revolution, Zack immerses himself in the local history. “It’s one thing to read about our past, but here we have the opportunity to physically be part of it,” said Zack’s mom, Kimberly Zach, an assistant scoutmaster with Troop 2720, a unit for special needs scouts in Ronkonkoma. To avail himself of additional opportunities to serve, Zack is also a member of Patchogue Troop 47 and Troop 23 in Center Moriches, his mom notes.
From time to time, Zack looks up from his work to take in the ambiance of the 127-acre estate.
From its location on the Mastic
Peninsula, he can see Bellport Bay, where British ships were anchored during his country’s fight for freedom. He checks out the two cannons pointing seaward, relics from the War of 1812. And just beyond is the grand Manor House, now a museum with rooms pretty much the way Eugenia Smith left them all those years ago.
This was the eighth grader's third visit to the grave site. He’ll be back in the spring as part of a group of scouts planning to put in some maintenance work on the famed Tallmadge Trail, the path of the Patriot who crossed Long Island from Connecticut to recapture the Manor from the British and return it to its rightful owners.
Brookhaven Town Clerk Kevin LaValle, Councilman Neil Foley, Councilman Neil Manzella, and Suffolk County Sheriff Errol J. Toulon were on hand at the New York Cancer and Blood Center in Ronkonkoma, to thank the Ronkonkoma Chamber of
and President Edward
their
donation to the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event.
This donation was the result of the community’s efforts during the Ronkonkoma Chamber of Commerce Celebrity Softball Game held last summer. New York Cancer and Blood Center is located at Hawkins Avenue and Portion Road in Ronkonkoma.
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Boy Scout Zack Koch Townsend cleans one of the historic monuments at the Manor of St. George.
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(Back row, left to right) Brookhaven Town Clerk Kevin LaValle, Suffolk County Sheriff Errol J. Toulon, Councilman Neil Manzella and Councilman Neil Foley with members of the Ronkonkoma Chamber of Commerce, American Cancer Society, and breast cancer survivors.
ByMichaelJ.Reistetter
In honor of Fire Prevention Month, local volunteer firefighters reported to Kreamer Street Elementary School in Bellport on Thursday morning.
October 24th, 2024, marked a day of high anticipation; one
The Controlled Burning of a Couch: Brookhaven FD Visits Kreamer St. Elementary
wherein Fire Prevention Officer Shawn Krulder would deliver a final lecture accompanied by some lesson-fueled visual flair.
After teaching students what to do if a fire breaks out, Krulder and company concluded their visit by setting a couch on fire,
before subsequently putting it out.
Former Bellport Fire Department Chief Tony Pino and current Chief Dave DiDio were on hand to assist Krulder with this most noteworthy and simulative demonstration— for which a Bellport fire truck responded in a most timely fashion.
The pair—who have been a part of the department for 34 and 51 years, respectively—spoke with The South Shore Press as an entertained assemblage of toddlers still “ooo-ing” and “ahhing” filed back into the building to resume their school day.
“Shawn gave a lecture not just today, but every day about fires, and then we come out here and show them a little live fire, what the firemen wear and things like that,” said Chief DiDio. “They sit. They scream. They learn.”
“It was absolutely a success,” said Pino, who holds the
controlled coordination in high regard as an annual rite of passage for native residents to witness.
“Every year it is—the kids love it. I saw the chairs burn when I was in school,” he adds. “All of us did… that was 45 years ago.”
Kreamer Street Principal Seal Clark also assisted the fire
Pattersquash Cleaner Thanks to Local Efforts
ByRobertChartuk
Pattersquash Creek will run a little cleaner thanks to the concerted efforts of local activists fueled by a grant from Suffolk Legislator Jim Mazzarella.
He joined in a community cleanup with volunteers from several groups, including the Pattersquash Creek Civic Association, Save the Great South Bay, Mastic Beach Creek Defender, William Paca Middle School students, and the Boy Scouts.
Before the cleanup kicked off, Legislator Mazzarella presented the Pattersquash Civic and Save the Great South Bay with a Water Quality Protection and Restoration (WQPRP) Grant for $80,155, which they will utilize to remove invasive plant life and replace it with native species within the creek watershed area. “This project will help rejuvenate the health and ecology of Pattersquash Creek,” the legislator noted.
Residents Walt Meshenberg, the Creek Defender, and Save the Great South Bay’s Mike Lovell and Robyn Silvestri, the group’s executive director, initiated the grant request.
“Kudos to all the dedicated volunteers for their commitment to the preservation and restoration of the ecology of Pattersquash Creek,” started Mazzarella, who added, "Thank
you to County Executive Ed Romaine and the Suffolk County Department of Economic Development and Planning for their support of this important project.”
Suffolk’s WQPRP program works to provide funding to municipalities and non-profit organizations to protect and restore the county’s groundwater and surface water resources.
“This is very important to the quality of life in our area,” said Frank Fugarino, Pattersquash Civic president. “The creek empties into the bay and the bay connects to the ocean; keeping them clean benefits us all.”
Creek Defender Walt Meshenberg has been a passionate steward of the local creeks, patrolling them regularly to remove debris and taking samples to monitor water quality. “The creeks are under a lot of stress; we need to watch over them, take care of them,” he said.
The Creek Defender, a part of the Save the Great South Bay group, is active with educational outreach efforts to ensure new generations appreciate the area’s biodiversity and the need for environmental advocacy.
“Community involvement has been fantastic as we work to make our local waterways cleaner and more vibrant,” Meshenberg said. “Everyone understands the impact these
tributaries have on the bay and the other natural resources that make our area so desirable.” Bird populations depend on the creeks, in addition to fish, shellfish, and other wildlife, he noted.
Draining from the densely populated and low-lying Mastic Peninsula, Pattersquash is part of a vital local watershed that includes other creeks: John’s Neck, Second Neck, Lons, Home, Lawrence, Sheepen, Sheepshead and Poospatuck. Under threat from septic pollution and land runoff, the area is targeted for
department in putting out the fire.
Get out right away. Go to a meeting place. Stop, drop and roll—the focal pillars of fire safety that Krulder stressed in his classroom lectures during the week of October 14.
These points of urgency are not just for kids; they are for all.
long-sought sewer systems to remove the nitrogen that brings toxic algae blooms and other threats to water quality.
Marine Honored by Suffolk County Sheriff
BySouthShorePress
Suffolk County Sheriff Dr. Errol D. Toulon Jr. awarded the first-ever Sheriff Toulon Community Leadership Award to Mike Kilano, a Marine veteran and crisis coordinator for Paws of War.
Mr. Kilano was recognized for his work supporting veterans, including his participation in the 22 PAC PTSD Awareness Challenge. The award will be presented monthly to honor Suffolk County residents making a positive impact.
To nominate someone for Sheriff Toulon’s Community Leadership Award please email: Suffolk_Sheriff@ SuffolkCountyny.gov
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A controlled burn by the Brookhaven Fire Department
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A controlled burn by the Brookhaven Fire Department
Credit: Office of Legislator Mazzarella Volunteers turned out for a cleanup at Pattersquash Creek, including the Pattersquash Creek Civic Association, Save the Great South Bay, Mastic Beach Creek Defender, William Paca Middle School students, and the Boy Scouts.
Credit: Suffolk County Sheriff Mike Kilano won the Sheriff Toulon Community Leadership Award
ByDeborahWilliams
Suffolk County is Graying and Going Back to Work
Older people are going back to work after retirement more than ever—or just not retiring when they planned.
Many return to work for social connection realizing they miss interacting with co-workers during the day. Other reasons are financial. In this economy, where the cost of living is up roughly 20 percent over the last four years, many are seeing that their pension and social security don’t go as far as they thought. To put it simply, they need the money.
The rub for many is that going back to work as an older person is more difficult. Despite years of experience and demonstrated work ethic, there oftentimes is a subtle, or sometimes not so subtle, discrimination against hiring older workers.
The New York State's Department
of Labor and Office for the Aging hopes to help make it easier for older workers to find a job that suits them by launching an online guide that also has job listings. Visit the guide at dol.ny.gov/older-adult-workers.
Stony Brook University took a look at aging Long Island and noted that “In 2020, the last wave of Baby Boomers turned 55 years old. By 2035, those aged 65 and over are expected to make up more than 20 percent of the Long Island population.” This group of people are living longer and healthier lives into old age than any generation before them and they often want something to do with their days or they need additional financial resources to have the life they want to have in their senior years.
As of 2023, Suffolk County had roughly 18.5 percent of its population 65 years old or older. Between 2011 and 2021 the over 65 age group grew from 207,128 to
269,205.
Among six age groups, the 65+ group was the fastest growing between the census in 2010 and 2022 with its population increasing by 36.8 percent. The 35 to 49 age group, a prime working-age group, declined the most dropping 19.2 percent between 2010 and 2022.
"For older workers that either want to start an encore career, are interested in going back to work, whether it be for extra income or social connections or for those older adults who simply have to go back for economic reasons," said Greg Olsen, director, New York State Office for the Aging.
A recent statewide community assessment survey of about 27,000 older adults, part of the state's Master Plan for Aging, showed not only are many still working well into their 70s, but 24 percent of older adults rated employment as an area of concern. "New York State is leading the way in building a more inclusive and supportive workforce,” state Labor Department Commissioner Roberta Reardon said in a statement. “Older workers bring decades of experience, diverse perspectives, and a strong work ethic to the table, and it's crucial that we eliminate the barriers preventing them from staying active in their careers.”
The South Shore Press reached out to the Suffolk County Office on Aging on multiple occasions for comment on how they are implementing the state’s efforts to help older Suffolk County workers and did not receive a response.
Suffolk County Police and St. Hugh of Lincoln R.C. Church Offering Free Breast Cancer Screening
ByDeborahWilliams
The Suffolk County Police Department will host a Mobile Mammography Van for Breast Cancer screenings on November 8 at St. Hugh of Lincoln R.C. Church in Huntington Station.. During the event, women will receive a comprehensive exam and screening for breast cancer in the state-of-the-art 40-foot digital mammogram van owned by Stony Brook Medicine.
