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Browning Campaign Letter Raises Eyebrows
SPORTS
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Bills to Combat Crime Introduced in Albany
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Bring Dame to the Garden
COUNTY CLERK SWEARS IN LEGISLATOR
Suffolk County Clerk Judy Pascale swore-in recently elected Suffolk County Legislator Jim Mazzarella.
SUFFOLK COUNTY FRONTLINE HEROES HONORED pg. 3
SUFFOLK COUNTY COMPTROLLER JOHN KENNEDY OFFERS WORDS OF THANKS TO ESSENTIAL WORKERS Photo Credit: Ron Monteleone
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Suffolk County Clerk Judith A. Pascale has issued the following document safety tips for this hurricane season. “The devastation wrought by recent hurricane seasons serves as a strong reminder that hurricane preparedness needs to be pushed to the forefront of everyone’s agenda. Experts agree that storing key documents in safe locations provides the maximum level of security and convenience in the aftermath of a catastrophe like a major hurricane,” commented Suffolk ASKING PRICE!! County Clerk Judith A.ABOVE Pascale. Safety deposit boxes, which are available for rent from many • SHIRLEY - SMITH POINT ESTATES banks, can provide piece of mind. For on-site home storage, • Beautiful Bedroom / 3 Bath Colonial consider a fireproof lockable4 box. Storing key documents • Quiet Private Cul-De-Sac in a compact location will& allow instant accessLocation to the basic 1 Acre - 2 recovering Car Garagefrom - Full aBasement information one •needs to Lot begin disaster. These boxes can be purchased from household goods and office supply stores in a variety of sizes.
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“While safes and safety deposit boxes are among the best places to store your most sensitive documents, I want to assure all Suffolk County residents that a permanent copy of all documents recorded in our Office, i.e. deeds, mortgages, powers of attorney, etc., are readily available, should an unfortunate disaster strike,” commented Pascale. By digitally scanning and retaining land records, digital surrogates are utilized in place of the actual hard copies to preserve land transactions while also providing for an efficient and effective safeguard of the land records of Suffolk County. “Although traditional paper mediums are increasingly susceptible to disaster, we utilize state-of-the-art computer storage systems to hold digital images of these paper mediums to provide an added layer of security in the protection of the public record,” concluded Pascale.
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By Robert Chartuk
As the COVID pandemic upended life across the nation, one group stood tall in the face of the crisis and came to the aid of their fellow citizens. Recognizing the heroics of these selfless individuals, the Rocky Point Sound Beach Chamber of Commerce, along with Suffolk County businesses, organizations and residents, hosted a celebration Saturday that culminated in a 50-car caravan of supporters making their way through the business district past 100 poles festooned with banners of gratitude. “The community turned out in a big way to thank the essential workers who got us through the pandemic,” said community leader and Chamber President Gary Pollakusky. “We could not have lived without them.” at
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Community Turns Out in a Big Way to Honor Frontline Heroes and Essential Workers
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Funeral Home in Miller Place, the thank you event was attended by numerous officials and community representatives including Senator Tony Palumbo, County Comptroller John Kennedy and Assemblywoman Jodi Giglio. “Thank you to all of the frontline workers for the sacrifices you made during the Covid-19 pandemic,” Giglio said. “We could never express in enough words how grateful we are for your selfless service.” Pollakusky stated, “The COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented challenge for our community. From schools being closed to businesses shut down, many in our community were laid off, furloughed or shifted to work from home. We have all, run the gamut of emotions - frustration, loneliness, sadness, grief, anger, and anxiety, but today the reaction we want to express is gratitude. We
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appreciate our community, our Suffolk County community, our North Shore community and of course our Rocky Point and Sound Beach community.
Batmobile leads the way in car caravan down “Hero Highway”
Also expressing their gratitude were Wally Greene, president of CSEA Local 852, O.B. Davis Funeral Director Ralph Ferrera, Jeff Davis, Funeral director of the Rocky Point Funeral Home, and members of the Rocky Point and Sound Beach fire departments. The event was also sponsored by Stony Brook Medicine, Mather Hospital, Catholic
L to R: NYS Senator Anthony Palumbo, RPSB Events Director Jeanine Pollakusky, RPSB Membership Director Nichaldeep Parhar, NYS Assemblywoman Jodi Giglio, RPSB Treasurer Charles Todaro and RPSB Chamber President Gary Pollakusky
Health, Little Flower Children & Family Services, Suffolk County PBA, CSEA, Stop & Shop, Handy Pantry, Rotary and other local service clubs, all of which sent representatives.
heroes,” Pollakusky said, noting that the banners heralding the frontline workers will stay up through the end of June. “They will always have our gratitude,” he promised.
“It was heartening to see such a large turnout to thank and honor these
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Today we want to thank those workers in our community who day in and day out, perform essential duties that in the modern world we can’t live without. Today we celebrate everyday heroes - our frontline heroes.”
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“Our community thanks all essential workers that are keeping our community safe and functioning. We see you. We appreciate you. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts.” Gary Pollakusky President, Executive Director Rocky Point Sound Beach Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
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COUNTY A letter from Suffolk employees on behalf of failed legislative candidate Kate Browning using the return address of the county Democrat Party has raised eyebrows as recipients are wondering how the group got its hands on the private information of past and present county employees. Addressed to “Brothers and Sisters,” the employees said the former legislator “will be a strong fighter for Suffolk County workers” and appealed to the recipients to vote for her in the May 25 special election. One addressee, Brookhaven resident Greg Miglino, said he was surprised that he was on the mailing list since he last worked for the county in 2002. “It would be highly inappropriate if they got this list through Suffolk County since my personal information is privileged and should be protected,” Miglino said, noting that the list
Browning Campaign Letter Raises Eyebrows most likely didn’t come through the Suffolk Association of Municipal Employees since they endorsed Browning’s opponent. The former legislator, whose campaign was overshadowed by her attempt to return to county government after being prohibited by Suffolk’s term limit law, was soundly defeated by community activist Jim Mazzarella. Presenting herself as a friend of the working class, Browning, a former bus driver, was rebuffed by her former union which endorsed Mazzarella. She is expected to run against the incumbent legislator in November. “This goes to show you just how far Kate Browning and her handlers will go to get another Democrat on the Suffolk Legislature,” said Jesse Garcia, chairman of the county GOP. “They obviously obtained the mailing list by inappropriate means and we need to make sure they don’t again impinge on the
privacy of both past and present county employees in the November election.” Miglino pointed out that when he worked for the county, he served as a White Collar employee and was not a member of the AME, the county’s largest employee union. “They got their hands on this mailing list in an improper way and it is incumbent on Browning and the Democrats to make sure it is never used again for political purposes,” Miglino said, noting that the letter stated it was “Paid for by Vote Kate Browning.” “When you talk about free and fair elections, this definitely crosses the line,” said a former county employee who knows of at least a half dozen people who received the letter. “These people have been out of government for years, yet somehow ended up getting a letter addressed to them as ‘Brother and Sister,’” the former worker said.
New Changes to New York Power of Attorney Powers of Attorney are an effective and frequently used tool in many areas of the law, particularly with elder and estate planning. By executing a power of attorney, the principal authorizes another individual, the agent, to act on his or her behalf. The authority granted in a Power of Attorney can be broad, permitting the agent to conduct any sort of business on behalf of the principal, or it may be specific, limiting the authority to certain activities or transactions. A new Power of Attorney law goes into effect next week cleaning up some of the problems associated with the previous document. On December 15, 2020, changes were made to the provisions of New York State Law updating Powers of Attorney for financial and estate planning. The changes to the law and the forms were made to clarify and simplify the Power of Attorney Law that was previously amended in 2010. The new law makes several
Former Legislator Kate Browning
He did not want to give his name for fear of being the target of reprisal by the Democrats and their supporters. “We need to get to the bottom of how this information got into the hands of Kate Browning and her political party.” Outside of the county itself, a possible source could be the AME’s Benefit Fund, which is managed by
a team independent of the employee union, the former worker said. “Many of us were taken aback by the letter and were quite concerned that Browning got a hold of our personal information. Her trying to skirt the county’s term limit law and the other nefarious means she used to try and get back into office are just more reasons why the voters have had enough of her.”
Arrest Made in Coram Rape Case
no longer require a separate statutory gift rider and can now be included in the modification portion of the form. Even if the power to gift is not included, the agent may still gift on behalf of the principal up to $5,000 annually.
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important changes to the form and there is now a presumption the Power of Attorney is valid. The principal is no longer required to sign the power if they are unable to do so and may direct someone to execute on their behalf in the principal’s presence. However, two witnesses, not named in the Power, are now required when executing in addition to being notarized. Additionally, the new law will
Finally, the Power of Attorney only needs to substantially conform with the statutory language. Institutions cannot unreasonably reject a Power of Attorney and may subject them to penalties for doing so. Institutions may, however, request more information from the agent or an attorney. Powers of Attorney properly executed before June 13th are still valid. From June 13th onward, all Powers of Attorney must be made using the new forms or substantially conform to the new form. As with all important legal documents, you should consult an attorney before signing a new Power of Attorney form.
Suffolk County Police arrested Jesse Diaz for raping a woman on a trail in in Coram near Route 112 and Skips Road on May 27 at approximately 1:45 p.m. Investigators say she was assaulted and raped by a man, who was described as having a dark complexion with a medium build and was unshaven. The woman was transported to Stony Brook University Hospital Medical Center for treatment. Diaz was arrested in front of 800
Montauk Highway in Shirley at approximately 6:40 p.m. Sixth Squad detectives charged Diaz, 29, of 124 Mastic Blvd. West in Shirley, with Rape 1st Degree and Strangulation 2nd Degree. He will be held overnight at the Sixth Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on June 3. A criminal charge is an accusation. A defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
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Nitrate Levels are High Dear Editor, On Sunday, April 11, Pattersquash Creek Civic Association members joined Save the Great South Bay’s and Wm. Floyd HS Science Teacher Luisa McHugh and her students to take water samples of Pattersquash Creek at Bayview Park’s kayak launch ramp. Elevated nitrate levels were found which clearly makes the case for the need for sewers asap. The following is an excerpt from the report of collected data: Nitrate level: 10mg/liter. This was about double the amount of nitrate measured in the two other creeks data that was collected from by the Save the Great South Bay this spring. The nitrate level is the number that interests us all, of course. Excess nitrogen is the big factor that triggers our many algae bloom events such as brown tides, blue green algae blooms, mahogany tides etc. 10mg/liter is a rather high number by my understanding, but not off the charts. Nitrate levels can vary depending on many factors, such as rain events that push septic nitrogen into the creek, and seasonal fertilizer application, and there is also atmospheric deposition as well. Sadly, Long Island has about 400k septics, and is quite liberal in its use of lawn chemicals: Those realities need to be addressed.. As I understand it, if ground water levels of nitrogen rise above 9, that is a concern for the groundwater - It would trigger a shutdown of a drinking water well. The marine environment, our bays, is more sensitive than groundwater and as we all have witnessed, it does not respond well to nitrogen inputs. We already have a mahogany tide in the Great South Bay. Actions by then County Legislator Kate Browning supported the County Sewer District plant to be placed at the airport. Most of Mastic Beach is in Phase 4 & 5 when post Sandy funds allotted for Mastic Beach and Smith Point should have benefited our community most directly.
