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September 3, 2020

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Hobbs Run Goes Digital Bethel Hobbs Community Farm is taking its annual fundraiser virtual Saturday, Sept. 5 through Sunday, Sept. 13. Brookhaven Town Councilman Kevin LaValle (R-Selden) announced he will co-sponsor the sixth annual Run the Farm Four Mile Challenge with Suffolk County Legislator Tom Muratore (R-Ronkonkoma) and Friends of Hobbs Farm. Participants are invited to lace up their sneakers and traverse the four-mile course that includes a fast start on roughly two miles of ﬂat terrain leading to a mile of rolling hills and two mildly challenging ascents before concluding at the historic grounds of Bethel Hobbs Community Farm in Centereach. The ﬁrst 300 participants will receive a 4M Run the

Farm buff and be entered in a special raffle. To register, people can visit BrookhavenNY.Gov/ RunTheFarm. People can run or walk whenever they like. After running, they can go to www.elitefeats. com/Results and click on the Bethel Hobbs event to enter their name and time. They can also optionally upload up to five photos. Proceeds will go toward repairing the Hobbs Community Farm barn that is critical to the farm’s functions, whose mission is devoted to providing fresh, wholesome produce to local food pantries and other programs in the community. Even if one doesn’t run, they can make a donation for any amount and be entered in the raffle to win a special prize. This year’s event

is sponsored by ShopRite of Selden, owned and operated by the Gallagher family and Middle Country Automotive (MCA) of Selden and MCA II of Centereach. “Hobbs Community Farm plays such an important role in the community and they rely on this annual event to continue their good work,” LaValle said. “I am proud to once again join Legislator Muratore to help make this year’s virtual ‘Run the Farm Four Mile Challenge’ a success and I thank the runners and our sponsors for their support.” People can call LaValle’s ofﬁce at 631-4516647, email at klavalle@brookhavenny.gov and visit BrookhavenNY.Gov/RunTheFarm for more information.

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Students Return to Suffolk Community With New Guidelines Suffolk County Community College welcomed students back for the fall semester Sept. 2 with a combination of online and in person instruction. The college launched a Return to Campus Guidelines website to outline policies and procedures for this fall’s return. Services including the community college’s libraries and child care centers will be available to students. In preparation for the new semester, Interim College President Louis Petrizzo said in a release, the college empaneled a Safe Start Task Force that prepared and implemented the college’s SUNY-approved reopening plan. The task force reviewed the configuration of every space that students, faculty and staff may occupy or are scheduled for use and marked them for safe, social distancing. In preparation for the semester the college’s faculty underwent additional training to sharpen their skills for remote instruction. In order to promote equity, SCCC also distributed more than 540 laptops, 300 Chromebooks and 75 Wi-Fi hotspots for student use this fall. Outdoor wireless access was also expanded to parking lots on all campuses. “We recognize that high-quality child care is important for students who are attending class-

Suffolk County Community College officials said they will potentially suspend students who don’t adhere to social distancing and mask guidelines. File photo

es,” said Interim President Petrizzo in a release. “Our childcare centers will reopen and be available with new drop off and pick-up procedures in place for health and safety.” Suffolk was able to distribute more than $3.5 million in student grants under the federal CARES Act to students who suffered financial loss due to COVID-19. CARES Act funding made it possible for many students to return for the fall semester. Petrizzo said the guidelines website is the result of months of work by the college’s Safe Start

Task force which devised the plan in consultation with New York state and Suffolk County officials to ensure that students, faculty and staff that will come to campuses can do so safely. The guidelines include a requirement that all students complete an online daily health screening questionnaire before arriving at a campus. Successful completion of the questionnaire will trigger an email to the student’s email permitting access to campus and must be shown to the Public Safety Officer on duty when arriving on a campus. Any student whose responses indicate

a risk of COVID-19 exposure will receive an email advising them that they do not have clearance to come on campus that day and should contact a campus dean. The guidelines further require that students adhere to social distancing and mask requirements. Those who don’t may face suspension. Students attending classes on a campus will be in smaller groups to reduce density in accordance with physical distancing guidelines. Instruction for the fall semester will be provided through asynchronous online assignments, real-time synchronous learning and a partly on campus and partly online option. There will be a limited number of face-to-face classes that will require hands-on instruction. Campus libraries will be open and accessible by appointment. Students can reserve twohour time-blocks by reservation using an online form. In addition, remote library research assistance will be available by phone, email and virtual chat. The college also announced the modification or elimination of meal plan fees and credit card convenience fees. The distance education fee has been modified to be a one-time charge per semester, compared to a per-class fee.

