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Mount Sinai • Miller Place • Sound Beach • rocky Point • ShorehaM • Wading river • leiSure country T HE V ILLAGE BEACON RECORD Volume 31, No. 26 January 21, 2016 $1.00 Is this the end? Sen. Flanagan stands behind bill to restore state aid to school districts by eliminating the GEA PAGE A4 Buying/Selling Ardolino.com LongIslandHomeConnecon.com 631-941-4300 Seeing signs of snow Photo by Giselle Barkley nearly a month after the winter solstice, snow finally fell on the north Shore. Mount Sinai, Miller Place and rocky Point were among the hamlets that got a dusting of snow on Sunday. above, duck Mill Pond in Miller Place is partially frozen after the snowfall. More photos on page A13 Celebrating Long Island’s nature Also: ‘In the Heights’ at the CMPAC; winter farmer’s market PAGE B1

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Mount Sinai • Miller Place • Sound Beach • rocky Point • ShorehaM • Wading river • leiSure country

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BEACON RECORDVolume 31, No. 26 January 21, 2016 $1.00

Is this the end?Sen. Flanagan stands behind bill to

restore state aid to school districts by eliminating the GEA

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Seeing signs of snowPhoto by Giselle Barkley

nearly a month after the winter solstice, snow finally fell on the north Shore. Mount Sinai, Miller Place and rocky Point were among the hamlets that got a dusting of snow on Sunday. above, duck Mill Pond in Miller Place is partially frozen after the snowfall. More photos on page A13

Celebrating Long Island’s natureAlso: ‘In the Heights’ at the

CMPAC; winter farmer’s market PAGE B1

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Donate coats to those in needBrookhaven Town Supervisor Ed

Romaine (R) announced that the Youth Bureau is holding a coat drive through Feb. 12 to help needy children and adults stay warm this winter. Residents are asked to drop off new or gently used, clean infant- to adult-sized coats, scarves, hats and gloves to the follow-ing locations:

— Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Inde-pendence Hill in Farmingville

— Brookhaven Town Highway De-partment, 1140 Old Town Road in Coram

— Henrietta Acampora Recreation Center, 39 Montauk Highway in Blue Point

— New Village Recreation Center, 20 Wireless Road in Centereach

— Rose Caracappa Senior Center, 739 Route 25A in Mount Sinai

“Winter is here and many of our neighbors in need don’t have proper clothing to keep warm,” Romaine said. “I commend our Youth Bureau for organizing the coat drive and en-courage our residents to go through their closet and make a donation to this worthy cause.”

For more information, call 631-241-TOWN (8696) or the Town of Brookhaven Youth Bureau at 631-451-8011.

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By Giselle Barkley

The Rocky Point School District is los-ing one of its veterans.

On Jan. 11, the school district’s board of education announced the retirement of long-time employee Evelyn Gallino, who has been a senior clerk/typist. Her last day will be Feb. 26.

Gallino started working for the school district in 1982 as a minibus driver be-fore taking a hiatus to raise her five children. Since she returned to the district in 1993 as a lunch monitor, she has worked her way up. Af-ter taking on a manage-ment project archiving files and establishing archives for the school, the school district of-fered her a position in the Building and Grounds Department in January 2001.

While Gallino has enjoyed her 34 years of service, family is still a top priority for the 61-year-old Rocky Point resident. The retirement age might be 65, but Gallino wanted to retire to be closer to her family and tend to her grandchildren.

“My daughter [and her children] moved to Omaha, Nebraska last year. I miss them terribly and I want to visit

more,” Gallino said. She added that her son who lives in Mastic also welcomed a baby around three months ago.

But Gallino doesn’t just assist her fam-ily. She assists anyone in need.

“If she knows that you’re in trouble for whatever reason, she will be the first to help you problem solve or direct you where to get help,” Dorothy Tis said.

Gallino and Tis met more than 20 years ago when their children attended Frank

J. Carasiti Elementary School together. Around 12 years ago, Tis was in one of the school dis-trict’s parking lots when her car wouldn’t start. Gallino came to her aide when she recommended her brother-in-law, who was a mechanic.

As a long-time em-ployee, Gallino has also

acquired a wealth of knowledge that helps other employees in the school district.

“She could tell us who did what job, how many years ago, how it was fixed, if the contractors did a good job ... she just knows the [school] district,” said Greg Hil-ton, school business official for the district.

Gallino attributed her vast array of knowledge concerning the school district to her decades of service in the district and her simple curiosity.

“I like to know how things work and why, and if we fix something, why are we fixing it that way,” Gallino said.

