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School Board budget presented, trustee dissention aired over hire Page A3

Supervisor Mark Lesko refl ects on 14 months, misses aspects of fed jobPage A5

Saga of proposed SBU hotel takes a few more turns, lawsuit proceedsPages A6 & A7

WMHS sophomore wins all-expenses-paid trip to Germany this summerPage A8

India just one stop on sojournThree Village native has spent last several years wandering around the globe

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Setauket recording artist Deirdre Leigh Taylor, a Ward Melville High School sophomore, opened the New York Police Boxing Championships on May 7 with her inspiring rendition of the national anthem. Hosted by SCPD Boxing and Heavy Hitters Boxing and Fitness of Bohemia, the Suffolk County Police Department took on the NYPD for a night of bouts

between some of New York’s best amateur police boxers. Held in the Sheraton Grand Ballroom in Smithtown, the charity event was sanctioned by USA Boxing. Taylor was invited

back to open the June 18 event, SCPD vs. NYFD, at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood. For tickets go to scpdboxing.com. Photo by Alyssa Cutler

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Mr. and Mrs. Swan introduced their family to friends and neighbors this week alongside the Setauket Mill Pond at Frank Melville Memorial Park in Setauket. The annual debut is anxiously anticipated by many Three Villagers who patiently watch the cygnets grow.

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BY LEE [email protected]

Th e Th ree Village school trustees faced a room full of unhappy teachers Tuesday at the last board meeting be-fore the budget vote next week.

Not only did the administration lay out details of a proposed budget that includes 38 layoff s — including many teachers — but the trustees apparently were planning to meet in executive session the next night to interview candidates for another assistant su-perintendent position.

Assistant Superintendent for Busi-ness Jeff Carlson narrated a slide pre-sentation highlighting the months-long budget process, the $167,112,686 spending plan adopted by the Board of Education and consequences of a contingency budget should the voters reject the trustees’ proposal.

By adjusting start times at some schools in the district and the elimi-nation of the split schedule at Ward Melville High School, Carlson said $760,000 could be saved in utilizing 15 fewer buses for transportation. He said 38.625 full-time equivalent positions would be cut, including “teachers, ad-ministrators, clerical, custodial and security.” Carlson displayed a slide

In board budget review, warning of larger tax increase, dissention over hiringAdopted v. contingency debated3V Soccer Club Mini Cup

Th is family friendly event is an annual tournament for our youth soccer club. It is a fun fi lled day with infl atable bouncers, food and soccer. Come show support for your local soccer club.

Th e event will be Sunday, May 16, from 11 am to 4 pm. Sponsor tables are avail-able. For more information, contact Jason Witover at 987-4426.

Indigenous plantingOn Brookhaven Plant-In Day, on Sat-

urday, May 15, the Th ree Village Com-munity Trust will sponsor a presentation, Using Native Plants in Your Landscap-ing, at 10 am at Poquott Village Hall. Th e speaker, Laura Schwanof, is a landscape architect and vice president of Energy and Environmental Analysts, Inc. of Stony Brook.

Using only indigenous plants, Schwanof developed the landscape design for the Stephen D. Matthews Nature Pre-serve, between the Village of Poquott and the Port Jeff erson power plant. Following the presentation, the Trust will be plant-ing seedlings in the preserve. For more, call Kathy Matthews 473-0607.

The week in meetings• Th e Brookhaven Town Board will meet at 5 pm on Tuesday, May 18, at Brookhaven Town Hall in Farmingville.

School Board President David Micklos is not running for a third term on Tuesday, May 18. First elect-ed in 2004, Micklos emailed to Th e Village Times Herald that the task is “very time consuming” and he de-cided to devote more time to family and “my career as a science educa-tor.” Micklos works at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Micklos said he helped tighten fi s-cal controls and improve the physical plant of the district while in offi ce.

“Having been chairman of the facilities committee over the last six years,” Micklos wrote, “I feel great satisfaction when I sit in the bleach-ers at a sporting event at Ward Mel-

ville and look over the turf fi elds to the new science labs, music rooms, and fi tness center.”

“It is time that everyone in the district look inward to the district’s intellectual infrastructure,” he con-tinued. “Much of what we currently do in the district is based on the ‘re-ceived’ wisdom of how we have done things in the past. I don’t think this will work very well in the future. … we are in competition with countries big and small who are devoted to new kinds of education. In Th ree Village, we need to make room for new ways of teaching and, especially, of mak-ing students collaborators in the ed-ucational process.” — LEE LUTZ

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A manager of an establishment on Ne-sconset Highway in Stony Brook called at 6:34 pm April 26 to report needing as-sistance regarding a possibly intoxicated male subject currently locked inside the women’s restroom and screaming for help. Police arrived and assisted in re-solving the issue.

AssaultA complainant

called at 10:15 pm April 30 from the parking lot of a movie theater on Nesconset Highway in Stony Brook to report just being assaulted by a group of 15 youths at that location.

Grand larceny Th e manager of a marina on Shore

Road in East Setauket called at 5 pm April 29 to report fi nding three kayaks had been stolen from his boatyard by unknown persons sometime over the past three months.

A male resident of Stony Brook Road in Stony Brook called at 2:30 am May 5 to report discovering his shotgun had been stolen from his home in a larceny occurring a few hours earlier.

Petit larceny A male resident of Sycamore Circle in

Stony Brook called at 7 am May 2 to re-port his backyard shed was burglarized the night before and various items were now missing from the structure.

Criminal mischief A female resident of Pond Path in

Setauket called at 6:30 pm April 29 to report an unknown person had just in-tentionally damaged her vehicle parked outside of the house.

Wet dog — animal cruelty?A resident of Settlers Way in Setauket

called at 1:48 pm April 26 to report a case of possible animal cruelty involving

a neighbor’s dog allegedly left chained toa tree for a number of hours in the rain.

Dangerous gameAn anonymous complainant called

at 2:45 pm April 28 to report a group ofteenagers milling around on Main Street in Setauket “playing chicken” with vehi-cles while standing in middle of the road

and narrowly missing being hit by passing cars. Police arrivedand found the miscre-ants had already dis-persed.

Impatient patientAn offi cial at Stony

Brook University Hos-pital called at 6 pm May 1 to report a pa-tient just ran from the hospital — against medical advice — with the IV drip still attached to his arm. Police respondedand attempted to locate the impetuouspatient to no avail.

ArrestsA 28-year-old female resident of Ar-

rowhead Lane in East Setauket was ar-rested May 2 following a police stop ofher vehicle on Main Street in Port Jeff er-son and charged with operating a motorvehicle while intoxicated. Police statedthis was the defendant’s fi rst off ense.

A 53-year-old female living on Man-chester Lane in Stony Brook was arrestedApril 30 at the Sixth Precinct in Seldenand charged with reckless endanger-ment. Police stated the defendant, whileoperating a motor vehicle, allegedly ac-celerated her car in the direction of an-other automobile causing the operatorof that car to swerve sharply in order toavoid a collision.

A 44-year-old male resident of Stony Brook Road in Stony Brook was arrestedApril 29 at the incident scene on MarionAvenue in Stony Brook and charged with criminal mischief with intent to damage property. Police reported the defendant intentionally damaged the door of anoth-er person’s vehicle at the arrest location.

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Lesko looks back, and ahead, 14 months into job


Mark Lesko assumed the of-fi ce of Brookhaven Town super-visor following a special election in March 2009. In the 14 months since the former federal prosecu-tor and neophyte politician has formed a governing majority and won election to a full term at Town Hall.

Last week he looked back — and ahead — at Brookhaven in an exclusive interview with TBR Newspapers.

Lesko said he sees “some small signs of recovery” in the local economy. He reported a recent “slight uptick” in mortgage tax receipts but warned banks are still “very cautious” in lending.

“Financing is still slow even on fast-track applications,” Les-

ko said. Th e supervisor has di-rected the Planning and Build-ing departments to expedite key development and redevelop-ment applications to spur eco-nomic development and jobs in Brookhaven, but results remain sketchy, in part due to fi nancing limitations, according to Lesko.

Lesko said the town’s bond rating remains solid and the like-lihood of town property tax in-creases is small. “Given the mag-nitude of the problem, taxes are not the answer,” he said, noting only 14 percent of the town’s rev-enue comes from property taxes.

Soon aft er taking offi ce Dem-ocrat Lesko convinced Council-woman Kathy Walsh (R-Cen-tereach) to accept a position as his deputy supervisor. Th e GOP elected offi cial has consistently

voted with the three Democrats on the Town Board since, cre-ating a working majority for Lesko. Asked if the coalition is solid, Lesko replied with a fi rm “Yes.” He noted the “inherent tension between this offi ce and the board,” although he said he has worked to reduce that fric-tion. Also, “individual members get tunnel vision sometimes” when representing their home districts, Lesko said, while the supervisor must seek what is best for the whole township.

“We had two near-misses last year,” Lesko said of the 2009 hur-ricane season. “Th at concerns me. It’s one reason we hired an emergency management direc-tor.” He said the town’s role is largely cleanup aft er the storm — debris in the roadways and downed trees — noting Suff olk County has fi rst responsibility for individuals’ safety and prop-erty protection.