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STATE
Bills to Combat Crime Introduced in Albany
By Jennine Kubik
Albany, NY—Local state legislators have announced their support of a “Restore Order” package of bills to combat the crime wave that is sweeping across New York State. The plan is designed to reverse the flawed criminal justice “reforms” approved in 2019 after the Democrats took control of both houses of the legislature. “Every Democrat official in New York told us their ‘reforms’ were going to make communities safer,” noted Assemblyman Joe DeStefano. “Within three months of enactment, however, it became clear that their policies enable unchecked criminal behavior while simultaneously undermining law enforcement.” “We are making public safety a top priority in Albany,” said Assemblywoman Jodi Giglio in announcing her support of
the plan to strengthen the state’s criminal justice system. “As a crime wave sweeps across our state, it’s time to get back to law and order. These are all common sense measures that should be the foundation of our criminal justice system. We can’t sit idly by while the safety of our residents is under such a constant threat.” According to the local legislators, the “Restore Order” package will: • Return judicial discretion by giving judges back the ability to determine whether a violent criminal poses a dangerous threat to the community and can be held without bail. • Remove all gun crimes from the no-bail list of offenses Democrats established in 2019. • Reform parole by requiring a unanimous vote of at least three parole commissioners to grant a prisoner early release. The bill
also allows a majority vote of the Legislature to remove a commissioner from the Parole Board. • Authorize a “Three Strikes & You’re In” for life in prison without parole for persistent violent felony offenders. • Target Shooting Into Crowds by making the crime a Class B violent felony. • Provide for an additional five-year term of imprisonment for committing a felony while possessing a loaded firearm. • Make “hate crime” a qualified offense for purposes of bail issuance and denying pretrial. • Enact Paula’s Law to prevent the parole of anyone who sexually assaults and murders a child under 18 years of age. “Families across the state are being torn apart by violent and dangerous criminals,” said Madeline Brame, Chairwoman of the New York State Victims’ Rights Reform Council. “My son, Sgt. Hason Correa,
a U.S. Army veteran who served in the Afghanistan War, was murdered by repeat violent felony offenders. These dangerous individuals had proven to be a menace to society, but because of New York’s criminal justice system, which is riddled with flaws, a known murderer is currently walking free amongst us, free to kill again. Now as violent crime spikes in communities across the state, legislative leaders in Albany must act to keep the most dangerous criminals in jail and reform the state’s bail system.” Crime has reached historically-high levels in cities throughout New York State including: New York City – Murders have risen nearly 17 percent; shooting incidents are up 83 percent; and the number of shooting victims is up 78 percent. Albany – From January 1 to May 30, 2021, there have been 9 shooting fatalities, a
125 percent increase over the same period last year; rapes have increased 15 percent; aggravated assault is up 19 percent; and robberies have risen 16 percent. Syracuse – Homicides are up 50 percent.
Rochester – Homicides are up 100 percent; and the number of shooting victims has increased by 68 percent. Buffalo – Murders are up 38 percent; and the number of shooting victims has risen by 88 percent. “We must keep our cities—and the suburbs—safe,” Assemblyman DeStefano concluded. “I intend on working with my Long Island colleagues, law-enforcement and victim advocates across the state to advance this package through the legislature. We cannot let this crime wave continue.”
COVID-Related Rental Assistance Available to Tenants and Landlords By Barbara LaMonica
Tenants and landlords who suffered financial losses due to COVID-19 may be eligible for relief made possible through federal funding. The United States Department of the Treasury, under the Emergency Rental Assistance Program, (ERAP), has issued funding to all 50 states for legislators to funnel grants to local jurisdictions to distribute to renters and landlords who meet eligibility guidelines. The application process rolled out June 1, 2021 and sunsets December 31, 2022. The ERAP is designed to provide significant economic relief to help low and moderateincome households who are at risk of experiencing housing instability by providing temporary rental assistance. New York State Senator Anthony Palumbo, (R-1st District), explained that Congress has allocated more than $45 billion in rental assistance which it has doled out to the states. New York’s share of the federal allocation is $2.3 billion, with another $100 million in CARES Act state funding. But distributing the money to the landlords on behalf of tenants who
Development received the allotment of funds from the U.S. Department of the Treasury for rent and utility arrears; and rent and utility assistance, to be paid to landlords and utility companies on behalf of tenants who have experienced COVID related unemployment.
are in arrears is an issue with the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance which is unequipped to administer the program. “We need to take that federal money and get it out the door and into the hands of landlords and tenants,” Palumbo said. Palumbo, who does not support the extension of the moratorium prohibiting evictions from May through August 31, said he “supports rent relief for tenants and also for landlords, because they have to keep the buildings afloat.” With 200,000 cases in New York City and a flood of another million new cases filed in September when the moratorium is lifted, “the system can’t handle that, so there has to be some balance.” Qualifying formulas determine who will be eligible to receive assistance, and then, applications are reviewed on firstcome, first-served bases. Alison Karppi, Commissioner of Housing and Community Development, (HCD), for the Town of Brookhaven, said qualifying measures for tenants and landlords to be eligible for the relief funding are set in accordance with area median incomes. “You have to be at or below 80% of the area median income
“We need to take that federal money and get it out the door and into the hands of landlords and tenants.”
New York State Senator Anthony Palumbo
Palumbo re-emphasized funding has to be made available as soon as possible to those landlords and tenants who qualify, but cautioned that applications must be legitimate and factual. Measures are in place, too, to detect fraud and scam applications. “This legislation is to ensure that people are being given a hand up not a hand out,” Palumbo said. Karppi concurred: “We have to make sure there is no duplication of benefits.” to qualify,” Karppi explained, “and,” she added, “the United States Department of the Treasury is encouraging local jurisdictions to target those tenants who are at 50% or below their area median incomes.” For the first 30 days, priority will be given to households at or below 50 percent of the area median income, including if a member of the household is a veteran; is unemployed for at least 90 days; is currently experiencing domestic violence; has an eviction case related to their current case pending in court; resides in a mobile home; or lives in a community which was disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. The same guidelines apply to those with incomes at or below 80 percent of the area median income. After the first 30 days, applications will be processed on a firstcome, first-served basis while funds are available. Households whose applications are approved for the Emergency Rental Assistance Program will receive up to 12 months of rental arrears with an additional three months of additional rental assistance if the household is expected to expend at least 30 percent of its gross monthly income to pay for rent. Incomes are based on current income or Calendar Year 2020 income that is below the area median income. Karppi said those jurisdictions, (counties or
townships), who want to participate must have a minimum population of 200,000. Participating jurisdictions on Long Island include Suffolk and Nassau counties, and the townships of Brookhaven, Oyster Bay, Babylon, Huntington, Islip, Hempstead and North Hempstead. “If you meet eligibility requirements, we will help you fill out the application,” Karppi said. But while the United States Treasury wants jurisdictions to be capped at median income levels, HUD (Housing Urban Development) has determined to raise the cap for Suffolk and Nassau counties due to the high cost of living on Long Island. “There is a dispute about that, but we’re using HUD guidelines,” Brookhaven Town Supervisor Edward Romaine said. Romaine underscored the need for Emergency Rental Assistance grants to exist. “There are a lot of people who are renting where COVID has affected their ability to pay rent due to a loss of jobs or revenue, and because Governor Cuomo had forbidden landlords to evict tenants, both the tenants and landlords are hurting,” Romaine said. “The Town of Brookhaven does not have the staff to run the program, so the town’s role is to get the word out to tenants and landlords who qualify.” Karppi said the Town of Brookhaven’s Department of Housing and Community
Romaine and Karppi are encouraging tenants and landlords who may qualify for the Emergency Rental Assistance to log on to the town’s website at www. Brookhavenny.Gov and follow the links to commence the application process; or, tenants and landlords can call (631) 451TOWN and be routed to the proper office. A number is also available to contact the state at 844-NY1RENT (844) 691-7368.
COVID-related Rental Assistance Funding for Brookhaven
Alison Karppi, Commissioner of Housing and Community Development, reports the town is working with the following not for profits to assist in getting the word out for funding: • • • • • • • • •
Family Service League United Way of Long Island United Veterans Beacon Housing Economic Opportunity Council of LI LI Coalition for the Homeless Federation of Organizations Lifeline Mediation Options for Community Living Services for the Advancement of Women (MUJAR) The Town of Brookhaven is receiving a total of $29,166,779 in emergency rental assistance for landlords and tenants.
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Bellport Middle School Students Reinforce the Power of their Voices
Bellport Middle School eighth grade English Language Arts students have learned to take a position on a topic and voice their opinions. During a Teachers College Writer’s Workshop unit on position papers, the students focused on the question whether schools should continue to offer virtual learning next school year or resume in-person classes. To formulate a cohesive opinion on this relevant topic, the students researched and gathered information from texts and videos and wrote their formed opinions in a position paper. Upon completion of their position papers, they utilized the information to write a letter to New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, voicing their views on the topic.
In writing the position paper and letter, the students had to consider the audience, language and textbased evidence and develop a persuasive tone to represent their position as well as demonstrate their experience and expertise on the topic. In-person learners mailed their printed letters to the state capitol and remote learners completed an online form to electronically send their letters to the governor. “The purpose of this project was for students to see the value in their positions and to respect the opinions of others,” explained teacher Brianne Torre. “It also encouraged activism and the reinforcement of their voices.”
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Bellport Middle School eighth grade student Sha’Niyia Hollman held up her Chromebook which contained a letter to NYS Gov. Andrew Cuomo about the 2021-2022 school year.
Memorial Day Service
While they were unable to have their usual Memorial Day parade, the Arthur H. Clune American Legion post 1533 and the Mastic Beach Fire Department paid honor to our Heroes that sacrificed their lives for our freedom. They did a Flag ceremony at the William Floyd Estate, the Light House on Neighborhood Rd., the Ambulance Station, The Fire House, the local Cemetery and the
Legion’s post. They thanked the Heroes and their families, gave a short prayer, placed a flower wreathe by the flag poles and raised and lowered the American Flag while taps were played. We must remember that our freedom was not free, but that those Heroes paid for it. The photo is the group at the Wm. Floyd Estate.
