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At the Suffolk County Legislature meeting April 25, 2017, a resolution sponsored by Legislator Tom Muratore (R-Ronkonkoma) was adopted unanimously. It declares April 27 as Operation Safe Stop Day in Suffolk to reinforce and promote school bus safety. Operation Safe Stop is supported by the New York State Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee, the New York State Education Department and the New York State School Bus Contractors Association, among others, including local law enforcement agencies. Its purpose is to not only increase awareness of school bus safety but also the dangers of illegally passing a school bus. Muratore takes the level of awareness even further, also sponsoring a bill adopted unanimously Feb. 6 that establishes an annual poster contest for elementary-age children

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Town clerk speaks at MCPL’s Mujeres Latinas program Town of Brookhaven Clerk Donna Lent (I) spoke at the April 14 meeting of the Middle Country Public Library’s Mujeres Latinas program. The program connects Spanish speaking women with available library services and with each other.

Lent detailed the services offered by the town clerk’s office, including the issuing of vital records and marriage licenses. The Mujeres Latinas program meets twice a month at the Centereach building located at 101 Eastwood Blvd.

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Brookhaven announces local summer happenings The summer activities series in the Town of Brookhaven’s 3rd Council District have been announced. The events, presented by Councilman Kevin LaValle (R-Selden) and the town’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Sports and Cultural Resources, start with a pickleball tournament in June and end with the fourth annual Run the Farm 4-mile challenge in August. “Spring is here and summer is just around the corner,” LaValle said. “After the winter we had, I am pleased to join with the parks department to present these great outdoor family events and urge everyone to participate.”

Upcoming summer activities: Pickleball tournaments: A spring tournament will be held Saturday and Sunday, June 2 and 3, and a fall tournament is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Centereach Pool Complex pickleball courts, located at 286 Hawkins Road in Centereach. • Participants must bring their own paddle and water • Balls provided • Must preregister to participate • For more information or to register, call 631-451-6133 Hoops for military heroes: Saturday, July 21 — rain date scheduled for Saturday, July 28 — at the Centereach Pool Complex located at 286 Hawkins Road in Centereach. • Free event (T-shirts, snacks, prizes) • $15 suggested donation per team • All funds raised will be donated to local veterans organizations • Preregistration is required at www. BrookhavenNY.gov/Basketball • Age brackets for boys and girls are as follows: 12- and 13-year-olds sign in at 9 a.m. with a 10 a.m. start time for games; 14- and 15-year-olds sign in at 11 a.m. with a noon start time; and 16- and 17-year-olds sign in at 1 p.m. with a 1:30 p.m. start time. National Night Out: Tuesday, Aug. 7, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Centereach Pool Complex located at 286 Hawkins Road in Centereach. Co-sponsored with the Suffolk County Police Department’s 6th Precinct, the free,

The annual Run the Farm 4-mile challenge, above following last year’s finish, benefits Ann Pelegrino’s Bethel Hobbs Community Farm, on left. Centereach Pool, below right, is located at 286 Hawkins Road in Centereach. annual event promotes police and community partnerships to make local neighborhoods safer, more caring places to live. It’s an evening of summer fun activities and free outdoor swimming for the entire family. Run the Farm 4-mile challenge: The fourth annual event of this local race will be held Saturday, Aug. 18, at Bethel Hobbs Community Farm, located at 178 Oxhead Road in Centereach. Athletes can lace up their sneakers and traverse a 4-mile course on roughly 2 miles of flat terrain followed by 1 mile of rolling hills and two mildly challenging ascents before concluding at the historic grounds of Bethel Hobbs Community Farm. The event benefits the farm, a nonprofit that has the mission of being

devoted to servicing local food pantries and food programs. • USA Track and Field sanctioned event • Start time is 9 a.m. • For more information or to register, call 631-451-6647 or email klavalle@ brookhavenny.gov • Or, visit the town’s website at www.brookhavenny.gov/runthefarm or www.start2finish.com