Suffolk County ranks 15th among urban counties in New York in breast cancer rates
at 140.7 per 100,000. Nassau County ranks 11th among urban counties at 14.8 per 100,000 population. Screenings are crucial to diagnose breast cancer early and get treatment before the cancer is at late-stage.
Pre-registration is required and can be done by calling 631-638-4135. On the day of the appointment, do not wear deodorant, perfume, powders, lotions or creams. Bring photo ID and insurance card if applicable.
Screenings are performed
by NYS-registered radiologic technologists with advanced training in mammography. The van has a comfortable waiting area, private dressing room and
a complete exam room. Stony Brook Medicine's Department of Radiology is accredited by the American College of Radiology and the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration. Mammography images are read by boardcertified radiologists at Stony Brook.
Healthgrades Has High Marks for Northwell's Mather Hospital
ByStefanMychajliw
Northwell’s Mather Hospital announced it has achieved numerous accolades for clinical excellence from Healthgrades, the No. 1 site Americans use when searching for a doctor or hospital. Mather Hospital’s distinctions include:
* America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Pulmonary Care Award
* America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Coronary Intervention Award
* Four Specialty Excellence Awards, placing the hospital among the nation’s top 10 percent for Critical Care, Gastrointestinal Care, Coronary Intervention and Pulmonary Care
* Five-star rated for seven services: coronary intervention procedures, treatment of heart attack, treatment of stroke, treatment of pneumonia, treatment of gi bleed, treatment of respiratory failure and sepsis
* A Five-Star Distinction in Outpatient Total Knee Replacement
According to Healthgrades, Mather Hospital was also ranked third in New York for critical care and second in New York for pulmonary care. These achievements place Mather Hospital in the upper echelon of hospitals for these specialties nationwide and reflect the organization’s commitment to consistently deliver care that exceeds expectations.
“Healthgrades’ latest rankings for Mather Hospital reflect our ongoing commitment to the highest quality patient care,” said
Hospital President Kevin McGeachy. “Led by our Magnet-recognized nursing staff, every member of the Mather team is focused on safety and quality and treating our patients like family. Northwell’s investment in our new emergency department, scheduled to open in 2025, is an example of that commitment.”
Previously Healthgrades ranked Mather Hospital in one of America’s 250 best Hospitals nationwide and top in the country for overall patient experience for the past three years.
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Older workers in a store.
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Exterior of Mather Hospital
ByMichaelJ.Reistetter
NYLIFF For This! Indie Filmmakers Become Award Winners
The annual New York Long Island Film Festival (NYLIFF) took place from Oct. 16 to Oct. 20 at the South Shore Theatre Experience and the Loyal Order of the Moose Lodge, both located in Lindenhurst.
The latter location was the site of the awards brunch grand finale on Sunday, where local filmmakers and their fellow artists helming from elsewhere all congregated not in competition, but in celebration.
Top prizes were awarded to such films as “Art Thief” (Best Supporting Actor), “Lady of the Lake” (Best Cinematography), “Horse Town” (Best Horror Feature), “The Greatest” (Best Dramatic Feature), and “Rest in Memories” (Spirit of NYLIFF).
“When I see the word ‘spirit,’ I think of soul. However the film turned out in the end, I certainly gave a lot of my soul to this,” writer, director and star of “Rest in Memories,” Jack Tomlinson, 24, previously seen on World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and All Elite Wrestling (AEW), shared in his acceptance speech— the very last given before the festival’s conclusion.
“I made it as a love letter to my mother and my aunt who are no longer with us,” the actor and Long Island University graduate adds, “but I also made it as a love letter to all of us who are still here in the grieving process. Whether it’s to find joy in those memories, rid yourself of any guilt, or positively express all that unexpressed love.”
Founder Gerry Ferretti—also plugging season 2 of his passion project, the mob web-series “The Fontanas” on the day—spoke with The South Shore Press shortly thereafter.
He revealed he created the festival over a decade ago to provide a forum “for the overlooked,” citing
larger festivals that are not even watching many of the thousands of submissions they regularly receive.
“So we said, ‘Why don’t we create a serious film festival for the seasoned filmmaker, or someone who's just got an idea—they may even be just 12 years old.’ When you know your work is good, but not being seen… where does that person go to be inspired and get some hope, and how do we make that continue?”
Ferretti proudly adds that the festival, through its additional community-serving endeavors, grows every year. “More people in attendance. More people involved. We’re the kind of people who are never going to rest on our laurels, no pun intended. We're very happy when we see the filmmakers connecting, staying inspired… We've met so many wonderful people. They’ve become part of the NYLIFF family and we’re going to continue that for many years to come.”
"Lady of the Lake" director Maria Capp—whose film The South Shore Press profiled after it premiered at The Sayville Theater back in August—brought forth one of the higher-scaled projects of this year’s NYLIFF programming.
“I am pleased to return to the NYLIFF with my feature film, ‘The Lady of the Lake’ and grateful to be nominated in four categories: direction, ensemble cast, cinematography, and best drama,” Capp said ahead of the event.
The Ronkonkoma native eventually accepted the best cinematography award on behalf of her director of photography, Elle Schneider, during Sunday’s awards brunch.
Co-star of the film, local comedian Christopher Roach (“Kevin Can Wait”), also grew up in Ronkonkoma and remembers
knowing the “Lady of the Lake” urban legend all too well. “When Maria approached me with her idea for her movie, I was all in,” he told The South Shore Press.
“Maria really knows how to bring out the best in every actor. It was a pleasure working with her and her crew and a real treat getting to work with Seth [Gilliam].”
Sunday’s biggest star-power in attendance included Twisted Sister’s Mark Mendoza, of West Hempstead, and Lindenhurst’s own Dan Lauria, who played family patriarch Jack Arnold in ABC’s “The Wonder Years” (1988-1993).
Ahead of the final presentations, the prolific Hollywood character actor was invited to the podium, where he shared his thoughts on the festival and the next generation of filmmakers. “With today’s technology, one of the best things is that everybody can make a movie. And one of the horrible things, is that everybody can make a movie,” he said cheekily before channeling the classic conviction of his most beloved characters.
“It’s important for venues like this to keep going,” Lauria added. “I saw a film here this week and told the director, ‘You really have that kernel of a great movie here. You are not just looking at a final project; you
are looking at the future. And us writers and actors cannot thank you enough.”
Best Supporting Actor winner Chris Lazzaro, of Bay Ridge—also plugging the Smithtown born-andbred “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point” starring Michael Cera this fall in addition to “Art Thief”— admits he tends to play bad guys who bring the audience on their side.
“They are definitely humorous,” he said, “and perhaps made bad decisions in life, but you can sympathize with them.”
His winning turn as Bobby “the Rat” in “Art Thief,” currently available for purchase on Amazon, and which also netted filmmaker Arthur Egeli NYLIFF’s best director prize, is no exception. Shot in Boston, the film tackles the true story of the largest heist in American history.
Lazzaro told The South Shore Press his film is “for every type of audience, as it captures themes of youthful scenarios as well as romance, theft, art, redemption and comedy.”
“Akilles” director Maximus Papsadore, of Cape Cod, won “Best Student Film” for an unintended feature effort he interestingly
does not intend on distributing, despite five-fold festival acceptance nationwide. He discovered NYLIFF by refreshing the FilmFreeway online service–through which tickets to the fest are also provided— daily.
Papsadore feels the production came together expressly for the 35 friends and family members he made it with, and for them to forever cherish the memory of willing something this large in scope, yet small in budget into existence. The fact that inside jokes have landed beyond their lot is a testament to the infectious reach of creativity, he believes.
“I don’t care about making money off this film,” said Papsadore. “When I started this, I looked at it as a spectrum, where you can go the 100 percent commercial route, which is something purely watchable for outside audiences; or, you can go 100 percent the passion or the artist route, where you do just what you want to do… I felt like with this film, I could meet somewhere in the middle.”
If “meeting in the middle” means screening what’s much more than a thesis, and certainly a far cry from a one-trick pony’s one-hit wonder before a community center crowd as a somehow understated moosehead hung from above to oversee the festivities, then Papsadore most definitely did.
Visit NYLIFF.com for information on how to enter a submission to be considered for next year’s 2025 festival slate. The festival’s goal is “to give equal opportunity to filmmakers, writers and artists who put their heart and soul into filmmaking, especially those who may not have all the resources necessary.”
Whether you have a $10 million indie or an ultra-low-budget iPhone short,” reads their site, “we are interested in you.”
'Sloth Encounters' Revisited, Liev Schreiber Awarded at Hamptons Film Fest
ByMichaelJ.Reistetter
Upon nearing the tail-end of its 10-day run, the Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) felt keen on covering staples of the local experience with its “Views from Long Island” programming.
October 11’s six-part short series resonated; particularly, the Hauppauge and Islip Town Hallset dealings depicted in Joanna Rothkopf’s documentary featurette, “Pet Store.”
Rothkopf and her crew gained more than a day’s worth of intimate access at the ‘Sloth Encounters LI’ petting zoo site located on Veterans Highway in Hauppauge—through which they got to know the former and future pool store and its zany
owner, Larry Wallach.
Notoriety befell Wallach as he began housing exotic wildlife and offering petting-themed birthday parties on the premises, to the chagrin of local leaders out of the county offices just across the highway. He was hit with sanctions and hit pieces until he could be hit no more; Sloth Encounters was shut down in April, well after the events in the documentary took place.
“This is such a crazy story,” Rothkopf shared during the postscreening Q & A. “Basically, I emailed him and he called me 10 minutes later and said, ‘come on Friday!’"
The crew planned on discussing the ongoing battle with activists
over unsanitary conditions and purportedly illegal business practices. They didn’t count on getting to show it as grandly as they did; an altercation between a volunteer assistant “reptilian expert” and a buttoned-up Sloth Encounters protestor nearly turned violent on the Islip Town Hall lawn—and the cameras were rolling for every moment of it.
Moreover, their subject matter was always bringing more to the table, just by being him; “He kept putting animals on me and the camera guy and the sound guy,” Rothkopf quipped, “he’s very ‘The Larry Show.’”
A few days before “Pet Store’s” grand opening, a pair of A-list actors gathered for a more civil
correspondence than any Wallach would hope to have with a scene partner in the documentary— the “hug-first” sloths themselves notwithstanding.
