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People Of The Year • BROOKHAVEN EditiON

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Tom Meehan is the kind of principal who would give a child the clothes off his back — literally.

When he saw an Edna Louise Spear Elementary School stu-dent was not wearing a jacket, the Port Jefferson principal took off the one he had on and gave it to the boy to wear home.

“He understands that it’s about the kids — that they’re the priority,” school board President Kathleen Brennan said, adding that Meehan goes “above the call of duty to make sure kids get what they need.”

For his dedication to Port Jefferson’s kids and the greater community, Tom Meehan is the Village Times Herald’s Person of the Year.

Meehan was hired for the 2011-12 school year, originally

on an interim basis. District officials expected to hire a per-manent elementary principal, but soon found the best choice was right under their noses.

Tony Butera, a longtime kin-dergarten teacher at Edna Lou-ise Spear, has worked under a bunch of principals in his time there, but said Meehan has “a nice sense of what Port Jeff is supposed to be about.”

“He just sees it as, these are his kids,” Butera said.

Early on in Meehan’s time in Port Jefferson, there was an issue with one of the bus routes and it was running late. Brennan said the principal “got on the bus, rode the bus around the route and reassured the parents at ev-ery stop about why they were late and what happened.”

That leadership instinct is not something that can be taught, Brennan said.

“Tom has … what I call ‘horse sense’ about what school administration is about.”

One initiative Meehan started in the elementary school is a safety patrol for the fifth-graders to teach them responsibil-ity. Among their activities, they help with dismissal, making sure younger kids get onto the school buses.

School board member Ellen Boehm, a former district em-ployee, said it gives the kids a sense that “what they did was important.” And for the less outgoing kids, she added, “He built them up during their time as a safety leader.”

Meehan, a longtime volun-teer for the Port Jefferson Fire Department, was also respon-sible for starting the tradition of elementary school kids singing at the fire department’s annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony.

Brennan said the experience is significant for the kids who at-tend, and they’ve been able to see Meehan in uniform a few times.

It’s “important to see adults have other roles in the commu-nity,” she said.

Christian Neubert has worked alongside Meehan both in the school district, where he is a music teacher, and as a volunteer for the Port Jefferson Fire Department. He said the 9/11 ceremony is not the only way Meehan bridges the school and the department — he also gets firefighters involved in the school’s evacuation drills, and some high school kids now in the junior firefighter program had Meehan as a principal and look up to him at the firehouse.

Neubert, a lieutenant, noted Meehan is still qualified to fight fires inside buildings, despite

Elementary school principal does what’s best for kids and his community

MEEHAN continued on page A28

Tom Meehan is all smiles with returning students on the first day of school last year.

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to continue an annual tradition of honoring members of the community who have contributed in a significant manner to its residents and institu-tions during the past year.

These are the people who go the extra mile to improve the quality of our lives. In these pages, we salute their achievements. We also realize that these men and women are not unique. They are symbolic of the many who devote their efforts to the good of our hometowns. We salute them all and thank them for their service to the community we all love.

Two years ago, we changed the format of how we honor our People of the Year. Now we have one edition for each of the three towns we cover — Brookhaven, Smithtown and Huntington — combining winners from multiple papers.

We also eliminated the categories we previously used to organize the winners, such as medicine, sports or the arts, as we found that they were limiting us in how we were able to honor people. Every winner is simply a person of the year, no matter what their concentration. And instead of

having an overall man and woman of the year gracing our front page, we will just have one overall winner, regardless of gender or affiliation.

We hope you enjoy our People of the Year issue, and that you feel an enhanced pride in our hometown.

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Librarian keeps Three Village informedBy Giselle Barkley

She is the librarian’s librarian and one of Emma S. Clark Memorial Library’s longest-serving employees.

Throughout her 30 years at the East Se-tauket library, reference librarian Carolyn Emerson, 61, can find almost anything, her colleagues said. But it’s her involve-ment with the library and caring attitude that’s made her an intricate part of the li-brary and the community, and that is why the Village Times Herald selected her as a Person of the Year in 2015.