Hilton added that Gallino takes pride in her work and community. Before work-ing in the Rocky Point school district, Gallino was the president of the Rocky Point Civic Association when Council-woman Jane Bonner (C-Rocky Point) served in the association. According to Gallino, she was also one of two people who helped bring the football program to Rocky Point several years ago. Her hus-band, Anthony Gallino, is also the fire commissioner for Rocky Point.

Although Gallino will remain in the Rocky Point community, fellow school district employee Melissa Mood said her caring and considerate personality will be missed. Mood added that Gallino’s retirement is “going to be a big loss” for the school district. The two met around 25 years ago.

Rocky Point School District Superinten-dent Michael Ring said Gallino held many positions during her years in the school district. According to Ring, she’s executed her responsibilities over the years with ex-pertise and professionalism — qualities that made her an asset to the district.

“There was no problem too large or small that Ms. Gallino wouldn’t enthusi-astically embrace,” Ring said in an email. “I will personally miss her positive and

energetic style and feel fortunate to have worked alongside her during her tenure at Rocky Point.”

Photo from Evelyn Gallino evelyn Gallino poses for a photo with her retirement plaque.

Rocky Point employee says goodbye to school district

‘If she knows that you’re in trouble for whatever reason, she will be the first to help you problem solve or direct you where to get help.’

— Dorothy tis

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By Phil Corso

For New York schools, cutting the Gap Elimination Ad-justment could be an addition by subtraction.

The adjustment, a deduction taken out of each New York school district’s state aid, was enacted several years ago to help the state government close a budget deficit. While the amount deducted has decreased in recent years and there have been efforts to completely restore the funding, state Sen. John Flanagan (R-East Northport) has recently spon-sored legislation that would completely eliminate the sys-tem this year, giving more financial help to public schools struggling to make ends meet.

The bill passed in the Senate and must make its way through the Assembly before heading to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D). And as schools across the state wait for the final vote, administrators applaud Flanagan’s efforts in helping them restore their funding.

“We’re encouraged by the Senate’s goal to balance the fi-nancial constraints facing taxpayers with offering quality in-structional and noninstructional programs for our students,” said Marianne Higuera, the superintendent for Miller Place.

According to Higuera, the district has lost over $13 mil-lon in state funding over the past six years.

Rocky Point Superintendent Michael Ring was also ex-cited to hear the news.

“The Senate’s endorsement to restore monies withheld from school districts, including our own, as a result of the Gap Elimination Adjustment comes as welcome news to the Rocky Point school community,” he said. “As we contin-ue our commitment of presenting balanced budgets within the confines of the state’s tax cap, these allocated resources will aid our work of providing our community’s scholars with a balanced and robust educational experience.”

Mount Sinai Superintendent of Schools Gordon Brosdal said his district is currently losing $1,238,432 in GEA aid a year. He said that getting that aid restored would be won-derful for the district.

While Shoreham-Wading River Superintendent Steven Cohen also stands behind Flanagan’s efforts, he has some personal reservations.

“Proposing to use a significant proportion of these same public resources to support private, parochial and charter schools, as the Senator has also suggested, would seem to be a ‘give with one hand, and take away with the other’ ap-proach to public school financing,” he said. “Subsidizing private, parochial and charter schools at the expense of lo-cal community public schools is not good public policy in my view.”

Flanagan said that eliminating the school funding cuts was the Senate’s top priority in education this session. There are currently about $434 million in GEA cuts still in place for schools in 2016-17, but if the bill becomes law, Flanagan said, his legislation would permanently abolish such educa-tion budget reductions.

“The Senate’s top education funding priority this year will be the complete elimination of the GEA,” Flanagan said. “Since 2011, the Senate Republicans have worked to restore $3 billion in funding that was lost to schools be-cause of the GEA, and we will not pass any budget that does not fully eliminate it this year. The GEA has been hurting schools and students for way too long and it is past time that we end it once and for all.”

Former Gov. David Paterson (D) imposed the GEA in 2010 despite widespread opposition from Republicans. Since it was approved, Flanagan said he and his Republican colleagues have been leading the charge to abolish the GEA and deliver funding increases to help mitigate its impacts on education. Over the past five years, he said, the GEA cuts have been reduced by roughly 85 percent, to $434 million in the 2015-16 budget.

State Sen. Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) co-sponsored

Schools applaud effort to nix state aid cuts

Give us our money

GEA continued on page A9

File photos Across from left, Miller Place superintendent Marianne higuera, Mount sinai superintendent of schools Gordon Brosdal, rocky Point superintendent of schools Michael ring and shoreham-Wading river superintendent steven Cohen weighed in on the possibility of regaining state funds lost by the Gap Elimination Adjustment.

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Brookhaven Town failed to fully abide by New York’s affordable housing law, according to a state comptroller audit.