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TOWN SBU scientists unveil new home nitrogen filter prototype the designing of the next generation of this technology, bringing the cost down [and] making the technology more effective.” Scientists and engineers from Stony Brook One of the biggest problems for Long IsUniversity are planning to use two plentiful land’s coastal waters has been hypoxia, a state Long Island resources to save its coastal waters caused by excess nitrogen, where the oxygen from nitrogen pollution: sand and wood chips. level in water is below the necessary levels Members of the New York State-funded to support life. It affects fish, clams and any Center for Clean Water Technology at underwater plant life. Last year co-director of Stony Brook University unveiled their the Center for Clean Water Technology, Chris nitrogen-reducing biofilter April 26 at a Gobler and other researchers from the Long Suffolk County-owned home in Shirley. Island Clean Water Partnership, found there “We have made a huge commitment to were cases of hypoxia in Stony Brook Harbor, protect and preserve our land as we are Northport Bay, Oyster Bay, Hempstead Bay as protecting the groundwater well as waters all along both below,” said New York state the North and South shores. Sen. Ken LaValle (R-Port County Executive Steve Jefferson). “We are zeroing Bellone (D) called nitrogen in on our water, and we are pollution “environmental making a major commitment public enemy No. 1” in 2015. with systems like these.” Since then the county has Through the system, worked with scientists and waste from the home is first engineers to craft technology pumped into a septic tank. to replace Long Island’s old After the septic tank the cesspool and septic tanks. effluent is moved into a s The benchmark for total eparate system that trickles amount of nitrogen allowed down by gravity, first going from any of the new systems through a sand layer where is 19 milligrams of nitrogen per bacteria turns the nitrogen liter. Co-director at the Center into nitrite and nitrate. The — Howard Walker for Clean Water Technology, waste then goes through Howard Walker, said that inianother layer of sand and tial tests of the system have wood chips designed to turn the nitrite/nitrate reached well below that threshold. into nitrogen gas that will go into the “We’re seeing less than 10 milligrams per atmosphere, instead of into the ground and liter of total nitrogen coming from the systems thus Long Island’s water. in the prototypes we’ve been testing for the The system being built in Shirley is one of past year and a half,” Walker said. “The results three the center is testing as part of Suffolk that we’ve gained have been very exciting.” County’s bid to create a nitrogen reducing The purpose of the prototypes is to gauge home wastewater system. the effectiveness of the system as well as “We have outstanding professionals find ways to reduce the price and size of the who are helping to guide these efforts,” filter. The center hopes the system will be Deputy County Executive Peter Scully said. affordable since all the parts could be bought “We should be able to involve ourselves in from plumbing or pool supply stores. Gobler

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Co-director of Stony Brook University’s Center for Clean Water Technology, Howard Walker, demonstrates how sand is used in a prototype of a new nitrogen-reducing biofilter at a press conference in Shirley, April 26. said the system currently costs several tens of thousands of dollars in its prototype stage, but hopes the cost will come down more tests. “This is nonproprietary — all other systems are built off of Long Island and then brought here, this one is using Long Island materials, Long Island labor,” Gobler said. “Ultimately without having to run a company or without having to buy something off the shelf, there’s a promise to make these highly affordable.” Other nitrogen filters have problems when it comes to people flushing any kind of bleach, pharmaceuticals or other harmful chemicals because they kill off the bacteria that remove the nitrogen from the effluent, according to Gobler. He said the design of SBU’s nitrogenreducing biofilter will be less prone to failure

because the waste is spread over a large area, and because it seeps through the layers of sand at a slower rate the killing effect of chemicals would be reduced. “One bad flush is not going to upturn the apple cart,” Gobler said. “We’ve tested more than 30 different organic compounds, pharmaceuticals, personal care products, drugs, and in all cases its removing 90 percent of those compounds, sometimes 99 percent. In certain cases, it’s just as good or even better than a sewage treatment plant.” The Center for Clean Water Technology hopes to have concrete results on its prototypes in a year’s time. After that a provisional phase would take place where the center would install another 20 filters in other parts of Long Island.

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Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County police’s 7th Precinct crime section officers are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate the woman who allegedly stole merchandise in Rocky Point last month. A woman allegedly stole socks, bags and a jacket from Kohl’s, located at 346 Route 25A, on April 9 at 2:10 p.m. The woman fled on foot. The items had a total value of $275.00. Suffolk County Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with information about these incidents can contact Suffolk County Crime Stoppers anonymously by calling 800-220-TIPS

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A 54-year-old man from Port Jefferson allegedly stole a laptop, a Stag Arms brand assault rifle and a bag of coins from a home on Earle Street in Central Islip between April 15 and April 20, according to police. He was arrested April 25 in Port Jefferson and charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property.

Shoplifting

At Staples on Nesconset Highway in Terryville March 7 at about 12:30 p.m., a 46-year-old man from Selden allegedly stole headphones, a modem and a router, according to police. He was arrested April 29 in Selden and charged with petit larceny.

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On April 28 at about 4 a.m., a 43-year-old man from Selden allegedly fired multiple rounds into the air from a Beretta handgun outside of the rear of his home with other people in the home and in a “densely populated residential area,” according to police. He was arrested and charged with second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, reckless endangerment and prohibited use of a weapon.

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A 34-year-old man from Selden was driving a 2005 Ford on South Bicycle Path near the intersection of Manhasset Avenue in Selden at about 8:30 p.m. April 28 when he was allegedly involved in a crash with three parked cars, fled from police in his vehicle, then on foot, and was allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol and a drug, according to police. He was arrested and charged with first-degree operation of a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs, third-degree fleeing an officer in a motor vehicle, reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident with property damage.