“Ray Donovan” actor Liev Schreiber was awarded the Dick Cavett Artistic Champion Award for his “man on the street” philanthropic efforts in Ukraine.
Winners of the NYLIFF
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Liev Schreiber was awarded the Dick Cavett Artistic Champion Award
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ByMichaelJ.Reistetter
Nearly 200 Restaurants Aid Families of West Babylon Car Crash Victims Through 'Long Island Pizza Strong'
One-hundred ninety-five pizzerias across both Suffolk and Nassau County participated in an island-wide noble effort to raise money in honor of the victims of a car crash in West Babylon last month that resulted in the death of multiple teenagers.
According to “Long Island Pizza Strong,” $5 for every pizza sold by restaurants participating that day would go directly to the victims' families—including Bella Trezza, 17, and Riley Goot, 18.
Trezza was behind the wheel and Goot in the passenger seat when they were fatally struck by a 33-year-old driver who ran a red light on September 21. All three were killed, while 18-year-olds Austin Trezza—Bella’s brother— and Jack Murphy, and 16-year-old Anthony Pagliuca sustained injuries in the crash.
Goot was killed immediately, while Trezza died days later in the hospital. The family of the latter donated her organs soon thereafter.
"Two women in their thirties received her kidneys and a man in his sixties received her liver, all saved by Bella's act of grace and her family's decision to say yes to donation,” said LiveOnNY president and CEO Leonard Achan. “These three recipients and Bella
will now live on.”
South Shore staples like Gio’s Pizza and Renzo’s Pizza (East Islip); Mary’s Pizza & Pasta (Islip Terrace); Anthony’s Pizza (Mastic Beach); La Supreme Pizza, Mama’s Pizza, Pizzaiolo Eater, and Pizza Network (Oakdale), Donatina’s, Italiano Pizza & Food, and Nonna’s Pizzeria (Oakdale), and Carlo’s Pizza (Shirley) were amongst those involved in the ultra-charitable endeavor.
“I just wanted to send a huge thank you to everyone who came out to support Long Island Pizza Strong for The Trezza’s of West Babylon,” Mike of Mike’s Underground Pizza in Amityville wrote. “Your generosity and love means the world, and together we’ve made a real difference for the family impacted by this tragedy. Let’s keep that community spirit alive!”
October 23rd marked the third fundraiser the organization has successfully coordinated. Long Island Pizza Strong previously raised $102,200 total for the families of the Farmingdale Marching Band school bus crash of September 2023 that took the lives of two adults. They also brought in $181,5000 for the family of slain NYPD Detective Jonathan Diller and the non-profits Project Thank-a-Cop, Beyond the Badge NY, and Silver Shield Foundation.
The pizzerias stopped receiving donations on Sunday, October 27th, and will not know the exact grand total of funds raised for a couple of weeks—as check collection started on Monday.
Long Island Pizza Strong co-founder Alyssa Guidice, of Hicksville, runs point on coordination affairs. Based on early indications and cross-comparing with past turnout, she estimates the West Babylon car crash victims memorial-inspired proceeds will fall somewhere between Diller’s and Farmingdale’s.
“It was supposed to be a one and done—we don’t like doing these; if we do these, it means something
bad happened,” Giudice told The South Shore Press, citing that silver linings borne from tragedy do not change the overwhelming preference for these incidents to have never occurred in the first place.
The first Long Island Pizza Strong event stemmed from active planning and internal brainstorming. Guidice, a marketing manager for Bacardi, was amid issuing Memorial Scholarships for Suicide Awareness—annual charity givebacks given through her 47,000 member-deep “Dine LI” Facebook group’s extensive reach last September when the Farmingdale school bus tragedy happened.
The son of her associate Anthony Laurino of Phil’s Pizza in Syosset was on the bus. Ringing too close to home, they knew something had to be done, and that they already had enough community resources in their vast network to rely upon to help bring something together on the quick.
Together, they co-founded Long Island Pizza Strong with additional partners, including Jim Serpico, of Side Hustle Bread, who said, ‘Why don’t we get 20 pizzerias involved, and do something for 20 pizzerias?’
Another said, ‘Why don’t we do something easy every pizzeria can do: $5 off a pie? So we three that out there.”
“Being in the restaurant industry,” Guidice adds, “we thought, we’ll reach out to all the pizzerias we’re friends with to see if they want to get involved—and it grew from there.”
Now, it’s not just word of mouth. It’s social media airborne, with 4,900 followers accrued on Instagram—and counting.
“Thank you for all who helped. Every little piece helps,” said News 12 Long Island lead meteorologist Rich Hoffman. “I am a West Babylon high school graduate, class of 1990. Once an Eagle always an Eagle.”
Follow the hashtag #WestBabylonStrong
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ByRobertChartuk
National Honor for William Floyd Teacher
It was a thrilling moment for the students at Tangier Smith Elementary School and for one of their teachers, who was about to be surprised with a $25,000 Milken Education Award.
No one knew that an announcement was coming for the nationwide “Oscar of Teaching” award—they thought it was an assembly on school safety. Then, Dr. Jane Foley, the senior vice president of the award foundation from California was introduced. She spoke of a man named Lowell Milken, who started a program in 1987 that has granted $75 million to 3,000 teachers all over the country. Some previous winners, including Dr. Foley herself, said a few words on what the award meant to their careers.
Dr. Foley had some students come
up, and they held signs with dollar amounts starting at $25. They were asked to imagine how big a teacher’s award could be. The kids cheered at $250 and roared at $2,500, and then when she said it would be $25,000, they were blown away.
“Envelope, please,” Foley called out. “The winner of this year’s Milken Educator Award is…John Melandro.”
The elementary school teacher was floored. He had no idea it was coming. They had him call his fiancée, a teacher at Sayville High School, and she couldn’t believe it. “We can use it to pay for the wedding,” Hannah Michaelson quipped.
“I’m just so honored, overwhelmed and grateful,” the honoree told the crowd of students, teachers, administrators, local officials, and members of the school
board in attendance. “Stepping through the doors here six years ago, l felt like this is home,” he said, thanking those who guided and helped him.
Melandro comes from a family of educators and is known by his students as the “Magic Man” for turning everyday subjects into exciting adventures. He was cited for tailoring his instruction to the needs of his third and fifth-grade students and building relationships with them. Through his content mastery and passion for learning, he grows student engagement, enthusiasm and curiosity about the world around them.
The St. Joseph’s College grad helped implement a new Character Education program for the students and created online learning opportunities as a state assessment prep resource for his colleagues. The award winner also holds a Masters Degree in Liberal Arts from Stony Brook University and has set himself apart with teaching methods that build fundamental problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. He reaches his students through projectbased learning, "think-aloud," and incorporating culturally responsive tactics to ensure every student is valued, seen and heard.
In his classes, the children take responsibility for their learning and trust Melandro as a supportive guide who offers constructive feedback
and closely monitors their progress for full understanding. Futurefocused, the teacher partners with the district's Career and Technical Education Program to provide his students with real-life learning experiences from guest speakers in barbering, cosmetology and the culinary arts. These methods have translated into consistently high student performance and growth.
Melandro was also recognized for his commitment to expanding his own professional development and leadership skills. He analyzes assessment results, creates datadriven action plans, and leads meetings through his involvement on the school's data team as a grade-level data ambassador. He is a teacher mentor and active in PTO and BOE meetings, contributing
Eastport-South Manor Jr.-Sr. High School Inducts 81
ByStefanMychajliw
The Eastport-South Manor
Junior-Senior High School National Honor Society inducted 81 new members during a traditional candlelight ceremony, held in the school auditorium.
After Kailyn Marra sang the national anthem, Principal Salvatore Alaimo described the inductees as “future leaders whose membership is a responsibility.”
While Society Co-President Camryn Warsaw explained, “Leadership is about inspiring others and wanting to make a difference.”
Officers Camdyn Glover and Camryn Warsaw (Co-Presidents), Gianna Fazzolari (Vice President), John Costanza
and Charlotte Rozycki (Treasurer)
then lit a corresponding candle as they each described the tenets of the society: leadership, character, service and scholarship.
Each of the new inductees then lined the auditorium’s perimeter with lit candles as they recited the honor society pledge, and then walked across the stage to receive their certificates, marking their membership in the National Honor Society. The officers then presented Eastport-South Manor JuniorSenior High School social studies teacher Christopher Costanzo with an honorary membership into the society for being instrumental in the success of the inductees and other members and for truly embodying the ideals of the Society.
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to greater parental and community engagement.
The William Floyd School District event is part of the Milken Family Foundation's 2024-25 awards season. They will be busy honoring 45 pioneering professionals coast to coast, celebrating a history of changing lives in communities across America. This year, they will hit the $75 million mark in individual cash prizes given out since the Awards' inception, and over $145 million invested in the Milken Educator Award national network overall. The foundation looks to empower recipients to "Celebrate, Elevate, and Activate" the K-12 profession and encourage young, capable people to consider careers in education.
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In conversation with Alec Baldwin at East Hampton Middle School on Saturday, Oct. 5, Schreiber recalled: “I was sitting with my kids on the couch after 8 years of ‘Ray Donovan,’ thinking, ‘I’ve been working a lot.’ We’re watching this war unfold… What can I tell my kids?
“At the time, I felt there were things happening in the world of politics that were so polarizing,” he added. “I had this thing in the back of my head about values: 'has my work expressed that?'”
Speaking on his methods as an actor and as a man, Schreiber cited his co-star from earlier in his career, Oscar-winner Alan Arkin, as a major influence. The late actor helped pull Schreiber back from the brink with his own take on the “plenty fish in the sea” routine.
“As an older man, how he talked to me about pain without getting too involved in it… and how he talked to me about everything. He was nuts. Incredibly talented. I was miserable because my girlfriend
broke up with me, and he was sitting there… ‘Well, you’re young.’”
Schreiber advises others on the come-up with the same sage Arkin instilled in him: “Do the work.”
“Mean what you say. Commit to the things that you love. And I stand by it. If you screw up, you screw up. So what? Keep going.”