Back to politics, Lesko was asked if he had any future inter-est in the county executive posi-tion. Not ruling out any offi ce, he replied, “If I do a good job in this position, who knows what happens in the future.”

He said he “takes a day off

now and then,” partially at the request of his wife Karen. Th e East Setauket resident said they sometimes take a day to visit Karen’s family on the East End. Lesko, 43, said he “likes to read” and has been going to the gym “four or fi ve days a week” to keep in shape. Asked if he is a worka-

holic, Lesko replied, “People say Ilove my job.”

Th e supervisor was asked if he would do anything diff erent if he could change the past. His reply: “Not so much diff erent but, on theheels of the special election [there was a] brief interlude, then,” he

I miss ‘moments when I would stand up in court and say, “I represent the United States,” and get a chill up my spine.’

— BROOKHAVEN SUPERVISOR MARK LESKO

Five Quick Q’s:Town hurricane-ready? ‘I hope we are ready.’Majority coalition solid? ‘Yes.’Get many days off ? ‘Not many,’ but, ‘I love the job.’Workaholic? ‘People say I love my job.’Regrets? ‘… lapsed into partisanship.’

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A rendering of the proposed hotel planned for the Stony Brook University campus included in the Environmental Assessment document released by SBU on April 19.

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An environmental assessment study commissionedby Stony Brook University has found construction of a hotel on campus will have little adverse eff ect. Pre-dictably, opponents of the plan to build a 135-room,fi ve-story structure off Nicolls Road disagree. In themeantime a lawsuit fi led by some of those opponents is winding its way through the courts (see accompanyingstory).

Th e 83-page report — plus appendices — was is-sued April 19 and posted soon aft er on the SBU websiteat: www.stonybrook.edu/sb/campushotel/assessment.shtml. Th e report notes that the project would disturb a “relatively small” 3.6 acres of the 11-acre site on the southwest corner of Nicolls Road and the university’s main entrance. Th e proposed facility would stand about 60 feet high and include a “restaurant (80 seats), 30-seat bar/lounge area, indoor swimming pool/sauna area,5,000 square feet of meeting space” and 161 parkingspaces would be provided.

Th e report said a “vegetat-ed buff er in excess of 160 feet” would be maintained along Nicolls Road and a minimum 80-foot buff er “between the hotel parking area and En-trance Drive” would remain undisturbed. It predicted “37 full-time equivalent jobs” would be created along with about 100 construction jobs as the hotel is built.

Th e EA study utilized photo simulations to demon-strate the lack of visual impact the 5-story hotel wouldhave from Nicolls Road, although stating the impact would be greater in the winter months when leaves wereoff the trees in the buff er area. However a 30-feet wideutility access will be cleared from Nicolls Road to thehotel to accommodate water, electricity, gas and sewer connections to the building. A raised berm planted with shrubs installed near Nicolls Road would screen

the development from driversand pedestrians on the countyroad, the report states.

Curiously, the report is-sued last month said a “walk-over of the project parcelwas performed in July 2005.”Although the legislative au-thority to build a hotel at thesite was approved by Albany back in 1986, the decision toproceed was only revealedby then-new SBU President

Dr. Samuel Stanley in October 2009.Th e study also revealed the Suff olk County Water

Authority “is working with the University” to provide“additional facilities” to serve the hotel. It reiterated statements from SBU and SUNY that the developer is“obliged to make PILOT payments to the local taxing authorities,” specifi cally mentioning the Setauket Fire District, which will be required to provide protectionfor the hotel and its occupants. SFD commissioners have previously stated protecting the campus with itsdormitories, classrooms, hospital and related facilitiesis already straining its limited resources.

Th e report said the proposed Hilton Garden Inn would generate a maximum of 52 inbound and 48 out-bound vehicle trips during peak hour AM or PM pe-riods. Th erefore, “the proposed project would not beresponsible for further notable deterioration of traffi cconditions.”

Malcolm Bowman, a professor at SBU and plaintiff

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George Locker of Manhattan is the attorney for the hotel opponents — who have stated their opposition to the proposed location of the facility, not its construction somewhere else on campus — in the case of Stony Brook Environmental Conservancy, Inc., Michelle Pizer, and Muriel Weyl v. State University of New York. Associate Counsel for SUNY Lynette Phillips is representing the state in its defense before Justice Marylin Diamond in State Supreme Court in New York County (Manhattan). Th e parties held a conference March 31 following a mo-tion to dismiss fi led by Phillips. Locker’s response was due to be presented to the court by April 26 and oral arguments were heard this Tuesday.

According to Locker, “no facts are in dispute” in Phil-lips’ motion and her request that the case be moved to Suff olk County should be denied by the judge. He also labeled as “a most extraor-dinary statement” a claim made in the Phillips motion.

Apparently acknowl-edging the 1986 legislation would void any lease agree-ment with a hotel developer if PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) payments were not

made prior to a prescribed date, Phillips wrote in her motion: “However, to date, no PILOT payments have been assessed by any taxing authority.” By defi nition, Locker said, PILOT payments are not assessed, but instead paid to municipalities under negotiated agree-ments. Phillips statement was “almost shocking” to me, Locker said.

Brookhaven Town Assessor Jim Ryan confi rmed that PILOTs are “contractural payments generally made by somebody who would otherwise be tax exempt.”

Attempts to reach Phillips through SUNY have been unsuccessful.

Following Tuesday’s court appearance, Locker said Justice Diamond “has all the papers in front of her.” Th e judge has 60 days to render a decision, although Locker added that the limitation may be extended. “Th e restraining order remains in eff ect,” Locker said, which prohibits SUNY from disturbing the 11 acres in question until the judge issues her decision.

Hearings and motions get nowhere fast in lawsuit… but court fi ght continues

Hotel environmental reportContinued from page A6

Nicolls Road

The site plan included in the environmental assessment report shows the proposed hotel site on the southwest corner of Nicolls Road and SBU’s main West Campus entrance. A 160-foot buff er is labeled from Nicolls Road to the limit of clearing for the site. The ‘Utility Corridor’ would include a planted berm near Nicolls Road to shield the hotel visually from traffi c, according to the report. A spokesperson for SBU said the site plan and rendering were still preliminary.

Courtesy SBU

in the lawsuit challenging SUNY’s right to proceed with the construction on the Nicolls Road site, said the re-port was “well prepared” but cautioned it was commis-sioned by SUNY. “It’s like the fox guarding the chicken coop,” Bowman said. He added opponents would in-sist on a public hearing during the State Environmen-tal Quality Review Act process to air all sides of the controversy. In an email to TBR Newspapers, he said, “NYS case law involving SEQRA regulations require that [environmental impact statements] be prepared BEFORE ground leases are approved; Th at would have been in 1989.”

Regarding the remaining undisturbed area between Nicolls Road and the hotel, Bowman said the photo simulations are fl awed. Th e hotel, according to the re-port, would stand about 60 feet high but “the trees are not 60 feet tall.” Th e rendering included in the report clearly depicts trees taller than the structure.

‘No facts are in dispute.’ ... A claim in SUNY’s response is ‘a most extraordinary statement.’

— GEORGE LOCKER, ATTORNEY FOR

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BY LISA [email protected]

Constanza Arevalo, 16, of Setauket has been selected for an all-expense-paid trip to Germany, beating out 22 Long Is-land competitors for the prize.

Th e sophomore from Ward Melville High School, who not only speaks fl uent German but Spanish as well, fi nished in the 90th percentile nationwide on a writ-ten German exam. Th e American As-sociation of Teachers of German awards the study trip. Arevalo was one of 39 stu-dents nationwide chosen to study in Ger-many for three weeks this summer.

“Th is is a great accomplishment for her,” said Michele Aweh, Long Island AATG chapter president and German teacher at Ward Melville High School.

Aft er placing in the top 10 percent on the national written exam, students are administered an oral exam by local pro-fessors. Th is year, professors participated from Hofstra and Adelphi universities. “Th ey shoot questions at students in German, and then determine how fl uent they are in their responses,” Aweh said. Other requirements included writing a letter to the host family and provid-ing a recommendation letter from their

WM soph wins 3-week summer trip to Germanyteacher. A student of Aweh’s in the seventh grade and again in the tenth grade, Arevalo has shown tremendous strength in German.

“She likes to study, but she is not fanatical about it,” said her mom, Claudia Arevalo. Originally from Chili, the family moved to the United States when Constanza was 5 years old. Claudia Arevalo also studied German as a young girl, as well as Italian.

“I speak Spanish in the home so that the children don’t lose it,” Claudia Arevalo said. Since her mother was Chilean-Italian, Claudia hasbeen exposed to English, Spanish, German and Italian.“My father loved German music and the family becamecrazy about German because of the music,” she said.

Constanza Arevalo will not only study the languageduring her trip to Germany but experience the cultureas well.