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At Budget Buy & Sell on East Main Street in Patchogue June 6, 2017, at about 2 p.m., a 22-year-old man from Mount Sinai allegedly possessed an assault rifle, according to police. He was arrested April 25 in Selden and charged with third-degree criminal possession of an assault rifle.

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On April 25, a 58-year-old West Islip man allegedly withdrew cash from his account at Teachers Federal Credit Union on Motor Parkway in Hauppauge and used the cash, despite being told by the bank it was placed in his account mistakenly and being asked to rectify the situation, according to police. He was arrested and charged with fourthdegree grand larceny.

Stealing from Lowe’s

A 58-year-old man from Port Jefferson Station allegedly stole a Bluetooth speaker and rechargeable lithium battery from Lowe’s Home Improvement on Nesconset Highway in Stony Brook April 30 at about noon, according to police.

Phone stolen

An iPhone 7 was stolen from Marshalls on Route 25A in Miller Place April 29 at about 5:30 p.m., according to police.

Dunkin’ break-in

The drive through window of Dunkin’ Donuts on Nesconset Highway in Setauket was broken with a rock at about 5 a.m. April 29 and cash was stolen from within, according to police.

Stolen pocketbook

At Panera Bread on Nesconset Highway in Port Jefferson Station April 29 at about 12:30 p.m., a customer left a pocketbook containing a wallet with cash and credit cards on a table while she went to use the restroom, and it was stolen while she was gone, according to police.

Car damaged

At CVS Pharmacy on Route 25A in Setauket April 29 at about 2:30 p.m., someone approached a 2010 Toyota and struck the side with an unknown object then fled, according to police.

Cash missing

At Maeder Landscape & Snow Plow on West Parsons Court in Setauket April 24 at about 8 a.m., an employee of the business saw two other workers in her 2004 Dodge and later discovered cash was missing, according to police.

Bar fight

Two people were involved in a fight at The Bench on North Country Road in Stony Brook April 27 at about 2:30 a.m., with a suspect punching a victim in the face, who had to be treated for injuries at Stony Brook University Hospital, according to police.

Art supplies stolen

At Michael’s on Nesconset Highway in Stony Brook April 27 at about 5:30 p.m., someone stole fine art paints, according to police.

Walmart shoplifting

Two tote bags and 50 containers of baby formula were stolen from Walmart on Nesconset Highway in Setauket April 27 at about 11 am., according to police. — COMPILED BY ALEX PETROSKI

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Superstorm Sandy task force looks to remedy, repair Though it’s been more than five years since Hurricane Sandy ravaged Long Island, many people, including Huntington Station resident Sheryl Cohn, are still feeling its effects like the storm only happened yesterday. In an interview after the April 11 public hearing at Stony Brook University conducted by the Suffolk County Legislature’s Superstorm Sandy Review Task Force, Cohn said her roof was ruined in the wake of the storm, and her house is falling apart around her. The ceiling in her guest bedroom fell and crashed onto the bed, and black mold has sprouted in many rooms around her house. The masonry on the outside of her home — finished only a few months before Sandy hit — fell to pieces on her driveway. She lives in fear that a piece of ceiling will fall on her head while she sits or sleeps. “My grandson, he turned five in March, he has never been here,” Cohn said. “I would never be able to forgive myself if, God forbid, he contracted something or a piece of sheetrock fell on his head. It makes me feel horrible. He lives a half an hour away, and he’s never been to Nana’s house.” She first looked into a contractor to fix her roof, but the firm she hired disappeared with all of the money she had already given them. She said the NY Rising Community Reconstruction Program, the state program that was created to provide aid to people whose homes were damaged during the storm, has constantly told her wrong information and switched caseworkers with her multiple times. Now she says they have stopped returning her calls and emails. Five and a half years later she still has no progress on acquiring any financial aid. As some of the effects of Sandy linger, Legislator DuWayne Gregory (D-Amityville), the Legislature’s presiding officer, helped to create the Superstorm Sandy Review Task Force, a 27-member committee of government representatives, scientists, engineers and other experts to make recommendations on how to deal with the lasting effects of Sandy as well as prepare Suffolk County for the next big storm.