While corroborating an audience member’s inquisition as to whether or not his fascination with the morbid, the macabre, and all things rom-comically oddball, like 1971’s “Harold and Maude,” Schreiber went one step further—pontificating on why he so regularly gravitates toward playing villains.
“If I can identify with that, if he can identify with that, there’s nothing about me that’s going to write him off, not go along with him on it… that’s the core for ‘Ray Donovan,’” he said. “He feels such tremendous shame… the whole drive of that character.
“The deeper the thing is. The closer you feel, I think. ‘Well if he’s not hiding that from me, he’s not going to hide anything.’”
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Milken Award winner John Melandro with William Floyd teachers, administrators, local officials, and members of the school board.
Tangier students cheer on John Melandro, winner of the $25,000 Milken Award.
Credit: Robert Chartuk
Credit: Robert Chartuk
L to R: officers John Costanza (secretary), Camryn Warsaw and Camdyn Glover (co-presidents), Charlotte Rozycki (treasurer) and Gianna Fazzolari (vice president).
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National Honor Society Co-President Camryn Warsaw
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Suffolk County Police Officer Yasmin Gallant Receives the Law Enforcement Award
ByDeborahWilliams
Hispanic Heritage Month ended on a high note for Suffolk County Police Department Officer Yasmin Gallant. Officer Yasmin is the department's Latino Liaison Officer, and she was recently recognized during two celebrations.
Senator Monica Martinez presented Officer Gallant with a Law Enforcement Award while Suffolk County Legislator Sam Gonzalez recognized her for her efforts in the community.
Officer Gallant has been serving with the Suffolk County Police Department since 2017.
Centereach Man Killed by Passing Car While Fixing His Vehicle
ByStefanMychajliw
Suffolk County Police Fifth Squad detectives are investigating a motor vehicle crash that killed a man who was fixing his car on the side of the road in Blue Point.
Police said Marta OrdonezCastillo was driving a 2009 Hyundai Elantra southbound on Kennedy Avenue near Pine Street when her vehicle struck Oscar Lopez-Machado, who was working on a 2006 Dodge Ram parked on the northbound side of the road.
Cops Cuff Crude, Convicted Sex Offender for Harassing 13-Year-Old Girl
BySouthShorePress
Suffolk County
Police
arrested a Level 1 Sex Offender for making sexual comments to a 13-year-old girl.
A 13-year-old girl reported a man made sexual comments to her at a convenience store, located at 272 East Main St. in Patchogue.
The minor girl told the suspect exactly how old she was, and he continued to make inappropriate comments, according to police.
Following an investigation by Special Victims Section Megan’s Law detectives, the man was identified as Ronald
Rios. Rios, 37 of 53 Camille Lane, East Patchogue. Rios was charged with Endangering the Welfare of a Child.
He is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip at a later date.
NYS Announces Free SUNY and CUNY Applications for New York Students
ByDeborahWilliams
Students who want to apply to SUNY and CUNY schools can save a little money on application fees beginning on Oct. 21. Fifty private colleges and universities throughout New York are also participating.
In this rough economy, any savings from any place will help regular working families. Application fees can really add up if a student is applying to multiple schools and this is a welcome relief at a time when food and energy costs are crushing the average family budget.
across the state are offering fee waivers that vary by campus.
Lopez-Machado, 44, of Centereach, was pronounced dead at the scene by a physician assistant from the Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner.
Ordonez-Castillo, 54, of East Patchogue, was taken to Long Island Community Hospital in Patchogue for an evaluation. The vehicles were impounded for a safety check.
Detectives are asking anyone with information on this crash to call the Fifth Squad at 631854-8552.
The State University of New York (SUNY) will waive up to five application fees per student across its 64 colleges and universities from Oct. 21 through Nov. 3. The City University of New York (CUNY) is waiving application fees across all 25 campuses for high school seniors attending New York City public schools from Oct. 21 to Nov. 15 and from Nov. 4 to Nov. 15 for all New York State residents applying as a college freshman.
CUNY further guarantees admission to all seven of its community colleges for all NYC Public Schools graduates, while private institutions
“Ensuring that every student has the opportunity to pursue higher education is a top priority for New York State,” Governor Hochul said. “College Application Month isn’t only about waiving fees — it’s about breaking down financial barriers and opening doors to future opportunities. We’re empowering students across the state to take the first step toward achieving their educational and career goals while removing the financial obstacles that may deter students from pursuing higher education.”
New York State also recently announced an increase in
income thresholds for the FY25 budget for more than 40,000 newly eligible New York State students who have already submitted Tuition Assistance Program applications for the 2024-25 academic year. If you submitted an application and have not yet heard about a change in your application, check now to update your eligibility.
SUNY Chancellor John B. King Jr. said, “There is a place at SUNY for everyone, and we are committed to ensuring the pursuit of higher education is available to all New Yorkers.”
Visit the website for more information on the cutoff dates and participating schools.
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Officer Yasmin Gallant receives an award.
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Centereach man hit by car and killed.
ByDeborahWilliams
Golden Day is Coming to New York's Elections
Golden Day is the one day that a New York voter can register to vote and vote on the same day – or sort of vote – by affidavit ballot.
October 26 is Golden Day and is the last day to register to vote before the general election on Nov 5th and also the first day of early voting. Because of this “coincidence” of the calendar orchestrated by the Democrats by changing the law, Golden Day allows a voter to register to vote and early vote on the same day.
“Golden Day is nothing more than a clever moniker for same-day voter registration, and it violates the state constitution’s prohibition on same-day voter registration,” says Joe Burns, election law expert and partner at Holtzman Vogel.
Golden Day is clearly unconstitutional and also does not reflect the will of the voters of New York. The New York Constitution clearly states in Article II Section 5 that “registration shall be completed at least ten days before each election.” Furthermore, when the voters
of New York had the chance to approve same-day voter registrations, it was voted down.
Governor Kathy Hochul and the Democrat-led legislature went forward anyway, and Golden Day is the unconstitutional outcome of their actions.
Burns said, “The state constitution doesn’t permit
Just Say No to Prop 1
ByDeborahWilliams
What’s all the fuss about Prop 1? Equal rights sounds like a fine idea, right? It’s something we all want. Equal rights and equal opportunity are fundamental to the American Way. If the proposed amendment to the New York State Constitution was about that, and only that, this battle might not have become so heated.
But Prop. 1 is not about equal rights, it's about granting special rights to certain groups of people and actually harming other groups of people— women and girls in particular.
Prop. 1 must be defeated because it embeds radical, harmful ideology into the New York State Constitution— ideology that will codify harm to young girls and women into law.
Ideology that we have already seen at work when a female volleyball athlete had her facial bones broken by a male athlete spiking the ball into
same-day voter registration.
In 2021, the voters of New York had the opportunity to amend the constitution to allow for same-day voter registration. New Yorkers, in that 2021 referendum, voted down that amendment.”
It all comes down to the semantics of what voting is. Are you voting when you cast your ballot or are you voting at some later time when your
her face. Not to mention over 900 medals meant for female athletes that have been taken by males playing in female sports.
Prop. 1 started out to codify Roe v. Wade into New York’s Constitution even though abortion is under no threat
ballot is counted? New York’s Democrats, if challenged in court, will likely claim that they have not violated the state’s constitution based on what they claim ‘voting’ actually means. Most common sense voters would say they are voting when they cast their ballot.
Those in favor of loosening up the voting calendar say that since the ballots will
not be counted on the day of registration they are not violating the law. They claim that because the person registering to vote on Golden Day is casting an affidavit ballot, not putting their ballot into the machine, they are not really voting on the same day they are registering. This is a very fine line and parses common sense in ways that stretch the recognition of the act of voting beyond any reasonableness. It harkens back to the Bill Clinton days of, “It all depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.”
College campuses and the New York State Board of Elections are having Golden Day events across the state to encourage non-registered students to register and vote on the same day. Democrats are targeting young voters, voters of color, and specifically male voters where Kamala Harris has a deficit.
Golden Day may be challenged in court at some point and Democrats will then have to show how it meets the test of constitutionality in New York. Time will tell. In the meantime, New York Democrats are forging ahead.
in this state. The abortion expansions under former Governor Cuomo already allow abortion at any time for any reason. Abortion is not under any fire in New York. Abortion aside, advocates for different ideologies began working to use the
amendment as a vehicle to add other categories of people and behaviors where existing law already protects New Yorkers against discrimination.
The amendment grew to include age, national origin, sexual orientation, and gender identity. This can/will require males who think they are female to play sports against female athletes, get dressed in female locker rooms, and use female bathrooms.
Prop. 1 may also be used to prevent single-gendered education such as all-boys or all-girls high schools. It may even be used to eliminate over 55 housing communities since age is a protected class in a new way. It could even be used to require never-ending taxpayerpaid benefits for illegal aliens since “national origin” would now be a constitutionally protected class. Some say Prop. 1 could pave the way for noncitizens to vote.
The way the Prop. 1 is written leaves so many things wide
open that the norms of society and protections for women and girls are lying over the tracks and the train is coming fast. VOTE no on Prop. 1
Be assured this is not about abortion. Abortion is a ruse to knock down societal norms and break down basic protections and separations that women and girls have enjoyed for as long as any of us can remember.
Supporters of Prop 1 say these concerns are unreasonable. They say other sections of the Constitution prevent these things from happening. But that begs the question of why they put these protected classes in the amendment in the first place. If they are not setting the stage for these harmful things to become required by law, then why write the Prop. 1 in this way?
The old adage, “If it looks like a duck, it's probably a duck” comes to mind and this sure looks like a duck. VOTE no on Prop. 1.
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"Golden Day" Voting in NYS
HISTORY LESSONS
BY RICHARD ACRITELLI
Approaching single-digits days towards the Election of 2024, American citizens are watching a tight political race. The numbers in the “Swing and Key States” have been examined daily by every major news channel. As the race reaches its conclusion, there has been vehement rhetoric from both candidates. Trump has called President Kamala Harris “Stupid, Incompetent, Lying,” etc. Harris has responded that Trump is resemblant of “Hitler, is unhinged, and a Fascist.” These are aggressive words by both sides that have become increasingly intense. Below are several inaugural addresses and campaign speeches by presidential candidates who eventually won this office.