“I’ll be going to school with the host families’ chil-dren, half the day studying in American and half the daystudying in German,” Arevalo said. Finishing up tenthgrade, Arevalo admits, “It’s been hard getting up earlierand there is a lot of work.” As for her future plans, “I’d like to pursue a career in science and continue to study

German.”According to a 2006 survey by

the Modern Language Association, “While the study of the most popu-lar languages, Spanish, French andGerman, continues to grow and to-gether represents more than 70 per-

cent of language enrollments, their dominance is slowlydecreasing in the face of growing interest in languages such as Arabic (up 127 percent), Chinese (up 51 percent)and Korean (up 37 percent). Enrollments in American Sign Language increased nearly 30 percent from 2002,making it the fourth most studied language on college campuses, slightly ahead of Italian.” Of particular in-terest for some parents at Ward Melville High Schoolis saving its American Sign Language program. Due toexpected budget cuts, the program is in jeopardy in thenext school year.

Besides the German Club at Ward Melville, Arevalo isin the newspaper club, where she contributes research for stories published in the school paper. “Being a reporterfor the paper is fun, I love to write,” Arevalo said.

A member of the choir at Sts. Philip and James Churchin St. James, Arevalo also serves as an altar girl, yet stillmakes time for her family.

“My family was extremely excited for me. No onecould believe I won something so big,” Arevalo said. Th e oldest of four, Arevalo has already set the bar high forher siblings.

Courtesy Claudia ArevaloConstanza Arevalo of Setauket.

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But Lesko then suggested a new model where the twoparties would “work together for a year and a half andthen take the gloves off ” every other year a few months before Election Day.

Lesko said he missed two elements of his previous ser-vice in the federal prosecutor’s offi ce. One is “the pace of progress.”

“You knew when you were successful — you won thetrial. I’m impatient,” he added, “trying to pick up the pace”of progress in Brookhaven. Second, Lesko said, he misses“moments when I would stand up in court and say, ‘I rep-resent the United States,’ and get a chill up my spine.”

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Eight countries in two and a half years — that’s been the life of Setauket native Barbara Jean D’Amico since Au-gust 2007.

D’Amico, 42, spent 13 years in the furniture business in Cali-fornia before deciding to quit her job in May 2007 to travel around Asia. Recalling her fi rst trip over-seas to Lamu, Kenya, in her 20s, D’Amico said she set her eyes on Asia and began her second jour-ney at the age of 40 because she thought, “If I don’t do this now, I’m never going to do it.”

Since landing in Asia two and a half years ago, D’Amico has visited eight countries includ-ing Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia and Nepal. Currently in Kashmir, India, the Setauket native said she spends most of her time sightseeing, interact-ing with local residents and do-ing research about the country’s political and fi nancial situation. Th e locals oft en approach her to learn conversational English, she added, because foreigners are “somewhat of a novelty.”

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Having traveled through many third world countries, D’Amico said she has witnessed

corruption “on a whole diff erent level.” However, she added, she is greeted with “big smiles” and treated with “complete trust” on a daily basis. “I don’t feel threat-ened,” she said, noting that she was “more afraid of going into a parking lot in the dark in Santa Monica than traveling around the world.”

Since new travel laws in In-dia require visitors to leave the country for at least two months aft er a six-month stay, D’Amico said she will return to the United States in June and spend time with her mother, Alice, who has resided in Setauket for the past 50 years. Recalling D’Amico’s love of fast roller coasters, Al-ice said her daughter has always been an “adventuresome and cu-rious” risk-taker.

“I’m happy for her that she is enjoying this adventure,” Al-ice D’Amico said, adding that she can “cope with” not having her daughter around thanks to Skype, a free service that al-lows users to make video and voice calls over the internet. Th e interview for this story was conducted via Skype. Th e long-time Setauket resident, active in Th ree Village civic endeavors,

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Adrian Gozar, an associate scientist in BNL’s Condensed Matter Physics & Mate-rials Science Department, and three uni-versity scientists who use BNL’s facilities, including Marivi Fernandez-Serra, have been chosen to receive fi ve-year research grants under the DOE Early Career Re-search Program. Th e pair are among 69 researchers from across the nation who will receive up to $85 million in fund-ing under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Th e new program is designed to bolster the nation’s scientifi c workforce by providing support to ex-ceptional researchers during their crucial early years, when many scientists do their most formative work.

Under the program, university-based researchers will receive at least $150,000 per year to cover summer salary and re-search expenses. For researchers based at DOE national laboratories, grants will be at least $500,000 per year to cover year-round salary plus research expenses.

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correlated electronic systems whichare on the brink of several competinginstabilities, or phases.

Gozar earned a B.S. and M.S. in phys-ics from the University of Bucharest, Ro-mania, in 1997 and 1998, respectively, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004.He joined BNL in 2004, became an as-sistant scientist in 2007 and an associate scientist in 2009.

Fernandez-Serra, an assistant profes-sor in the Physics & Astronomy Depart-ment at Stony Brook University, uses New York Blue, a supercomputer that isthe centerpiece of the Brookhaven/SBU-led New York Center for ComputationalSciences, and a computer cluster at the Center for Functional Nanomateri-als for her research on electrochemical interfaces.

Aft er earning a B.S. and M.S. in phys-ics and condensed matter physics in 1999 and 2001, respectively, from UniversidadAutónoma de Madrid, Spain, Fernandez-Serra earned a Ph.D. in physics in 2004from Cambridge University. She joinedSBU as an assistant professor in 2008.

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Th e Gelinas team, along with the Sci-ence Olympiad team from R.C. Murphy Junior High School competed against students from across the state on May 1 at SUNY New

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Th e top two teams, Gelinas and Syra-cuse area’s Eagle Hill Middle School, advance to the national contest; Murphy JHS placed third.

Th e Gelinas team will be joined by the Ward Melville High School team at the national tournament. Ward Melville placed second in the state at the high school division tournament held at West Point last March. Th e teams are looking forward to traveling together to Illinois.

Gelinas has been the Eastern Long Is-land champion for the past 10 years and was the New York State champion from 2006 to 2008. Last year, Gelinas placed second to rival Eagle Hill in the state competition. Th e two schools will face each other again in Illinois.

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Murphy JHS team wins $1,000 at Science Bowl in D.C.

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Pet advocates asked county lawmakers Tuesday to consider a ban on puppy retail sales in Suff olk.

Around a dozen primarily North Shore residents — many associated with the Save-A-Pet rescue shelter in Port Jeff erson Station — said nonrescue puppy retailers largely draw their stock from so-called puppy mills. Critics say mills confi ne breeding dogs in horrifi c conditions and subject their off spring to lifelong medical problems stemming from in-breeding, in-creasing the chances the pets will be aban-doned by unsuspecting owners unwilling to pay large veterinary costs.

Legislature Majority Leader Jon Coo-per (D-Lloyd Harbor) provided almost immediate gratifi cation to the protestors Tuesday, producing copies of potential legislation to ban puppy retail in Suff olk. Cooper said he’s been eyeing the move for about a year, ever since alerted to the widespread use of puppy mills by his sis-ter, a wildlife rehabilitator.

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Advocates acknowledged that passing a ban would be a struggle, as the puppyretail industry would certainly mobilize against a measure that would put themout of business.

To make pet dog sale feasible, storesalmost necessarily rely on puppy mills,which can provide puppies for $100 to$200 apiece that shops will sell for thou-sands, according to Save-A-Pet President Dori Scofi eld and Executive Director Lynne Schoepfer. Indeed, 99 percent ofpuppies sold in stores come from mills, according to the ASPCA.

Th e breeding dogs left at mills oft en livetheir entire lives confi ned in cages, with sawdust mixed into their food as fi ller to keep costs down, and with “metal rodsrammed down their throats to stop themfrom barking,” Schoepfer told lawmakers. Patrons of puppy stores “play a role in the pain and suff ering of the dogs,” she said.

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It’s school budget time, and wrath is in the air. Politi-cians are raging, taxpayers fuming, students protesting.

Th e frustration is easy to understand. School bud-get votes in our region are a lose-lose proposition. Vote against the budget, and the ones we hurt are the children. Vote in favor, and we perpetuate the ruinous tax spiral that is devastating families and crippling our economy.

People are certain that “there must be places we can cut.” But individual local school budgets are the wrong places to look. For the most part, when you cut a district budget, you curtail some service.

Th e real economies are not to be found district by district. If we want to save big money, we need a bigger view. And there’s a bonus. Systemic changes not only save money, they improve educational outcomes at the same time. Sound impossible? Consider three examples.

Regional high schools for the gift ed and talented: Th ink of New York’s Stuyvesant High School or Bronx Science. Th ey off er peerless educational op-portunity to top-performing children from across the city.

Some LI districts off er sim-ilarly exceptional programs. Witness the astonishing pro-portion of Intel semi-fi nalists they produce — 20 percent of the nation’s total.

But zoom out and see the big picture. Small, expen-sive programs replicated one-by-one in a few dozen dis-tricts, drawing their talent only from a tiny minority of Long Island students. Does that make sense?

Imagine a bigger program that served all our kids. We’d get a lot more brains for our buck.