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Clockwise from above, Sheryl Cohn stands in her home’s guest bedroom where the ceiling crashed and fell onto the bed during Hurricane Sandy; black mold in the basement of Cohn’s home; and Malcolm Bowman discusses ways to fix Long Island’s receding beachline at a Superstorm Sandy Review Task Force public hearing held April 11 at Stony Brook University. The task force is split into four working groups including emergency response, resiliency, recovery and infrastructure. “As we go and narrow down the issues they want to focus on, we want to look at what went wrong, what are the recommendations, what are the solutions,” said Joshua Slaughter, Gregory’s aide. “We don’t want to reinvent the wheel, but we want to come out with things to make it better.” The task force plans to have more meetings and come up with a document by December that will provide suggestions for the county. While much of the focus of the task force is focused on the South Shore, where the damage was much more severe, problems from the North Shore not only deal with damaged property but the severe risk of beach erosion and property loss for people living close to the shore. Professor of oceanography at Stony Brook University and task force member Malcolm Bowman said there is not enough solid data to say that “storm of the century” Sandy won’t be repeated in the near future and that rising sea levels will make each new storm do more damage. “Five, 10, 25 years from now it will take less of a storm to do the same amount of damage,” Bowman said. “That is the challenge that we have to think about and be prepared for.” There are both natural solutions and engineered solutions up in the air for trying

to fix Long Island’s receding beachline, according to Bowman. Natural solutions include planting seagrass and reestablishing oyster beds to hold the land in place, while engineering solutions include barriers and other human-made structures. Bowman said that both will come into play when preparing for upcoming storms. Regarding aiding those who are still affected by Sandy navigate their recovery, Slaughter said the task force was thinking about recovery advocates, somebody who can be hired by the state to work with people on a consistent basis. “I know it will be difficult, there are a lot of cases, but if you leave it to that one

on one, people will be running forever, and not every consumer can get out as well as others,” Slaughter said. “The vast, vast majority of our contractors did the best to their ability, but of course the ones we hear about are those who put people in a bad position or were unscrupulous,” chair of the task force Dave Calone said. “Our job as a governmental entity is to make recommendations to limit that as much as possible.” Another task force meeting took place April 18 at the Southampton Town Hall. Two more meetings are scheduled for April 26 at Patchogue-Medford High School and May 2 at Babylon Town Hall.

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New pine barrens trail named for former director BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

In the late 1980s, Corwin envisioned a trail that would go from Route 25A in Shoreham all the way down to Smith Point A new pine barrens trail bears the name County Park in Shirley, according to David of Ray Corwin, the first director of the Cen- Reisfield, president of the Long Island tral Pine Barrens Joint Planning & Policy Greenbelt Trail Conference. Corwin was also Commission. Those who an active member of the remember him said he greenbelt conference, a was as calm, yet grand, hiking and preservation as the woods he loved. group, for more than 25 “Ray Corwin was a years. He was the group’s friend, but he was also vice president at the time an inspiration,” state of his death. Assemblyman Steve “We are at this point Englebright (D-Setauket) trying to bring his dream said. “This trail is an into life,” Reisfield said. vitation, [like he did], for “Even as we stop at people to get involved.” Yaphank now, we will The Port Jefferson eventually work our resident passed away way all the way down to suddenly in 2010 at Smith Point. We’ll bring the age of 56. People his dream to fruition.” who knew him said he Local officials and worked day and night for environmental advocates — Kenneth Kindler 17 years to protect the came together at Ridge approximately 50,000 Trailhead to officially acres of the pine barrens core, as well as open the new 12.1-mile trail bearing Corwin’s preserve the natural beauty and resources name April 28. of the area. When years of court battles over Suffolk’s pine barrens resulted in a 1993 state law creating Long Island’s 100,000-acre Central Pine Barrens preserve, environmentalist Richard Amper, executive director of Long Island Pine Barrens Society, said there was only one man both sides trusted to oversee the new sanctuary, and that was Corwin. State Sen. Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) said the knowledge of the jogger and veteran hiker, the first executive director of the Central Pine Barrens Joint Planning & Policy Commission, could never be replaced. “I don’t think we would have advanced the pine barrens cause as quickly as we did without someone like Ray Corwin,” LaValle said. “It’s great to recognize such a great man, and even though it took eight years,

‘[Ray Corwin] said we couldn’t alienate people — that we needed as many people as we could to get involved. He was a people person — he could bring people together.’

State Sen. Ken LaValle, above, cuts the ribbon to unveil a new pine barrens trail named after former executive director Ray Corwin, below on left, who died suddenly in 2010. Trail advocate Kenneth Kindler, at top, leads hikers through the new trail.