State Says Football/Volleyball Will Miss Out on Fall 2020 Season BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Players in Suffolk schools will be hitting the courts and fields come the start of the September sports season … well, some will be. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Aug. 24 that certain sports are allowed to start up Sept. 21, though all leagues must stay in their home region until Oct. 19. Sports have been divided into what are considered low or high risk. Low risk sports include soccer, tennis, cross county, track, field hockey and swimming. High risk sports would be football, wrestling, rugby, hockey and volleyball. How the distinction between the two was made was up to the New York State Department of Health. All those sports deemed high risk will be allowed to practice starting Sept. 21 but not to play against other teams until after Dec. 31. There are still lingering questions about how some sports were determined to be high risk while others remain medium or low. The Department of Health guidance about sports details that a low risk sport is mostly individual activities like running, swimming or golf, or any sport that maintains little cross contamination of equipment. Medium risk sports have more but still manageable interaction between shared equipment (or the ability to clean between use) but with limited ability to

maintain distance, which includes sports like baseball, soccer or even flag football. Games that need to have shared contact with equipment like volleyball or games that mandate close confines like wrestling are off the table, at least for the rest of this year. Not every region will be participating in the fall. Nassau County school officials and Section VIII, which handles Nassau high school sports, have already made the decision this week to postpone all sports until the start of 2021. Meanwhile members of the Section XI board, which governs Suffolk sports, voted to host its sports season as described by the governor’s parameters. What the exact guidelines for practices and games is still to be determined. Section XI wrote in a release Aug. 26 that the New York State Public High School Athletic Association has already met twice based on Cuomo’s Aug. 24 announcement. The association said it will come up with guidance for school districts to help them get started on their sports seasons. “Over 200,000 students participate in the fall high school sports seasons and yesterday’s announcement was certainly a positive step for all those athletes,” said NYSPHSAA’s Executive Director Robert Zayas. There will be several known restrictions for the start of the fall sports season. Indoor facilities can be at no more than 50% occupancy and districts must limit spectators to no

Newfield rising junior Eric Dougherty breaks free in the Wolverines season opening win against Smithtown East Sept. 13, 2019. His 2020 season has been cut short due to a recent state decision. Photo by Bill Landon

more than two spectators per player. This is in addition to the normal masks and social distancing guidelines. Coaches whose students will be left out of the chance for a fall sports season said it’s a hard pill to swallow. More so because of the vagaries still left for how the sports year will progress after December. “I am in contact with the kids and I think all they want is a plan — something concrete

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LEGALS NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUDGET VOTE AND ELECTION OF THE MIDDLE COUNTRY PUBLIC LIBRARY, TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a Special District Meeting of the qualified voters of the Middle Country Central School District at Centereach, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, will be held in the Centereach Building of the Middle Country Public Library, 101 Eastwood Boulevard, Centereach, New York, on the 15th day of September, 2020 at 9:30 A.M. prevailing time, for the purpose of voting upon the following items:* (1) To adopt the Annual Library Budget for the fiscal year 2020-2021 and to authorize that the requisite portion thereof be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the Middle Country Central School District; and (2) To elect one (1) Trustee to the Middle Country Public Library to fill a five (5) year term commencing September 16, 2020, and ending on June 30, 2025, as a result of the expiration of the term of office presently held by Jacqueline Schott. FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that for the purpose of voting at such meeting on September 15, 2020 the polls will open between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., prevailing time, and voting will be held in the Middle Country Public Library (Centereach Building), 101 Eastwood Blvd., Centereach, New York provided that an Executive Order of the Governor of the State of New York does not require the utilization of absentee ballots exclusively to canvass the electorate; and FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a copy of a statement of the amount of money which will be required for the ensuing year for the Middle Country Library’s purposes, exclusive of public monies, may be obtained by any resident of the District during the fourteen (14) days immediately preceding said meeting except