The audit, released Jan. 8, singled out eight governments across Long Island, including Brookhaven, zeroing in on their compliance with the Long Island Workforce Housing Act. State Comp-troller Tom DiNapoli (D) said the town “generally complied” with the act, but did not properly manage an optional trust fund set aside for affordable housing.

The Long Island Work-force Housing Act was passed in 2008 to require developers building five or more homes on a property to allocate 10 percent of their prospective residential units to affordable workforce housing units, meant for people earning up to about $105,000. The law also said that developers could avoid building afford-able housing units by paying a fee to the town, which would be deposited into a trust fund for the purpose of building af-fordable housing.

The towns of Babylon, Huntington, Islip and North Hempstead and the vil-lages of Hempstead, Farmingdale and

Mineola were also evaluated in the audit. Each government either reached or ex-ceeded the 10 percent affordable housing requirement, the audit said.

However, in the audit DiNapoli said Brookhaven adopted a resolution in Au-gust 2014 establishing a housing trust fund, but did not set up guidelines and procedures establishing how the expen-ditures from that fund would be used until September 2015 — which was later than the mandated six-month time frame

required to set up those rules.The audit noted that “there

have been no expenditures from the trust fund during the audit period.”

But Brookhaven officials said they did not agree with the comptroller’s assessment. Di-

ana Weir, commissioner of Housing and Human Services in Brookhaven, said the town was in full compliance before the comptroller released the audit.

“The issue with Brookhaven is that we’ve never given a developer that op-tion,” Weir said about the fees for the fund, which was not mandatory to cre-ate. “To us, [making developers build the affordable units was] better … But, just in case, we figured we’d [establish] a trust fund.”

Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) said he was unhappy with the state’s assessment that the town only gener-ally complied with the law. Because the town makes developers build affordable homes instead of paying to avoid the re-quirement, there isn’t any money in the

trust fund account, Romaine said.Of Brookhaven’s 924 housing units, 10

percent are affordable workforce housing units, according to the audit.

“What did Brookhaven do wrong?” Romaine (R) asked in a phone interview. “If Brookhaven required [developers] to build [affordable homes], why did we need a trust fund account? We’re actually fulfilling the law.”

In the preliminary draft of the au-dit, the comptroller suggested the town establish guidelines for the fund. That suggestion came several days after Brookhaven established rules for the fund. Despite this, the final audit didn’t reflect or acknowledge the change.

Brookhaven has always required devel-opers to make affordable homes. During the recession, developers needed to allo-cate 20 percent of the residential units for affordable housing. Weir said purchasing affordable homes at the time was easier for prospective homeowners as prices of homes dropped. The town dropped the requirement to 10 percent once the market started improving.

“What the audit should have said is, ‘We recommend in the future that you set [the affordable workforce housing trust fund] up, but you’ve complied,’” Romaine said.

Affordable housing audit baffles Brookhaven

File photo by Erika Karpsupervisor ed romaine was not pleased with the comptroller’s report in relation to the long island Workforce Housing act.

‘What did Brookhaven do wrong?’

— Ed ROMAINE

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POLICE BLOTTERIncidents and arrests from Jan. 11-Jan. 17

NaptimePolice arrested a 39-year-old man from

Medford on Jan. 15 for driving while abil-ity impaired in a 2011 Chevrolet, after of-ficers found him parked on the shoulder of Route 25A in Mount Sinai with the engine running. Officers discovered the man was intoxicated and arrested him.

A phone-y checkOn Jan. 11, police arrested a 28-year-old

man from Port Jefferson Station for crimi-nal possession of stolen property. He alleg-edly stole an iPhone 6 from the GameStop on Nesconset Highway on Sept. 26. Police said the man also deposited a stolen check into his account at the Teacher’s Federal Credit Union bank on Sept. 28. Authorities arrested the man at his residence.

What a fakeA 42-year-old man from Port Jeffer-

son was arrested on Jan. 15 for using a forged license, after he was pulled over on Terryville Road. A police spokesperson didn’t specify what caused the traffic stop.

Not-so-sweet surpriseA Sound Beach woman was arrested

for criminal mischief on Jan. 17. Ac-cording to police, the woman smashed a window of a 1991 Chevrolet Corvette on Honey Lane in Mount Sinai.

Manipulative suspectPolice arrested a man from Cente-

reach for burglary on Jan. 16, after the 34-year-old man manipulated a garage door at the Meineke on Middle Country Road in Coram before breaking into the store and taking money from the cash register. He was collared at the scene.

Greeted at the garageOn Jan. 13, a woman was opening the

garage at her residence on Ledgewood Circle in Setauket-East Setauket when someone tried to steal her backpack, purse and sorority bag. Police said the suspect dragged the woman before flee-ing with her bags, which contained cash and a driver’s license.