Every other Wednesday, this soft-spoken librarian has organized the library’s senior bus program, which transports to the li-brary senior residents who would otherwise be unable to go to the library. Although she didn’t start the program, Emerson took over the program to help these seniors.

She also used her position at the library and her knowledge of Three Village his-tory to organize and create programs like last year’s Culper Spy Day, which paid homage to the community’s ties to spy rings during the Revolutionary War.

On June 20, 2014, the library held its first Culper Spy Day program, where res-idents could learn about the Revolution-ary War, the Culper Spy Ring and its ties to Long Island. Three Village Historian Bev Tyler, of Three Village Historical So-ciety, helped organize the event and said Emerson established a user-friendly site to spread the word about the spy ring

throughout the community.“She’s a very community-oriented

[person] and easy to work with,” Ty-ler said. “She really makes the library a good common resource for more than just books and videos, but also history.”

Her efforts to inform the community stemmed from a desire to share her vast array of knowledge with others and help those in need, those close to her said. And her hard work is not only for the bigger programs, but also for little tasks that ac-company her title as a reference librarian in Emma S. Clark’s Adult section.

“Whenever anybody comes up to the reference desk, she just gives it 110 per-cent,” said co-worker Jennifer Mullen, the public relations manager and community outreach librarian. “She doesn’t stop look-ing until she finds it either, and everybody appreciates that. She digs deep.”

Mullen met Emerson a little more than 10 years ago. They worked side-by-side as reference librarians. Now, Mullen works alongside Teen Services Librarian Na-nette Feder, who also commended Em-erson for her insight on art, local history and literature, and dedication to her work and the community members she serves.

Emerson’s husband, Mark Rothen-berg, said his wife comes from a line of people who share her tenacity and need to give back to their community.

Emerson’s mother was recognized for her work following Hurricane Andrew, building homes for storm victims. Her fa-

ther, a psychiatrist who ran a family clinic, counseled families in the Miami area. While her parents did their part to actively help those around them, they encouraged a young Carolyn Emerson and her siblings to be compassionate and stand up for them-selves and their beliefs, Rothenberg said.

Emerson was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010. Despite the diagnosis, chemotherapy and surgery, Emerson re-mained resilient. She was cleared of can-cer the following year and continued her work inside and outside the library.

“Many times, I’m in awe of her,” said Rothenberg, who works as the head of the Patchogue-Medford Library’s Celia M. Hastings Local History Room. “She’s been through a lot, including cancer.”

In addition to being a reference librar-

ian, Emerson has also worked as a pub-lished poet. She has written poems in both English and French for publication.

The librarian has also overseen poetry and book discussions, which are a hit among residents, her coworkers said.

Mullen said Emerson acquired a large following for her evening book discus-sions and monthly poetry meetings. Her ability to listen appears to be one of Em-erson’s many positive qualities that help further assist those who request her help, Mullen said.

While Feder didn’t pinpoint a specific moment illustrating Emerson’s charac-ter, she said, “It’s just how she works ev-eryday at the library. She could be on a reference desk [or] helping a member of the library.”

Photo by Dianne TrautmannCarolyn emerson, left, leads a discussion at emma s. Clark Memorial library.

Turano takes Three Village history to another levelBy susan risoli

Setauket resident Frank Turano delves deeply into local history. He uncovers compelling stories of everyday people and brings those tales alive for the rest of us to share. For that reason, and for his ongoing service to the Three Village Historical Society as board member and past president, Turano is one of the Vil-lage Times Herald’s People of the Year.

Beverly Tyler, the historical society’s historian, said he has known Turano since the early 1970s. He described Tura-no’s leadership in unearthing details about Chicken Hill, the area of Route 25A around the current-day Setauket Methodist Church. It was once a thriving community of immigrants who helped each other make a new life in America. An exhibit about Chicken Hill is now on display at the Historical Society’s head-quarters in Setauket. Tyler said Turano, who is manager of the Chicken Hill project and curator of the exhibit, led the search for the community’s almost-forgotten past and wrote a successful funding proposal to create the exhibit. “He’s there almost every single weekend, to give tours of the exhibit,” Tyler said. He and Turano traveled in September to the annual meeting of the American Association for State and Local History, where the Chicken Hill exhibit received

the association’s highest distinction, the Award of Merit.