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Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from the Library, located at 101 Eastwood Blvd., Centereach, New York during the hours of 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. prevailing time if the Library is open for business during those times and dates; otherwise the subject statement will be provided on the Library’ website; and FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that petitions nominating candidates for the Office of Trustee of the Middle Country Public Library are available from the Office of the Clerk of the Board (designated Election Officer) located in the Middle Country Public Library, 101 Eastwood Boulevard, Centereach, New York 11720. Petitions may be filed on any weekday between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., prevailing time not later than Monday, August 17, 2020. Each petition must be directed to the Election Officer, Janet A. Ross and must designate the office sought, the name and residence address of the candidate and must be signed by at least seventeen (17) qualified voters of the District setting forth their residence addresses; such petition may also be filed remotely with the Election Officer at rossjanet@mcplibrary.org if permitted by Executive Order of the Governor of the State of New York; and FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that personal registration of voters is required either pursuant to § 2014 of the Education Law or pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law. If a voter has heretofore registered pursuant to § 2014 of the Education Law and has voted at any Annual or Special District Meeting within the four (4) years prior to September 15, 2020, such voter is eligible to vote at this vote/ election; if a voter is registered and eligible to vote pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law, such voter is also eligible to vote at this election. All other persons who wish to vote must register. The Board of Registration will meet (subject to prescription of an Executive Order of the Governor of the State of New York) for the purpose of registering all qualified voters of the District pursuant to § 2014 of the Education Law on Tues-

day , September 8, 2020 between the hours of 2:00 pm and 9:00 pm, prevailing time at the Library Building, 101 Eastwood Blvd., Centereach, New York and at the election/vote, at which time any person will be entitled to have his/her name placed on such register, providing that at the meeting of the Board of Registration he or she is known, or proven to the satisfaction of the Board of Registration, to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at such Special District Meeting for which the register is prepared, and that the register so prepared pursuant to § 2014 of the Education Law of the State of New York and the registration list prepared by the Board of Elections of Suffolk County will be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Board, and will be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District on each of the five (5) days prior to September 15, 2020 excluding Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm prevailing time; all of the above provisions will be subject to Executive Order of the Governor of the State of New York providing otherwise; and

applicable Executive Orders of the Governor of the State of New York; and NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that a military voter who is a qualified voter of the School District may apply for a military ballot to be issued to him/her by obtaining from and submitting to the Clerk of the Library Board at 101 Eastwood Blvd., Centereach, NY 11720 an application for such military ballot (rossjanet@mcplibrary.org). A military voter may designate a preference to receive a military ballot by mail, facsimile transmission or electronic mail in his/her request for such ballot. Military ballot application forms must be received in the Office of the Library Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on August 21, 2020. No military ballot will be canvassed unless it is received by the Office of the Library Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on September 15, 2020.

FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that applications for absentee ballots for the election of Trustee of the Library, and for the adoption of the annual budget may be applied for at the office of the Clerk of the Library Board at 101 Eastwood Blvd., Centereach, New York 11720 during regular business hours. Such application must be received by the Clerk of the Board no later than 5 pm seven (7) days prior to the vote/ election if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter or by 5pm on September 14, 2020 if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter. No absentee voter’s ballot will be canvassed unless it shall have been received in the office of the Clerk of the Board not later than 5 pm on the day of the vote/election. A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots shall have been issued will be available in the Clerk of the Board’s office during regular business hours on each of the five days prior to September 15, 2020 except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays (the above protocols are to be subject to the terms of any

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*Such “in-person” voting to be dependent upon whether the Governor of the State of NY issues an Executive Order prescribing the use of absentee ballots (exclusively) for such vote/election.

BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE MIDDLE COUNTRY PUBLIC LIBRARY John Hoctor, President 732 7/30 4x tmc SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK INDEX NO. 611453/2017 Plaintiff designates SUFFOLK as the place of trial situs of the real property SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 5 SANDPIPER LANE CORAM, NY 11727 District: 200 Section: 370 Block: 3 Lot: 32 CIT BANK N.A., Plaintiff, vs. JOHN HARPER, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SHEILA HARPER A/K/A SHELIA HARPER

A/K/A SHEILAH MARILYN HARPER; if living, and if she/ he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; THOMAS HARPER, JR. AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SHEILA HARPER A/K/A SHELIA HARPER A/K/A SHEILAH MARILYN HARPER; BARRY HARPER, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SHEILA HARPER A/K/A SHELIA HARPER A/K/A SHEILAH MARILYN HARPER; SUSAN ACUNA, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SHEILA HARPER A/K/A SHELIA HARPER A/K/A SHEILAH MARILYN HARPER; THOMAS HARLOW, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SHEILA HARPER A/K/A SHELIA HARPER A/K/A SHEILAH MARILYN HARPER; RENE HENRICKSEN, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SHEILA HARPER A/K/A SHELIA HARPER A/K/A SHEILAH MARILYN HARPER; RONALD HARLOW, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SHEILA HARPER A/K/A SHELIA HARPER A/K/A SHEILAH MARILYN HARPER; 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 per-

sons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, “JOHN DOE #1” through; “JOHN DOE #12”; the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants To the above-named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the LEGALS con’t on pg. 6

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LEGALS LEGALS con’t from pg. 5 relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $517,500.00 and interest, recorded on March 12, 2007, at Liber M00021493 Page 179, of the Public Records of SUFFOLK County, New York, covering premises known as 5 SANDPIPER LANE CORAM, NY 11727. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. SUFFOLK County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. THIS SPACE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK 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.