Scam scarePolice said a woman received a call

from an unknown person saying that her husband was involved in an accident and that they would hurt him if she didn’t send them money. The woman didn’t send money to the unknown caller. She received the call on Jan. 12 on Nesconset Highway in Stony Brook.

Cash and cocoaAn unknown person smashed a win-

dow of Margaret’s Florist on Route 25A in Miller Place on Jan. 16. Police said the suspect stole assorted gourmet choco-lates and money from the business.

Powerful criminalPolice said an unidentified person

damaged a 6-foot chain and a 20-foot fence at North Shore Power Lawn Equip-ment in Mount Sinai. The incident hap-pened on Jan. 17 at 8:45 p.m.

Privately pocketedOn Jan. 17, an unknown person stole

a woman’s pocket book at a private catering event at Schafer’s restaurant in Port Jefferson.

More stealing, more doingOn Jan. 13, a 26-year-old man from

Bohemia was arrested for one count each of petit larceny, criminal mischief and grand larceny. Police said the man stole a drill from the Home Depot in Independence Plaza in Selden that day. Officers also discovered the man was in possession of prescription medication that wasn’t prescribed to him. According to police, the man was involved in a pre-vious theft — he allegedly stole rings and paintings on Dec. 11 from a residence on Cleveland Street in Selden.

Energized and arrestedPolice arrested a man from Centereach

on Jan. 17 for petit larceny. The 44-year-old man had entered the Walmart in the Centereach Mall and took two knives, multipurpose tools and several energy drinks. Police arrested the man at the scene at 12:45 p.m.

St. James speederA 19-year-old man from St. James was

arrested for driving while ability impaired after driving a 1999 Chevrolet south on Pond Path in Setauket at 55 miles per hour, in a 30-mile-per-hour zone. Officers discovered the man was intoxicated and arrested him at the scene.

Ninja-like thiefOn Jan. 15, police arrested a man for

criminal possession of stolen property, a 2013 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle. The mo-torcycle was parked in the victim’s drive-way on Van Buren Street in Rocky Point on Nov. 17 when the man allegedly stole it. Police arrested the suspect at his residence.

Not the best friendshipOn Jan. 14, someone stole a driver’s coat

from a Lindy’s Taxi cab. Police said the woman’s coat contained money and was stolen on Friendship Drive in Rocky Point.

Smoked Samaritan According to police, on Jan. 17 someone

tried to break up a fight at a hookah bar on Middle Country Road in Selden when he was stabbed. Police said he was taken to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital.

— Compiled by Giselle barkley

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Hate crimes hit the North ShoreBy Giselle Barkley

Two hate crimes have occurred in Sound Beach and Rocky Point in the last two weeks.

While the Suffolk County Police Department arrested a North Shore teen for spray painting swastikas on two cars, two houses, a retaining wall and a stop sign in Rocky Point, Suffolk County police are still investigat-ing another incident in which someone painted “ISIS” on a Muslim family’s car earlier this month.

The Sound Beach family reported the incident on Friday, Jan. 8. According to police, the family said the suspect could have spray painted their car between Wednesday, Jan. 6, and the day they reported the in-cident. The car was parked in the family’s driveway on Mitchell Drive.

“ISIS” was also written on a stop sign on the same block.Suffolk County police commissioner Tim Sini said

these types of crimes rarely happen in Sound Beach, which is a generally safe area. With the community’s sparse criminal history, the hate crime shocked many Sound Beach residents.

“We’re really distraught over this,” said Bea Ruberto, president of the Sound Beach Civic Association. “This is a general feeling in the community. It’s rightly called a hate crime.”

As one of the community’s liaisons, Sgt. Patrick Kelly informed the association of the incident last Monday, Jan. 11. According to Sini, police are working with a task force to help reach out to Muslim leaders in the county. Sini added that police are working with other groups in light of this incident and will keep an eye on social media to “get ahead of any trends.”

On Dec. 17 of last year, police held a summit to discuss increasing rhetoric and safety concerns in the commu-nity. According to Sini, officials discovered a Facebook group that encouraged individuals to assault Muslim women by removing their head coverings. Officials held the summit to help educate Muslim women about the threat and teach them how to avoid an assault.

The Sound Beach hate crime was one of two hate crimes that happened in the past two weeks, as on Fri-day, Jan. 15, police arrested North Shore teen Christopher Collins and charged him with two counts of aggravated harassment and five counts of making graffiti after he allegedly spray painted swastikas on homes, cars and a street sign in Rocky Point.

Collins, 18, allegedly made graffiti on two vehicles, one of which was a Bobcat, and street signs on Clio Road. Police said they found more graffiti, including images of swastikas, in the area. A swastika was spray painted on a house and on a retaining wall on Garden Road and graffiti was found along Locust Drive.