Karen Martin, archivist for the Histori-cal Society, said Turano leads the organi-zation’s Rhodes Committee. At the group’s weekly meetings in the Emma Clark Pub-lic Library, Martin said, Turano facilitates the group’s far-ranging and free-wheeling conversations about the history of our area, and then mines the discussions for ideas to dig into. “The big names, like the Ward Melvilles, make the headlines,” Martin said. “But Frank also wants to know about everyone who lived in a community, the everyday person, the guy who owned the general store.” If a historical topic comes up in a Rhodes committee meeting, Mar-tin said, Turano “wants to know all the details. He’ll say, “Who’s going to know about this? Let’s give them a call.’”

Turano also volunteers for the Society’s annual Candlelight House Tour every De-cember, Martin said. He explains the his-tory of houses on the tour, she said, and in general “he loves to give presentations.”

Local resident Hub Edwards, who has worked with Turano on many history projects, said, “If people want to know history, they should listen to him. He goes to great lengths to get the true story of a project, with no shortcuts.” Edwards said Turano is always featured in the Historical Society’s annual “Spirits” tour of local graveyards, dressed as one of the

historical figures highlighted by the tour. Turano also frequently writes scripts for the tour’s performances, Edwards said.

Turano’s daughter Alyssa said her fa-ther is now combing through the archives of the Long Island Museum. He’s working on an exploration of the Long Island whal-ing shipbuilding industry, she said, “focus-ing on Mr. Cooper, one specific whale ship builder who lived in the 1800s.” Turano is finding out about Cooper’s life by reading his diaries and looking over ship construc-tion work logs. Alyssa said her father has been excitedly sharing stories with her and

his friends, about the buried gems of his-tory he is finding.

“Not everyone appreciates history in the way that he does,” she said. “It’s very inspiring. When you are so passionate about history, you can make it come alive again.” Her father is committed to finding out as much as he can about local history, she said, because he believes strongly that “not all of these people have had their sto-ries told.” And he has told her, she said, that “it’s better to know the back story, so you can know how your community has changed throughout time.”

Photo from Beverly TylerFrank Turano leads an interactive discussion delving into the history of Three Village.


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They’ve covered a lot of ground — and water — in their first year, but members of the Setauket Harbor Task Force are only getting started.

The all-volunteer Setauket Harbor Task Force, led by residents and cofound-ers Laurie Vetere and George Hoffman, held its first general meeting on Oct. 29 of 2014, and meetings have grown to host nearly 100 residents. Since the first meeting, members of the group have become a known force for North Shore environmentalism, and their efforts have washed upon the shores of civic leaders, elected officials and beyond.

The group has spent the past year studying the harbor, influencing the public debate surrounding it and garner-ing public support for its preservation and sustainability.

For their contributions to the North Shore’s environmental discussion, mem-bers of the Setauket Harbor Task Force have been named 2015 Village Times Herald People of the Year.

On the ground level, civic members in the Setauket and Stony Brook com-munities have become big fans of the Setauket Harbor Task Force and have continuously teamed up with the group to help promote its mission of preserv-ing the communities’ waterways. Shawn Nuzzo, president of the Civic Associa-tion of the Setaukets and Stony Brook, said he stood behind the Task Force’s work with hopes that it could help bring back a strong and vibrant Long Island economy based on the sustainable har-vesting of coastal shorelines.

“We have a sordid and shameful his-tory of polluting our Long Island water-ways,” Nuzzo said. “For years, scientists and environmentalists have been warn-ing of the harmful effects of nitrogen and other contaminants in our water. But it is only relatively recently that the politicians have begun discussing reme-diating the situation, thanks in part to advocacy groups like the Setauket Har-

bor Task Force.”The Task Force has been hosting reg-

ular walking tours of the harbor and its surrounding environmental beauties with hopes of reminding the community just how important it is to maintain.