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the Town of Brookhaven. TIMES OF MIDDLE COUNTRY 9. Yokasto Pozo, 82 Maplewood Avenue, Selden, NY. Location: South side Maplewood Avenue, 650’ West of Evergreen Drive, Selden. Applicant requests minimum and total side yard variances for existing enclosed porch; also, permission for existing conversion of basement to habitable space (existing accessory apartment) on a 50 ft. lot. (0200 51900 0600 007000) 14. Joseph and Susan Navarro, 72 Ridgewood Avenue, Selden, NY. Location: South side of Ridgewood Avenue 652.01’ East of Blue Point Road, Selden. Applicant requests side yard variance for existing deck with tiki bar. (0200 57000 0500 009000) CASES WILL BE HEARD AT THE DISCRETION OF THE BOARD. PAUL M. DE CHANCE CHAIRMAN 804 9/3 1x tmc

Amid numerous investigations about its failed communication systems and inaccurate estimated time to restore power after Tropical Storm Isaias, PSEG Long Island is returning to an earlier version of outage software. The utility, which is overseen by the Long Island Power Authority, is rolling back from version 6.7, which was installed earlier this year, to version 5.5, according to an email from LIPA in response to TBR News Media’s questions. This is one of several steps PSEG, under LIPA’s supervision, is taking to address any future storms that might hit Long Island. “LIPA is currently conducting an end-to-end review to understand the root causes of the communications and restoration systems issues, including the outage management system and the various feeder systems,” LIPA representatives explained in its email. The power authority also indicated that it was closely overseeing PSEG’s immediate, corrective actions through daily calls and reports and an independent review of system modifications and testing.

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LIPA is planning to issue 30, 90 and 180day reports to the LIPA Board of Trustees and the public. The reviews include an evaluation of prestorm readiness of the telecommunication systems, a root-causes analysis of unprocessed calls and text message, and review of the design and implementation of outage management and restoration systems and processes and actionable recommendations on storm preparedness, system and management controls and approaches to increasing system reliability and performance. While state Sen. Jim Gaughran (D-Northport) welcomed the review, his primary concern, he said, was whether the utility was prepared for the next storm, particularly in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Laura, which devastated coastal regions of southwest Louisiana. “It’s good that they’re doing an outside report,” Gaughran said in an interview. “It’s not going to help us now. This is a crisis situation and you would think that they would have an emergency task force … that would come up with changes and implement them” within days of the response to a storm that knocked out power for more than a week to parts of Long Island. PSEG said in an emailed statement that the company is “working diligently to be prepared for the next major weather event and ensure that our response to Tropical Storm Isaias was an anomaly.”

The utility company indicated it had made configuration and capacity changes to the phone system, rolled back the outage management system to a more “stable” version and put “processes in place to continuously monitor our IT systems for capacity and bottleneck issues.” While New York State Attorney General Letitia James (D) is conducting her own investigation into the company’s response to the storm, LIPA indicated that the state Department of Financial Services and the state Department of Public Service were also participating in a review. Their involvement “is good,” said Gaughran, who has been a consistent critic of both LIPA and PSEG even before Tropical Storm Isaias. “The more the merrier.” One of the questions Gaughran and other representatives asked about LIPA’s oversight of PSEG related to the timing and effectiveness of the most recent stress test. In response to a letter Gaughran and Assemblyman Fred Thiele Jr. (I-Sag Harbor) sent to LIPA, CEO Thomas Falcone indicated that the outage management system was most recently stress tested in June of this year. “Part of LIPA’s review includes the stress-testing procedures used in the past and improvements for the future,” Falcone said in his response.