Collins, who lives in the neighborhood, has been charged with two counts of first-degree aggravated ha-rassment and five counts of making graffiti. Attorney information for the defendant was not available.

“Hate crimes are particularly egregious types of crime,” Sini said. “It’s an attempt to attack the very foundation of our society.”

Police are still conducting an investigation for the in-cident in Sound Beach. Detective Sgt. James Brierton of the Hate Crimes department added that they don’t have any leads. Commissioner Sini is asking anyone with in-formation about the incident to call their local precinct or contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS.

Photo above from the SCPD; photo on right by Giselle Barkley above left, Christopher Collins was arrested for spray paint-ing swastikas in rocky Point. above right, “isis” is written on a stop sign in sound Beach.

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BY DESIRÉE KEEGAN

Don’t let its size fool you — the North Shore United Methodist Church in Wading River may be small, but the variety of out-reach and support programs it has reaches across the Island.

“Sometimes there are certain people who are going through a di� cult time and I think extending a hand and caring helps restore some hope that things are going to be okay,” said Diane Burkhardt, a member of the church for 11 years who is a retired Shore-ham-Wading River middle school teacher. “People are so appreciative and thankful, which makes the whole expe-rience gratifying and ful� ll-ing. It makes you really ap-preciate what you have, which is humbling.”

Burkhardt said she is for-tunate enough to be the team leader for the church’s outreach program, working on volunteer e� orts like the Help-ing Hands Fund, which includes a food pantry that assists about 50 families in the Shoreham-Wading River area on a regular basis, and its back-to-school project, which provided school supplies to 30 children in need this past September.

Volunteers also deliver food to people’s homes, drive those in need to doctor’s ap-pointments, help out with the church’s thri� shop, and deliver meals to and spend time with residents of Maureen’s Haven, a shelter service for homeless adults on the East End.

“Food is tangible, but what comes with it is the intangible quality of hope,” Bur-khardt said. “I’m one of a dozen or so ac-tive members that are retired and put in a lot of hours because we feel we were all giv-en gi� s and skills that can be put to good use helping people.”

Linda McCall, of Center Moriches, has

been attending North Shore United Meth-odist for four years and said she most enjoys spending her time helping those at Mau-reen’s Haven in Riverhead, while also vol-unteering through Helping Hands to pro-vide gi� s to children and meals to families around Christmas.

“It’s a very small church, and for such a small church we have so many outreach programs going that I found it almost im-possible not to get involved,” she said. “It’s one of the things that keep me happy to be here on the Island. I moved here from Las

Vegas, so I don’t have any family here, and the church has become my family. Vol-unteering � lls my days with joy and happiness.”

Priscilla Hartman, a Shoreham resident who has been attending services for the last 35 years, said that as the church’s team leader for

its membership care program, she � nds it rewarding when she can help someone.

� e program helps church members get to the pharmacy when they are temporarily ill, don’t have transportation or otherwise can’t leave the house. Volunteers also cook for them or clean their houses.

“It’s a great feeling when we’re helping a homeless person or someone who is down on their luck and seeing them get back on their feet,” she said. “I’m glad that my church is very ministry-oriented. I think it’s a good way for us to act. We’re a small church, but there’s nothing too large for us to take on.”

One example is the church’s partnering with Life and Hope Haiti, an organization founded by Lucia Anglade of West Babylon, who formed the Eben Ezer School in her hometown of Milot, Haiti.

Donna Eddy, who runs a cra� group and is also involved with Maureen’s Haven and the thri� shop, said it’s these relationships

people make with other community mem-bers and those they help that count in life and de� ne who they are.

“I think we are all wired to need and to learn from each other,” she said. “You can’t love, have forgiveness, experience kindness, faithfulness and unsel� shness unless you’re involved in the community. People need other people.”

And one person everyone at North Shore United Methodist agreed they need, is Burkhardt.

“She has an incredible amount of en-ergy and her enthusiasm is infectious,” Pastor Hal Low said. “Nothing ever seems to daunt her. She’s an inspiration to others, including myself.”

Eddy agrees.“She’s focused, driven and she makes

you want to be the best that you can be and give all that you can, because that’s what she does,” she said. “She’s a wonderful model She gives sel� essly her time, her energy. If you need something, Diane will be there. You can count on her.”

But Burkhardt doesn’t want to take any

of the credit, because she said without the rest of the organization, there would be no outreach ministry.

“I’m part of a whole congregation and I couldn’t do anything alone,” she said, adding that other churchgoers also help by recycling cans and bottles to raise money for lunches for the children in Haiti for instance. Mem-bers are also currently providing dinner to children whose parents are both in the hospi-tal while the father is ill, and have been help-ing transport a man in Bellport, previously of Maureen’s Haven and a home in Middle Is-land, to and from Sunday services since 2011.