“Still, when you speak of us Republicans, you do so only to denounce us as reptiles, or, at the best, as no better than outlaws. You will grant a hearing to pirates or murderers, but nothing like it to 'Black Republicans.' In all your contentions with one another, each of you deems an unconditional condemnation of "Black Republicanism" as the first thing to be attended to. Indeed, such condemnation of us seems to be an indispensable prerequisite—license, so to speak—among you to be admitted or permitted to speak at all. Now, can you, or not, be prevailed upon to pause and to consider whether this is quite just to us, or even to yourselves? Bring forward your charges and specifications, and then be patient long enough to hear us deny or justify. You say we are sectional. We deny it. That makes an issue; and the burden of proof is upon you…”
— Abraham Lincoln, Cooper Hall Speech, February 27th, 1860
“Throughout the nation, men and women, forgotten in the political philosophy of the government of the last years,
look to us here for guidance and for a more equitable opportunity to share in the distribution of national wealth. On the farms, in the large metropolitan areas, in the smaller cities and in the villages, millions of our citizens cherish the hope that their old standards of living...have not gone forever. Those millions cannot and shall not hope in vain. I pledge to you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage. This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people.”
— President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic Convention Speech, July 2nd, 1932.
“The last Republican defense budget, proposed by President Ford, would have maintained the margin. But the Carter Administration came to power on a promise of slashing America’s defenses. It has made good on its promises. Our program to restore the margin of safety must be prudent and measured. We must take a stand against terrorism in the world and combat it with firmness, or it is the most cowardly and savage violation of peace. We must regain that margin of safety I spoke of both in conventional arms and the deployment of troops. And we must allow no weakness in our strategic deterrent. We do not stand in the world. We have Allies who are with us, who look to America to provide leadership and to remain strong. But they are confused by the lack of a coherent, principled policy from the Carter Administration.”
— President Ronald Reagan VFW Speech, August 18th, 1980.
Segments of the History of American Political Campaigns Towards the Elections
“Tonight 10 million of our fellow Americans are out of work. Tens of millions more work harder for lower pay. The incumbent President says unemployment always goes up a little before a recovery begins, but unemployment only must go up by one more person before a real recovery can begin. And Mr. President, you are that man. This election is about putting power back in your hands and putting the government back on your side. It’s about putting people first. You know, I’ve said that across the country. And whenever I do, someone always comes back at me, as a young man did just this week at a town meeting at the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He said, 'That sounds good, Bill, but you’re a politician. Why should I trust you?'”
— President Bill Clinton, Democratic National Convention Speech, July 16th, 1992.
These presidential speeches had one goal in common: they sought political victory. Before the Election of 1860, Lincoln spoke in New York to describe the division in the nation. Today, as these words are always heard about, before this historic election, Lincoln explained the political climate between
the Democratic South and the Republican North. He presented the shortcomings in the country that increased under outgoing President of James K. Buchanan. This was his opportunity to prove that he was not a “folksy” or a “hick” of a leader from the woods or farmlands of Illinois, but rather an emerging leader who expected to be taken seriously.
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt suffered from the hardships of polio and this wealthy politician from New York wanted to directly aid Americans during the Great Depression. Believing that President Herbert Hoover was unable to fight this crisis and show compassion through the government’s attack on the “Bonus Army” group of World War I Veterans. Although some Americans feared Roosevelt’s increased intervention in the economy, they listened to the ideas of the “New Deal” before this election. Roosevelt mentioned that Hoover widely lost the confidence of this country and that the people deserved a new beginning to fight the immense powers of the depression.
California Governor Ronald Reagan was an athlete, sports caster, actor, veteran, cowboy,
and ran for the presidency twice before the Election of 1980. The 1970s were a disaster for the United States through the loss of the Vietnam War, the Hostage & Oil Crisis, stagflation, President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation, and loss of American prestige overseas. Reagan campaigned that our people were bullied by second-rate nations and there had to be a response to defend our interests and pride. The “Great Communicator” viewed the risks that the Cold War could still be lost to the Soviet Union and that our military had to re-build and demonstrate resolve against the communist threat. Reagan continually stressed that Jimmy Carter was the face of his own “Question of Confidence” speech.
Finally, in 1992, President William J. Clinton was a little-known governor from Arkansas. He ran against the political longevity of President George H.W. Bush, who was an extremely experienced leader. Whereas Bush was Reagan’s Vice President, and they won the Cold War, the stock market crashed in 1987, excessive government debt was accumulated from the tax cuts, and the nation had high unemployment. There were questions about both figures, as Clinton evaded the Vietnam War draft and there were questions over his character. Bush reversed his pledge not to raise taxes, and he paid heavily for the poor economy and the increase of taxes. Years later, as Goodwill Ambassadors, both bitter opponents became good friends, and Clinton admitted that Barbara Bush was a second mother to him. Everyday Americans will be watching this election, but the friction of this contest is one that has always been seen within our political landscape.
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BY NANCY BURNER, ESQ.
To be eligible for one of the Medicare Advantage health plan choices, an individual must be eligible for both Part A (Hospital Insurance) and Part B (Medical Insurance). Someone enrolled in a Medicare Advantage Plan (also referred to as Part C) receives the same category of benefits offered by Parts A and B (also referred to as Original Medicare), but their plan may apply different rules, costs, and restrictions, which can affect how and when participants receive care. A plan cannot reject an individual because of their age or health status and cannot delay coverage for preexisting conditions. Some choose to participate in Part C plans to save on the cost of monthly premiums but must beware that the deductibles, co-insurance, and co-pays may result in higher out-ofpocket costs in the end.
The Medicare Advantage plans available depends on the county in which an individual resides. In
2025, Nassau County and New York City residents will have four fewer Medicare Advantage Plans to choose from than they did in 2024. Queens and Brooklyn residents will have eight fewer plans to choose from. And unlike many other counties, Suffolk residents will have the same amount of Medicare Advantage Plans to choose from in 2025 as they did in 2024.
A small number of participants whose plan has been terminated for 2025 will not be automatically assigned to a new plan. People in this group will be able to enroll in another Medicare Advantage plan, if one is available, or choose Original Medicare. If they choose Original Medicare, they will qualify for a special enrollment period for Medigap with guaranteed issue rights, meaning they can switch to Original Medicare and will not be denied a Medigap policy due to a preexisting health condition.
In other cases, a new plan will be assigned under the same insurance
2025 Changes to Medicare Advantage Plans
provider automatically if the contract includes another plan of the same type (i.e., HMO or PPO) in the same county. Others will have to make an active choice to enroll in another Medicare Advantage plan.
Those that participate in Original Medicare often purchase a Medicare Supplemental or Medigap insurance policy. The Medigap helps to fill in the “gaps” in Original Medicare. Medigap policies may cover co-insurance, co-payments and deductibles as well as extra benefits such as foreign travel emergency coverage. There are 12 Medigap insurance plans to choose from in New York. Normally, prices for this kind of policy vary based on your age, sex and health status. However, if someone’s Medicare Advantage Plan is canceled for 2025, one may enroll in a Medigap insurance policy regardless of preexisting health conditions that might have previously disqualified them from coverage.
Finding affordable health care
coverage is often overwhelming but vital to living a healthy, full life. Regardless of your circumstances, it is never too early to consider how changes in New York’s Medicare offerings will affect you. Whether you participate in Original Medicare or a Medicare Advantage plan, open enrollment is now. Open enrollment for 2025 insurance coverage is from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7. Take this opportunity to review your plan to ensure you have the
coverage you need for the new year.
By Britt Burner, Esq. & Erin Cullen
Britt Burner, Esq. is a Partner at Burner Prudenti Law, P.C. focusing her practice areas on Estate Planning and Elder Law. Erin Cullen is a graduate of the Maurice A. Dean School of Law at Hofstra University. Burner Prudenti Law, P.C. serves clients from New York City to the east end of Long Island with offices located in East Setauket, Westhampton Beach, Manhattan and East Hampton.
LEGAL NOTICES • LEGAL NOTICES • LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE OF SALE
Supreme Court County of Suffolk
State of New York Mortgage Agency, Plaintiff
AGAINST
Julie Meola, Lester Corrian, et al, Defendant(s)
Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated August 14, 2024 and entered on August 20, 2024, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY on November 7, 2024 at 1:00 PM premises known as 11 Malverne Road, Sound Beach, NY 11789. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the County of Suffolk, State of New York, SECTION: 052.00, BLOCK: 11.00, LOT: 048.000, District: 0200. Approximate amount of judgment is $345,535.59 plus interests and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 208807/2022.
The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the District and Suffolk County Auction Plan in effect at this time.
GREGORY A. CROFTS, et al Defendant(s) Attorney for Plaintiff(s) McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, 420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 840, New York, NY 10170.
Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered July 10, 2024, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738 on
November 13, 2024 at 9:30 AM. Premises known as 40 Oak Street, Centereach, NY 11720. District 0200
Sec 485.00 Block 05.00 Lot 030.002. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at Centereach, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $591,181.36 plus interest, fees, and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 622216/2019.
CANCELED
The foreclosure sale will be conducted in accordance with 10th Judicial District's Covid-19 Policies and foreclosure auction rules. The Referee shall enforce any rules in place regarding facial coverings and social distancing. For sale information, please contact XOME at www. Xome.com or call (844)4009633.