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SUFFOLK CLOSEUP BY KARL GROSSMAN
Alleged bias in hiring in a Suffolk County school district could lead to a statewide law prohibiting discriminatory practices “in relation to the qualifications of professionals in education.” Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr. of Sag Harbor is a co-sponsor. The legislation has been introduced in the State Assembly by Michaelle Solages of Elmont, chair of the New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Caucus. She is also the deputy Assembly Democratic leader. The bill cites a 2019 state Department of Education study, titled “Education Diversity Report,” that states that “New York’s student population of students of color is 50 percent. The racial and ethnic composition of the teacher workforce does not reflect the diversity of the student population.” It goes on: “Access to a racially and culturally diverse teacher workforce is beneficial for all students, particularly for students of color, who often thrive in classrooms led by teachers who share their racial and cultural backgrounds. This bill would encourage educational institutions to signal and embrace the importance of teacher and school leader diversity as well as change the recruitment practices to identify qualified applications.”
Mr. Thiele commented: “I think that everyone can point to a teacher in their lives as they went through school— whether grade school or high school— who made a difference as a role model or mentor.” But he said, in many schools in the state, commonly “nobody on the faculty looks like the students they are teaching. The bill is designed to make hiring patterns more transparent and provide greater diversity. I think it is of critical importance.” The measure grows out of an investigation by the Islip Town branch of the NAACP which “has identified racially discriminatory policies and practices that are used by the Brentwood Union Free School District to increase the employability of whites and reduce the employability of Blacks.” The branch president, William King Moss III, said that “the Brentwood School District often times does not interview any Black applicants for a given teaching position even though the Black applicant is more qualified than white counterparts.” There are 18,500 students in the district, nine percent of whom are Black, while of its 1,300 teachers, 2.5 percent are African-American.
Bill Prohibiting Discrimination in Hiring of Educators The district has an 80 percent Latino student population and 20 percent of teachers are Latino but this, said Mr. Moss, is largely due to a New York regulation that holds that “Englishlanguage learners” require specialized instruction. So, there is hiring of Spanishspeaking teachers because the district “does not have a choice even though it has an apparent white-first agenda.” Mr. Moss was the 1995 salutatorian at Brentwood High School. He went on to Harvard where he received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a master’s in mathematics education. A Brentwood resident, he taught mathematics for 11 years in Brentwood and was involved in developing the “fair hiring policy” for the district which, he says, it “fought tooth and nail” and now “often ignores.” For the past 11 years he has been director of academic affairs in the Lawrence School District. The Brentwood School District denies bias in hiring with its attorney having declared: “Brentwood has been a leader in increasing the diversity of its teaching and administrative staff.” “Teacher Diversity in Long Island’s Public Schools” was the title of an extensive report issued in 2019 by The National Center for Suburban Studies
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at Hofstra University—which reflected Brentwood as not being alone on Long Island. Prepared by William Mangino, chairperson of and professor in Hofstra’s Department of Sociology, and Lawrence Levy, executive dean of the center, it noted that, “For example, 61 percent of Long Island public schools do not have a single Black teacher…” It said: “Because diversity brings different viewpoints, understandings and cultural frames, people who are exposed to diversity blend these various ideas.” Further, “if people of color are
not adequately represented among the teaching force, whites and non-whites alike will gain the mistaken impression that people of color are not appropriate for such roles.” The report spoke of a “lack of effective efforts to recruit and retain minority teachers. Most of the minority educators dispute the contention of many school district officials that they are being aggressive and creative but that the pool of qualified minority applicants is too small.” It said that “racial disparities could even widen” without an effort to make “the hiring of minority teachers a priority.”
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BY TOM BARTON The New York Knicks ended a firework season with a fizzle. New York turned everyone’s heads all season long in their march to the playoffs. They opened the year at +600 or better to even make the postseason and they didn’t just back in, they kicked the door down with authority. Julius Randle had MVP buzz and the garden was rocking as it hosted its first playoff game in 8 seasons. From a betting standpoint the Knicks ended the year as the most profitable team in the league and all seemed bright in orange and blue. Then walked in Trae Young. Young shot the Hawks into the next round and shot holes in the Knicks fans hopes and dreams. When he bowed at MSG it was a dagger in the hearts of fans but highlighted a
more pressing concern ... New York needs a star. This is not a dig at Randle, he is a very capable #2, but even in an MVP season few would say he is even a top 15 player in the league, certainly not top 10. In the NBA nowadays it’s awfully tough to lure stars and draft superstars when you’re a middle of the pack team, yes even if you are in New York. Before he went to Miami all the buzz was that LeBron would choose the Big Apple. He chose to take his talents elsewhere. When Durant’s name came up (the first time), the Empire State seemed like the destination. Nope, he went westward. The same can be said for AD, Giannis and others. All seemed to be lost. Then Damian Lillard and the
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THE ROTOMILL BY CHUCK T.
It was a bit of a shock to the system when Mike Trout turned up with another multi-month injury to his legs again this year. Fantasy baseball players in season long formats saw their chances of a championship dashed when it became clear that 6-8 weeks missing Mike Trout would just about cripple their dreams of fantasy baseball glory. The famous line that there are 4 stages to overcoming a tragedy, SHOCK, DENIAL, ANGER, ACCEPTANCE have always stuck with me. But please, let me help get you closer to the acceptance. I try to spend as little time with the first three. I got into an interesting debate with Tom Barton, in our Wanna Bet! Pre-season radio broadcast. In a nutshell, Tom thought that Mike Trout was still hands down the #1 player to be picked in fantasy baseball leagues. I disagreed with Tom based purely on the fact that Mike Trout was no longer stealing bases. It also didn’t sit well with me that I also thought Mookie Betts had eclipsed Trout in the 2018 season alone. We walked away from the Season Preview deeply divided, but I would refer to that as the ANGER step. Let’s fast forward to ACCEPTANCE. Mike Trout visited the DL injury list for the first time in his career in May of 2017 due to torn ligaments in his thumb sliding
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head first into second base. He ended up only playing in 114 games that season. Trout missed 21 games played in the 2018 season due to a variety of small ailments but all in all turned in a serviceable 140 games played of his standard excellence. However, in 2019 Trout needed season ending surgery to deal with a Morton’s neuroma conditions that required surgery. It marked the third consecutive season at the time that Trout missed substantial time. Trout ending up only logging time in 134 games played in 2019. After playing nearly all of the COVID shortened 2020 season, disaster has struck Mike Trout yet again. This time Trout has suffered a calf strain that will see him miss 6-8 weeks of the 2021 baseball season. 2017 was ruined due to torn thumb ligaments. 2018 was mostly wrist inflammation. 2019 was season ending foot surgery. And now in 2021 while jogging on the basepaths in late May, Trout strained the calf muscles of his leg. The cumulative damage is there. When Trout returns in either 6 or 8 weeks, he will have missed ¼ of his games with the Los Angeles Angels. In major league history, there are 13 baseball players who have hit more home runs than Mike Trout through their 29th birthday. They are as follows:
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Bring Dame to the Garden Blazers were eliminated from the playoffs ... again, and there was hope in Knick Land. Dame seemed distraught, upset at his team situation, and looking like a guy who wants out. Enter the Knicks. This is the window folks. The East is winnable for years to come with Boston changing things at the top, the 76ers unable to stay healthy, Brooklyn can’t keep this together for long, and Giannis still needing help the Knicks seem like they are one player away from being a contender. That player is Dame. New York will have to give up a king’s ransom for Lillard, but if you want to be royalty that’s a price they have to pay. Bring Lillard to the bug stage and do it now, before anyone else bows on your big night.
The Plunging Value of Mike Trout Alex Rodriguez/Ken Griffey Jr./Jimmie Foxx/Mickey Mantle/Eddie Matthews/ Albert Pujols/Hank Aaron/Andruw Jones/ Mel Ott/Juan Gonzalez/Frank Robinson/ Miguel Cabrera/Adam Dunn The argument could be made that Trout would easily have 40 more home runs than his career total due to all of the lost time. That would place him at 5th all time in home runs through his 29th birthday. Now you may be asking, so what Chuck, we look to you for advice on what to do with Trout going forward. And you are right, we are at ACCEPTANCE. If you play in a season long mixed league, I think the reality there is that the highest you can consider drafting Mike Trout for 2022 and beyond is 9th overall. In an AL only league I could argue he should go around 5th overall. If you play in an existing dynasty league I think the time is right now to consider trading Mike Trout. WHAT? Did you seriously just type that, Chuck T.? Well, yeah I did, and here is the reality. Mike Trout stole 50 bases (49 actually) as a rookie in 2012. Since 2017 he has stolen 22-24-11-1-2 bases. When he comes back from this calf strain you are looking at a guy who will not be given a green light by his manager UNDER STRICT GUIDANCE by Angels management. There is just no way
Mike Trout, center fielder for the Los Angeles Angels you take such a risk with a player who is paid so much and is that important to your teams’ fortunes. Mike Trout can still do special things on the field though. He has a lifetime on base percentage of .419 and there is really nobody else in baseball who does that so well. Trout lifetime OPS is just above 1.00, almost unheard of. It’s a lifetime mark higher than Joe DiMaggio/Stan Musial/
Frank Thomas and even Ty Cobb. But a guy who misses ¼ of his team’s games and no longer runs is a burden that most teams can’t burden. A competitive league I play in just saw Trout traded for a package of Xander Boegarts, Alex Reyes, Nick Pivetta and a 2022 #1 draft pick. I am wondering if the guy paid too much.
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VETERANS WAY BY REV. FREDERICK MILLER. PH.D. Back at the start of the American Revolution in 1775 our colonists fought under the different flags of their independent flags. In June 1775, the Second Continental Congress met to create the Continental Army. This led to the creation of what was the first “American Flag,” the Continental colors. That flag was comprised of 13 red and white alternating stripes and a Union jack in the corner. George Washington realized that this flag was too similar to the British and therefore was not a great confidence builder for the revolutionary efforts, so he turned his efforts on creating a new flag. On June 14, 1777, less than a year after Betsy Ross (who assisted in the war by repairing uniforms and sewing tent) had received the order from General George Washington to make the first flag, the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution stating: “Resolved, that flag of the United States be thirteen stripes,
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Our American Flag & Flag Day
alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field representing a new Constellation.”
the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God ..
In 1885, Bernard Cigrand, a small town Wisconsin teacher, organized the idea for an annual flag day, to be celebrated across the country every June 14th. That year, he led his school in the first formal observance of the holiday. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson marked the anniversary by officially establishing June 14 as Flag Day. On August 3, 949, National Flag Day was established by an Act of Congress. However, it is not an official federal holiday.