Burkhardt said that she frequently recalls things Shoreham resident and longtime churchgoer Doris Olson used to tell her when she was heavily involved in outreach in her younger years.

“Whenever I’m dealing with someone that can maybe be hard to deal with, she al-ways said, ‘God made that person, too,’ and that brings me right back in touch with what I’m really doing and why I’m going it,” Bur-khardt said. “Every day, try to be a blessing to someone else.”

Wading River’s small church gives in big ways

Photo left by Giselle Barkley; photos above and below from Hal Low Left, the North Shore United Methodist Church in Wading River is involved in a myriad of projects from helping its church members to the needy across Long Island, like getting together food for the less fortunate during the holidays, above, and helping children in Haiti. Diane Burkhardt, a member of the church for the last 11 years, is seen below smiling with children she helps through the organization Life and Hop Haiti.

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“The elimination of the GEA has been a top priority of mine since it was imposed,” LaValle said. “It has hurt our students and increased costs for taxpayers. The bill we passed completely abolishes the GEA this year and ends its devastating impact on state funding to public schools.”

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Rocky Point Middle School sixth-graders are working on cutting-edge, ground-breaking scientific research through the school’s Gifted and Talented Education program.

As part of a DNA extraction and analy-sis procedure, the students are studying the DNA sequence of a specific gene of the Allegheny ants located in the Rocky Point Pine Barrens behind the school. With the help of Aleida Perez and Amanda Horn from Brookhaven National Lab, students are looking for bacterial DNA, which may be associated with the ants.

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Two incumbents and two newcom-ers were gunning for three positions as Port Jefferson Free Library trustees last Wednesday, at a time when the library is working on plans to expand its facilities.

The library announced on its website that Trustee Susan Prechtl-Loper was re-elected to the board with 129 votes and newcomers Carl Siegel — who once served on the board in the late 1990s — and Joel Rosenthal were elected with 135

votes and 126 votes, respectively.President Laura Hill Timpanaro lost

her re-election bid, garnering only 77 votes, according to Tom Donlon, the in-terim library director.

Being the top two vote-getters, Siegel and Prechtl-Loper won five-year terms on the board, while third-place win-ner Rosenthal won a two-year stint that became available after former Trustee Harriet Martin vacated her spot on the board with the time still left on her term.

The library has recently acquired two properties adjacent to its corner building at Thompson and East Main streets in downtown Port Jefferson — a residential property on Thompson and a business on East Main — and is working on de-veloping those properties to help satisfy the library’s parking and general needs.

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Panthers put a stop to eight-game losing streak

Photos by Desirée Keegan Clockwise from left, Danielle Bamnola maintains possession in the paint; Elizabeth Corbin races into East Hampton’s zone; Victoria Iavarone moves the ball downcourt; and Jess Powers makes a pass.

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The Miller Place girls’ basketball team snapped an eight-game losing streak with its first win since early December and sec-ond League VI win of the season, in a 61-18 victory over East Hampton Tuesday.

Most of the girls’ losses over that

streak were close, with the girls losing by four to six points in half of them.

The Panthers’ last win was a 57-32 win over East Hampton on Dec. 11, and since then, the girls have shown they’ve improved by allowing fewer points and tacking on more against the Bonackers this time around.

Senior Milan Hatcher started the game off with two points, and nearly four minutes went by before the next points were put on the board. This time, it was East Hampton scoring a three-pointer, which the Bonackers followed

with a long field goal to take a 5-2 lead.At the 3:02 mark, junior Elizabeth

Corbin scored a field goal to pull within one point, and senior Jess Powers tacked on a layup with 1:33 left in the first quarter to give the team a lead it would never relinquish. Sophomore Kelli Ryan scored a layup after a turnover and soph-omore Victoria Iavarone swished one free-throw point to give the Panthers a 9-5 lead at the end of eight minutes.

Miller Place was forcing turnovers and stealing passes, but both teams were victims of traveling, and both had trou-ble getting their shots to fall.

Those errors continued into the sec-ond stanza, leaving Miller Place unable to score for nearly the first two minutes of play, while the Panthers held East Hamp-ton scoreless across the full eight minutes.

With 6:12 remaining, sophomore Jil-lian Patterson broke the ice with a long two-point field goal. A minute later, se-nior Danielle Bamnola scored a layup, and seconds after that, Iavarone tacked on another two points to extend her team’s lead to 15-5.

Corbin netted a field goal, while Bam-nola added two free-throw points and Hatcher added another, to bring the halftime score to 20-5.