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK Index No. 630420/2023 Date Filed: 12/08/2023
SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS WITH NOTICE
MCLP ASSET COMPANY, INC., Plaintiff, -againstKenneth C GOGGANS AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF KENNETH E GOGGANS GOGGANS, if living and if dead, the respective heirs-atlaw, next-of-kin, distributes, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or inheritance, lien or otherwise any right, title or interest in or to the real property described in the amended complaint; STEPHANIE GOGGANS AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF KENNETH E GOGGANS; DISCOVER BANK; STATE OF NEW YORK C/O
ANNE MARIE RAGO, ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; SECURITY PACIFIC REALTY CORP., A NEW YORK CORPORATION, Defendant(s). We are attempting to collect a debt, and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. To the above-named Defendant(s):
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the amended complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the amended verified complaint is not served with this supplemental summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the plaintiff's attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of this supplemental summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this supplemental summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) or within (60) days after service of this supplemental summons if it is the United States of America; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the amended verified complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this supplemental summons and amended verified 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 supplemental summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this 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. The foregoing
supplemental summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable S. BETSY HECKMAN
TORRES, J.S.C., Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Suffolk, dated the 9TH day of SEPTEMBER,2024 and duly entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk on the 18TH day of SEPTEMBER, 2024. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT This is an action to foreclose a mortgage lien on the premises described herein. The object of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage executed by Kenneth E. Goggans and Agnes L. Goggans, as Mortgagors, to Fleet National Bank, a Mortgage to secure $120,000.00 and interest, dated May 7, 2005, (the Mortgage), which was recorded in the Office of the County Clerk of Suffolk County on July 8, 2005 in Liber: M00021082, Page: 276 which loan was modified by a Loan Modification Agreement to modify said mortgage to an amount of $220,000.00, dated February 3, 2007, which was recorded in the Office of the County Clerk of Suffolk County on May 10, 2007 in Liber: M00021532, Page: 493 which was then assigned to MCLP ASSET COMPANY, INC by Assignment of Mortgage dated September 28, 2023, which is TO BE RECORDED in the Office of the County Clerk of Suffolk County, covering premises known as 15 COLONIAL PLACE, CENTEREACH, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, STATE OF NY 11720 (DISTRICT: 0200 SECTION: 422.00 BLOCK: 02.00 LOT: 014.000). The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above.
SEE SCHEDULE “A” ANNEXED HERETO. Dated: Manhasset, New York OCTOBER 3, 2024
DAVID A. GALLO & ASSOCIATES LLP By: /S/ DAVID A. GALLO, ESQ.
Attorneys for Plaintiff 47 Hillside Avenue - 2nd Floor Manhasset, NY 11030 (516) 583-5330
EXHIBIT A
Legal Description
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, known and designated as Lot No. 29 on a certain map entitled, "Map of Brookville Terrace", filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk on July 3, 1968 as Map No. 5125, which said lot is more particularly bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at an extremely southerly end of an arc of a curve which connects the westerly side of Brookville Drive with the northerly side of Colonial Place; running thence along the northerly side of Colonial Place the following three courses and distances: 1) South 83°42'10'' West 85.00 feet; 2) Along an arc of a curve which bears to the right, having a radius of 50 feet, a length of 50.08 feet to a point; 3) North 38°54'20'' west 91.54 feet to a point which intersects with the southwesterly corner of lots 28 and 19; running thence along the division line between lots 28 and 29, north 79°49'00'' east 200.40 feet to the westerly side of Brookville Drive, south 06°17'50'' east 86.68 feet to an extreme northerly end of an arc of curve which connects the said westerly side of Brookville Drive with the northerly side of Colonial Place; running thence along the last mentioned curve, which bears to the right having a radius of 25 feet; a distance of 39.27 feet to the point of place of beginning
SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P., Plaintiff, vs. STEVEN CLARK A/K/A STEVEN F. CLARK, ET AL., Defendant(s).
Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee’s Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on August 20, 2024, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738 on November 20, 2024 at 9:30 a.m., premises known as 229 Southhaven Avenue A/K/A
229 Southaven Avenue, Medford, NY 11763. 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 840.00, Block 03.00 and Lot 013.004. Approximate amount of judgment is $394,787.97 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #010234/2012. Cash will not be accepted.
Donna England, Esq., Referee
Knuckles & Manfro, LLP, 120 White Plains Road, Suite 215, Tarrytown, New York 10591, Attorneys for Plaintiff
SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC, Plaintiff AGAINST Sharon Klune a/k/a Sharon L. Klune; et al., Defendant(s)
Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered April 2, 2024 I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Front steps of Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738 on November 14, 2024 at 9:00AM, premises known as 4 Laurel Crescent a/k/a Laurel Cresent, Manorville, NY 11949. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in Manorville, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk, State of NY, District 0200 Section 510.00 Block 05.00 Lot 029.031. Approximate amount of judgment $635,637.89 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 207406/2022. The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the 10th Judicial District.
LEGAL NOTICES • LEGAL NOTICES • LEGAL NOTICES
Jacob Turner, Esq., Referee
LOGS Legal Group LLP
Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792
Dated: September 5, 2024 For sale information, please visit www. Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 200557CB, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-57CB, Plaintiff -against- RYAN FISHER, SAMANTHA FISHER, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated December 15, 2023 and entered on January 23, 2024, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY on November 20, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. premises situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York, known and designated as SBL# 586.00-04.00006.000.
*referee does NOT accept cash only bank and certified checks payable to Giuseppe T. Rosini, Esq., as referee*. Said premises known as 576 BOXWOOD DRIVE, SHIRLEY, NY 11967
Approximate amount of lien $422,484.83 plus interest & costs.
Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. Index Number 207845/2022.
GIUSEPPE T. ROSINI, ESQ., Referee Pincus Law Group, PLLC
Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 425 RXR Plaza, Uniondale, NY 11556
79 Revilo Avenue, Shirley, New York 11967 f/k/a 79 Revillo Avenue, Shirley, New York 11967
DSBL #: 0200-821.00-03.00062.003
Plaintiff designates SUFFOLK County as the place of trial; venue is based upon the county in which the mortgaged premises is situate.
STATE OF NEW YORK
SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF SUFFOLK
Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, d/b/a Christiana Trust, not individually but as trustee for Pretium Mortgage Acquisition Trust
Plaintiff, vs. Suffolk County Public Administrator, as Administrator of the Estate of Victor J. Passarella a/k/a Victor Passarella; Janine Tappy a/k/a Janine Passarella, as Heir of the Estate of Victor J. Passarella a/k/a Victor Passarella; Samantha Passarella as Heir of the Estate of Victor J. Passarella a/k/a Victor Passarella; Victor Passarella as Heir of the Estate of Victor J. Passarella a/k/a Victor Passarella; G.P., a minor as Heir of the Estate of Victor J. Passarella a/k/a Victor Passarella; D.P., a minor, as Heir of the Estate of Victor J. Passarella a/k/a Victor Passarella; L.P., a minor, as Heir of the Estate of Victor J. Passarella a/k/a Victor Passarella; C.P., a minor, as Heir of the Estate of Victor J. Passarella a/k/a Victor Passarella; Unknown Heirs of The Estate of Victor J. Passarella a/k/a Victor Passarella and all heirs-atlaw and all the heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, devisees, grantees, trustees, lienors, creditors, assignees and successors in interest of any of the aforesaid classes of person, if they or any of them be dead, and their respective husbands, wives or widows, if any, and all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to plaintiff,
except as herein stated; Nassau Educators Federal Credit Union; Hampton Dream Properties, LLC; United States of America o/b/o Internal Revenue Service; and New York State Department of Taxation and Finance; John Doe #1 through #6, and Jane Doe #1 through #6, the last twelve names being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants, tenants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises being foreclosed herein.
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 attorneys for the Plaintiff within 20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Amended Complaint.
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 PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS 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.
THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $144,160.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Suffolk on April 23, 2003 in Liber M00020370, Page 872, covering premises known as 79 Revilo Avenue, Shirley, New York 11967, DSBL #: 0200-821.00-03.00-062.003
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. The Plaintiff also seeks a deficiency judgment against the Defendants and for any debt secured by said Mortgage which is not satisfied by the proceeds of the sale of said premises.
TO the Defendants Unknown Heirs of The Estate of Victor J. Passarella a/k/a Victor Passarella and all heirs-at-law and all the heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, devisees, grantees, trustees, lienors, creditors, assignees and successors in interest of any of the aforesaid classes of person, if they or any of them be dead, and their respective husbands, wives or widows, if any, and all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to plaintiff, except as herein stated, the foregoing Supplemental Summons with Notice is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Betsy Heckman Torres, J.S.C. of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Suffolk, dated and filed September 10, 2024.
Dated: October 8, 2024 /s/ Deborah M. Gallo
Deborah M. Gallo, Esq. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC
420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 840
New York, New York 10170
Phone: 347.286.7409
Fax: 347-286-7414
Attorneys for Plaintiff, Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, d/b/a Christiana Trust, not individually but as trustee for Pretium Mortgage Acquisition Trust
HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE
NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE SEND YOU THIS NOTICE ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT
YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT IN THIS FORECLOSURE
ACTION, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACT
AN ATTORNEY OR YOUR LOCAL LEGAL AID OFFICE TO OBTAIN ADVICE ON HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE.
The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process.
To locate an entity near you, you may call the tollfree helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department of Financial Services at 1-800-342-3736 or visit the Department's website at www.dfs.ny.gov.
FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS
Be careful of people who approach you with offers to "save" your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner's distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering
such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services.
TRINITY FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC, Plaintiff, Against
MARC CIMMINO A/K/A MARK CIMMINO, LAURA CIMMINO, ET AL.,
Defendant(s)
Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 07/11/2024, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, at Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738, on 11/15/2024 at 10:30AM, premises known as 19 Hampton Drive, Center Moriches, New York 11934, And Described As Follows:
ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in Center Moriches, In The Town Of Brookhaven, County Of Suffolk And State Of New York.
District 0200 Section 885.00 Block 06.00 Lot 003.000 The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $192,965.83 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 604096/2021
Annette Eaderesto, Esq., Referee.
SHELDON MAY & ASSOCIATES Attorneys at Law, 255 Merrick Road, Rockville Centre, NY 11570
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS, INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-25, Plaintiff, Against
JAMES P. WALSH; STEPHANIE M. WALSH; ET AL;
Defendant(s)
Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 06/16/2021, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, at Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738, on 11/15/2024 at 2:00pm, premises known as 27 Pineway Avenue, Mastic Beach, NY 11951, And Described As Follows: 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 970.00 Block 02.00 Lot 012.000 And 013.000.
The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $469,411.27 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 604429/2019
Billie Jean Miller, Esq., Referee.
For sale information, please visit Auction.com at www. Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832.