Interdistrict transfers: Failing schools waste both money and talent. So do empty seats. Why not solve both problems, by giving students in a failing school the option to transfer to a nearby district with vacant seats? Th e receiving school garners the state per-pupil educa-tion revenue, without a corresponding increase in cost. Th e transferring kids get the fair chance they are cur-rently denied: to go to schools with the full complement of resources, facilities and a culture that encourages stu-dents to reach their highest potential. And Long Island gets more engineers and entrepreneurs, fewer dropouts and social ills.

It’s not just theory. Transfer programs have been prov-ing themselves for decades from Boston to Beverly Hills.

Early childhood programs: Th is has got to be Ameri-ca’s most tragically wasteful blind spot. Aft er decades of scientifi c research, the critical importance of early child-hood development is now settled fact. We know that helping children in their formative years changes their entire life’s path, from better grades and graduation rates straight through to higher salaries, more home owner-ship, less welfare and less crime. And yet we continue to pay vast sums to deal with the results of learning prob-lems — remedial programs, special education, stay-in-school programs, incarceration — instead of attacking the problem at its source.

Here, too, other regions are far ahead of us. How did that happen? Are the big ideas too big for us — America’s premier suburb?

Can we rally and start to think as big as the next re-gion? Or will we just keep raging and fuming at each other, while other communities soar?

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But David Bloeman, manager at Th e Perfect Puppy in Stony Brook, said his storeat least does not patronize mills.

Th e fi rst shipment of dogs the store re-ceived when it opened in January was pur-chased through a broker who Th e Perfect Puppy later determined made use of mills,and the store immediately ceased doingbusiness with him, Bloeman said.

Th e ban is being pushed by members ofan organization who compete with him in selling dogs, the manager pointed out.

A better solution, Bloeman suggested, isfor organizations like Save-A-Pet to visit hisstore, see that the puppies don’t come frommills, and then work together — he said he would be amenable to helping rescue agen-cies fi nd homes for their animals.

Cooper said he has considered adding a caveat in the law allowing retailers thatproved their dogs were not from mills, but experts have told him that such a qualifi ca-tion would be too diffi cult to enforce. “Wecan try for the complete ban…,” he told theSave-A-Pet offi cials, “but it’s going to be tough.” Cooper said he thought he couldgain majority support for the measure.

HISTORY CLOSE AT HAND3V welcomes its fi rst minister, builds fi rst churchBY BEVERLY [email protected]

Th e Setauket Presbyterian Church is celebrating its 350th anniversary this year. As part of the year-long celebration, the church is holding a “Heritage Faire” on June 12.

Th e settlement at Setauket, begun in 1655, soon addressed the need for a minister as a part of the villagers’ lives. “At a Towne meeting the fi rst of Au-gust 1657 it was agreed upon that when the towne shall have Th irty ff ammilies then they willing to pay 60 pounds p yeare to the maintanance of a minnester.”

By May 12, 1662, the village must have grown to the necessary size, since on that date: “At a towne metting legal-ly called it was voted and agreed upon by the Towne that the towne would give Mr. william ffl echer ff ortie Pounds a yeare toward his maintaneance for the dispencing the word of god amongst them soe long as he resides amongst them performe-ing his function.” However there is no indication that William Fletcher ever came to Setauket.

Setauket’s fi rst minister was the Rev. Nathaniel Brewster, who arrived here in 1665. Rev. Brewster came with his second wife Sarah and his two sons, Timothy and Daniel. Timothy was born about 1660, the son of Nathaniel’s fi rst wife. Daniel was born about 1662 and was the son of Nathaniel and Sarah. All of Setauket’s colonial Brewsters are descended from Timothy and Daniel.

Tradition has it that Rev. Brewster preached his fi rst sermon from Patriot’s Rock, which was then part of the Village Green.

Th e ministers “sallerrey” was provided for “by an eguall rate ac-cording to lands and estates …” Th e fi rst mention of an amount was in Feb-ruary 1667 when “it is ordered that mr bruster shall have

fi ft y pounds pr anum.”Th ere was no meeting house

in 1665 and the minister’s house may have proven to be too small to hold meetings or services. Whatever the reason, the next year another house was planned for the minister. “May 29: 1666 -

at a towne meetting It was agreed upon and voeted that which is comanly called Scotts halle [Hall] shall be taken downe and sett up again in the towne for mr Bruster, the T exsepted.”

Th e home of the infamous John Scott was most likely a good sized structure considering the grandiose plans that Scott had before he fl ed Setauket. Scotts Hall was also the subject of later litigation by Scott’s wife and records indicate that it was a substantial home with “Kitching and Stable.”

Two years later some work was still being done on Rev. Brewster’s house. “9 day novem-ber 1668 being a training day the towne mett and then it was concluded and votted that sar-gent biggs is to oversee the doe-ing of mr (brusters) house and have full power given him to call men to wourk and to order them there work as he see cause …” Rev. Brewster’s house was used for meetings. “27 april, 1669 - Fines due for not atending upon the towne Cortt at mr brusters house held.” Th e names of fi ve residents were then listed.

It seems not only to have tak-en more than fi ve years to com-plete the fi rst meeting house but two years just to get construction started.

“Ye 2 Day. february 1671 - It

was this day agred and voeted that a Meeting House Shall be bult 28 foote Square.”

Th is was the fi rst meeting house in Brookhaven and it was constructed about where the Setauket Presbyterian Church stands today. Th e Meeting House was probably not completed un-til 1672.

On 23 May 1675 a mortgage taken by John Th ompson the blacksmith mentions his dwell-ing house, “lieing on the south side of the frame called the church frame.”

Th e Meeting House served many functions for the settlers of Setauket. It was a place of wor-ship, a town hall, a court, a meet-ing place for the community and at times a schoolhouse. Religion

and worship were an importantpart of the settlers’ lives and oneof their earliest considerations.

Rev. Nathaniel Brewster was the minister in Setauket untilabout 1685. He died in 1690. Hewas followed by Samuel Eburne and Dugald Simpson. A num-ber of others were invited tocome and preach but none ap-pear again in the town records.In 1697 Rev. George Phillipswas invited to come to Setauketand he served the community as its spiritual leader until his death in 1739. (To be continuedMay 27.)

Beverly Tyler is Th ree Vil-lage Historical Society historianand author of books availablefrom the society: 751-3730 orwww.tvhs.org.

Photo by Beverly Tyler

The Setauket Presbyterian Church opposite the village green.

indicating the recently negotiated teach-er-contract modifi cation would save $1.3 million in the 2010-11 school year bud-get. Carlson has previously told Th e Vil-lage Times Herald the $1.3 million sav-ings in the operating budget is created by drawing an equal amount from reserves instead.

By utilizing $1.76 million in reserves and fund balances, Carlson said the board was able to achieve a 3 percent tax rate increase for next year — the goal set by the trustees at the beginning of the budget process in January — despite a $4 million spending increase over the 2009-10 budget (see chart).

Carlson then outlined a contingen-cy budget for 2010-11 if the voters were to reject the school board’s plan. Total spending would be $1.66 million less due to additional layoff s, program reductions and reduced expenses. Carlson said at least two more elementary positions and three more secondary positions would be eliminated, plus summer reading and guidance programs, “secondary co-cur-ricular” and further cuts in various other programs.

However, off setting the additional cuts

would be added bond costs. “Th e increase in debt service does not come under the 0 percent” increase limit mandated by the fl at consumer price index, said Carlson. And he warned of a larger tax levy in-crease under a contingency plan.

“Because use of fund balance/reserves may be diff erent, the actual tax levy in-crease under a contingency budget would be as much as 3.48 percent,” read the slide Carlson projected on the screen. Th at larger increase, however, is based on the administration’s recommendation that fund balance and reserve funds not be used to off set the increased spending, as the trustees proposed in the adopted budget.

In a precursor to whatever budget is fi nally put in place for 2010-11, the board voted Tuesday night to eliminate fi ve clerk typist positions, four custodial posi-tions and one groundskeeper.

Voting for the 2010-11 budget and two seats on the school board will be Tuesday, May 18, from 6 am to 9 pm at the fi ve lo-cal elementary schools.

Dissention among trusteesTh e Th ree Village Board of Education

was reportedly meeting Wednesday eve-ning, aft er this newspaper’s deadline, to interview for an assistant superintendent for curriculum, an open position not

funded in the proposed 2010-11 budget being voted on next Tuesday.

Teachers from the podium and the back of the room voiced their objections to the potential hire at Tuesday’s trust-ees’ meeting at R.C. Murphy Junior High School. Dissention was apparent among board members as well.

Deeming this “cabinet-level” position to be “critical,” Trustee Glen Whitney re-sponded to the audience by stating that should someone be retained to fi ll the position the action would be taken in a “budget neutral manner.”

Board President David Micklos said if the board chooses to hire someone the cost would be off set by “reorganizing a middle level of administration.”

However Trustee John Diviney voiced his opposition to such a move.

“I don’t know why the board is going forward with this now,” Diviney said. Say-ing, “It is not the right time,” he opined that such an administrative change should not be done without the input of a permanent superintendent, which the board continues to seek while Don Web-ster serves as interim in that position. “I will oppose this,” said Diviney.