• Flying the flag upside down is not always intended as an act of protest. According to the Flag
The “Star-Spangled Banner” America’s national anthem since 1931, was taken from a poem written by Francis Scott Key after he witnessed the Battle of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag: “I pledge allegiance to
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the Stars and Stripes should not be used as apparel, bedding or drapery. • The practice of draping coffins in the American Flag is not reserved for military veterans and government officials. Any burial
or another light source while on display • When the flags are taken down from their poles, care must be taken to keep them from touching the ground. • When the flags get old and need replacement, those flags should be turned in to a veteran’s organization where they can be properly disposed of. Most veteran posts have a flag disposal collection box outside their post. Help is available to you by calling the local VA hospital in Northport, (631) 261-4400 or Veterans Crisis Line 1-800-2738255, press 1 to talk to a veteran or have a confidential chat at >VeteransCrisisLine.net< or text to 838255.
Code, it can also be an official distress signal. • The Flag Code stipulates that
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What You Need to Know about Family Tree Affidavits UNDERGROUNDING 2020
Q: When is a Family Tree Affidavit Necessary? A:
Casey Stengel after becoming manager of Long Island—that is a “game” no utility can company “began placing cable underground Southampton Town supervisor) saying that on the Mets famously declared: “Can’t anybody “play” and win. wherever feasible in the early 1970s…Cost Long Island there should be “undergrounding here play this game?” This was 1962 and the Long Island is the most populous island in studies clearly indicated to us that it would piece-by-piece—especially in areas which, Mets’ were on their way to losing 120 games the United States. And it is heavily treed. simply be less costly for us over the long historically, overhead lines haven’t made it in out of 162 that season. A large storm hitting Long Island with its term to place much of our telephone cables storms.” Indeed, Jimmy Breslin wrote atree book titled, near dependence transmitting electricity underground. It is generally less expensive Nationally, the call for undergrounding has manner the Surrogate’s Court would Surrogate’s Court when filingon petitions A family require. This method transfer can for and administration is Game? an “Can’t Anybodyaffidavit Here Play This Theprobate through lines on poleswhen will mean outages. A to ofmaintain a telephone plant when it is increased. Last year, an article on T&D World, only be we used when all distributees are the decedent survived bywith onlyclimate one change executed by Improbable Sagaaffidavit of the New York Mets’ First hugewas storm—and need underground. This is because underground a website for utilities, was headlined: “It’s Time of full agesevere and capacity. Thisare method where the frequent relationship a disinterestedBill person Year.” In its introduction, Veeck,distributee the to or expect more and more very facilities less likely to be damaged by falling for Utilities to Reconsider Undergrounding of transfer poses thetrees mostorrisk for a of the distributees to the widescale decedent isoutages. to prove who a decedent’s distributees owner of several major league baseball teams, storms—means branches, high winds, ice storms, Power Lines.” It stated that “climate change title company because the affidavit, grandparents, aunts, uncles, or first are. To be considered disinterested, the said the book would be “preserving for all time The solution: underground electric lines. etc…The majority of our telephone cables on is unquestionably generating intense, costly person must have no financial interest cousins. When the distributees are of while notarized and sworn to under a inremarkable taleestate. of ineptitude, mediocrity, wrote a book in 1985 when the Long Long (69 percent) is now underground. storms…a hard fact that utilities must the penalty of perjury, is notIsland supported this degree Ithe family treeback affidavit the decedent’s A distributee and failure.” Island Company the autility herefromThis to have benefitted us during confront.” It said “most utilities opt not to Decree the appears Surrogate’s the Lighting maternal and paternalwas by is aabject legal heir that would inherit from must include PSEG Long lambasted for itsof the with on Ifitsthere cover a photo a LILCO Hurricane Gloria. Despite the hurricane, we bury power lines due to cost. But leaving so in apole proceeding determining sides family. is only one of Court an estate, byIsland law, isif being the decedent performance Tropical Storm Isaiasdistributee, saga with pole andcannot its linesbetiltedthe at adistributees 45-degreeof the were able toMost maintain telephone service for much of our power infrastructure exposed to decedent. thetheaffidavit did not haveina the will. The family tree not 96 allow this of our more than one million spouse children of the must Some include420,000 how andcustomers how given ofaffidavit this month. lost by the angle afteror Hurricane Gloriatitle hit companies that year. willabout percent environmental assault may not be worth the of transfer to be Island used unless long the disinterested person electric power. And it took twoknows weeks forsole fulldistributee. (The book, Power Crazy, was method about LILCO’ s Long customers.” short-term cost savings.” the decedent died moreLILCO than twowas yearsreplaced by the Long Island the decedent and is familiar with his restoration! proposed Shoreham nuclear power plant and Undergrounding electric lines is more Family tree affidavits, also known before and the distributees are easily that initially had its electric or her family, theare person’s relationshipincluding Investigations now underway itsaffidavits, scheme toarebuild Power Authority expensive than stringing lines on poles. But we as heirship also seven used toto 11 nuclear plants ascertainable. The rationale is that if to the decedent, who the decedent’s transfer title to real property when the probes by the New York State attorney general, on Long Island.) service run by KeySpan which was taken over must consider the huge costs of post-hurricane, distributees are, and a statement that distributees have not filed a probate or there were other distributees to the the Department of Public and the State The book starts with Hurricane and byinNational Grid—and then Superstorm Sandy post-storm electric restorations—happening estateGloria with an interest the property, there are no other personsService of the same administration proceeding appointthat a caused 700,000 Legislature. a LILCO electrictooutage in to 2012. over and over again. We must fully recognize, they would have comestruck forward claimNational Grid was blasted for or nearer degree of relationship who fiduciary for the estate.toEach There decedent. is no This question the customers losedistributee electricity, most for more the outages too, the terrible hardships these extended an interest in the property withinSandy two caused. Governor Andrew survived affidavit that is would need to participate in the communications system of PSEG LI broke than a week. But service to 96 percent of Cuomo arranged for National Grid to be outages cause people. With lines underground years. sworn to under penalty of perjury. transfer and the title company would administration matters when trying to by the Surrogate’s Court and/or a title down. Many people couldn’t get through to telephone customers on Long Island was not replaced by PSEG. vital “game” of preserving electric service A family tree affidavit has specific company. It is best to consultthe Under NYCRR 207.16, a family tree want an heirship affidavit executed by with use a family tree affidavit. the utilityistorequired find outinwhat interrupted, I noted onsame Page 1. requirements in order In 2012, writinganthis column about thewithcan be won. to be accepted a disinterested third party in the affidavit Newwas Yorkhappening. in the attorney experienced estate - Kera Reed, Esq. and Nancy Burner, Esq. Still, for an electric utility to deal with the I quoted New York Telephone spokesperson need for undergrounding, I quoted then outages caused by a very severe storm hitting Bruce W. Reisman telling me how the Suffolk Legislator Jay Schneiderman (now A S K N A N C Y • P H O NE : ( 6 3 1) 9 41-3 4 3 4 • E M A IL : INF O @ B U R NE R L AW. C O M
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ADULT SUMMER READING CLUB Summer is here, and it’s time to broaden your reading horizons for fun, enrichment, and a chance to win weekly raffle prizes (Amazon gift cards). Why should kids have all the fun? Stop by the Adult Services Information Desk to register and receive an incentive gift for participating. You can also register and start logging your reading entries online at www.communitylibrary.org/summer. Each book you read or listen to counts as one raffle, which can be submitted into the weekly drawings. Weekly raffle drawings are scheduled on: Tuesday, July 6, Mondays, July 12, 19, 26, August 2, 9, 16, 23. A valid MMSCL card is required to participate in the reading club. The adult reading club is intended for patrons 18 years and older.
Adult Book Discussions Our monthly adult book discussions are held via Zoom and are open to all. You must provide your e-mail upon registration and the Zoom invite will be e-mailed to you the day of the program. Register for book discussions on our program calendar: https://mms.evanced.info/signup/cale ndar. Copies of the books are available at the Circulation Desk four weeks prior to the discussion for a limited time. Digital copies are available in Libby and Overdrive.
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Pull of the Stars
The Story of Arthur Truluv
by Delia Owens
by Emma
Elizabeth Berg
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SUMMER WITH US 2021 IN THE CHILDREN’S DEPARTMENT
You’re Invited to our Parking Lot Party on Friday June 25th We’re kicking off Summer With Us with a party in the lot! Join us for free ice cream, reading club signup, and pick up a free journal to keep track of all your summer memories! The Children's Department will be giving out Summer With Us journals to children entering K-7th grade. These journals can be used to keep track of all of the fun they have this summer. Children can scribble, start a diary, list the books they read, draw a picture inspired by something they read or just collect stickers or keep track of the library programs they attend. We have a journal making station in the Children's Department with all kinds of fun art supplies, stickers and craft material, where kids can decorate and add to their journals. Every time a child shows us something from their journal throughout the summer, they can enter our Summer With Us raffle for a chance to win exciting prizes. For children birth-entering Kindergarten, we offer a reading program called 1KB4K (1,000 Books Before Kindergarten). Reading aloud to children starting at birth helps them develop the literacy skills needed to learn to read, and this program gets families started with fun prizes along the way. We will have lots of in-person programs in the library and out in the community as well as continuing to offer our grab and go kits and crafts to go.