SHELDON MAY & ASSOCIATES Attorneys at Law, 255 Merrick Road, Rockville Centre, NY 11570
Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on September 6, 2024. Office located in Suffolk County. SSNY has been designated
for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to: 275 GILLETTE AVE, BAYPORT, NY, 11705, USA. Purpose: To engage in any lawful activity.
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK ----------------------------X
Index No. 619711/2024
Date Summons Filed: 08/08/2024
MARSHALEE HIBBERT, Plaintiff designates Suffolk County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is Plaintiff's residence. Plaintiff, SUMMONS -againstPlaintiff resides at 15 Essen Drive, Amityville, NY 11701. RICARDO BROOKS, Defendant. ----------------------------X
ACTION FOR DIVORCE
To the above named Defendant:
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer on Plaintiff's Attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclu¬sive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the State of New York, or within thir¬ty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief de¬manded in the complaint.
Dated: August 8, 2024
Jan Gomerman, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff 807 East Jericho Turnpike Huntington Station, NY 11746 631-549-1777
L16072 - 10/16/2024, 10/23/2024&10/30/2024
Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK
ACTION TO FORECLOSE A MORTGAGE INDEX #: 615567/2024 SUNSET EQUITY FUND, LLC Plaintiff, vs JOSEPH LUCK AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF ROSARIO PELLEGRINO, UNKNOWN HEIRS OF ROSARIO PELLEGRINO IF LIVING, AND IF HE/SHE 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 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, PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ON BEHALF OF THE IRS, CLERK OF THE SUFFOLK COUNTY TRAFFIC & PARKING VIOLATIONS AGENCY
JOHN DOE (Those unknown tenants, occupants, persons or corporations or their heirs, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, assignees, creditors or successors claiming an interest in the mortgaged premises.) Defendant(s). MORTGAGED PREMISES: 118 Fulton Avenue Mastic,
NY 11950 To the Above named Defendant: 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 Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Suffolk. The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises. TO Unknown Heirs of Rosario Pellegrino Defendant In this Action. The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. Stephen C. Hackeling of the Supreme Court Of The State Of New York, dated the TwentySeventh day of September, 2024 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk, in the City of Riverhead. The object of this action is to foreclosure a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by Rosario Pellegrino (who died on October 18, 2021, a resident of the county of Suffolk, State of New York) dated the September 11, 2007, to secure the sum of $232,900.00 and recorded at Book 21616, Page 49 in the Office of the Suffolk County Clerk on October 5, 2007. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed March 9, 2010 and recorded on April 22, 2013, in the Office of the Suffolk County Clerk at Book 22329, Page 906. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed April 17, 2013 and recorded on November 6, 2013, in the Office of the Suffolk County Clerk at Book 22419, Page 339. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed April 17, 2013 and
recorded on November 6, 2013, in the Office of the Suffolk County Clerk at Book 22419, Page 340. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed October 31, 2013 and recorded on November 6, 2013, in the Office of the Suffolk County Clerk at Book 22419, Page 341.
The property in question is described as follows: 118 Fulton Avenue, Mastic, NY 11950 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 your mortgage company will not stop this 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: October 14, 2024 Gross Polowy LLC Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s) 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 The law firm of Gross Polowy LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose. 83071
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR NOVASTAR MORTGAGE FUNDING TRUST, SERIES 20054, NOVASTAR HOME EQUITY LOAN ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-4,
-against-
EDITH BROWN, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF THOMAS R. BROWN, IF LIVING, AND IF SHE/HE BE DEAD, ET AL.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk on September 9, 2024, wherein THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR NOVASTAR MORTGAGE FUNDING TRUST, SERIES 20054, NOVASTAR HOME EQUITY LOAN ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-4 is the Plaintiff and EDITH BROWN, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF THOMAS R. BROWN, IF LIVING, AND IF SHE/HE BE DEAD, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the BROOKHAVEN TOWN HALL, 1 INDEPENDENCE HILL, FARMINGVILLE, NY 11738, on November 22, 2024 at 12:00PM, premises known as 41 LINCOLN BOULEVARD, EAST MORICHES, NY 11940; and the following tax map identification: 0200-831.0003.00-053.000.
ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED SITUATE LYING AND BEING AT EAST MORICHES TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN COUNTY OF SUFFOLK AND STATE OF NEW YORK
Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No.: 618439/2020. Giuseppe T. Rosini, Esq. - Referee. Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC, 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales
will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES.
SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, U.S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE FOR TRUMAN 2016 SC6
TITLE TRUST, Plaintiff, vs. NORMA ARIAS A/K/A
NORMA L. PORTILLO, ET AL., Defendant(s).
Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on June 1, 2022, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738 on December 3, 2024 at 10:30 a.m., premises known as 182 Lexington Road, Shirley, NY 11967. 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 967.00, Block 06.00 and Lot 060.000. Approximate
amount of judgment is $485,028.06 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #607270/2015.
Annette Eaderesto, Esq., Referee
Friedman Vartolo LLP, 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff Firm File No.: 211881-1
The following Self Storage unit contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by StorQuest Self Storage
2021 Lakeland Avenue , Ronkonkoma NY 11779 (631) 954-2026 to satisfy a lien on 11/13/2024 at approx. 12PM at www. storagetreasures.com: Robert Cunningham-1013, Erica Baez
L16079-10/30/2024
NOTICE OF SALE
SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST
Daniel A. Davidson; et al., Defendant(s)
Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered August 26, 2024 I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town
Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738 on December 3, 2024 at 10:00AM, premises known as 1184 Waverly Avenue, Holtsville, NY 11742-1122. 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 653.00 Block 03.00 Lot 045.000. Approximate amount of judgment $647,043.19 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 031309/2013. The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the
10th Judicial District.
Amanda M. Baron-Frank, Esq., Referee
LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC
Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792
Dated: September 19, 2024 For sale information, please visit www. Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832
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THE BETTOR ANGLE TM
BY TOM BARTON
In sports betting you have two camps as it looks at trends: Those who like to follow the trends and those who believe that past data has no reference for what the future will hold. For those who agree with that notion, this might not be for you, but it's hard to argue with these numbers.
As the sun goes down in the NFL, seemingly so does scoring. Before we go into the pure numbers game, let's make sure we understand a few things about prime time numbers. First, the public will be betting the prime-time, stand-alone games more than any over
most weekends. That means that the public will be taking what they usually do, and that means overs. The line makers will bake this into the total and adjust in anticipation of what the public will do. Second, many prime-time games pit two good teams against each other, and most "good" teams have solid defenses.
With that said, the primetime under trends have been remarkable. If you have been betting under the point totals they are hitting a millionairemaking rate of over 60 percent over the last six seasons. It gets ever better for sports bettors
as that number shoots up past 70 percent over the past two seasons on Thursday, Sunday, and Monday night football games.
Overall unders are always a solid bet. If you blindly bet unders this season, you would be hitting just under 53 percent (with 53 percent being profitable on the standard -110 vig) which means you would be taking home money. But if you just concentrate on the prime-time unders, you would be raking in the dough. This week the Jets and Giants play on Monday Night Football and Thursday Night Football.
Nighttime Unders Keep Hitting
Kiernan and the Mustangs Keep Going to the Air for Wins
ByTomBarton
Shane Kiernan was electric in leading Miller Place past John Glenn this weekend.
The Miller Place quarterback had one of the best games of the season under center this week when he led his Mustangs to a 21-14 win.
Shane Kiernan completed 25 passes for over 300 yards and three touchdowns. With the big
day, Kiernan now leads Suffolk County in passing attempts and yards and is shouting distance from the most TD passes thrown.
He tossed two TDs to Dane LaGrasta who had eight receptions for just under 200 yards.
Kiernan and the Mustangs will end their regular season next week against GreenportSouthold-Mattituck.
Connetquot's Puts on an Offensive Show
ByTomBarton
Connetquot's offense was just too much to handle for Central Islip in their 47-7 win this past Friday night.
Vincent Feraca threw for 258 yards and a remarkable five touchdowns as his star shined brighter than anyone. This big game pushed his season totals to 1,758 passing yards & 21 TD passes.
There were plenty of offensive stars in this one, though, as Javon Barnwell had three receptions for 128 yards and he lived in the end zone with three TD catches. He also had three attempts for 46 yards on the ground. Barnwell now has ten TDs on the season.
Andrew Amarando also saw the end zone multiple times
with two receiving TDs. While offense certainly led the day holding CI to just one TD also highlighted the defensive effort. The defensive player of the game went to Kevin Unterweiser who had six tackles, one for a loss, a QB Sack, forced a fumble, and he broke up two passes.
Shane Kiernan
Giants Dexter Lawrence
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Credit: @Connetquot_FB | X Javon Barnwell Vincent Feraca Kevin Unterweiser
SPORTS Stony Brook Has a Homecoming To Remember
ByTomBarton
The 24th-ranked Seawolves made this one of the most memorable homecomings ever in their takedown of No. 15 William and Mary.
Stony Brook continued their impressive and unexpected dynamic play this season with another underdog win on homecoming this week. The Wolves won 35-13 over the Tribe at LValle Stadium to push their record to 6-2 on the year.
Running back Roland Dempster has been a force for this team all year and it was more of the same on Saturday
Daniel White Leads Hills East
ByTomBarton
Daniel White just upped his claim as the best player in the county this season when he led Hal Hollow Hills East to a 42-17 win over West Islip this weekend.
White rushed for 180 yards and three TDs to improve Hill East's record to 6-1 on the season. Lucas Martin was the big receiving threat on the day with 100 receiving yards and a TD.
Tyler Sanders and Jaiden Bryant also both got into the end zone and both had big defensive plays on that side of the ball with an interception and fumble recovery.
Game, Set, Match for Bayport-Blue Point Sisters
ByTomBarton
The Bayport-Blue Point sister duo of Emilia and Evangelina Romano felt heartbreak last season and used that fuel to capture this year's Suffolk County doubles championship.
A season ago the team lost the New York State Championship to Matilda Buchen & Julia Stabile of Westhampton Beach in the finals.
as Dempster carried the ball 27 times as the workhorse rumbled for 144 yards and two touchdowns.