From there, it was smooth sailing for the Panthers as their shots began to fall in the second half.

Miller Place nearly doubled its first-half score in the third quarter alone, tacking on 17 more points while holding its opponent to five, and lit up the score-board even more in the fourth, with 24 points to East Hampton’s eight.

Bamnola led all scorers with 15 points. Hatcher finished with 12 and Patterson contributed 11. Corbin tallied eight points on the evening, Powers, Ryan and sopho-more Kaylee Deleva added four points apiece and Iavarona rounded out the scor-ing with three points on the evening.

The Panthers (3-9 overall, 2-6 in con-ference play) are back in action today when they travel to Hampton Bays (6-1 in League VI) for a 5:45 p.m. tipoff.

The Mount Sinai boys’ basketball team traveled to Hampton

Bays Tuesday and easily sank its competition.

Mount Sinai . . . . . . . 64Hampton Bays . . . . . 27

The Rocky Point boys’ basketball team traveled to Westhampton

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OPINION

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

EDITORIALPublic education should come first

The New York State Senate voted last week to eliminate the Gap Elimination Adjustment, and we hope the Assembly follows suit.

The adjustment is a deduction taken out of each school district’s state aid and was intro-duced in 2011 to help state officials close a multibillion dollar budget deficit. Five years later, although the adjustment has seen reductions in recent budget cycles, Sen. Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) says the state is still withholding $434 million from districts.

There have been unsuccessful efforts to elimi-nate the Gap Elimination Adjustment in the past but with Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R-East Northport), the former chairman of the Senate’s education committee, sponsoring the bill to end it this time around, we are optimistic.

The adjustment was an unfair move that has hit students and educators everywhere hard — the billions of dollars taken from our schools over the last five years could have gone toward enhancing or adding academic courses, buying updated textbooks or making improvements to buildings and athletic fields. The money could have helped educators better implement the new Common Core curriculum and the mandates that went along with it.

Helping to fund education is one of the most important services the state government pro-vides. Aside from the crucial task of shaping the future contributors to our society, the state’s school aid helps even the playing field by equip-ping poorer districts with the means to provide a level of education comparable to what wealthier districts can give their students, even without aid. To yank some of that money out from un-derneath them is wrong.

Not doubt securing a financial plan is important to the well-being of a state, but education should not suffer in the search for a balanced budget.

We call upon the Assembly to pass Senate bill S6377 and upon Gov. Andrew Cuomo to support that effort, for the betterment of our children.

File photoThe Senate voted to stop cutting short the amount of state aid school districts have been getting for the past five years.

Students come in all shapes and sizesTO THE EDITOR:

As an assistant professor and mentor at SUNY Empire State College, I was very interested to read your recent article entitled, “Tips for adult students returning to school” (Jan. 14) and applaud your encouragement for this im-portant and often neglected group of students.

At Empire, it has been our mis-sion to work with this population since 1971, and we are committed to enabling motivated adults to begin, or continue pursuing their

educational goals. Our students are able to earn an associate, bachelor or graduate degree in a uniquely supportive and flexible atmosphere at our locations in Old Westbury, Hauppauge and Riverhead.

In addition, we offer the ability for our students to translate their life and work experience into col-lege credit through our system of prior learning assessment.

Students work one-on-one with a dedicated, experienced aca-demic adviser, and meet with their course instructors individually, at their convenience. Empire is transfer friendly, and offers afford-able tuition and a well-respected SUNY degree.

Whether they work full time or part time, taking care of their fam-ily or working in the workplace, we have a program that fits their needs, and offers personalized, convenient and affordable study options at the Long Island Center.

As a respected leader in adult learning, SUNY Empire State College helps adults achieve their educational goals through in-dependent learning, rather than the sometimes restrictive college classroom setting.

I am a longtime resident of Mount Sinai, and have taught at Empire for the past 10 years.

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A young team savors winning moments

The team moves as a unit, wearing the same clothes, often with the same hair-

styles and even, on occasion, with the same walk or swagger.

They laugh together, lean on each other, share embraces and confess their inadequacies.

“I was terrible,” one of them said, while she took a restor-ative homemade brownie from a friend.

“You’ll get ’em next game,” her friend suggested. “We’re back on in 15 minutes.”

We took our daughter to a regional volleyball competition in Pennsylvania recently, where teenagers from all over the area trekked in packed cars to bump, set and spike together.

The weekend presented an opportunity for our children to play a sport they love, while it was also a chance for parents to squirm, squeal and celebrate alongside them.

The younger generation exuded joy and confidence. After every point in teenage volleyball, the girls cheer, offer a quick huddle and then return to their positions on the floor.