For his part, Webster said, “Th e rec-ommendation for an additional adminis-trator is not the recommendation of this administration.”

The Meeting House served many functions: a place of worship, a town hall, a court, a meeting place for the community and at times a schoolhouse.

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in money management is sorely needed since to my knowledge there isn’t anyone on the board or running for the board that’s an expert in money management.

Mr. Massimo has already begun exploring new ideas for generating rev-enues for the district because he knows alternate funding is a key solution to our fi nancial crises. He’s witnessing our state aid dwindling and the fi nancial collapse of New York State and knows we can’t continue depending on state aid to meet our contractual obligations. Mr. Mas-simo has pointed out that the board has pleaded before the state legislature and hired a lobbyist at a cost of $50,000 to obtain more state aid, however the result was a loss of over $4 million in state aid. Mr. Massimo is ready to serve the community to enhance the educational system while relieving the demanding tax burden on the community.

TVTA, Th ree Village Voices or any other special interest group does not support Mr. Massimo’s campaign. He is an independent candidate and is not infl uenced by special interest groups. He will put our children and community as his fi rst priority. You may contact him directly at 777-1030 or charlie@cjmfi scal.com to meet with him or discuss his affi liations, qualifi cations and vision.

I ask you to join me, other concerned

district families and taxpayers, and vote for Charles Massimo on May 18.

Frank McIntoshTVCSD Trustee

Trustee supports JKTO THE EDITOR:

I am writing to express my support for Jonathan Kornreich for the Board of Education. I have had the opportunity and pleasure to work with Jonathan on the board for several years now and his contributions to the board have made a huge positive impact to our district. Jonathan brings reasoned and compas-sionate analysis to the issues we face with an overriding concern for all of our stu-dents and continuing our successful pro-grams. He shares a vision of our district as a high quality educational institution for all of our students and understands what we are required to do to maintain and achieve that vision. I fully support Jonathan for another term as a member of the Th ree Village school board.

John Diviney, TrusteeStony Brook

Voter for JonathanTO THE EDITOR:

Committed to our children. Advocate for lowering our taxes. Hard working on our behalf. When I think of Jonathan Kornreich, these are the attributes that immediately come to mind. Starting

with the fi rst day I met Jonathan, I have continued to be impressed with his work ethic and with all the hard work he has done on behalf of our school district residents. For example, he has traveled to Albany to advocate for changing the tax structure in a way that would benefi t this district. He has come up with ideas to streamline district services, and works tirelessly to implement them. Th e list goes on and on.

I would urge all voters to vote with your best interests in mind. Vote for Jonathan Kornreich.

Jane CorrarinoPoquott

To those furloughedTO THE EDITOR:

Th is is an open letter to my fellow New York State employees:

As of today, it looks like the governor and state Legislature will follow through on the threatened furlough. Our unions will take appropriate actions but we, as individuals, have no control over what will happen. What we do have control over, and how we will be judged by ourselves, our colleagues and the public that we serve, is how we respond to this despicable act of irresponsibility.

We need to respond with dignity. Th at means reporting to work as directed by our agency administration, performing our jobs to the best of our abilities and treating everyone the way we want to be

treated. By doing this we maintain our honor and certainly demonstrate far more honorable behavior than those who proudly put “Th e Honorable” in front of their names.

My next comments are to those who will be exempted from the furlough legislation. Many are in supervisory or administrative positions. Please keep in mind that everyone who is furloughed will be hurt by this and many will suff er greatly. Do your best to make this situa-tion as tolerable as possible by exercising kindness, generosity and fl exibility in scheduling. You will reap the rewards of willing cooperation, respect and loyalty from those who report to you.

Finally, as state workers, we all are evaluated on an annual basis. In Novem-ber we get to evaluate our elected leaders. We can do ourselves the best service by being active politically and voting.

Michael BonventoStony Brook

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Learning & performing with jazz professionalsP.J. Gelinas and R.C. Murphy junior high schools jazz band students recently

participated in the schools’ fourth annual Jazz Nite, which was held in early Febru-ary and conducted by band teachers Mark Portugal and Todd Schievelbein. During the event, the students had the opportunity to participate in small group clinics alongside professional musicians highly profi cient on their instruments. Following the one-hour workshops, the students listened to the Black Tie Aff air Orchestra, under the direction of Ward Melville High School music teacher Th omas Manuel, and then joined the professional mentors on stage to perform three songs learned during the clinic sessions.

Th is annual event was created in order for the students to experience the jazz idiom in a noncompetitive environment, while providing an atmosphere of concen-trated eff orts on jazz performance.

Courtesy Syntax

Best in ShowTh e Th ree Village Central School District congratulates Ward Melville High

School students Micky Aliosio, John Sanders, Matthew Farrell, James Lamberg and Kurt Steinmuller, who were named Best in Show winners in the video/fi lm category at the Long Island Media Arts Competition.

Courtesy Syntax


A historical look backIn recognition of Holocaust Remembrance Day, R.C. Murphy Junior High School

eighth-grade students sat in silence in the school’s auditorium as special visitor and Ho-locaust survivor Werner Reich shared his story about living through one of the most dev-astating historic events ever recorded. Th rough pictures and newspaper clippings, Reich took the students back in time and clearly outlined what it was like for those imprisoned in concentration camps, and the long, hard struggle they were faced with.

Th roughout the event, Mr. Reich stressed one main message: Intolerance kills. He encouraged the students to better themselves and work to create a better world.

Pictured, Holocaust survivor and speaker Reich with eighth-grade students at Murphy Junior High School.

Courtesy Jennifer Kuefner, Syntax

DiFazio receives doctorate in veterinary medicineJillian DiFazio will graduate from

Tuft s University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine on May 23. A 2002 graduate of Ward Melville High School, Jill attended Boston College where she achieved her baccalaureate degree in biology in 2006. Jill has accomplished a lifelong dream of becoming a veterinar-ian. She will be pursuing a small animal rotating internship at Cornell University in Ithaca. Congratulations on this well deserved degree, Dr. Jill!

William C. SpahrWilliam C. Spahr, formerly of

East Setauket, died on April 30. He was the beloved husband of the late Virginia; cherished father of Wil-liam (Jo), Michael (Bob), Matthew (Kimberly) and Kristen; and loving grandpa of five.

A funeral service was held on May 5, followed by interment at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Coram.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Maher Family of the St. James Funeral Home, in St. James.

Obituaries

Delaney ~ Bokros marriageKathleen Price Delaney of Setauket is pleased to announce the

marriage of her daughter, Alison Price Delaney, to Aaron Michael Bokros, of Decatur, Ga., on Oct. 24, 2009. The bride is the daughter of

the late Thomas A. Delaney of Setauket.The wedding ceremony was held at the Caroline Church in Setauket.

The Rev. Dr. Richard D. Visconti officiated with the Rev. Rebekah Bokros Hatch, the sister of the groom.

Ms. Delaney is a graduate of Ward Melville High School in East Setauket (class of 2000). She attended Wake Forest University (class of 2004) and received a higher diploma in arts administration, 1st class

honours, from the National University of Ireland, Galway in 2005. This March, she joined Bridgewater Associates in Westport, Conn. Previously, Ms. Delaney was an account manager and auctioneer

with Christie’s auction house.The couple met at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., from which Mr. Bokros graduated in 2002. Mr. Bokros is currently

pursuing a master’s of fine arts in dramaturgy at Stony Brook University. Formerly, he was adjunct faculty and the technical director

of the department of Theatre and Dance at Montclair State University in New Jersey.

The wedding party included Ward Melville High School graduates Kimberly Delaney, the maid of honor and the sister of the bride,

Kathryn Fuhrmann, Daniel Rubinstein and Marissa Ehmann Schaudies, with alumni Kevin Carrucciu, Spencer Carrucciu, Jan

Dizdarevic, Lauren Ferguson, Harrison Harvey, Amanda Koch, Sandra Kreis, William O’Dwyer, Christopher Passavia, Robin Pieslak and

Daniel Spector in attendance.Send information for the People page to: [email protected].

PEOPLE

Kathleen Bridget Meyer (nee Gibson) formerly of Setauket, passed away peace-fully on Feb. 21 at the age of 65 aft er a long and courageous battle with cancer.

Born in Setauket on Feb. 26, 1944, she was a graduate of Earl L. Vander-meulen High School in Port Jeff erson, and the St. John’s Nursing School in Long Island City. Kathy formerly worked as an operating room nurse at John T. Mather Memorial Hospital. She also served as a specialist surgical nurse in the U.S. Air Force from February 1966 through February 1968 stationed

at Webb Air Force Base in Big Springs, Texas. She was honorably discharged as a fi rst lieutenant.