Some of the group’s key concerns have included making sure the town pays at-tention to the road runoff retention ba-sin that forms near the inlet at Setauket Harbor and maintaining park property just to the west of the area’s footbridge.

The Task Force also launched its first Setauket Harbor Day, back in Septem-ber — a free event held at the Shore Road dock, established to inspire the com-munity to join the Force in its efforts to clean and preserve the harbor.

Since the group’s inception, members have been working hand-in-hand with elected officials from various levels of government, and so far their messages have been heard loud and clear.

State Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) has been a consistent voice in the North Shore’s environmental dis-cussion, having held previous positions as a geologist and biologist before be-coming a public servant. And with his expertise, Englebright referred to the Se-tauket Harbor Task Force as the epicen-ter of community pride that has made a tremendous impact on the North Shore.

“We have a sense of purpose now to work between our civic community and the town and the state — it’s just wonderful,” he said. “I guess everybody would hope that government would do all of this on its own, but the additional attention and focus being brought by cit-izens who have taken this initiative on is just terrific. So my sense is that by estab-lishing the Setauket Harbor Task Force, and providing a forum where issues that relate to the overall health of the ecosys-tem in our harbor can be discussed, we have a matter of focus.”

The group has received support from Brookhaven officials as well.

Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) said the Task Force represented the best

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and recognizing a common problem and looking to make a positive difference,” Romaine said. “We are prepared to spend money to enact some of the things they are trying to achieve. This is a commit-ment and what helps us is that we have partners on the local level — people who step up to the plate.”

Town Councilwoman Valerie Car-tright (D-Port Jefferson Station) echoed the same sentiments after spending the year working closely with the Task Force.

“The formation of the Setauket Har-bor Task Force is a significant step in addressing some of the environmental concerns in the area,” she said. “It is a vehicle for the community to work to-gether to assist in preserving our harbor and improving our water quality. I thank the members of the Task Force for all of

their hard work to bring awareness of the needs of the Harbor to the community. I had the privilege of attending the first Setauket Harbor Day this past summer, which I believe was a success, as it was both entertaining and educational.”

Looking ahead, Englebright said he’d hope to see the group follow through in working with the Town of Brookhaven to see what kinds of progress can be achieved in addressing road runoff is-sues and restoring the ecological bal-ance of some of the most disrupted areas along the harbor.

“The fact that the town is planning to dredge the basin is, in part, a response to the initiative of local citizens,” Eng-lebright said. “That partnership is really all too rare, and it’s ideally what govern-ment should be doing. I hope the town continues to realize that this is a won-derful and promising partnership.”

File photosTop, a view of setauket harbor. Bottom, members of the setauket harbor Task Force work alongside government officials near the water earlier this year.


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Our November general membership meeting was a delicious Italian buff et luncheon, with 40 some Chamber members crowded into Mario’s private dining room. Th e room was abuzz with a dozen little networking business conversations. Our Executive Director David Woods was up front trying to do what’s a diffi cult job at Chamber meet-ings, trying to get everyone to stop talking and sit down. A gavel was up there. Drinking glasses were clicked together. No responses. Th en long-time Chamber member Ken Kroncke who also was up front getting ready to moderate the program, about shopping locally, saw THE BELL. It’s a big, loud clanging bell built into the Rotary podium we were borrowing for the meeting. It took the bell’s clang-ing to start the meeting.

Th e networking conversation helps individuals grow their own businesses. And, it helps the com-munity because there’s always a lot of talk about community events, etc. Th e networking works because the Chamber is small enough that new members and old get to know each other quickly. And, new members move into leadership positions quickly. Together, Chamber members are repre-sentative of enough varied interests and organiza-tions that the networking leads to concrete results,, including campus and off campus interaction since we’re the whole community’s Chamber, Stony Brook University included. Th at makes Chamber membership valuable to both individuals and the community.

Right now, 150 Village Times Herald readers are active Chamber members. Several hundred others are involved, past or prospective mem-bers who have not yet paid Chamber dues for the coming year. Chamber Membership Committee Chairman David Gersch from Omega Planning Associates in Setauket would like to hear from you if you’d like to activate your 2016 membership now: [email protected] Or, just go to www.3vchamber.com and enroll for 2016 there via Pay Pal/a credit card.