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Gaughran and Thiele said they are also focused on the source of any reimbursement the company receives in connection with costs related to the storm. Long Island ratepayers “shouldn’t be paying for the cost of out-of-town crews sitting around waiting to do work and not doing work because the management failed to communicate,” Gaughran said. The costs of bringing in those crews from out of state and feeding and housing them should be shared by shareholders of PSEG, the state senator contended. “I believe shareholders have to be responsible for at least any portion of the additional costs related to [PSEG’s] incompetence and failure in dealing with the communication system,” he said. Had the communication system worked as it should, the time to restore power might have been cut down dramatically, Gaughran argued. “LIPA retains a third-party auditor for storm-recovery costs where federal funds are involved, as will likely be the case for Isaias,” Falcone said in his letter to the senator and assemblyman. LIPA estimates that the cost of restoration, which involved more than 6,000 personnel, was over $350 million, with about $260 million eligible for FEMA reimbursement. The main drivPSEG REPORTING Continued on A8

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Suffolk and NYC Residents Finding Escapes Close to Home BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Residents of both Suffolk County and New York City have turned to local hotels and bed and breakfasts to enjoy time away from home amid limited travel options during the pandemic. With out-of-state guests from numerous states limited in their travel to the area, corporate travel down considerably, and sports teams either shut down or playing without any fans, area hotels have still attracted guests from nearby towns and villages and from city residents disappointed with ongoing urban closures and eager to enjoy a natural setting. “It’s very different now,” said Jamie Ladone, sales executive at the Holiday Inn Express Stony Brook. “We’re not getting as many out-of-state guests,” but the hotel is finding people who are eager for a staycation. Indeed, Emilie Zaniello and her family recently spent a weekend at the Holiday Inn, just 20 minutes from her home in Centereach “We needed to get out of our element, to take a break from everyday life and the stresses right now,” said Zaniello, who stayed during a weekend with her husband John and their two children, 8-year-old Abigail, and 6-year-old John Robert. The family felt “cooped up in the house” as their children didn’t have as much of an opportunity to do “normal, everyday things,” Zaniello said. Abigail and John Robert enjoyed playing on the baseball field and the basketball court, while the family also booked time to go swimming. “It just felt like a mini-vacation, where we didn’t have to go too far,” said Zaniello, who drove back and forth to her home to take care of the family’s two miniature dachshunds. At the Holiday Inn, Suffolk residents have also enjoyed the indoor pool, outdoor patio, and volleyball and basketball courts, which families can use while maintaining social distancing, Ladone said. The hotel also has a putting green, horseshoes, and a baseball field and basketball court. “We have people looking to spend quality time together like a family outdoors,” Ladone said. The Holiday Inn has a meeting space upstairs with a seating capacity, under nonpandemic conditions, of 100. The hotel is hosting baby showers and corporate events outdoors on their patio. The Holiday Inn has booked about 30 percent more outdoor parties than usual, Ladone said. The Stony Brook hotel has also partnered with Spa Exotique, which offers massages or facials, and kayak packages with Stony Brook Harbor Kayak and Paddleboard.

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Bed and breakfasts in the area are also attracting attention from residents of Suffolk County and New York City. At the Fox and Owl Inn in Port Jefferson, people are booking their rooms one to three weeks before they need them, reflecting the uncertainty about plans that might need to change amid fluid infection rates. For the past two months, the Fox and Owl has been booking about 90 to 95 percent of their capacity, with a majority of the guests coming from New York City and Long Island rather than the usual far-flung locations across the country and world. The bed and breakfast derived its name from “The Lord of the Rings” book series, which husband and wife owners Andrew Thomas and Rebecca Kassay enjoys. They each picked an animal that was native to the area and hoped to create a place that was akin to the respite the main characters felt when they visited an inn. Kassay said the Inn has “kept up to date as far as the recommendations for cleaning and the response to the COVID-19.” The Fox and Owl is located in an 1850 Victorian home, which has large windows that Kassay keeps open as often as she can. Kassay and Thomas also use Lysol on surfaces regularly and ask their guests to wear masks in public. While guests sit on sofas that are six feet apart, they have shared stories about their quarantine experiences and make predictions about what will happen next. The Fox and Owl has three guest suites. Some family groups have booked the entire bed and breakfast, which is “really nice for families that are coming to visit other family members,” Kassay said. Groups of friends with similar quarantine habits who feel comfortable interacting with each other have also booked the entire Inn. The Fox and Owl offers guests the use of a jacuzzi, which is complimentary with any booking. For an additional fee, the Inn provides S’Mores near the fire pit. Kassay said she and Thomas appreciate that they can offer people an “escape and relief from the stress that everyone is handling.” As the owner of a bed and breakfast, she said she has reflected on the challenge of remaining personable to guests even while wearing a mask. The daughter of a Sicilian mother, Kassay was raised to speak by using body language and by communicating with her hands as well as her words. She noticed how guests have become “more expressive,” she said. “If you stop and look at people talking, there is more physicality to American’s interaction with one another.” A resident of midtown, Mey, who preferred to use only her first name, said she and her boy-