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LIBRARY LIVING BY TARA D’AMATO Assistant Library Director
Kickoff Event – Friday June 25th in the Library Parking Lot Dear Community Members, While every season brings exciting happenings at our library, summer has always been an opportunity for us to connect with our patrons in a fun way. Recreational reading increases during our summer months. Adults, teens, and children are all looking for a summer reading experience. Our library staff works hard to promote recreational summer reading for our schoolage children to prevent the “summer slide” – which is when children can decline in reading levels without their formal school schedule. The library is here to help with our excellent collections of books to suit all tastes and in all formats. We are ready to recommend books in print, in
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digital format, or in audio format. Our “Libby” app offers free easy downloadable audio and e-books on the go. “Flipster” is a fun way to download an amazing array of free magazines, or you can borrow our print magazines to throw in your beach tote. What’s hot this summer? You can sign up for our “New Book Alert” service on our website and check out reviews and reader recommendations from our librarians. There are a few fiction titles I expect to see in a lot of beach bags including Jennifer Weiner’s That Summer, Kristen Hanna’s The Four Winds, Lauren Weisberger’s Where the Grass is Green and the Girls are Pretty, Jean Hanef Korelitz’s The Plot, and of course E. L. James’ Freed. I’m looking forward to digging into Sarah J. Maas’ Crescent City series as I personally love to read good fantasy books. Maas is best known
for her bestselling YA novels comprising the Throne of Glass series, which are always popular with our teens and adults alike. I’ll also be re-reading Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James
Nestor. It was such a great book that I need to read it again. After the year we have had, learning how our breath impacts our mind and body is a very important topic for me. I’m also planning to read
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ON THE SEA
On the Sea
BY VINCENT PICA, COMMODORE
First District, Southern Region (D1SR) United States Coast Guard Auxiliary
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HURRICANE PREP, PART II – THE BOAT
Weathering the Weather
you can (now!), be sure that the cleats on the boat and on the dock are through-bolted with a backing plate. If not, they will become highspeed guided missiles as they fly out of their bedding under strain. And the boat will be free… No garden hose? Improvise. Leather straps. just some than others. gentle rain storm.Rags. If theAnything lines are athelps, a sharp Sail things boatershelp havemore one option that motorized
with a “spider web of lines”, you can create a fighting chance that your beauty will ride out the storm. (images courtesy of BoatUS)
the surface, it spreads out like a spilt glass and start to formulate a plan? First, if you Pollsters tell us that the most popular topic BY VINCENT angle, tie everything down. Sometimes the boats can’t often avail themselves of. A milk hitting the kitchen floor. But while see lightning, it is a strong one. Secondly, of conversation is the weather – and whyPICA,ofCOMMODORE, CUT YOUR WINDAGE area under looks “smoky” and thatyou means sailorthe doesn’t to worry the milkREGION has the(D1SR) theoretical possibility of the taller the cloud, the more powerful the not!? It certainly has been keeping us on our SOUTHERN 1ST DISTRICT, Do whatever canato lower boat’shave profile to theabout wind.running Take lot of rain and a lot of wind. Anything else out of fuel. So, he can head out to sea and spreading out equally in all directions, not squall. If you are out at night and you start toes. We’ve written a lot about weather and down the bimini cover and lash it. If you can’t, open the windows. U.S. COAST GUARD AUXILIARY tends not to be much of an issue. There is try to get behind the squall which definitely so with our aeronautical rock that has just to see the stars go out towards the horizon seamanship, and this is true in all seasons, Take down the antennas. Even thattolittle of additional windage(what can wants runbitnortherly and easterly surface. about The squall it is the localized squall that is more Last likely week, hit wethewrote thewill mix with the tip the balance. A sailboat? I know I adon’t need to say that“winds you must we call “sou’wester” since are surface winds and will also be affected by toincreasingly catch us off guard than a widely heralded more dangerous season ahead. In addition to the forecast stow all the sails, even the furled ones,from below or ashore. the boat has known whence they If blow, currents the rotation of the Earth itself. storm. Being now into the hurricane update, it was largely about what you and your family should do (like dorades or cowls, seal them. are Wind – or by wind-driven – getting known where theywater flow.”) With season, I doubt that Mother Nature is done In the northern latitudes, unless there are never stay us. on the nor drive through fuel a consideration, you might not challenging Thisboat column is about that. running water.) What about below at high speed can’t be good. Duct tape… And take in allfeel theit strong surfaceiswinds play, the squall will the boat? Tis the season of heavy weather. This column aboutatthat. headwith further electronics and seal the boat’sprudent electricaltoleads tape.out to sea to get have a right shift – and the wind in front of The Squall behind the squall. Things to consider then: LET ME SAY IT AGAIN… it will be the strongest. In fact, this tends to FENDERS AND FENDER BOARDS In 2000, the actor, Jeff Bridges, starred Never stay on the boat. I know. There create are oldmore timers thatasswear you run before the squall without fear squalls the leading edge of the Yes. As many as possible, Can put them out. I always suggest that athey inbythe “White as Captain of “pitch-poling” (being driven down the air forces air it. movie “I’ve saved my Squall” boat every time whencold others were more lost.” warm, Withmoist surface be secured to the boat, rather than the dock. If the boat does break What is common to all these configurations is lots of lines and long Christopher Sheldon,it the skipperbecause of thethe winds face of a wave by the storm and “going over upwards – likeseas a rock dropped in the water absolute certainty, is simply – and – never free, at least she is taking some her protection with expanses good ship Albatross. His mission was to theofhandlebars” when theher. bow plows into will cause But a splash upwards outwards.of them. In three of them, you can also see that multiple exceeded the operational capacity of the engines. when they and anchors are used as well. The longer lines are there to address the tidal teach a group of high school boys the way the bottom of the trough)? This effect creates “cells” of squalls that can IN SUMMARY boat.squall The boat is just money. You are ofdo, theyou sea will and be of lost life –with and the a white The additional lines are there for back-up. Losing one line to roll in in tandem. When you feelsurge. the wind Make a check list – now. IsIfthere you enough need one, email meaboard belowrelative and I anchor rode someone. you care about the people careupabout you, read on provided theIfmedium. The portrayal of whopick and the temperature drop, this is stress doesn’t completely undo everything you’ve done. will send you one. Do you want a copy guidewaters for boat to the depthofofthe theBoatUS surrounding so – and leave boat while your lovededge onesofto high and, if one just the effects of athe squall wasbehind actually very you well takethe leading a squall you can drop theI’llanchor and too. essentially and marina owners? Email me below and send that And CHAFE GUARDS ground. done with respect to realism – having been went through, this one could be worse as hove to? remember these words: Without in one or two over the decades. the winds between the leading edge of a doubt, you will need chafe guards of some kind since the THE SPIDER WEB OF LINES “The time for taking all measures for a ship’s safety is while still able storm will put extreme stresses on the lines where they are wrapped new squall and the trailing edge of the older But what these fistsofofthe wind Are you close enough to port If youcauses can’t get thefurious boat out water and on to “the hard”, then to do so. 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‘‘Love’’ – What’s it All About?
ASK MICHELLE “Your Family Therapist”
BY MICHELLE CAVALERI, LCSW-R
Wedding Officiant & NYS Divorce Mediator
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
In drawing on my associates in the pastoral community, together with past research, unconditional love can only be experienced when we are giving it away and feeling joined in oneness with others. The following statements summarize what unconditional love is all about: • It is giving our love totally to everyone, excluding no one. • It is loving and giving without expectations, or wanting to get love or anything else in return. • It is total acceptance of another person with no desire to change that person in any way. • It is seeing only the light of love in everyone.
HOW IS UNCONDITIONAL LOVE ACCOMPLISHED?
• By letting go of all our guilt and not
projecting guilt onto others. • By forgiving and letting go of the past, in the present and living in the joy of now. • By not making demands on anyone. • By resisting temptation to judge. • By giving all our needs, wants, desires, and feelings of scarcity to our inner teacher, and letting the voice of love transform them into fullness and wholeness. • By making each moment an opportunity for offering forgiveness to someone in our lives; and for seeing everyone as our teacher – thus giving ourselves the opportunity to practice and learn the benefits of forgiveness.
system would have us release the past and make all our decisions by listening to the voice of our inner teacher, the voice of love. The following identifies the Love Thought system.
• Love is the only thing that can be true, and what is love is all there is.
So, do you approach your life decisions from this belief system?
• The current moment is the only moment there is, and it is for love. In this moment there is no guilt or fear. • Our natural state of being is love. It is to be happy, joyful, and peaceful. • Everyone, regardless of age, is our teacher of love. • Love is always unconditional and has nothing to do with performance or behavior. • There is only love. It is always changeless, maximal, and nonexclusive.
• By recognizing that when we know our identity is love, we have no need except to extend that love endlessly.
• Love has no limits, boundaries, or expectations. It simply unfolds upon itself.
Every decision we make is chosen either from the ego’s thought system or love’s thought system. Love’s thought
• Everything we see is a mirror of what we are.
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Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines but not U.S. BANK TRUST, including, to, social N.A., AS TRUSTEE limited FOR LSF10 MASTER distancing and mask P A R T I C I P A T I O N wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TRUST, TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE V. WITH COURT/CLERK CHRISTOPHER R. DON, DIRECTIVES. ET. AL. L13318 – 5/19/2021, 5/26/2021, 6/2/2021 & NOTICE OF SALE 6/9/2021 NOTICE IS HEREBY AND GIVEN pursuant to a Final SUMMONS Judgment of Foreclosure NOTICE Supreme Court dated December 23, of New York, Suffolk 2019, and entered in the County. WILMINGTON FUND Office of the Clerk of the SAVINGS County of Suffolk, wherein SOCIETY, FSB NOT U.S. BANK TRUST, IN ITS INDIVIDUAL BUT N.A., AS TRUSTEE CAPACITY, FOR LSF10 MASTER SOLELY AS OWNER P A R T I C I P A T I O N TRUSTEE FOR CSMC TRUST, TRUST is the Plaintiff 2018-RPL6 againstand CHRISTOPHER PlaintiffR. DON, ET AL. are SEAN DAVIN, PAULA CHAMPION the Defendant(s). I, the DAVIN, A undersigned Referee will MORTGAGE, sell at public auction at the DIVISION OF KEYBANK, BROOKHAVEN TOWN GREGORY J. BLASS, AS OF HALL 1 INDEPENDENCE COMMISSIONER HILL, FARMINGVILLE SOCIAL SERVICES OF COUNTY, NY 11738, on June 14, SUFFOLK 2021 at 10:00AM, premises CAPITAL ONE BANK known as 170 JEFFERSON USA, N.A., MIDLAND DRIVE, MASTIC BEACH, FUNDING, LLC, JOHN NY 11951: District 0209, DOE AND JANE DOE Section 022.00, Block said names being fictitious, it being the intention 08.00, Lot 021.00: of plaintiff to designate ALL THAT CERTAIN any and all occupants of PLOT, PIECE OR premises being foreclosed Index No. PARCEL OF LAND herein, WITH THE BUILDINGS 610090/2020. Mortgaged AND IMPROVEMENTS Premises: 276 River Road THEREON ERECTCED, Shirley, New York 11967, SITUATE, LYING AND District: 0200, Section:746, BEING IN THE TOWN Block:01.00, Lot:002.004 OF BROOKHAVEN, To The Above Named COUNTY OF SUFFOLK Defendant(s):YOU ARE AND STATE OF NEW HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint YORK, in the above entitled action Premises will be sold and to serve a copy of your subject to provisions of Answer on the Plaintiff’s filed Judgment Index # attorney within twenty 608282/2018. Robert A. (20) days of the service of Caccese, Esq. - Referee. this Summons, exclusive Robertson, Anschutz, of the day of service, or L13315 – 5/19/2021, Schneid, Crane & Partners, within thirty (30) days 5/26/2021, 6/2/2021 & PLLC 900 Merchants after service of the same is 6/9/2021 Concourse, Suite 310, complete where service is Westbury, New York made in any manner other SUPREME COURT OF 11590, Attorneys for than by personal delivery NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC AUCTION Supreme Court of New York, SUFFOLK County. U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE ON BEHALF OF AND WITH RESPECT TO AJAX MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2016-C, MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES, SERIES 2016C, Plaintiff, -againstRICHARD FRANCA; VINCENT FRANCA, Index No. 610834/2018. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated, November 27, 2019 and entered with the Suffolk County Clerk on December 26, 2019, Frank M. Maffei, Jr., the Appointed Referee, will sell the premises known as 232 Vita Drive, Shirley, New York 11967 at public auction at Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, New York 11738, on June 23, 2021 at 9:00 A.M. Please note, the new auction rules for Suffolk County and all applicable COVID-19 Health and Safety Protocols will be in effect at the auction. Please visit: http://ww2. nycourts.gov/courts/10jd/ suffolk/index.shtml for additional information. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York known as District: 0200; Section: 644.00; Block: 01.00; Lot: 021.001 will be sold subject to the provisions of filed Judgment, Index No. 610834/2018. The approximate amount of judgment is $235,844.93 plus interest and co. FRIEDMAN VARTOLO LLP 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