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it’s never too late to recognize someone who gave us so much.” The Ray Corwin Trail connects to the existing trail that starts just off Route 25A in Rocky Point. The new walkthrough boasts sights of the glacial erratic boulder known as Turtle Rock; the Warbler Woods, which are home to more than 30 species of warblers; a pitch-pine/oak forest; a red maple/black gum swamp; and the Colonialera Longwood Estate. “We’re a sole source aquifer and it’s so important to protect those lands, because that’s our drinking water,” said John Wernet, forester for the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Reisfield said the project took so long because those working on it had to work with the DEC, local governments and the Town of Brookhaven, much in the way Corwin did when he was alive. Corwin was responsible for developing a management plan for protecting the 50,000 acres in the pine barrens core, which cannot be built on, and enforcing rules of that plan and state legislation for regulating

development in the 47,000-acre compatible growth area. Before taking the helm of the pine barrens commission, he had worked as a computer scientist and mathematician for Grumman Corp. “This trail epitomizes what Ray tried to accomplish,” said John Pavacic, the current executive director of the Central Pine Barrens Commission. “It’s something that took work across all areas of government, as well as local groups.” Creating a trail, according to trail advocate Kenneth Kindler, is as much engineering, planning and maintaining as it is using the area’s natural landscape to define the trail’s shape. He said that Corwin brought environmentalists and local officials together to protect the pine barrens. “I remember him telling me once that I was focused too much on ATVs ruining the trail’s ground,” Kindler said. “He said we couldn’t alienate people — that we needed as many people as we could to get involved. That was just the type of person he was. He was a people person — he could bring people together.”

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The DEC properties where mountain bike trail closures have been lifted are: • Otis Pike Preserve • Rocky Point Pine Barrens State Forest • Eastport Pine Barrens State Forest Mountain biking is allowed year-round on DEC’s Edgewood Oak Brush Plains Preserve in Deer Park, which features approximately 12.3 miles of mountain biking trails, and on DEC’s Calverton Pine Barrens State Forest. Bicyclists on DEC property must: • Ride only on marked bicycling trails, except on the Otis Pike Preserve where only established roads may be used. • Cyclists must wear hard-shell helmets and eye protection and shall yield to official vehicles and equipment, horseback riders and hikers. • Ride only between the hours of dawn and dusk.

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Environmental advocacy group’s survey shows a decrease in plastic bag use after 5-cent fee Though there are still people in Suffolk County who regularly kick themselves for forgetting to bring their bags into stores, a newly released survey says the law that enforces a 5-cent per bag fee has so far been effective. “And this is only in three months since the law passed,” Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, said to the Suffolk County Legislature Health Committee April 19. “This is a great success. Public behavior is changing.” In November and December of last year, her environmental advocacy group conducted a study that showed 70 percent of 20,000 Suffolk County shoppers surveyed left a store with a plastic, nonreusable bag in tow. Only 6 percent of customers surveyed used a reusable bag. After a new survey of 6,000 people this month in 20 grocery stores throughout the county, just 30 percent of those surveyed purchased plastic bags and 43 percent were now carrying reusable ones; 21 percent of people shopping in those grocery stores decided not to take a bag. “As we celebrate Earth Day it’s great to have news that the bag fee is effective, said Legislator William “Doc” Spencer (D-Centerport). “I know that there were concerns with adopting the bag law, but to see real, tangible results in such a short period of time, I think it’s very exciting.”

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Adrienne Esposito, on left, shows the decrease in single-use plastic bags (in blue) from a survey done last December to one done this April. Ocean plastics have become a concern to a number of environmental scientists and advocacy groups, and Esposito said the next goal is to see if there’s a way to reduce the use of other sources, like straws and utensils. “Plastic is becoming a real threat to the environment,” she said. Rebecca Grella, a research scientist and teacher at Brentwood schools, surveyed Flax Pond Marine Laboratory in Old Field last October and said the amount of plasticsfound in the pond’s water was troubling. “At Flax Pond in 1 square meter [were] 17 grams of microplastics, which are plastics under 5 millimeters [large],” Grella said. “In the entire shoreline of Flax Pond — over a

mile of shoreline — we extrapolated there is about 400 pounds of plastic.” The microplastics are from larger pieces that have eroded along the sea floor until they are smaller in size. They are often ingested by sea life, which not only endangers aquatic creatures but any creature which eats them, including people. Spencer said that while a total ban on bags would have been more efficient, there was no way to get it passed by the Legislature. “I think in order to get to this point after years of negotiation, the nickel offered a successful compromise,” Spencer said. “I think the law has worked so well because people don’t want their nickels going to the store.” “By charging people 5 cents there seems to be a lot of people getting angry and agitated,” Grella said. Despite successes, Esposito admitted there is a chance to eventually see an increase in purchased bags as people get used to the law. “We do get concerned about people getting used to the nickel and just paying it,” she said. “Rhat’s why we keep up public education.” Citizens Campaign for the Environment is planning a survey in November and December to gather a much larger sample size, surveying more than just grocery stores.