People from as far as Manhattan and as close as Centereach have been taking their vacations on Long Island, such as at the Fox & Owl Inn in Port Jefferson and Stony Brook Holiday Inn Express, instead of other states/countries where travel restrictions make it difficult. Top photo from Rebecca Kassay; right, file photo

friend came to Port Jefferson to escape from the city and enjoy nature amid all the urban closures. They planned to visit Port Jefferson for the day and wound up spending the night at the Fox and Owl Inn when they weren’t ready to drive back to Manhattan. Mey and her boyfriend enjoyed sitting on the porch, visiting a nearby park and eating ice cream. “Port Jefferson has a lot of nature and the feeling of a vacation,” Mey said. The experience was “very chill.” The Manhattanite enjoys attending Broadway shows when she is in the city, which are

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er of the costs, Falcone added in the letter, was the extensive damage to the electric grid, which occurred at over 20,000 locations. Reiterating sentiments he shared during a virtual joint hearing of the New York State Senate and Assembly, Falcone said the system PSEG designed and implemented did “not meet the standards of our contract. LIPA retains all of its contractual rights and remedies, and will pursue the appropriate course of action after the conclusion of the various investigations.” Gaughran said he would consider Falcone’s response to his letter and would likely respond with more questions that address additional concerns. “There are a lot of issues I hope” LIPA addresses, the state senator said, including why the company didn’t contract with workers

still closed. The urban couple traveled to Long Island because they were “looking for something peaceful” and they “found it. Seeing green is better than seeing buildings.” from National Grid, who were already on the Island. “You had Long Islanders ready to work,” he said. “They could have been put into operation immediately.” Gaughran doesn’t necessarily think LIPA needs to revoke its contract with PSEG. Rather, he wants to “get a system so the lights can go back on at a reasonable time.” Still, the state senator believes the way LIPA oversees PSEG may not provide sufﬁcient reassurance for residential and business customers. Ultimately, he would like the state Legislature to revisit the structure of the agreement between LIPA and PSEG. “This structure isn’t working,” Gaughran said. In his letter to the politicians, Falcone agreed that “Long Islanders deserve better” than the response they got from PSEG after Isaias. “LIPA is working to ensure they get better.”

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Editorial Letters to the Editor Dear North Shore Students On Black Indignities: Enough is Enough We’re not going to lie to you. We know this school year is going to be a tough one. If the end of the 2019-20 academic year has taught us anything, it’s that getting an education during a pandemic is difficult. Watching parents rally across the North Shore has also shown that not all parents agree with their districts’ plans for the new school year. Some want more in-person learning, while others want options for keeping you home instead. While it’s imperative for parents and school administrators to work together to provide the best education for their children, for students the most important thing on your minds should be getting that education while staying healthy. We know some parents feel that their children may have fallen behind during the few months schools went fully remote earlier in the year. All of a sudden switching to remote learning left many districts scurrying to figure out how to best utilize this type of e-learning. While some said they excelled at it, others very much did not. No matter how you’re returning to school, it’s important for you to raise your hand if something doesn’t make sense whether it’s regarding a lesson or even how to follow public health guidelines. It can be hard sometimes for a student to admit they don’t know something, but now more than ever it’s important to take control of your studies and your health. Every child has dreams for the future, and it’s the school’s responsibility to help them obtain those goals. So, to students, we say, “Speak up!” Let your parents know how you’re feeling about how things are going, or touch base with a teacher or guidance counselor. For those who are attending in-person classes, we know you’ll have to handle new precautionary measures such as social distancing, wearing masks when it’s not possible to stand 6 feet away and having temperatures taken upon leaving the house or entering the school. We know a lot of responsibility has been put on your shoulders. What do you do if you see someone not complying? Speak up. It’s hard, we know. Bullying is a bigger problem than ever so you may not want to call attention to yourself. But with some New York colleges open for only a week or two, we are already seeing some temporary closings, including SUNY Oneonta which at the beginning of the week reported 177 COVID-19 positive cases since the start of the fall semester with 44 students quarantining and 65 in isolation on campus. The guidelines are to help keep you and your loved ones as healthy and safe as possible. It’s imperative to realize that someone can be infectious, even if symptoms aren’t being shown. We know this is a lot of responsibility to put on young shoulders. But as journalists that have been fortunate enough to interview many of the students in our coverage areas, we know the depth and breadth of the intelligence and empathy of our youth. To those who will study for hours despite not having immediate access to teachers, and to the student-athletes who continue to practice alone on the field or on the lawn with their parents, we see you. We know you got this. Our editorial staff also wants to let our young people know that we’re here for you. If you see a persisting problem going on at your school, email us at news@tbrnewsmedia. com, and we’ll look into it. You can even share with us your feelings about navigating these new waters in a letter to the editor to be published right in this very newspaper. It’s going to be hard, but we’ll get through this together.