She was preceded in death by her mother Margaret Deasy Gibson in 2005. She is survived by her loving hus-band, Michael E. Meyer; her daughter and son-in-law Jennifer and Owen McGill and their daughters, Anna and Cate; her son, Daniel Meyer and his son Ira; her father Joseph D. Gibson, Sr. of Riverhead (formerly of Setauket); two sisters, Geraldine Levin (Sander) and Judith Fiene (Richard), and her brother

Joseph (Lori). She is also survived by her maternal aunts, Helen Deasy Iberger and Mary Deasy Zummo, as well as many cousins, nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.

A memorial service will be held Saturday, May 15, at 1 pm, at Bryant Funeral Home, 411 Old Town Road, East Setauket.

Th e family has requested that dona-tions be sent to Suncoast Hospice, 2675 Tampa Rd., Palm Harbor, FL 34684-3109. Please visit www.bryantfh .com to sign the online guestbook.

Memorial serviceKathleen Bridget Meyer


LegalsNOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING, BUDGET VOTE AND ELECTION

THREE VILLAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT OF

BROOKHAVENAND SMITHTOWN, SUFFOLK

COUNTY, NEW YORK

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a public hearing of the quali-fi ed voters of the Three Vil-lage Central School District of Brookhaven and Smithtown, Suff olk County, New York will be held in the Board Room of the North Country Adminis-tration Center, 100 Suff olk Av-enue, Stony Brook, New York, in said District on Tuesday, May 11, 2010, at 8:00 p.m., prevail-ing time, for the transaction of business as authorized by the Education Law, including the following items:

1. To present to the voters a detailed statement (proposed budget) of the amount of mon-ey which will be required for the 2010-2011 fi scal year.

2. To discuss all the items here-inafter set forth to be voted upon by voting machines at the vote and election to be held on Tuesday, May 18, 2010.

3. To transact such other busi-ness as may properly come be-fore the meeting pursuant to Education Law of the State of New York and acts amendatory thereto.

A copy of the proposed budget shall be made available, upon request, to residents of the school district beginning May 4, 2010, during regular busi-ness hours at the Offi ce of the District Clerk, North Country Administration Center, 100 Suf-folk Avenue, Stony Brook, New York.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HERE-BY GIVEN, Pursuant to Chapter 258 of the Laws of 2008, Sec-tion 495 was added to the Real Property Tax Law and requires the School District to attach to its proposed budget an exemp-tion report. Said exemption report, which will also become part of the fi nal budget, will show how the total assessed value of the fi nal assessment roll used in the budgetary pro-cess is exempt from taxation, list every type of exemption granted by statutory authority, and show the cumulative im-pact of each type of exemption, the cumulative amount expect-ed to be received as payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT) and the cumulative impact of all ex-emptions granted. In addition, said exemption report shall be posted on any bulletin board maintained by the District for public notices and on any web-site maintained by the District.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HERE-BY GIVEN, that the annual vote and election will be held on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., prevailing time at the loca-tions indicated below, at which time the polls will be opened to vote by voting machine upon the following items:

1. To adopt the annual bud-get of the School District for the fi scal year 2010-2011 and to authorize the requisite portion thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the District.

2. To elect two (2) members of the Board of Education. Two seats each for three (3) year terms commencing July 1, 2010 and expiring on June 30, 2013.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HERE-BY GIVEN, that Election Districts have been established in the Three Village Central School District. The boundaries of the Election Districts are cotermi-nous with the attendance zones of the elementary schools in the District, as adopted by resolu-tion of the Board of Education, and the place in each election district for voting shall be as fol-lows:

Arrowhead Elementary School, 62 Arrowhead Lane, East Se-tauket, NY

Minnesauke Elementary School, 21 Highgate Drive, East Se-tauket, NY

William Sidney Mount Elemen-tary School, 50 Dean Lane, Stony Brook, NY

Nassakeag Elementary School, 490 Pond Path, Setauket, NY

Setauket Elementary School, 134 Main Street, Setauket, NY

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HERE-BY GIVEN, that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required to fund the School District’s budget for 2010-2011, exclu-sive of public monies, may be obtained by any resident of the District during business hours beginning May 4, 2010 except Saturday, Sunday or holidays, at the North Country Administra-tion Center, 100 Suff olk Avenue, Stony Brook, New York, and at each of the following school-houses:

Arrowhead Elementary School, East Setauket

Minnesauke Elementary School, East Setauket

William Sidney Mount Elemen-tary School, Stony Brook

Nassakeag Elementary School, Setauket

Setauket Elementary School, Setauket

Paul J. Gelinas Junior High School, Setauket

Robert J. Cushman Murphy Ju-nior High School, Stony Brook

Ward Melville High School, East Setauket

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that petitions nominating candidates for the offi ce of member of the Board of Education shall be fi led with the Clerk of said School Dis-trict at her offi ce at the North Country Administration Cen-ter, 100 Suff olk Avenue, Stony Brook, New York, not later than April 19, 2010, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., prevailing time. Vacancies on the Board of Education are not considered separate, specifi c offi ces; can-didates run at large. Nominat-ing petitions shall not describe any specifi c vacancy upon the Board for which the candidate is nominated; must be directed to the Clerk of the District; must be signed by at least 85 quali-fi ed voters of the District (85 representing 2% of the num-ber of voters who voted in the previous annual election); must state the name and residence of each signer, and, must state the name and residence of the candidate.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HERE-BY GIVEN, that applications for absentee ballots will be obtain-able during school business

hours from the District Clerk beginning April 30, 2010; com-pleted applications must be received by the District Clerk at least seven (7) days before the election if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter, or the day before the election, if the bal-lot is to be delivered personally to the voter. Absentee ballots must be received by the District Clerk not later than 5:00 p.m., on Tuesday, May 18, 2010.

A list of persons to whom ab-sentee ballots are issued will be available for inspection to qualifi ed voters of the District in the offi ce of the District Clerk on and after Thursday, May 13, 2010 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. on weekdays prior to the day set for the an-nual election, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 15, 2010, and on May 18, 2010, the day set for the election. Any qualifi ed voter may, upon examination of such list, fi le a written challenge of the qualifi cations as a voter of any person whose name ap-pears on such list, stating the reasons for such challenge. Any such written challenge shall be transmitted by the District Clerk or a designee of the Board of Education to the inspectors of election on election day.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HERE-BY GIVEN, that personal reg-istration of voters is required either pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law or pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law. If a voter has heretofore registered pursuant to §2014 of the Educa-tion Law and has voted at an an-nual or special district meeting within the last four (4) calendar years, he or she is eligible to vote at this election; if a voter is registered and eligible to vote under Article 5 of the Election Law, he or she is also eligible to vote at this election. All other persons who wish to vote must register.

Registration will be conducted April 1, 2010 through May 5, 2010 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. on days when school is in ses-sion at the Offi ce of the District Clerk at the North Country Ad-ministration Center, 100 Suff olk Avenue, Stony Brook, New York. The register so prepared pursu-ant to §2014 of the Education Law will be fi led in the Offi ce of the Clerk of the School District in the North Country Adminis-tration Center, 100 Suff olk Av-enue, Stony Brook, New York, and will be open for inspection by any qualifi ed voter of the Dis-trict beginning on May 13, 2010, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 3:15 p.m., on weekdays, and between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. on Saturday May 15, 2010, on each day prior to the day set for the election, ex-cept Sunday, and at the polling place(s) on the day of the vote.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law of the State of New York, the Board of Registration will meet on Wednesday, May 5, 2010, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., at the Ward Mel-ville High School, Setauket, New York, and, in addition, on Tues-day, May 18, 2010, between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., at the fi ve election sites to pre-pare the Register of the School District to be used at the elec-tion to be held in 2010, and any special district meetings that may be held after the prepara-tion of said Register, at which time any person will be entitled

to have his or her name placed on such Register provided that at such meeting of said Board of Registration he or she is known or proven to the satisfaction of such Board of Registration to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at the school election for which said Register is prepared, or any special district meeting held after May 18, 2010.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HERE-BY GIVEN, that pursuant to a rule adopted by the Board of Education in accordance with §2035 of the Education Law, any referenda or propositions to amend the budget, or other-wise to be submitted for voting at said election, must be fi led with the District Clerk of the Board of Education at the North Country Administration Cen-ter, 100 Suff olk Avenue, Stony Brook, New York, 60 days prior to the vote, must be typed or printed in the English language; must be directed to the Clerk of the School District; must be signed by at least 212 qualifi ed voters (212 representing 5% of the number of voters who voted in the previous annual election) of the District; and must state the name of each signer. How-ever, the School Board will not entertain any petition to place before the voters any proposi-tion the purpose of which is not within the powers of the voters to determine, which is unlawful, or any proposition which fails to include a specifi c appropriation where the expenditure of mon-ies is required by the propo-sition, or where other valid reason exists for excluding the proposition from the ballot.