THE STATE OF NEW YORK - COUNTY OF SUFFOLK
within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service. If you fail to appear or to answer within the aforementioned time frame, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECTIVE of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a Mortgage to secure $272,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Suffolk County Clerk’s Office on July 8, 2004 in Book M00020790, Page 753, covering the premises
known as 276 River Road, Shirley, New York 11967. The relief sought herein is a final judgment directing sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the mortgage described above. Plaintiff designates Suffolk County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is located. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the
court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF ( M O R T G A G E COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. FRIEDMAN VARTOLO, LLP 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York
10004, (212) 471-5100, Attorneys for Plaintiff. L13324 – 5/19/2021, 5/26/2021, 6/2/2021 & 6/9/2021 SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF SUFFOLK KONDAUR CAPITAL CORPORATION, Plaintiff against JANET DEMERS, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on January 28, 2020. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the front steps of the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, N.Y. on the
Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library Mastic Beach Annex Fire Sprinkler NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library hereby invites the submission of sealed Bids for the following work: CONTRACT: 15-15.300 Fire Sprinkler Bid packages will be available in three different manners as follows: Bid packages will be available electronically, (beginning June 10, 2021 at 9 AM). Prospective Bidders to email a request to register to Ashley Lester, Assistant Project Manager at ashleyl@sandpebble.com. Once a completed Bidder registration card is received, each prospective Bidder will receive a Sharefile link to the Bid documents to the email address cited on the Bidder registration card. Upon request prospective bidders may receive a full printed set of Bid documents printed ($150 nonrefundable) or flash drive ($20 nonrefundable). Please email your request to ashleyl@sandpebble.com. The printed set or flash drive will be sent via FedEx to the prospective Bidder once the Library receives the non-refundable business check, in the amount listed above. Please deliver checks to the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library, Attn: Business Office, 407 William Floyd Parkway, Shirley, NY 11967 from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM daily except Saturdays, Sundays, and Holidays. A Bid security in the amount of 5% of the base Bid (for Bid Bond), or 5% of the base Bid maximum of $5,000 (for Bid security provided by check) is required. Each Bidder must indicate the segment(s) of the contract that will be completed by the Bidder itself and which segment(s) by subcontractors. Only the registered Bidder will be permitted to submit a Bid. A Bid may be rejected in the interest of the Owner based on the extent of proposed delegation of the performance of the contract to subcontractors and/or based on the level of qualification and experience of the Bidder or proposed subcontractors. Sealed Bids will be received from registered Bidders at the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library, 407 William Floyd Parkway, Shirley, NY 11967, no later than 12:00 PM on the 23rd day of June 2021, and then publicly opened and read aloud via Zoom Conference call at 1:00 PM on the same day. Each Bidder will receive a link and password to the email address provided on the Bidder Registration Card after the Bid is received. The Contract Number must be clearly marked at the right-hand lower corner of the Bid envelope. Any Bids received later than the prescribed date and hour will be rejected. The Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library Board of Trustees’ reserves the right to reject any or all Bids submitted in the best interests of the Owner and to waive any informality in any Bid and shall further make awards in any manner it deems advisable in the best interests of the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library. The successful Bidder shall be required to execute a formal contract with the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library. Each Bidder shall agree to hold its Bid price for forty-five (45) days after the formal Bid opening. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MASTICS MORICHES SHIRLEY COMMUNITY LIBRARY KERRI ROSALIA, DIRECTOR Dated: April 26, 2021 L13357 – 6/9/2021
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24th day of June, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. premises described as follows: All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being at Yaphank, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York. Said premises known as 518 Middle Island Road, Yaphank, N.Y. 11980. (District: 0200, Section: 579.00, Block: 03.00, Lot: 018.000). Approximate amount of lien $ 284,833.25 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 612716-19. Daniel J. Murphy, Esq.,
Referee. Stern & Eisenberg, PC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff Woodbridge Corporate Plaza 485 B Route 1 South – Suite 330 Iselin, NJ 08830 (732) 582-6344 During the COVID-19 health emergency, Bidders are required to comply with all governmental health requirements in effect at the time of the sale including but not limited to wearing face coverings and maintaining social distancing (at least 6-feet apart) during the auction, while tendering deposit and at any subsequent closing. Should a bidder fail to comply, the Referee
Leonard Sarro a/k/a Leonard K. Sarro; Lianna Sarro; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated January 17, 2020 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, New York, 11738 on June 30, 2021 at 10:00AM, premises known L13326 – 5/26/2021, as 19 Wards Lane, Bellport, 6/2/2021, 6/9/2021 & NY 11713. All that certain plot piece or parcel of 6/16/2021 land, with the buildings NOTICE OF SALE and improvements erected, situate, lying and SUPREME COURT being at Bellport, Town of Brookhaven, County COUNTY OF SUFFOLK Nationstar Mortgage LLC, of Suffolk, State of NY, District 0200 Section Plaintiff AGAINST 978.10Block 02.00 Lot may refuse to accept any bid, cancel the closing and hold the bidder in default. Bidders are also required to comply with the Foreclosure Auction Rules and COVID-19 Health Emergency Rules issued by the Supreme Court of this County in addition to the conditions set forth in the Terms of Sale.
Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library Mastic Beach Annex Plumbing NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library hereby invites the submission of sealed Bids for the following work: CONTRACT: 15-15.200 Plumbing Bid packages will be available in three different manners as follows: Bid packages will be available electronically, (beginning June 10, 2021 at 9 AM). Prospective Bidders to email a request to register to Ashley Lester, Assistant Project Manager at ashleyl@sandpebble.com. Once a completed Bidder registration card is received, each prospective Bidder will receive a Sharefile link to the Bid documents to the email address cited on the Bidder registration card. Upon request prospective bidders may receive a full printed set of Bid documents printed ($150 nonrefundable) or flash drive ($20 nonrefundable). Please email your request to ashleyl@sandpebble.com. The printed set or flash drive will be sent via FedEx to the prospective Bidder once the Library receives the non-refundable business check, in the amount listed above. Please deliver checks to the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library, Attn: Business Office, 407 William Floyd Parkway, Shirley, NY 11967 from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM daily except Saturdays, Sundays, and Holidays. A Bid security in the amount of 5% of the base Bid (for Bid Bond), or 5% of the base Bid maximum of $5,000 (for Bid security provided by check) is required. Each Bidder must indicate the segment(s) of the contract that will be completed by the Bidder itself and which segment(s) by subcontractors. Only the registered Bidder will be permitted to submit a Bid. A Bid may be rejected in the interest of the Owner based on the extent of proposed delegation of the performance of the contract to subcontractors and/or based on the level of qualification and experience of the Bidder or proposed subcontractors. Sealed Bids will be received from registered Bidders at the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library, 407 William Floyd Parkway, Shirley, NY 11967, no later than 12:00 PM on the 23rd day of June 2021, and then publicly opened and read aloud via Zoom Conference call at 1:00 PM on the same day. Each Bidder will receive a link and password to the email address provided on the Bidder Registration Card after the Bid is received. The Contract Number must be clearly marked at the right-hand lower corner of the Bid envelope. Any Bids received later than the prescribed date and hour will be rejected. The Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library Board of Trustees’ reserves the right to reject any or all Bids submitted in the best interests of the Owner and to waive any informality in any Bid and shall further make awards in any manner it deems advisable in the best interests of the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library. The successful Bidder shall be required to execute a formal contract with the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library. Each Bidder shall agree to hold its Bid price for forty-five (45) days after the formal Bid opening. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MASTICS MORICHES SHIRLEY COMMUNITY LIBRARY KERRI ROSALIA, DIRECTOR Dated: April 26, 2021 L13358 – 6/9/2021
042.000. Approximate amount of judgment $217,020.15 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 606587/2017. The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the Tenth Judicial District. Daniel J Murphy, Esq., Referee, Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792
BR4, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-BR4 is the Plaintiff and JOSEPH J. PAPROCKY, JR.; ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the BROOKHAVEN TOWN HALL, 1 INDEPENDENCE HILL, FARMINGVILLE, NY 11738, on June 29, 2021 at 9:30AM, premises known as 12 TERRY DR, MASTIC, NY 11950: District 0200, Section 823.000, Block 03.00, Lot 013.00:
ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS Dated: May 14, 2021 AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, L13329 – 5/26/2021, SITUATED, LYING AND 6/2/2021, 6/9/2021 & BEING IN THE TOWN 6/16/2021 OF BROOKHAVEN, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK SUPREME COURT OF AND STATE OF NEW THE STATE OF NEW YORK YORK - COUNTY OF SUFFOLK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of DEUTSCHE BANK filed Judgment Index NATIONAL TRUST # 600276/2015. Brian COMPANY, AS D. Bass, Esq. - Referee. TRUSTEE FOR Robertson, Anschutz, SECURITIZED ASSET Schneid, Crane & Partners, BACKED RECEIVABLES, PLLC 900 Merchants LLC TRUST 2007- Concourse, Suite 310, BR4, MORTGAGE Westbury, New York P A S S - T H R O U G H 11590, Attorneys for CERTIFICATES, SERIES Plaintiff. All foreclosure 2007-BR4, sales will be conducted in accordance with V. Covid-19 guidelines including, but not JOSEPH J. PAPROCKY, limited to, social JR.; ET. AL. distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION NOTICE OF SALE OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF NOTICE IS HEREBY IN ACCORDANCE GIVEN pursuant to WITH COURT/CLERK a Final Judgment of DIRECTIVES. Foreclosure dated March 10,2020, and entered in L13337 – 5/26/2021, the Office of the Clerk 6/2/2021, 6/9/2021 & of the County of Suffolk, 6/16/2021 wherein DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL Notice of formation TRUST COMPANY, of THRIFTY AS TRUSTEE FOR NEIGHBORHOOD LLC, SECURITIZED ASSET a limited liability company. BACKED RECEIVABLES, Articles of Organization LLC TRUST 2007- filed with the Secretary
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of State of the State of New York (SSNY) on 12/30/2020. Office located in Suffolk County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to of THRIFTY NEIGHBORHOOD LLC at 322 Neighborhood Road, Mastic Beach, NY 11951. Purpose: any lawful purpose. L13340 – 5/26/2021, 6/2/2021, 6/9/2021, 6/16/2021, 6/23/2021 & 6/30/2021 LEGAL NOTICE STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK Filed: 11/18/2020 Index No.: 611075/2018 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Mortgaged Premises: 39 Elder Ave Farmingville, (Town of Brookhaven) NY 11738 ______________________ QUICKEN LOANS INC., Plaintiff, vs. Any unknown heirs to the Estate of CHARLES MARTINS A/K/A CHARLES E. MARTINS, DECEASED, next of kin, devisees, legatees, distributees, grantees, assignees, creditors, lienors, trustees, executors, administrators or successors in interest, as well as the respective heirs at law, next of kin, devisees, legatees, distributees, grantees, assignees, lienors, trustees, executors, administrators or successors in interest of the aforesaid classes of persons, if they or any of them be dead, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiff; CHLOE MARTINS
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A/K/A CHLOE ALMEDIA; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA O/B/O INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; JOHN T. MATHER HOSPITAL; NEIL MENDICK, DBA PROFESSIONAL INTRODUCTION SERVICE; BISSET NURSERY CORPORATION; CAROL MARTINS; ARMANDO MARTINS; Defendants. _______________________ TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS:
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is for the foreclosure of: Mortgage bearing the date of July 21, 2017, executed by Charles Martins, a married man to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. MERS acting solely as a nominee for Quicken Loans Inc. to secure the sum of $306,892.00, and interest,
and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Suffolk County on August 3, 2017 in Liber: M00022839 Page: 388.