There are so many issues of importance to humanity at this time. It is difficult to address all of them so I will select just one to discuss at this time. The issue is racism. I am a white, 66-year-old woman who has lived on Long Island most of my life in communities of mostly white skinned people. It would have been better for me to have had a more diverse experience with people. But I have always tried to live by the words of Dr. Martin Luther King: “ to judge a person by the content of their character not the color of their skin.” I have always admired the extraordinary patience of the Black community to put up with the treatment they have received for over 400 years. 400 years! 400 years! 400 years and still they wait, always hoping that around the corner, things will get better. Things have gotten better but it is at a glacial pace and in 2020, enough is

enough, is enough, it’s just got to stop. The effects of slavery on Black persons, families and communities are long lasting and deeply ingrained in the fabric of our society. Just think about it, if your skin is dark colored you could be, in a moment, kidnapped, shipped thousands of miles from home, sold as chattel, tortured, raped, separated from your spouse, separated from your children, children torn from their mothers arms!, lynched, shot, denied an education, denied a library card, denied the use of bathroom facilities, used for medical research, ignored for service in stores, denied health care. The list of indignities goes on and on and on. Are we surprised when Black communities unleash their rage in violence? Rather it is amazing that they have not become more violent sooner and in much more a destructive way. The Black com-

munity has been at the receiving end of the violence of the white society for 400 years. How about the violent destruction of the Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921? White people destroyed a thriving Black community, now that’s violence and no one was held accountable for this crime. Let’s be honest with ourselves. The white community has been violent against the Black community for hundreds of years and very few have been held accountable. If you are going to talk about law and order, let’s be honest and talk about it from both sides. America is at a crossroads right now. Let’s make our nation the best it can be for all our fellow citizens. Let’s make changes in our institutions NOW, in our thoughts NOW, in our hearts NOW and then we will have the nation that we all desire. Deirdre Hensen Miller Place

You keep using the adjectives like “dark, negative, extreme, dangerous, radical” when describing Democrats and Liberals. That is astonishing to me since your base — and your Republican mentor President Donald Trump’s base — have followings that include the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, extreme and radical religious leaders, racists, anti-Semites, a 17-year-old murderer of protesters and gun-toting suburbanites. I would like to inform you of what has been happening to me, my family and my community. On Father’s Day, a small gathering of six families, including children, held a peace and equality vigil on a corner a block from my house. A truck pulled up, and the driver starting screaming and threatening us. His verbiage included the N-word, the C-word, the B-word, rape and telling us to get out of his community (FYI, he doesn’t own a home in our community). Then he left us with these words, “I am going home to get my gun and f-ing kill you all.” Again, there were five children with us. Now two other families and I have an order of protection against him. He also quoted Trump from his Tulsa, Oklahoma, gathering from the night before [on June 20], which you [Zeldin] were in attendance. A week after that incident, as

we stood on the corner again, this person drove his truck toward us causing us to quickly disperse. Police were called and while the police were helping us, a man walked up and assumed the police were called against us. The man walking asked the police if he could, “Stand his ground (i.e., shoot us) if we came onto his property.” This man lives in my community. Two weeks later, Lee, another stellar citizen who is a fan of your mindset, came onto my property and tore down signs. Not once, but twice. When my husband and I confronted him as he was reading a sign I put up addressing the person who was trespassing, he stated, “BLM is a terrorist organization and he is proud of his white skin.” I guess he felt his white skin allows him to destroy personal property and trespass. The policeman, who happened to be patrolling because of the other racist, intervened. Your racist fan was told to stay away and never have contact with us. Now, we have one of these lunatics or possibly another racist dumping garbage on our property. Lee, because of the hate, venom and lies you continue to spew to the public, these racist and hateful men feel entitled to behave in such a deplorable manner. I have lived in my community for 20 years. This is the first time I have security

cameras and a genuine fear each time a car, especially a pickup truck, slows down in front of my house. My stomach turns each and every time I see a Trump banner and a sign that endorses you. (By the way, is it Zeldin or “Zelden”? A lot of your peeps spell it Zelden.) I would never destroy other people’s property, and I couldn’t imagine, even on my worst day, threatening to go home and get a get a gun to kill them and their children. This is not fake news. These events actually happened and if you choose to investigate, I will supply you with the case numbers. These are your people, Lee. They are dark. They are negative. They are extreme. They are radical and they are most certainly dangerous. I remember when you started your hateful and vicious political journey at the Setauket Neighborhood House when the police had to be called to rein in your constituents. Your vile conduct has unleashed the worst in people. I believe the people of Congressional District 1 have had enough and will choose justice, peace and equity for all this November, and we will vote you out. Then mercifully, we will no longer be subjected to your dark and dangerous ways. Susan Blake East Setauket