Dated: Setauket, New York April 1, 2010

Andrea Wilson District ClerkThree Village Central School District of Brookhaven and SmithtownSuff olk County, New York

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

RUPRAJ REALTY LLC / KALPANA PATEL 166 Old Field Road, East Setauket NY 11733, has made application to the Town of Brookhaven Planning Board for approval of a site plan for con-struction of a one story 6,980 S.F. medical offi ce building with associated site improvements, requiring a variance for parking in the required front yard. This proposal is known as RUPRAJ REALTY MEDICAL OFFICE, lo-cated on N/W Corner Sills Road (CR 101) and Andreano Ave, Pa-tchogue, Town of Brookhaven, Suff olk County, New York and described as follows:

NORTH: bound by land n/f MAURUS DONALD & VALERIE

WEST: bound by land n/f of HARDY INVESTMENT;

SOUTH: bound by Sills Road (County Route 101)

EAST: bound by Andreano Avenue

Notice is hereby given that the Town of Brookhaven Planning Board will hold a public hear-ing in the Town Offi ce Building 2nd fl oor auditorium, One In-dependence Hill, Farmingville, New York on Monday, May 24,

2010 @ 4:00 P.M., when adjacent property owners and/or others interested in any way in the pro-posed site plan may appear be-fore the Board to be heard.

This notice is advertised in ac-cordance with the requirements of Town law.

DATED: May 3, 2010

Vincent Pascale, Chairman

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Public Notice

Village of PoquottCounty of Suff olk

The Incorporated Village of Po-quott Board of Trustees will hold a Public Hearing at 7:00 P.M. on Thursday May 27, 2010 for the purpose of obtaining public input for the seventh report on Storm Water Management.

The Hearing will solicit input from residents for inclusion in the report. A draft of the report will be read by the Village Engi-neering fi rm Nelson Pope & Voo-rhis, LLC. Any resident wishing to take part in the preparation of the report is invited to attend the hearing and be heard.

By order of the Village BoardEileen HarveyVillage Clerk

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Ward Melville’s Tyler Hegarty, above, fi red a shot and scored against West Islip in a game on May 5. Rich Hurley, below, also scored against the Lions.

SPORTSNot yet at full strength, Pats lose 16-5

BY JOHN [email protected]

Th e time for the Patriots to pay the price came on the new turf at West Islip, a game televised on MSG Network, where a shorthanded Patriot lineup was blown away 16-5 on May 5 by the second-ranked team in the nation.

Th e hungry Lions dominated on faceoff s, time of possession, ground balls and shots on goal. Th ey dodged through the Ward Melville defense to easy opportuni-ties in tight. When the Patriots did have the ball, they frequently turned it over without getting a good shot on goal. It had to be frustrating to the suspended players watching and it had to be frustrating for head coach Mike Hoppey.

“We’d like the opportunity to play them again at full strength and see how we do,” said Hoppey. “I will say they certainly looked like a championship team today.”

Th e Lions won 16 of 24 faceoff s and possessed the ball in the Patriots’ end almost the entire fi rst half. Th e fi rst three times the Lions had the ball, the Patriots forced turnovers. Aft er one of those turnovers junior Tyler Hegarty scored with a hard bouncer to give Ward Melville a 1-0 lead and excite the large crowd of Patriot fans who made the trip south. Unfortunately, the Lions answered with a stunning seven-goal run before the fi rst quarter ended, most of the damage done by senior All-Americans Nick Galasso and Andrew Hodgson.

Th e Lions led 11-2 at the half aft er Patriot Brian

Smith dug out a ground ball on the crease and stuff ed the ball in the Lion net. Ward Melville got second-half goals from seniors Rich Hurley, Al DeStefano andHegarty. Th e Lions emptied their bench.

“Th eir defense gave our off ense a lot of trouble,” saidHoppey. “Maybe we tried to do too much once we fell behind. We’ll practice hard tomorrow and get ready for a big game on Friday.”

Two days later on May 7 the Patriots won that big game, returning to their winning ways with a fullerroster to earn an 18-10 road win at William Floyd.

BOYS LACROSSE

The Ward Melville boys tennis team finished up their regular season with a

7-0 loss to League V champs Patchogue-Medford on May 5. Despite the loss, the

Patriots had a solid year, finishing with a 6-4 League V record, 7-7 overall. Playoffs

for boys tennis begin on May 18.The baseball team is also performing well,

with a 9-6 record in League I. After two nonleague games this week against Kings Park and East Islip, the Patriots will battle Commack on the road on May 17. Game

time is 4:30 pm.

Melville falls to West Islip, but rebounds against William Floyd two days later


Vote, or be quiet all yearTh e Th ree Village school budget vote this

year presents a unique opportunity to its residents. A diffi cult budget process in almost unprecedented economic times has led to a small proposed spending increase largely off set by $1.76 million of ‘rainy day’ funds. By so do-ing the Board of Education has “limited” the tax levy increase to 3 percent. Th e budget voters will judge on Tuesday causes pain throughout the district: signifi cantly reducing many programs, eliminating teaching, clerical and maintenance jobs and squeezing transportation.

Th at is as it needs to be. Th ere just isn’t more money to be had, either from Albany or the lo-cal taxpayers. We called weeks ago in this space for an across the board, voluntary — and not later reimbursed — wage freeze by all employees of the schools as acknowledgement of the fi scal crisis faced by us all. Many if not most private sector working stiff s have already had such circumstances imposed on them, either through wage freezes or actual cuts, outright layoff s or benefi t reductions. Th ree Village teachers seemed to step up to the plate, entering into renegotiations over a contract with two years yet to run. However the school board clearly was out-negotiated — again — when the new terms were found to be hardly a sacrifi ce on the part of the union.

So what about that unique opportunity? As laid out by the administration at Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting, the diff erence between the adopted budget and a contingency spending plan imposed should voters defeat the trustees’ proposal is virtually nil. No better opportunity is likely to come along to voice your opinion on the ever-increasing cost of educat-ing our children. Study aft er study indicate not much of a connection between greater spend-ing per pupil and better outcomes. You might send a message that a better, more effi cient and cost-eff ective way must be found to provide the education all children need and society benefi ts from by voting “no.”

One proviso: Th e administration has said it will recommend NOT using that $1.76 million in reserve funds to off set tax levy increases in a contingency budget, thus predicting a higher tax increase if the adopted budget is defeated. We see this threat as a heavy-handed ploy to encourage voter approval of the proposed bud-get. Frankly, either it is a good idea to use part of those rainy day funds now or it isn’t. If it is, and the trustees have already voted so, then why would it not be wise to use those same funds to off set a contingency tax levy increase?

We want to be clear. We are not urging a “no” vote. We admit to being institutionally unable to urge a vote against funding education. But we are off ering you another perspective, even as we are all caught in an impossible situation. Vote as your conscience and wallet dictate.

We are not endorsing any of the fi ve candi-dates for two seats on the Board of Ed this year. We heard no signifi cant diff erences in the fi ve either at two Meet the Candidates meetings or in interviews with this paper. We instead are asking voters to send a message to all trustees: It’s overdue time for change.

An editorial on April 29, “Tolerance Now,” draws attention to the growing climate of fear and uncertainty sweeping across Long Island communities and calls for a “tolerance initiative rooted in every level of local so-ciety, especially churches, civic groups, schools and the family.” Welcoming Long Island, a campaign to build strong communities, may be just the sort of project we are looking for.

With an immigrant population that has more than doubled since 1980, and far outpaced the growth of the gen-eral population, Long Island has seen many of the same challenges that face other areas of the country experiencing rapid increases in recent immigration. Language barriers, cultural diff erences and widespread misinformation and myths have created division between our newest immigrant neighbors and the residents whose families immigrated 50, 100 or 200 years ago. Th is growing division — left unaddressed — has led to fear, uncertainty and mistrust among the people of our communities.

Th e murder of Marcelo Lucero in November 2008 was the tragic result of our unwillingness to address this growing tension in our society. It was a dramatic moment in a long series of violent attacks against immigrants, and those perceived to be immigrants, that has engulfed our communities over the past decade, and it was not the last.

When we allow intolerance, fear and uncertainty to go unchecked we all suff er the consequences. In the case of Marcelo Lucero a man lost his life, children and their families must now live with the consequences of poor choices made and an entire community is left broken.

Welcoming Long Island is a grassroots campaign to build strong communities on Long Island. Th e idea is simple: communities are safer and stronger when neighbors take the time to educate themselves and engage in dialogue with each other. Using these two basic tools we can create a climate of trust and respect on Long Island.

Welcoming Long Island is an initia-tive of Long Island Wins, a communica-tions campaign focused on immigration on Long Island, whose mission involves promoting immigration solutions that include and work for everyone. To this end, Long Island Wins provides resourc-es to help local communities mobilize, educate and dialogue.

Long Island Wins assists residents in forming committees to identify issues and take action based on the needs in their own community. Residents focus on using creative messaging, education and respectful dialogue to generate a positive climate in their community. Committees are already meeting in Bellmore, Port Jef-ferson and Medford, and interest in this grassroots movement is spreading.

Our reputation as a safe and welcoming place, the lives of our residents, the vitality of our economy and the future of our children are on the line. Each resident of Long Island has an interest in this campaign, because each resident has a stake in the quality of the commu-nity in which they live.

We are building strong communities on Long Island. Join us. www.welcominglongisland.com.

Justin McMahon is the Welcoming Campaign orga-nizer for Long Island Wins, based in Port Washington.