At the state level, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced a bill to ban single-use plastic bags across the state April 23, which would begin in January 2019 if passed. The threepage bill, introduced by the governor a day after Earth Day, comes a little more than a year after he blocked a 5-cent surcharge that New York City had sought to place on plastic bags. Cuomo described the measure as an effort to counteract the “blight of plastic bags” that is taking “a devastating toll on our streets, our water and our natural resources,” he said in a statement. Seeking re-election for a third term in the fall, Cuomo then quoted an adage: “We did not inherit the Earth, we are merely borrowing it from our children.” If the bill were to pass, New York would join California, which approved a statewide ban of plastic bags in 2016. Hawaii has a de facto ban on plastic bags; all of its counties have instituted bans. But the measure faces an uncertain path in the Legislature, where leaders of the Assembly and the Senate had opposed the city’s bill. The measure would very likely face a stiffer challenge in the Republicanmajority Senate. Under Cuomo’s proposal, a variety of bags would be exempt from the ban, including those that contain raw meat, fish or poultry; bags sold in bulk; those used in bulk packages of fruit and dried goods; those used for deli products; newspaper bags; trash, food storage and garment bags; and takeout food bags. The state’s Department of Environmental Conservation would also be allowed to exempt certain bags through regulations. The news comes after advocates from across the state gathered the same day in Albany to hold Cuomo accountable for meeting his climate and clean energy commitments. “Today, New Yorkers delivered a message to Governor Cuomo: Walk the talk on climate action; follow through on your words, because lasting change only happens through action and putting goals into law,” said Peter Iwanowicz, executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York. “New York has a remarkable opportunity to be an international leader on climate if, and only if, we embrace a future powered by renewables. The people of the state will continue to remind Governor Cuomo of this opportunity until he takes advantage of it.”

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Miller Place parents and students at a board of education meeting on school security earlier this year.

School budget votes count As we sit crunching numbers for 2018-19 proposed school budgets, we can’t help but wonder how many parents and taxpayers are paying attention. We already know the answer — not enough. School taxes make up more than 60 percent of the average homeowner’s property taxes in Suffolk County, according to a 2017 analysis done by ATTOM Data Solutions, a real-estate information firm. Despite this fact, voter turnout for school budgets remains dreadfully low year after year. In May 2017, the ballots cast by a mere 412 people determined how Port Jefferson School District would spend its more than $43 million to educate about 1,000 enrolled students. Now, its taxpayers face coming to terms with a settlement of Long Island Power Authority’s lawsuit over the tax assessment of the power plant and what it might mean for their wallets. To cast an educated vote May 15 on your district’s proposed 2018-19 school budget is a test of every Long Island taxpayer. There’s a little more than a week left, so start studying. Ever since the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting Feb. 14, this year has been marked by tense debates between students, parents and school administrators over school safety. On March 14, Rocky Point High School students participated in the National School Walkout despite knowing they would face in-school suspension. These students brought their dissention to the board of education trustees. Elections for these vital positions are held annually during the budget vote. Unfortunately, only 909 people in Rocky Point voted in 2017 on who would be determining if the students’ punishment was fair. The most direct way to make changes in a school district’s policy is to vote and become involved. The elected trustees on a board of education participate in the lowest form of government, smaller than the town or county government, but that shouldn’t reflect on the importance of the job. By running and winning a seat on the board, one can propose changes to a school district’s security measures or educational policies. This civic involvement is vital to bringing about change. Yet all too often board of education races have little to no contest. The board of education trustee races tend to have even fewer ballots cast than the annual budget. If Long Islanders want to be a force of change behind the factors creating high property taxes and have a say on poignant issues like school security, get out and vote. Ask questions of your board of education candidates to find out where they stand. Attend budget presentations to see exactly how your tax dollars are being spent. The polls will be open Tuesday, May 15. Take five minutes while dropping off or picking up your child from school to cast your ballot. It can make a difference in their education, and then you too can say you’ve done your homework.

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Redirecting energy toward overdoses Anger, while a strong motivating force, can too often cloud thoughtful deliberation. When that emotion is consistently fueled by an energized, supportive media, crucial facts become ignored. The result is one’s ability to prioritize critical information and make good decisions based on solid evidence is compromised. Sadly, that has become the case with the roiling debate over the Second Amendment. Lost in the noble call to stop killers with guns is data showing accidental drug overdoses are deadlier than gun homicides, especially in Suffolk County. Analysis of FBI stats shows there were about 11,000 gun-related homicides in 2016. The semiautomatic AR-15 rifle was considered responsible for under 400 of those. Meanwhile,

in the same year, drug overdoses took the lives of well over 64,000 Americans, many of them school age. The probability of dying from an overdose is nearly six times greater than being shot to death. For every one person murdered by someone using an AR-15 almost 185 die from drugs. The percentages are dramatic in Suffolk County. According to thenPolice Commissioner Tim Sini, there were 34 homicides in 2016. State records show 13 of them were “firearm related.” During the same year 360 residents were lost to the drug epidemic. That ratio is almost 28 to 1. It’s almost unimaginable that anyone reading this hasn’t been in some way touched by a friend, family member or neighbor whose been affected by this curse. How many of us have been