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Thoughts on the Eve of a Radically Altered College Drop Off

heaviness hovers in the air as we prepare to pack our daughter’s stuff into the car and drive her back to college, an environment fraught with new rules and anxiety. We realize this experiment in campus life, such as it is, might end in days or even a few weeks, as her school may pull the same rip chord it used in March. While she is returning to campus, all but one of her classes is remote. The in-person class D. None meets twice a week, of the above so she is going BY DANIEL DUNAIEF back to a restricted college life for two hours a week of in-person learning. Last year, with its jumble of emotions from taking her to college for the ﬁrst time,

seems so wonderfully innocent and low stress by comparison. By taking her to college this week, she is already arriving on campus three weeks after classes began and is scheduled to return home before Thanksgiving. That means she’ll be on campus, at most, for two and a half months. That is two weeks longer than summer camp. We want her to learn, have fun, meet new people and take advantage of college opportunities. Taking these goals one at a time, I’m not convinced that remote classes in which professors record lectures students can watch at their leisure provides the ideal academic experience. How can they ask questions? How can they turn to the person sitting next to them, or, in the modern world, six seats away, and ask to repeat what they didn’t hear or to see if the professor might have misspoken? College learning occurs on and off campus. In an ideal world, students not only learn from their professors and teaching assistants, but also from each other. They form study groups where

they share notes and test each other. They could share their screens and form virtual study groups. In these small groups, however, they can and do send private chats to other people and feel freer to respond to the beep or flash of light on another electronic device, distracting them from the group exercise. The personal connection through the computer is also limited, as people can’t slap each other on the back or chase each other around a library during a much-needed break. We also want her to have fun, which isn’t the top priority for schools desperate to stay alive financially while keeping the campus community healthy. Even with the most active measures to protect everyone, the virus finds ways to evade detection and to spread. The virus has become the boogeyman of our childhood nightmares, but instead of lurking under the bed or in dark corners of the closet, it waits on door knobs, in airborne particles and on banisters. To protect everyone, the school isn’t allowing students to visit other dorms. They are limited in

social gatherings outside, where they have to be six feet apart and also need to wear masks. In a recent email, my daughter’s school told her, “If you see something, say something.” Those words, which became the cultural norm after 9/11, suggest that careless students are the equivalent of viral terrorists. Perhaps a better approach would be to encourage students to model safe behavior and to protect themselves and others on campus. To facilitate safer social interactions, schools might consider putting up tents, in which they place small circles on the floor that are six feet apart. Students could visit each other in these settings, where they can talk and laugh and see each other in person and wear that great blouse or cool shirt that doesn’t look as good on zoom. Ultimately, the opportunities they have will depend on the ability of the school, working with students, to figure out what they can do and not what they can’t or shouldn’t. We hope the challenges and adversity of the current reality somehow bring our daughter figuratively closer to her new friends, at a safe social distance.

Autumn Is Here and to Be Enjoyed

n old friend visited, one who had lived here many years, and we used the occasion to have a mini reunion of sorts. The half dozen or so of us wives and mothers, who had come to Long Island in our 20s and raised our children here as our husbands built their careers, are now widows together. We gathered at the beach, then again over breakfast, then on to another beach over two days to catch Between each other up on our lives and you and me the progress of BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF our children and grandchildren. It was a moveable feast of personal histories and philosophies. The good news is that our children and grandchildren seem to be doing pretty well.

Some of the children went into the same careers as their fathers or mothers, others went in different directions. Almost all moved off the Island, although they return for regular visits or Zoom during this unprecedented time. Watching the grandchildren grow and develop their own lives and ideas with little responsibility needed from us is a delight. Of course, we talked about our various health issues and traded advice, but not too much since there were more interesting subjects. One theme that came up was our appreciation for what life has given us. We all treasure our families and the love among the members. We also deeply rejoice in our friendships, especially those of a lifetime. Old friends cannot be replaced. They remember our parents, they laugh with us over what seemed in the past like serious problems and they bear witness to our lives. They know us for who we are, and best of all, they don’t see us as aged, but rather essentially as we looked when we ﬁrst met. Over the years, we swam together at the apartments’ pool, we cooked for each other with late dinners — “gourmet groups,” we

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