Jace Freeman went over the 100 yard mark on just three receptions and added a touchdown. The score came on the first play for Stony Brook
as Tyler Knoop threw it for 70 yards to set the tone of the day. Knopp also had a TD pass to Cal Redman.
On the defensive side of things, AJ Roberts picked off a pass and ran it in for a defensive score.
The Wolves now travel to take on Bryant this week.
Konopka Repeats As Champion
This year they took on Westhampton Beach again, but Buchen had a new partner in Ava Borruso.
Remembering the heartbreak that was last season, the Romano sisters looked even more determined and on their game as they won with a 6-3 and 6-4 victory.
From the very beginning you could see that they had a well-designed game plan and executed it to perfection. The team controlled the pace and later explained their strategy about playing into each other's strengths.
The Romanos will now head to the New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) Individual Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Buchen & Borruso will also be going to the event.
ByTomBarton
Smithtown East’s Anya Konopka is now the two-time Suffolk County singles champion as she defended her title this week.
Konopka secured her back-toback titles after defeating Mount Sinai's Sofia Perez by a count of 7-5 and 6-0.
Konopka had home court advantage playing at her high school and delivered against a very tough competitor.
“This was the first time we’ve ever had the finals here. I live two minutes away, so I was able to take a nap and then come here and play,” said Konopka.
The first set Perez started like a house on fire and it looked like Konopka would be in trouble. It
was a great match but went on a run winning the final nine games to lead her to a victory.
Afterwards she commented how this felt very different than last year. Last season she was the younger underdog; this year she was almost expected to win. The pressure was on her as the older player and returning champion.
Konopka now heads to the New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) Individual Championships later this week at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
Konopka and Perez are both going to States, and will be joined by fellow Suffolk player Sofia Matos of Longwood.
Credit: Long Island Tennis Magazine | Facebook Anya Konopka
The Wolves Win On Homecoming
The Wolves Win On Homecoming Credit: @StonyBrookFB
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East Hills Defense Comes Up Big
Emilia Romano and Evangelina Romano
SPORTS The Fred Fusaro Cup Stays in Lake Ronkonkoma
ByTomBarton
Great Hollow Middle School Takes The Field For A Great Cause
ByTomBarton
When the Great Hollow Middle School took the field this week it was about more than just taking the field and winning a game.
The Great Hollow vs. Cancer event was organized by Great Hollow Middle School field hockey coach Colleen McKillop, and raises money for the nonprofit organization Corey's Promise.
The even features a day for the school teams to host a game, and students and faculty are invited to
watch them participate in various after-school sports. The football team, along with both the boys and girls soccer teams and the field hockey team all participated in this great cause. On the sidelines were also the Great Hollow kickline and cheerleading teams to encourage the athletes.
Donations came from students, teachers, staff and parents and will be sent to the nonprofit organization, Corey’s Promise. In all the event raised more than $2,000 in the fight against cancer.
this past weekend by exploding on offense for 42 points. With that win, the Fred Fusaro Cup, which goes to the winner of the Sachem vs. Sachem battle annually, stays in Lake Ronkonkoma this season.
Sachem East took an early lead and went into the second quarter up 7-0, but the second quarter proved to be their undoing. North put up a 21-point scoring flurry as they went into the halftime locker room up 217. They also were able to put up 21 points in the second half to cap off their excellent day.
Running back Lucas Singleton led the day setting the tone on the ground for 135 yards and three touchdowns. QB Luke LaRocca was able to be effective through the air
with two TD passes as it seemed like everything that North wanted to do offensively worked out.
A Complete Effort for Bellport
ByTomBarton
It was a complete effort by Bellport football this weekend in their win over Smithtown East.
Not only was the Bellport offense on full display putting up 43 points, but the defensive was not to be outdone and pitched a shutout in the game with a statement win for Bellport.
Michael Frankie led the scoring with two touchdown catches while Braydon Cipp not only tossed TD passes, but also ran for one himself.
The defense not only held Smithtown East scoreless, but they also got in on the scoring
The
Rugby Comes to Bayport-Blue Point
ByTomBarton
Athletes at Bayport-Blue Point are going out of their comfort zone and trying out some new sports. Besides the traditional sports that Americans are used to, the school district wanted to give students a chance to see some lesser-known sports a chance.
Each year, the district exposes students to new sports and activities. This year, students played some non-contact rugby for the first time.
RugbyNY President Matthew Persanis and coach Tim Downey visited Bayport-Blue Point High School, offering various clinics throughout the school day.
The high school has now incorporated rugby into the team sports physical education
curriculum for a two-week unit. So far, students’ feedback has been very positive.The students get a taste of something new and exciting while learning from true professionals.
“Exposing high school students to non-contact rugby opens doors
to a unique sport that promotes teamwork and resilience, enriching their experience in the team sports elective and paving the way for future participation,” said Chairperson for Physical Education Tricia Livingston.
The battle of Sachem was won by Sachem North 42-22. Sachem North beat Sachem East
BBP Learns Rugby
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Sachem North Football Team
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Credit: Jamie Stuart Media Relations Smithtown Central School District Students and faculty at Great Hollow Middle School in Smithtown joined together for their annual, “Great Hollow vs. Cancer event.
themselves when Hayden Tooker returned a fumble for a TD.
D wasn't finished there as Nazir Turner also returned an
interception for a touchdown. Superstar Trey’von Holland had eight tackles and forced a fumble.
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Sachem North leads the all-time series nine wins to three.
Sachem East Cheer
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SPORTS The Yankees Win The World Series
ByTomBarton
Sometimes in life you realize that the next moment or day will live forever in your memories and the memories of those close to you. It's rare that you can see it coming but, when you do, it's more special than anything that can be written or scripted by Hollywood. For this article I wasn't sure how to approach the moment. Should I remain a sports writer only? Do I allow my managerial side to shine? Or can I allow my proud Daddy mindset to win out? Well, the reality is I am all three, so all three must be part of the telling of the greatness that was this season in Little League.
The story of the 2024 fall baseball North Shore Minor league baseball season has been written and what a great story it truly is. A championship team that faced adversity but also overcame all obstacles to stand at the top of the mountain would make any sports writer jealous. As with many youth teams, the season was riddled with players missing time for prior engagements and there were some bumps in the road. This Yankees team was not unique in that fashion, but how they overcame it speaks to the depth of their character. The Yankees lost only two games all year and even those two losses came by one run. One of those games the pinstripes had to play with just eight players, the other was lost late using worndown pitching because of the relentless schedule. Through all of it, the Yankees never blinked as they beat the team they were neck and neck with for first place twice during the season, but the
Rays grabbed the top seed. Heading into the playoffs as a coach, what I watched was a team gelling before our eyes. Myself, Coach Jimmy and Coach Pops started to see that this team was special, dare we say championship caliber. The Yankees went into the playoffs with three straight wins by the score of 38-7, including beating the Rays in the final game of the season. As the playoffs began, they smoked the Mets 18-0 in what many would call a perfectly played game.
The second round of the playoffs brought the Cardinals to the field. The Cardinals were known to be a "stop at nothing to win" squad and proved to be just that as the battle for a right to go to the World Series was on. The Yankees were down 6-1 after 3 innings and with bad calls going against them, it looked like all was lost. Down 7-3 with two outs in the last inning, somehow the Yankees fought back. Somehow this resilient team fought all the way back and tied the game at 7. Despite some outstanding pitching from Chase, the Cards scored one run to take an 8-7 lead, but their rally was nullified when Chase struck out the cleanup batter after the intentional walk to load the bases and get the force play.
As the bottom of the inning came with key at bats from Aiden and Tommy, Mason was pitched very carefully to and walked. Lefty slugger Mike came up in a clutch spot and didn't blink, smoking a single past the first baseman to score two and win the game. That was just step one in the comeback season for the Yankees.
The World Series saw the Yankees down one of their better arms, but Mason was on the mound. A pitcher who had thrown a no-hitter this season and flirted with another. Early on Mason pitched well, but the Yanks were down 2-0. At that point the dugout began cheering and singing "comeback season." This team was not just the dominant force, but they knew how to come back from adversity as well. They quickly tied it at 2 only to see the Rays go up 4-2. Again they responded in the bottom of the inning to make it 4-4. That's when the bats took over. After a key walk by Tommy, the Yankees put 4 up on the board and it was 8-4. The Rays tried to mount a comeback, but outstanding plays by Ryan, Jayden, Landon and Mike G. made sure that would not happen. Then the flood gates opened when they had key atbats from both Gios, Thomas, and in that inning seven different
players scored to hang a 7 spot on them. Chase closed the game out despite meeting the middle of the order and the Yankees won another dominating game 15-6.
As a sports writer, it was great to watch the growth of some very good character kids develop into great players. A season of dominating opponents is rarely also combined with overcoming adversity. As a manager, it was the culmination of 7 years of coaching finally getting to the mountain top. The passion from the kids was only matched by the coaching staff and fans, and it makes all the free time given to the team worth it. How can us coaches explain that we are enjoying the win as much as they are? But, as a father, there could never be a better moment. The kids might not understand how precious it is to be on the field with your best friends and raise a trophy that you worked so hard for, but we can see it from our
angle and through teary eyes just smile ear to ear.
In a generation where travel baseball and pushing athletes to grow up too fast has become the norm, there is a certain pureness in watching kids that may never get a shot at a championship again raise that trophy. Many of the minors players won't move up to majors and, as sad as it is, many have played for the last time. There might have been a sudden outbreak of hay fever or allergies in the stands that day because it wasn't just the supportive and fantastic baseball moms who were teary-eyed, the men in the audience knew what this meant and how much it meant.
As a father, watching my son with a trophy was a moment I'll cherish forever. His smile and the fact he said "we did it" is the reason why you have children in the first place. But the true magic of baseball was that after the drama of the day, the stress of winning a championship, the months of work paying off, the pressure, the pictures and applause all washed away after the game. As all of us parents stood around and talked about the season and what was in store for the next steps, we looked over our shoulder and with no coaches, no umpires, and no organization, the kids were, well, just playing. They were on the field laughing and just playing another pickup game because they were having fun. The days of sandlot baseball may be behind us but don't tell that to the World Champion Minor League Yankees, who just wanted to keep playing—as all champions often do.