brokenhearted attending wakes and funerals of those suddenly, shockingly, inexplicably taken? Yet even as this deadly scourge has swallowed our area like no other in New York State, it’s disappointing local activists “marching for our lives” haven’t loudly proclaimed reducing accidental OD fatalities to be part of their life-saving mission. While it would be sensational to prevent the one person a month from being shot to death in Suffolk, it would save a whole lot more lives if we could reduce by half the one person a day killed by a drug overdose. Redirecting some of the aforementioned emotion and properly recalibrating priorities accordingly might be a worthy place to start.

Jim Soviero East Setauket

Rep. Zeldin’s bill to help big banks On Apr. 11, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4293, the deceptively named Stress Test Improvement Act of 2017, introduced by U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley). What this bill actually does is weaken key protections of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act which is designed to prevent another financial meltdown like the one in 2008. The Dodd-Frank stress test measures a bank’s financial soundness and ability to survive a downturn in the economy without collapsing. It’s conducted by the Federal Reserve and based on data provided by the bank. Currently, banks are subjected to stress testing twice a year, using three different scenarios, and taking into account a bank’s internal controls, i.e., data analysis and

risk management practices. Zeldin’s bill weakens all these factors. Instead of twice, stress testing would be conducted only once a year. Instead of three scenarios, there would be only two and consideration of a bank’s internal controls is eliminated entirely. As the 2008 meltdown revealed, banks had sloppy or nonexistent internal controls preventing them from being able to understand the worthlessness of the toxic assets their books carried. Some of these banks collapsed. In his press release touting his bill, Zeldin speaks of community banks and “hardworking men and women.” Dodd-Frank stress testing, in reality, applies to financial institutions with $50 billion or more on their balance sheet — in other words, the biggest 30 to 40 banks in the country like Citigroup,

Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs. It actually has nothing to do with community banks. The real beneficiaries of this bill are big Wall Street banks, not “hardworking men and women.” In fact, the Federal Reserve has already removed the requirement regarding internal controls from banks with balance sheets of less than $250 billion. That means only the 15 largest banks in the country will benefit from this key section of Zeldin’s bill. My question to Zeldin is: Why are you spending so much time and effort on helping Wall Street megabanks, which collectively made more than $170 billion in profits in 2016, instead of on the problems of the real “hardworking men and women” of your district?

David Friedman St. James

Putin has no place in White House Invite Putin to the White House? Are you serious? Perhaps a visit to the International Court of Justice would be more appropriate, and it would be more in keeping with his political behavior. The Russian dictator shoots or poisons his opposition and so what does our president do? He invites Putin to our White House. He also congratulates him on his nondemocratic election.

Putin must have something on the Donald, sexual or economic, due to Trump’s desire to have a Trump Tower placed next to the Kremlin. The Donald denies any collusion with the Russians or having any help in his upset victory in the 2016 election. He asks [Jeff] Sessions, our attorney general, to protect him, and when he asked FBI head [Jim] Comey to give a break to his future national security

adviser, Comey refused and then he was fired. Our president doesn’t listen to his lawyers and advisers but seems to follow the views of Fox News. I wonder who will protect Americans, our present democracy and great nation against Donald Trump. P.S. We do not have to make America great again or send troops to the Mexican border.

Herbert Laub Stony Brook

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OPINION

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his is the season for speeches. We’re about to enter the graduation and wedding time of year, when principals, best men, maids of honor and valedictorians stand in front of a group of people and share their thoughts during these momentous occasions. For those about to grab the microphone, I’d like to offer my top 10 list of things not to do in a speech — in reverse order. 10. Don’t make inside jokes that no one, outside of your best friend By Daniel Dunaief and maybe your sibling, understands. Looking at your friend after you’ve made a joke that no one gets and pointing back and forth between this other person and you only endangers that friendship.