Be with us for new year activities that will start with a January Basketball Night at Stony Brook University and a month long Shop Locally Program in February.

Happy New Year. Andy Polan, President, 3Village Chamber of Commerce


LaValle makes lasting impact on North ShoreBy Daniel Dunaief

Quality health care and, to hear state Sen. Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) de-scribe it, home cooking, are good for the body, mind, soul and community. That’s the argument the Republican senator has been making for years on behalf of Stony Brook Medical Center and its hospital.

After the university lost out earlier this year on a partnership with Peconic Bay Medical Center, which agreed to team up with North Shore-LIJ, the long-time local senator has continued his unflagging support of Stony Brook, par-ticularly with Mather Hospital.

“If we think of a wheel, the hub of a wheel and the local community hospitals are its spokes,” LaValle said, with Stony Brook at the center. “This is my vision and one that I think is good for the peo-ple I represent” to allow them to have the “best quality health care” close to home.

For his consistent and long-term ef-forts to lend the support of his office to an important area institution, and for the passion and dedication he has shown to the residents of the region for close to four decades, LaValle is a Village Times Herald Man of the Year.

Stony Brook officials appreciated La-Valle’s work on their behalf and sug-gested that he played a seminal role in keeping the ongoing relationship with Southampton Hospital on track.

“It took perseverance to continue to

push the Southampton relationship with Stony Brook through,” said Reuven Pas-ternak, the CEO of Stony Brook Univer-sity Hospital. “He was absolutely critical in keeping those discussions going and seeing them to fruition.”

Pasternak said LaValle also facilitated a connection with Eastern Long Island Hospital.

LaValle has been “a big supporter” of that relationship, Pasternak said. “He’s always made himself available to speak to people in Albany.”

Indeed, LaValle was instrumental in the building of the new Medicine and Research Translation building, a 240,000-square foot facility that is ex-pected to be completed in 2016.

Kenneth Kaushansky, the dean of the School of Medicine and the senior vice president of health sciences, said LaValle helped secure critical state financing.

LaValle identified $45 million that was earmarked for a law school at Stony Brook that was never built that he “was able get reallocated,” said Kaushansky. “The state support for MART was hugely dependent on the senator.”

Kaushansky said he and LaValle have regular discussions about any potential issues that arise.

If things aren’t proceeding the way the university would like, LaValle “al-ways volunteers to help put them back on track.”

State Assemblyman Steve Englebright

(D-Setauket) said LaValle deserves rec-ognition for his work on behalf of Stony Brook and all the area hospitals.

“He is firmly supportive of Stony Brook’s role and mission, as well as for all the hospitals in our community,” En-glebright said.

LaValle suggested his role as chair-man of the Senate Committee on Higher Education gives him an opportunity to advocate on behalf of the medical school. His chairmanship provides “a vehicle to

be able to work with other people in the state university system and within state agencies,” he said.

The approximately 129 students in each medical school class contribute to area health care while they pursue their education, LaValle said.

“That is one of the very first helping points for the university,” LaValle said. “It’s being able to fulfill the education of their medical students. There are also

File photo by Barbara DonlonState Sen. Ken laValle works with north Shore elected officials and residents to ensure the community, and greater long island region, have quality health care.

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Stony Brook researchers on front lines of medicineBy Daniel Dunaief

They have a sense of urgency that mo-tivates those around them to push for better results. In fighting against diseas-es that kill millions of people every year, they are doing what they’ve done from the time they left their home country of Lebanon until they arrived at Stony Brook three years ago: they are support-ing their colleagues, recruiting top talent from around the world, and encourag-ing their staff to train and encourage the next generation of researchers.

Yusuf Hannun, the director of the Cancer Center at Stony Brook, and Lina Obeid, the dean for research, continue to build a deep and talented team, adding researchers focused on curing diseases while also developing the next genera-tion of Stony Brook scientists.

The Village Times Herald newspaper recognizes Hannun and Obeid as People of the Year for their day-to-day leader-ship, their discoveries in their labs, and their focus on the future of science at Stony Brook.