The opinions of columnists and letter writers are their own. They do not speak for the newspaper.

EDITORIAL

Your turn

BY JUSTIN MCMAHON

OPINIONTolerance is achievable — Here’s how

Unions in league with D’sTO THE EDITOR:

With the school budget vote taking place in our community within days, I am compelled to make my thoughts known. To begin, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, state and local government salaries are 34 percent higher than private sector jobs. Th is is partly due to the fact that they tend to be “white collar jobs” for the most part. Th e real problem, that goes largely unnoticed, is that the benefi ts for these jobs are 70 percent higher for these workers. When lifetime pensions and benefi ts are added together, this wretched excess at the expense of taxpayers causes it to become clear that a fi scal nightmare is the result. I believe it to be clearly understood by most taxpayers that the wretched excess is understood to be the result of the greed and corrupting infl uence of union eff orts. If there is any question as to why the unions are able to control such a broad spectrum of our industry and education nationwide, the answer lies in the fact that they are working partners of the Democratic Party, and are in fact the lifeblood of that party: Vast union wealth, with commensurate contributions to the party, and a large number of paid union political agents who work tirelessly to help to achieve Democratic goals make them indispensable partners. As a result, this partnership has helped school unions to have gained complete control of public education, and who in their own self-interest have caused school costs to rise to unsustainable levels. Th ere is much more to this story than time and space will allow, but I would be remiss not to mention that based on a worldwide performance level, public educa-tion ranks very low and is inferior to many nations of

the world who spend a mere fraction of the cost per student that is routine here in the U.S. Admittedly, some public schools are better than others, and while our own schools here in the Th ree Village district compare favorably with other public schools, it must be noted that most parochial and private schools outrank us at performance levels, at less than half the cost per pupil. If you are wondering how I will vote in the school budget vote, let me answer this way. Although there were some minor gestures made to control the budget, the union has failed to take any signifi cant action. I will respond in the strongest way possible with my vote to send a mes-sage to them: NO!

Paul GrobenStony Brook

Supporting MassimoDEAR THREE VILLAGE RESIDENTS:

Over the past few months I have gotten to know Charles Massimo and without hesitation I recommend him as a trustee for the Th ree Village Board of Educa-tion. He is a dedicated father, husband and a successful business owner in the money management fi eld. He’s been in the fi nancial industry for over 25 years and he successfully manages over $200 million in assets.

Aft er lengthy conversations with Mr. Massimo about the district, students, real estate and community as a whole, I believe he has the dedication and expertise to be an excellent trustee. He’s a team player with the ability to make tough decisions about how to manage skyrock-eting property taxes and the future of our schools. He has many creative ideas on how to balance the needs of the students and the stress of the taxpayer. His expertise

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There’s this father who has become a source of endless curiosity to our family. Two years ago, he ap-

proached me and the fascination began.I was coaching my son’s kindergar-

ten basketball team and was doing what everyone who had ever coached me had done. I followed the action up and down the court, making sure the players didn’t tuck the ball under one arm while putting up the other one, football style, and race toward the basket without dribbling. Th e father came up behind me and informed me I was “in the way of his son’s team.”

I thought that odd since I was about 20 feet behind the players. Ten minutes lat-er, he informed me I was doing it again. I shrugged, wondering what my off ense could have been when I was standing on the sidelines.

Aft erward, my co-coach rolled his eyes and said, “Don’t worry. He’s always pestering the other coaches. He’s not even coaching.”

Given my predisposition for confl ict avoidance, it seemed strange to see some-

one manufacture it, especially around children at a kindergarten basketball game.

I’ve had other run-ins with him. In our tee ball league that same year, we were more than halfway through the season and every coach was pitching to his or her team. When I agreed with the other coach to pitch to our players, the father raced out to the fi eld, crossed his arms, narrowed his eyes and told me that wasn’t allowed. I told him I’d already agreed with his son’s coach and that our team had been doing that with every other team. He shuffl ed away, muttering something unprintable.

We secretly call him “the mean man” in our house because, like it or not, our kids have overheard us oft en enough to know we’re not exactly fond of him.

We were on our way home from shop-ping recently and saw a soccer game on a fi eld near the road. I pulled over so we could watch for a few minutes. When we saw “the mean man” 10 feet from the car, the soccer game became irrelevant.

We were fascinated as he paced angrily back and forth, folding and unfolding his arms, while gnashing violently on a piece of defenseless gum. He jumped and twist-ed his body imagining, no doubt, that he was in the middle of the game, trying to break free of the defenders and crush a ball into the goal. We couldn’t look away as his facial expression morphed from determination to disgust to a barely con-tained rage. He was a study in pure anger and adrenaline.

While we watched, we told our kids about how important it is to be a good sport and how games create opportu-nities to work together with others on a team, to learn and to develop a set of physical skills. Th ey barely listened as they watched the fi reworks explode around his taut face.

He is nothing if not consistent. I’ve seen him maybe 10 times and never once

have I caught him smiling — and it’s notfor lack of observation time. We all haveour passions and interests, of course, buthis passion manifests itself in an unusualway and place. Aft er studying him, it’s not hard to believe the blaring headlinesabout parents who get into fi ghts at gamesor get banned from their kids’ sports. Hey,don’t worry about me. I wouldn’t dare go to battle with him. Just his scowl is enoughto keep me at a safe distance.

There’s one in every ballpark

Last week I shared two plea-surable events with friends, and now I would like to

share them with you. Th e fi rst was to celebrate a birthday, and here’s what we did.

Twelve in all, we embarked on a “Napa Valley” tour. Th at is, we went to our local equivalent of Napa Valley by driving out on Sound Avenue to the East End, where many vineyards now lushly grow delicious grapes for wine.

Our destination for this partic-ular outing was the fi rst and old-est vineyard, Castello di Borghese, originally known as Hargrave in Cutchogue. Started in 1973 by a couple newly graduated from Harvard and Radcliff e, Hargrave was specifi cally located in what the founders believed was the ideal grape-growing spot with respect to rainfall, sunshine, soil, temper-ature and so forth. In selecting old potato fi elds, they began what is today the next generation of Long Island produce: wine.

Aft er a few years, when it be-

came apparent that they weren’t idiots and were truly onto some-thing, other vintners followed, and the East End of Long Island became a respected wine region.

Th e Borgheses, Marco and Ann Marie, are the next genera-tion of owners. Marco is an Italian prince, who came to the United States when he was 23, for a week, which he extended to three weeks, and now goes back to Tuscany only for vacations. Originally working in New York City and commuting each day from his wife and chil-dren in Philadelphia, he was ready to fall in love with the green fi elds on the North Fork that reminded him of his youth on his family’s es-tate. When the Hargrave vineyard came up for sale his response was heartfelt: “I’ll buy it!” he said.

On hearing his words and originally thinking he was buy-ing a bottle of Hargrave’s wine, Ann Marie quickly learned she

was in the wine business. Putting her skills as urban patron and pro-moter of the arts to work on behalf of her new life, she has initiated an ongoing series of classical and operatic evening performances at the vineyard. With boundless en-ergy, this Delaware-born wife and mother routinely drives back and forth to New York City, where she charmingly keeps the Borghese wines before the public in restau-rants, benefi ts and at tastings.

She also generously provided us with a tour of the springtime grape shoots and the winemak-ing machinery and oak casks that are the trappings of any working vineyard. I can tell you that the Borgheses prefer French casks. By the time we got to the intimate, oak-paneled tasting room, and its six off erings ranging from the bright and clean Sauvignon Blanc to the award-winning Pinot Noir to the elegant Meritage — a blend

of cabernet sauvignon, merlot and cabernet franc, and the late harvest Riesling dessert wine, we were more than ready to sample the wines. We then went to enjoy Long Island fi sh and produce, ac-companied by a case of wine, at North Fork Table in Southold.

Need I say that by the time we returned, we were a band of happy campers? It was a diff erent experi-ence within easy reach. We are so lucky here to be the Gateway to the East End.

Th e second event was a fund-raiser for the Port Jeff erson Harbor Education and Arts Conservancy. In the Port Jeff erson Village Center, 140 enthusiastic listeners jiggled to the music of world-renowned jazz pianist Judy Carmichael. Brought back to Port by the president of the Conservancy, and her ten-nis coach and friend, Lisa Perry, Carmichael more than lived up to the high expectations she had set at her previous fundraiser perfor-mance. Accompanied this time by Chris, an excellent guitarist, and

Jeff , a tenor sax player who is infact a music professor at a Florida university and adept at Brazilian jazz, Carmichael sang, told storiesthat made the audience laugh andoff ered her delightful improvisa-tions of Cole Porter and GeorgeGershwin much-loved melodies,among others.

Originally from California, Carmichael has played for thegreats of our time, and even wasthe fi rst jazz entertainer sent bythe U.S. State Department to tour China in 1992. How perfectlylovely that she also played for us.

The fi ner things, found close to home

BY LEAH S. [email protected]

Between you and me

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By the time we returned, we were a band of happy campers.

The man was a study in pure anger and adrenaline.

D. None of the above

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