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9. Don’t make a speech without practicing. Find someone who can be helpful and not someone who thinks you shouldn’t change anything you do, ever. That honest person might prevent you from saying, “The groom is so lucky. He gets to sleep with Karen — I always wanted to sleep with Karen. I can’t wait to hear about it.” 8. Don’t correct yourself on small details, such as, “Remember when we had that school snowball fight in second grade? No, wait it was first grade, right? No, no, it was second grade. I was right the first time.” Most people won’t care about those details. They’d rather you got it wrong than hear you go play a one person game of memory ping-pong. 7. Don’t forget to thank everyone you should thank. You can acknowledge your friends for helping you get through those tough years, the writers of your favorite movies for giving you a chance to laugh, and the woman at the supermarket for encouraging you to submit an application that got

you into a summer program. Never forget to thank your parents, any relatives who are in attendance and the teachers who somehow managed to educate you despite your insistence that their subject was irrelevant. 6. Don’t imagine that alcohol makes you a better singer. It doesn’t. Besides, there’s always an enormous collection of cellphones at any wedding. You can’t erase that horrible rendition of “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling.” Ever. Strangers will come up to you and screech at you. 5. Don’t quote someone else extensively. Winston Churchill was a tremendous speechmaker, JFK said some memorable things, too, as did Martin Luther King Jr. Audiences can read and have no desire to hear you butcher an extensive collection of words someone else delivered. 4. Don’t try to sell something. You’re there to support the graduate, the bride and groom and numerous families. This isn’t the time to suggest that people moved by your speech can pick up tissues at your store

because you sell the softest tissues in town. 3. Don’t talk about how difficult it is for you to give a speech. Chances are the audience supports you anyway, so there is no need to tell them, over and over again. If you aren’t particularly good at public speaking, they’ll notice. 2. Don’t look down at your poorly written notes during the entire speech. If you look up once in a while, you won’t sound like you’re muttering anecdotes and advice in your sleep. 1. Don’t give a long speech. The most important part of any speech is to keep it short. Sure, you might be funny and have some words of wisdom that people will remember. And, yes, you might recall an anecdote that sheds light on the people in your class. People want to eat dessert, go to a party, or throw their ridiculous square hats with tassels into the air for the annual picture of stupid hats in the air. A good rule of thumb for speeches: When in doubt, leave it out.

The invisible hand of China behind the current Korean dance

or those of us who remember the savage Korean War (195053) and the various attempts at a peace treaty over the years, North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un’s pirouette from warmonger to statesman is astonishing. All of us remember the test missiles that were fired from North Korea, some over Japan, into the sea as recently as last year. We also remember the bellicose rhetoric about being able to By Leah S. Dunaief reach the continental United States from North Korea with those missiles. What happened? First there was President Donald Trump’s equally bellicose rhetoric, some of it personally aimed at North Korea’s leader, referred to as “Little Rocket Man.” Trump was severely

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criticized at the time for sounding like a schoolyard bully rather than a diplomatic leader. The world watched in horror, wondering if we were on the edge of nuclear war. All the while North Korea’s ongoing tests were apparently successful. Probably the most concerned was South Korea’s new leader, Moon Jae-in. Next came the Winter Olympics serendipitously and President Moon’s invitation to the North Koreans to participate under one flag. This too was unprecedented. Kim accepted and perhaps more tellingly sent his sister as his representative. She seems to be one family member he trusts. We all witnessed the diplomatic success at the Olympics. In retrospect, something seems to have changed after that. Was it a new perspective for the two Koreas as a result of the games? Or did it have some connection to the subsequent visit Kim made to China in the middle of one night? I believe that was Kim’s first trip out of his country, and of course it is significant that he chose to visit Premier Xi Jinping. Was Kim invited or did he

request the meeting? What advice was he given by the powerful Chinese leader, who seems to have established a rapport with Trump? What will the Chinese, with their long-term view, want to happen now? At this point, Kim has been counseled, Moon has been galvanized and the tenor of the Korean debate begins to shift. Kim invites Trump to meet with him, and over the objections of our diplomats, Trump immediately accepts. There is no doubt that Trump is partially responsible for this shift. The two Korean leaders then enter into a diplomatic choreography with lots of positive dialogue that plays well for the people of both Koreas, and the rest of the world for that matter, who want peace. In war, it is humankind that suffers terribly, and the people can only hope and pray for their leaders to keep the peace. So what does North Korea want, as far as we can tell? Certainly Kim wants to stay in power as the No. 1 priority. So far his most visible achievement is his development of nuclear missiles. He also professes to want an improved economy. In fact,

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he was surprisingly forthright about the woeful condition of his roads and infrastructure in talking with Moon. When North Koreans went to the Olympics, they were apparently impressed by the South’s trains — and probably everything else that attests to a good economy. The South wants to eliminate the threat of nuclear war and confrontation. And perhaps it wishes to invest in the economic recovery of the North, where there will be money to be made. The Chinese would like to see the United States leave the Korean Peninsula. I would be keenly interested in what else China expert Henry Kissinger thinks the Chinese want. Undoubtedly the South would also like to see us go if peace is somehow assured. There are some 30,000 American troops still stationed in South Korea. And what would we like? We would first like the removal of nuclear weapons from North Korea and finally a formal peace treaty ending the 65-year conflict. Those goals have seemed irreconcilable until now but perhaps what we will get is a prolonged peace.

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