“In terms of what they are building at Stony Brook, their vision is to grow that Cancer Center into a NCI-designated Cancer Center,” said Gerard Blobe, a professor of medicine and the research director at the Division of Medical On-cology at Duke University Medical Cen-

ter who earned his Ph.D. in Hannun’s lab more than 20 years ago. They want to make it a “force in clinical care and re-search and training. They have a mission up there and I have no doubt that they’ll accomplish it.”

Indeed, Blobe said the National Can-cer Institute designation is just the “icing on the cake” that enables the center to seek funding for some projects. What’s more important, he said, is “what they will accomplish by getting that prize,” in building and developing Stony Brook’s research abilities.

Scientists in the same field as Hannun were quick to praise his achievements and innovation.

Discoveries by Hannun about sphin-golipids, which are molecules that are in-volved in a range of roles, including cell division, differentiation and cell death, provided key insights.

Hannun “pushed the field into the modern age,” said Tony Futerman, the Joseph Meyerhoff professorial chair of biochemistry at the Weizmann In-stitute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. “He’s been innovative for 30 years in the field. He’s undoubtedly, if not the leader, then a leader. It’s fair to say the same about” Obeid.

In her lab, Obeid, who is the dean for research and a professor of medicine at the Stony Brook School of Medicine, is

exploring the role of enzymes that con-trol molecules that are involved in cell growth and others that play a role in cell death or differentiation.

While Futerman is a competitor to Hannun in some respects, he suggested that Hannun has been instrumental in the careers of many other scientists, developing talented and dedicated re-searchers who have also made significant contributions.

“They are excellent mentors of young-er people,” he said. “There’s a whole school of former post docs who went on to get independent positions. This speaks to their mentorship. They both have the same attitude: they push young people into leadership positions.”

Indeed, those who have worked for Obeid and Hannun in the past suggested that they offered the kind of guidance,

File photosyusuf Hannun, left, and lina Obeid, right, are constantly working to improve their team of dedicated researchers with the hopes of curing complicated diseases.

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“Part of [Hannun’s] success is he’s very good at planning,” said Supriya Jayadev, who was a graduate student in Hannun’s lab at Duke and is now the executive director of Clallam Mosaic in Port Angeles, Washington. “He plans out an experiment such that it works the first time.”

Corinne Linardic was Hannun’s first graduate student. She said someone cautioned her about the risks of joining a new lab. Her first meeting with him, however, quickly allayed her concerns.

“I remember him saying, ‘It’s impor-tant not to look where the light is, but to try to look into the dark and turn the light on,’” she said. “I thought that was very brave.”

Linardic, who is now an associate pro-fessor of pediatrics at Duke University School of Medicine, recalled how they were working on a compound called ce-ramide. Whenever they gave it to cells, the cells died. At first, they thought may-be they were doing something wrong in their experiments. Eventually, Hannun helped her understand that ceramide was activating a form of programmed cell death.

“It wasn’t a mistake or a technical disaster,” Linardic said. “We had to re-

frame the question.” The result was something she described as “profound.”

Linardic said she felt fortunate to work with Obeid, who had a similar un-biased view of the work.

“It was extraordinary to have a fe-male mentor as well,” Linardic said. She and her colleagues felt fortunate to be welcomed into Hannun and Obeid’s family, where they were not only offering guidance on their ca-reers, but also were caring for their young triplets at home.

Linardic, Blobe and Jayadev started just around the time the triplets were born. They were “raising three biological children and three graduate students at the same time,” said Linardic.

While they have come a long way from the beginning of their careers and their family, Hannun and Obeid have kept a consistent focus on the potential clinical benefits of their research.

“They get the translational aspects,” Futerman said. “When [Hannun] moved to Stony Brook to head the Can-cer Center, that was one of the aims for his move, to be in a position where he can apply basic science to translational research.”

Futerman said there was “no question in my mind” that Hannun and Obeid de-serve recognition in the Long Island com-munity and the scientific community.