Our team developed its own ritual after long points in which it emerged victorious. The players all jumped straight up in the air, then met in the middle of the floor to celebrate the hard-won point.

When they’re not on a volley-ball court, these children mostly move around individually, even if

they can stay in touch with friends and family on their phones and through social media. They don’t take tests together, they don’t study together — most of the time — and they don’t have a common goal. Sure, they might all wish each other the best but, ultimately, they learn on their own and suc-ceed individually.

Modern team sports which, admittedly, take an extreme commitment of time and money, have also created opportuni-ties to make memories, to grow together and, for the moment at least, to share a goal that is bigger than any one person.

That, of course, isn’t limited to sports. That can be true of a mu-sic group where everyone creates the kind of live performance that reverberates in audiences’ minds long after the instruments are put back in their cases and the musi-cians return to their homes and their homework.

The unbridled and shared joy in the moment is akin to witnessing the flames of a

dancing campfire high in the mountains on a starlit night. During these matches there are no tests, no boyfriends, no wor-ries about college, no concerns about acne, no wardrobe mis-fires and no helicopter parents. There is only the euphoria of the moment, the ecstasy that comes from pulling together and going toe-to-toe with another team and, at least in that second and for that point, emerging victorious. It’s not even about winning the gold medal or even a match.

My daughter’s team defeated one of its opponents easily, winning two games by a wide margin. The other team, how-ever, won several exciting points and, despite the lopsided score and the unbalanced skill sets, celebrated every point with the same energy as if it had achieved something remarkable. And who’s to say it didn’t? The games presented ample opportunities for victories that were indepen-dent of the final scores.

Parents were as emotionally spent after exciting matches as their children, as they cheered, clapped, pranced nervously along the sidelines, and hooped and hollered. They basked in their children’s successes and encouraged them to find a way to triumph, where the margin of victory often seemed to reflect perseverance and determination as much as it did genuine skills.

In our lives, we have become so focused on our goals for to-morrow and plans for our future journey that we don’t always get to stand up and celebrate the moment. All weekend, moth-ers, fathers, sisters, brothers and a community of new friends celebrated a common goal of finding and sharing the best in each other.

The games presented ample opportunities for

victories.

Breaking the sound of silence

This story may be of help to others in a similar situation. That is why my

lifetime friend gave me permis-sion to share what was a family secret. He is one of four siblings — three brothers and a sister — and three of them had long ago stopped talking with the

fourth. Why this happened isn’t important to the account. There are certainly plenty of disagree-ments and aggravations within families. But the one brother felt so pained that he refused to speak to the others and they all fell into a thick silence.

It’s like a game of dominos, this kind of walling off. As the adults refused to talk to one another, their children, in-laws, different aunts, uncles and cousins all drifted apart, pulled by what they felt was a sense of loyalty to whichever of the an-gry ones was the closest relative. And it was easy to separate. The four lived in different parts of the country: the estranged one in Oregon, one in California, one in Texas and my friend and his wonderful wife here in Long Island. I call her “wonderful” because she is the heroine of the story, the one who finally broke

the logjam. Out of the blue, one day

some months ago, she asked her husband, “If James died, would you go to his funeral?”

Her husband looked up in astonishment and replied, “Of course! He is my brother.”

“Well, he hasn’t died, so what do you say we go visit him?”

Her husband hesitated. “I don’t know. I’d have to think about that. What if he didn’t want to see us?”

“I’ll email him right now and tell him we are coming. Let’s see what he says.” With that she quickly left the room to find her cellphone and to cut short any objection. She sent the message and they waited. And waited. Several days passed. They made up reasons why he hadn’t answered — out of town, email down, hadn’t checked his computer. Other reasons weren’t

pretty to contemplate.Then they got a flurry of

messages, each with something planned for their visit. He had made reservations here, gotten tickets there, suggested a drive together to a nearby destina-tion. They read the emails joyfully. Clearly he wanted them to come. After registering the explicit and also the underly-ing messages, they went to the phone and called the other two siblings, asking if they would join the visit. Immediately the others agreed to go.

During a week last summer they all met for the first time in over a decade and immediately fell to again being brothers and sister. They didn’t bother to speak about what had originally angered them. It didn’t matter. What was important was to be in the moment, enjoying each other, catching up on so much news.

When the week was over, they made sure to plan for their next get-together. The rock that had weighed them down was lifted. They had found each other again, reconnected the family and were moving into the future, stronger for being together.

It just took one brave outreach, a willingness to be rejected for a greater good, to bring them all home again, at least in their hearts. I love my friend for being that brave one, the first to say, “That’s enough, there isn’t that much time left, the time has come to take down the wall.”

Blessed is the peacemaker. And so she is.

It just took one brave outreach.

D. None of the aboveby DaNiel DuNaief

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