will not stop this foreclosure action.
of Suffolk, State of NY, Rochester, New York COUNTY OF SUFFOLK Notice of formation of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., District 0200 Section 14624 492.00 Block 05.00 Lot (877) 430-4792 Simple Truth Home Plaintiff 016.000. Approximate YOU MUST RESPOND Inspections LLC. Arts of AGAINST of judgment Dated: May 27, 2021 BY SERVING A COPY Org. filed with NY DOS Karen Fields; et al., amount $232,115.66 plus interest Original Sale Date: May 24, OF THE ANSWER 04/19/2021. Office loc: Defendant(s) That Mortgage Electronic ON THE ATTORNEY Suffolk Co. SSNY has Pursuant to a Judgment of and costs. Premises will be 2021 Registration Systems, Inc. FOR THE PLAINTIFF been designated for service Foreclosure and Sale duly sold subject to provisions (“MERS”) as nominee for ( M O R T G A G E of process. SSNY shall dated January 22, 2020 I, of filed Judgment Index# L13353 – 6/9/2021 Quicken Loans Inc. duly COMPANY) AND mail copy of any process the undersigned Referee, 604320/2017. The auction assigned said Note and FILING THE ANSWER served against the LLC to will sell at public auction will be conducted pursuant NOTICE OF PUBLIC Mortgage to Quicken WITH THE COURT. PO Box 352 Rocky Point, at the Brookhaven Town to the COVID-19 Policies HEARING Loans Inc. by Assignment Public NY 11778. Purpose: Any Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Concerning dated April 18, 2018 and WE ARE ATTEMPTING lawful purpose. Farmingville, New York, Auctions of foreclosed MKM Development Corp, recorded on April 25, 2018 TO COLLECT A DEBT. 11738 on June 16, 2021 at Property established by the 273 Hawkins Avenue, in the Office of the Clerk ANY INFORMATION L13343 – 5/26/2021, 11:00AM, premises known Ninth Judicial District. Ronkonkoma, N.Y. 11779, of Suffolk County in Liber: OBTAINED Smith, Esq., has made application to WILL 6/2/2021, 6/9/2021, as 3 Arrow Street, Selden, Tarsha M00022920 Page: 312. BE USED FOR THAT 6/16/2021, 6/23/2021 & NY 11784. All that certain Referee the Town of Brookhaven 6/30/2021 plot, piece or parcel of LOGS Legal Group LLP Planning Board for final PURPOSE. The relief sought in the land, with the buildings f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & approval of a subdivision within action is a final and improvements erected, Barak, LLC NOTICE OF LEGAL SCHEDULE A of 22.085 acres into 11 judgment directing the sale LEGAL DESCRIPTION situate, lying and being Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff residential lots using a POSTPONEMENT OF of the Mortgaged Premises Mile Crossing cluster treatment, SCTM# at Selden in the Town 175 SALE described above to satisfy ALL that certain plot, SUPREME COURT of Brookhaven, County Boulevard 0200 67600 0200 018000, the debt secured by the piece or parcel of land, Mortgage described above. situate, lying and being in Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library Plaintiff designates Suffolk the Town of Brookhaven, Mastic Beach Annex County as the place of County of Suffolk and HVAC trial. The basis of venue State of New York, known is the County in which and designated as Plot Nos. NOTICE TO BIDDERS the Mortgaged Premises is 156 to 157 on a certain The Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library hereby invites the submission of sealed Bids for the following situated. map entitled, “Map of work: District: 0200 Natures Gardens, Section CONTRACT: 15-15.100 HVAC Section: 602.00 8” and filed in the Office Bid packages will be available in three different manners as follows: Block: 03.00 of the Clerk of the County Bid packages will be available electronically, (beginning June 10, 2021 at 9 AM). Prospective Bidders to email a Lot: 023.001 of Suffolk on July 9, 1941, request to register to Ashley Lester, Assistant Project Manager at ashleyl@sandpebble.com. Once a completed as Map No. 1333, more Bidder registration card is received, each prospective Bidder will receive a Sharefile link to the Bid documents to the DATED: 2/28/2020 particularly bounded and email address cited on the Bidder registration card. Rochester, New York described as follows: Upon request prospective bidders may receive a full printed set of Bid documents printed ($150 nonrefundable) or BEGINNING at a point on flash drive ($20 nonrefundable). Please email your request to ashleyl@sandpebble.com. The printed set or flash drive NOTICE the Northerly side of Elder will be sent via FedEx to the prospective Bidder once the Library receives the non-refundable business check, in YOU ARE IN DANGER Avenue distant 550.00 feet the amount listed above. Please deliver checks to the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library, Attn: Business OF LOSING YOUR Westerly from the corner Office, 407 William Floyd Parkway, Shirley, NY 11967 from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM daily except Saturdays, Sundays, HOME formed by the intersection and Holidays. of the Westerly side of A Bid security in the amount of 5% of the base Bid (for Bid Bond), or 5% of the base Bid maximum of $5,000 (for Bid If you do not respond Blue Point Road and the security provided by check) is required. to this summons and Northerly side of Elder Each Bidder must indicate the segment(s) of the contract that will be completed by the Bidder itself and which complaint by serving Avenue; segment(s) by subcontractors. Only the registered Bidder will be permitted to submit a Bid. A Bid may be rejected a copy of the answer RUNNING THENCE in the interest of the Owner based on the extent of proposed delegation of the performance of the contract to on the attorney for the along the Northerly side subcontractors and/or based on the level of qualification and experience of the Bidder or proposed subcontractors. Mortgage company who of Elder Avenue North Sealed Bids will be received from registered Bidders at the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library, 407 filed this foreclosure 82 degrees 39 minutes 30 William Floyd Parkway, Shirley, NY 11967, no later than 12:00 PM on the 23rd day of June 2021, and then proceeding against you seconds West 100.00 feet; publicly opened and read aloud via Zoom Conference call at 1:00 PM on the same day. Each Bidder will receive and filing the answer THENCE North 07 degrees a link and password to the email address provided on the Bidder Registration Card after the Bid is received. The with the court, a default 29 minutes 30 seconds East Contract Number must be clearly marked at the right-hand lower corner of the Bid envelope. Any Bids received judgment may be 160.00 feet; later than the prescribed date and hour will be rejected. entered and you can lose THENCE South 82 degrees The Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library Board of Trustees’ reserves the right to reject any or all Bids your home. 39 minutes 30 seconds East submitted in the best interests of the Owner and to waive any informality in any Bid and shall further make awards 100.00 feet; in any manner it deems advisable in the best interests of the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library. The Speak to an attorney or THENCE South 07 degrees successful Bidder shall be required to execute a formal contract with the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community go to the court where 29 minutes 30 seconds Library. your case is pending for West 160.00 feet to the Each Bidder shall agree to hold its Bid price for forty-five (45) days after the formal Bid opening. further information Northerly side of Elder on how to answer the Avenue at the point or BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES summons and protect place of BEGINNING. MASTICS MORICHES SHIRLEY COMMUNITY LIBRARY your property. KERRI ROSALIA, DIRECTOR L13341 – 5/26/2021, Dated: April 26, 2021 Sending a payment to 6/2/2021, 6/9/2021 & your Mortgage company 6/16/2021 L13359 – 6/9/2021
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019000, 020000. This proposal is known as 2020001-FS – Dongan Trails @ Manorville, located on the west side of Paper Street known as Bay Avenue east of Wading River Road, 215.05’ north of Sunrise Highway Service Road North (SR 27), Manorville, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York and described as follows:
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A more detailed diagram Notice is hereby given that of the subject property the Town of Brookhaven shall be made available NOTICE TO BIDDERS SOUTH: By Land N/F of Planning Board will hold a virtually at brookhavenny. public hearing in the Town gov/1201/meetings. Bids will be received UNKNOWN OWNER, & beyond by Land N/F of Hall 2nd floor auditorium, and publicly opened and PAPIK, FLORENCE J L/E 1 Independence Hill, At said public hearing, any read aloud in the Town & JOANNE ACEVEDO & Farmingville, New York persons interested shall of Brookhaven Town or a virtual public hearing be given the opportunity Hall Lobby located at LUIS ACEVEDO, & N/F of RAMIREZ, streamed live over the to be heard. Anyone the Brookhaven Town internet at BrookhavenNY. interested in submitting Office Complex, One DOREEN, Hill, NORTH: By Land & N/F of MICIELLI, gov/meeting on Monday, written comments to the Independence June 21, 2021 at 4:00 P.M., Board may also do so via Farmingville, New York, N/F of TRANCHINA, BERTHA, ANTHONY & MARIA & N/F of SPANO, email at emccallion@ 11738, 3rd Floor, for the DOMINICK & In the event that this is brookhavenny.gov following project on the a virtual public hearing, date as indicated at 11:00 EAST: By Land N/F GERALDINE, interested in DATED: May 28, 2021 am: of SUFFOLK COUNTY & N/F of BROWNE, anyone commenting on the CLINTON & MELISSA WATER AUTHORITY, proposal may communicate Vincent Pascale, Chairman DATE: JULY 13, 2021 & PAPER STREET BAY AVENUE WEST: By Land N/F of with the Planning Board BID #21027 & beyond by Land N/F of ROYAL DEVELOPMENT during this time via “chat” L13354 – 6/9/2021 ROBBINS POINT PIER BULKHEAD Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library REPLACEMENT Mastic Beach Annex Masonry Specifications for the above-referenced bid will NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library hereby invites the submission of sealed Bids for the following be available beginning June 10, 2021. work: CONTRACT: 04-4.100 Masonry Preferred Method Bid packages will be available in three different manners as follows: website: Bid packages will be available electronically, (beginning June 10, 2021 at 9 AM). Prospective Bidders to email a • Access request to register to Ashley Lester, Assistant Project Manager at ashleyl@sandpebble.com. Once a completed b r o o k h a v e n N Y . g o v / Bidder registration card is received, each prospective Bidder will receive a Sharefile link to the Bid documents to the Purchasing: click on link for Bids. email address cited on the Bidder registration card. Upon request prospective bidders may receive a full printed set of Bid documents printed ($150 nonrefundable) or • Follow directions to flash drive ($20 nonrefundable). Please email your request to ashleyl@sandpebble.com. The printed set or flash drive register and download will be sent via FedEx to the prospective Bidder once the Library receives the non-refundable business check, in document. the amount listed above. Please deliver checks to the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library, Attn: Business • Questions must be Office, 407 William Floyd Parkway, Shirley, NY 11967 from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM daily except Saturdays, Sundays, submitted in writing to the following e-mail: and Holidays. A Bid security in the amount of 5% of the base Bid (for Bid Bond), or 5% of the base Bid maximum of $5,000 (for Bid P u r c h a s i n g G r o u p @ brookhavenny.gov security provided by check) is required. Each Bidder must indicate the segment(s) of the contract that will be completed by the Bidder itself and which segment(s) by subcontractors. Only the registered Bidder will be permitted to submit a Bid. A Bid may