“They are considered leaders,” Futer-man said. “They contribute a lot to the academic community.”

people doing their clinical work and residencies.”

LaValle is contributing to Stony Brook’s effort to secure a longer-term connection with Mather. He cited numerous such two-way benefits for a potential longer-term alliance.

Stony Brook can provide services that “will save Mather a lot of mon-ey,” LaValle said.

For patients of the two hospitals, the quality and convenience are also a winning combination.

“If someone needs cardiac care, it is a hop, skip and a jump to get that care,” LaValle said. “They don’t have to be helicoptered some place or drive a long time distance.”

Kaushansky appreciated the sup-port from the senator.

“He’s doing everything he can,” Kaushansky said. LaValle has “been a strong proponent of getting us and Mather to work together for the benefit” of the patient popula-tion in the area.

Kaushansky cited several other benefits to Mather of an ongoing and deeper connection with Stony Brook, including support for Mather’s stroke

center with back-up cerebral artery intervention, and support for their radiology department.

While a deeper connection with Mather would be mutually beneficial for the hospitals, LaValle suggested, it would also create an important level of convenience for patients.

“I have started with the premise that patient care closest to home is the best care for the patient,” LaValle said. “The families can interact and it’s convenient. We are focused in a way to ensure that the quality of health care is at its maximum.”

From the leaders through the rank and file, Stony Brook health care professionals appreciate LaVal-le’s support.

“If anybody were to ask a person working in the dialysis unit, ‘Of all the politicians in the state of New York, who do you think is the stron-gest advocate for Stony Brook Medi-cal School and Stony Brook Univer-sity Hospital?’ most of them would say Ken LaValle,” said Kaushansky.

Pasternak, who considers LaValle a friend, called him sincere in his beliefs.

“It’s not the politics that drives him,” Pasternak said. “It’s his pas-sion for the region and the people in the region.”


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“She was full time anyway,” said Maria Polack, secretary to the tax assessor for Brookhaven Town Star Exemption. “She does the work of like five men, for real.”

Polack met Lunde 15 years ago when Lunde started volunteering at the Town of Brookhaven. When it comes to help-ing others, Lunde’s work ethic is second to none. On many occasions, Lunde stayed up all hours of the night into the early morning to work on her many fundrais-ing events. Lunde doesn’t only help orga-nize Brookhaven’s Toy Drive, which helps around 7,000 children around the holi-days, she organizes a variety of events, in-cluding food drives, school supply drives, clothing drives, volunteer programs for se-nior citizen and the prom dress program, to name a few.

Lunde has led the prom program for around three years, according to Diana Weir, commissioner of Brookhaven’s Housing and Human Services depart-

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“She will never complain,” Weir said. “She never says boo.”

While every child who registers for the prom dress program gets special attention, Polack remembers Lunde going above and beyond for one high school student who thought she was too overweight to at-tend her prom. Lunde didn’t only get her a dress, she organized for the student to get her nails and hair done.

“The determination in Josie is bigger than both of us when she makes up her mind that she’s going to help somebody,” Polack said.

Superintendent of Highways Dan Losquadro (R) said Lunde is one who fo-cuses her attention on those in need in the community, especially those who don’t al-ways want to ask for help.

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Vicki Rybak has been serving the Long Island community for more than a decade, known by her friends and co-workers as one of the busiest and most resourceful people they know.

As the director of social ministry and outreach for Infant Jesus R.C. Church in Port Jefferson, Rybak has gone above and beyond her job description. For that rea-son, she has been named a Village Times Herald Person of the Year.

“She is a last resort for a lot of people,” said Debbie Engelhardt, director of the Comsewogue Public Library and a Port Jefferson Rotary Club member.

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“She goes above and beyond what is in her job description,” Fenton added. “There is nothing she won’t do.”

Sharon Brennan, another Rotary Club member, shared an anecdote of working with Rybak. Once, a couple went to her office crying because a fire had destroyed everything they owned.

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Chris Pinkenburg has been trying to get Rocky Point students more interested in math and science. So he created his own robotics club called GearHeadz to do so. Because of this, he has been named a 2015 Village Times Herald Person of the Year.