be rejected The Town of Brookhaven in the interest of the Owner based on the extent of proposed delegation of the performance of the contract to reserves the right to subcontractors and/or based on the level of qualification and experience of the Bidder or proposed subcontractors. reject and declare invalid Sealed Bids will be received from registered Bidders at the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library, 407 any or all bids and to William Floyd Parkway, Shirley, NY 11967, no later than 12:00 PM on the 23rd day of June 2021, and then waive any informalities publicly opened and read aloud via Zoom Conference call at 1:00 PM on the same day. Each Bidder will receive or irregularities in the a link and password to the email address provided on the Bidder Registration Card after the Bid is received. The proposals received, all in Contract Number must be clearly marked at the right-hand lower corner of the Bid envelope. Any Bids received the best interests of the Town. later than the prescribed date and hour will be rejected. The Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library Board of Trustees’ reserves the right to reject any or all Bids submitted in the best interests of the Owner and to waive any informality in any Bid and shall further make awards The Town of Brookhaven in any manner it deems advisable in the best interests of the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library. The welcomes and encourages successful Bidder shall be required to execute a formal contract with the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community minority and womenowned businesses and Library. HUD Section 3 businesses Each Bidder shall agree to hold its Bid price for forty-five (45) days after the formal Bid opening. to participate in the BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES bidding process. MASTICS MORICHES SHIRLEY COMMUNITY LIBRARY KERRI ROSALIA, DIRECTOR Town of Brookhaven Dated: April 26, 2021 Purchasing Division Kathleen C. 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L13355 – 6/9/2021 REFEREE’S NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., Plaintiff - against - ANNE M. MOYLAN A/K/A ANNE M. FINN, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on November 14, 2019. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY 11738 on the 7th day of July, 2021 at 9:00 AM. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk, State of New York. Premises known as 325 Dunton Avenue, Patchogue, New York 11772 a/k/a 325 N. Dunton Avenue, East Patchogue, New York 11772. (District: 0200, Section: 977.90, Block: 03.00, Lot: 005.001) Approximate amount of lien $268,917.00 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 620756/2017. Brian T. Egan, Esq., Referee. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 840 New York, NY 10170 Tel. 347/286-7409 For sale information, please visit Auction.com at www.Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832 Dated: April 19, 2021 During the COVID-19 health emergency, bidders are required to comply with all governmental health requirements in effect
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at the time of sale including but not limited to, wearing face coverings and maintaining social distancing (at least 6-feet apart) during the auction, while tendering deposit and at any subsequent closing. Bidders are also required to comply with the Foreclosure Auction Rules and COVID-19 Health Emergency Rules issued by the Supreme Court of this County in addition to the conditions set forth in the Terms of Sale. L13356 – 6/9/2021, 6/16/2021, 6/23/2021 & 6/30/2021 NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed Bids will be received, publicly opened and read aloud at 11:00 a.m. in the Town Hall Lobby of the Town of Brookhaven, One Independence Hill, Third Floor, Farmingville, NY 11738, for the following item(s) on the dates indicated: BID #21033 – PLUMBING SUPPLIES - REBID-------------------JUNE 18, 2021 BID #21032 – LANDFILL LEACHATE SYSTEM ELECTRICAL AND M E C H A N I C A L COMPONENTS, ON-CALL EQUIPMENT CONTRACT--------------------------JUNE 24, 2021 Specifications for the above-referenced bids will be available beginning June 10, 2021. Preferred Method • Access website: brookhavenNY.gov/ Purchasing: click on link for Bids. • Follow directions to register and download document. • Questions must be submitted in writing to the following e-mail: PurchasingGroup@ brookhavenny.gov
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The Town of Brookhaven reserves the right to reject and declare invalid any or all bids and to waive any informalities or irregularities in the proposals received, all in the best interests of the Town. The Town of Brookhaven welcomes and encourages minorities and women-owned businesses and HUD Section 3 businesses to participate in the bidding process. Further information can be obtained by calling (631) 451-6252 Kathleen C. Koppenhoefer Deputy Commissioner TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN
L13362 – 6/9/2021 TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN SUFFOLK COUNTY, NY NOTICE TO BIDDERS Bids will be received and publicly opened and read aloud in the Town of Brookhaven Town Hall Lobby located at the Brookhaven Town Office Complex, One Independence Hill, Farmingville, New York, 11738, 3rd Floor, for the following project on the date as indicated at 11:00 am: DATE: JUNE 24, 2021 BID #21026
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The Town of Brookhaven reserves the right to reject and declare invalid any or all bids and to waive any informalities or irregularities in the Specifications for the proposals received, all in above-referenced bid will the best interests of the be available beginning June Town. 10, 2021. Preferred Method The Town of Brookhaven • Access website: welcomes and encourages b r o o k h a v e n N Y . g o v / minority and womenPurchasing: click on link owned businesses and HUD Section 3 businesses for Bids. • Follow directions to to participate in the register and download bidding process. document. • Questions must be Town of Brookhaven submitted in writing to the Purchasing Division Kathleen C. Koppenhoefer, following e-mail:
Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library Mastic Beach Annex Electrical NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library hereby invites the submission of sealed Bids for the following work: CONTRACT: 16-16.200 Electrical Bid packages will be available in three different manners as follows: Bid packages will be available electronically, (beginning June 10, 2021 at 9 AM). Prospective Bidders to email a request to register to Ashley Lester, Assistant Project Manager at ashleyl@sandpebble.com. Once a completed Bidder registration card is received, each prospective Bidder will receive a Sharefile link to the Bid documents to the email address cited on the Bidder registration card. Upon request prospective bidders may receive a full printed set of Bid documents printed ($150 nonrefundable) or flash drive ($20 nonrefundable). Please email your request to ashleyl@sandpebble.com. The printed set or flash drive will be sent via FedEx to the prospective Bidder once the Library receives the non-refundable business check, in the amount listed above. Please deliver checks to the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library, Attn: Business Office, 407 William Floyd Parkway, Shirley, NY 11967 from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM daily except Saturdays, Sundays, and Holidays. A Bid security in the amount of 5% of the base Bid (for Bid Bond), or 5% of the base Bid maximum of $5,000 (for Bid security provided by check) is required. Each Bidder must indicate the segment(s) of the contract that will be completed by the Bidder itself and which segment(s) by subcontractors. Only the registered Bidder will be permitted to submit a Bid. A Bid may be rejected in the interest of the Owner based on the extent of proposed delegation of the performance of the contract to subcontractors and/or based on the level of qualification and experience of the Bidder or proposed subcontractors. Sealed Bids will be received from registered Bidders at the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library, 407 William Floyd Parkway, Shirley, NY 11967, no later than 12:00 PM on the 23rd day of June 2021, and then publicly opened and read aloud via Zoom Conference call at 1:00 PM on the same day. Each Bidder will receive a link and password to the email address provided on the Bidder Registration Card after the Bid is received. The Contract Number must be clearly marked at the right-hand lower corner of the Bid envelope. Any Bids received later than the prescribed date and hour will be rejected. The Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library Board of Trustees’ reserves the right to reject any or all Bids submitted in the best interests of the Owner and to waive any informality in any Bid and shall further make awards in any manner it deems advisable in the best interests of the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library. The successful Bidder shall be required to execute a formal contract with the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library. Each Bidder shall agree to hold its Bid price for forty-five (45) days after the formal Bid opening. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MASTICS MORICHES SHIRLEY COMMUNITY LIBRARY KERRI ROSALIA, DIRECTOR Dated: April 26, 2021 L13361 – 6/9/2021
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the Town Board of the Town of Brookhaven, and streamed live over the internet at brookhavenny. gov/meeting on June 24, 2021, at 2:30 pm, to consider enacting the following proposed Introductory Local Law: Introductory Local Law Number 9 of 2021 An Introductory Local Law Amending Chapter 85 Entitled “Zoning” by Amending Section 85-1 “Definitions” and Section 85-190 “A Residence District” of the Town Code of the Town of Brookhaven.
Notice is hereby given that in accordance with Town Law Section 181b (1) and pursuant to General Municipal Law Section 35, (2a) the fiscal affairs of the Mastic Beach Fire District in the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, for the period beginning on January 1, 2020 and ending on December 31, 2002, have been examined by an Independent Certified Public Accounting firm of Craig, Fitzsimmons & SUMMARY Meyer, LLP – Smithtown, This local law is intended NY. A copy of their independent audit report has been filed with New York Office of the State Comptroller where it is available as a public record for inspection by all interested persons. In accordance with Town Law Section 181-b(4) the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Mastic Beach Fire District in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk, State of New York, has prepared a written corrective action plan in response to the management letter issued as a result of the above referenced independent audit. This corrective action plan is available for inspection by all interested persons at the Mastic Beach Fire District Office 265 Neighborhood Road, Mastic Beach, New York 11951. L13365 – 6/9/2021 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 20(5) of the Municipal Home Rules Law, a public hearing will be held by the Town Board of the Town of Brookhaven in the Town Auditorium at Independence Hill, Second Floor, Farmingville, New York or a virtual public hearing will be held by
to codify the requirements for pool houses and cabanas as customary accessory structures to private swimming pools in residential districts. This is a summary of the proposed Local Law, a full copy of which is available virtually at brookhavenny. gov/731/Town-Notices. At said public hearing any persons interested shall be given the opportunity to be heard. Donna Lent Town Clerk, Town of Brookhaven Dated: May 13, 2021 Farmingville, New York L13363 – 6/9/2021
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