Pinkenburg, a physicist at Brookhav-en National Laboratory, was inspired to create his own robotics club in the Rocky Point school district after attend-ing an educational symposium at BNL. He thought this was the perfect way to get more students involved in engineer-ing. GearHeadz is a privately run FIRST LEGO League team from Rocky Point.

“For years, he was the one who was

very vocal about how having robotics in the school is important,” said Bea Ru-berto, president of the Sound Beach Civic Association. “Encouraging science and technology is very important for kids.”

Pinkenburg has three children in the Rocky Point school district, all of which have participated in his robotics club at one point.

“He is very passionate about educa-tion,” Wlodek Guryn, Pinkenburg’s col-league at BNL, said. “He wants children to learn as much as possible in school and give them as many opportunities as pos-sible, which is also why he got involved in the robotics club.”

Pinkenburg started to prod his school

Pinkenburg helps make Rocky Point robotics real

Photo from Chris Pinkenburg chris Pinkenburg, far right, with some members of his Rocky Point robotics Gearheadz team.

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district to implement a robotics club into the schools. He eventually formed his own private team that won first place in programming in the quali-fiers the first time they competed. After this, a club was introduced to Rocky Point Middle School with Pinkenburg leading it as a mentor. They even com-peted in a worldwide competition in St. Louis, Mis-souri.

According to Rocky Point Middle School Prin-cipal Scott O’Brien, the school was involved with a program associated with BNL that focused on math and science. There were multiple sections of the pro-gram, one of which was robotics.

“I had put out a survey looking for feedback about the program and the kids noted that the robotics section was their favorite part, and said they ben-efited the most from it,” O’Brien said. “We knew we needed to expand it, and, at the same time, Pinken-burg was there and created this club. A lot of kids are very highly interested in robotics. Over 100 stu-dents came to the first meeting.”

Each year, teams are presented with a new chal-lenge and must try to develop a solution using robot-ics. This year’s theme is Trash Trek, which prompts them to explore the world of trash and invent a solu-tion to help minimize trash issues. They must also build and program a LEGO robot to accomplish trash-themed missions on a playing field and show how well they work together as a team.

“The team has been very successful,” Ruberto said. “They won last year’s Long Island Champion-ship and went on to compete in the North American Open Championships against 75 other national and international champions in California.”

As a physicist at BNL, Pinkenburg has been pas-sionate about programming and simulations. One part of robotics is to build the robot itself, which is more engineering based, but the other big part, which is Pinkenburg’s specialty, requires comput-ing, which helps in programming the robot so it does exactly what it is meant to do.

“He is very pleasant and passionate, and works very hard on computing aspects and simulations of his work,” Guryn said about Pinkenburg. “He is very dedicated. Physics requires a lot of passion and dedication and he has a lot of both.”

Pinkenburg’s efforts are being spread to the high school, as he starts his FIRST Tech Challenge team, a higher-level team, to continue to spread his love for computing and physics.

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Jumping out of a plane, mentoring younger people and planting flowers are all in a day’s work for Ed DiNunzio.

He’s officially the head of membership for the Port Jefferson Rotary but he has worn many more hats during his years with the service organization, filling in wherever he can to make his community a better place to live.

For selflessly dedicating his endless en-ergy to serving his neighbors, DiNunzio is a Village Times Herald Person of the Year.

One of DiNunzio’s biggest roles is in the Gift of Life program, which started in Suffolk County 40 years ago — but has expanded through Rotary International — and provides lifesaving heart proce-dures to children around the globe. The Person of the Year has been involved since the beginning, Port Jefferson Ro-tary member Debbie Engelhardt said, using his skills as a lawyer to help it get organized and off the ground.

Suffolk Rotary clubs have most recent-ly raised funds and brought a 4-year-old girl to Long Island from Kosovo, for a surgery to repair a nickel-sized hole in her heart called an atrial septal defect. Gift of Life also works to provide medi-cal staff in other countries with equip-ment and training to perform such procedures, so children will not have to travel so far for treatment in the future.

DiNunzio has gone to extremes for the program. He once raised money for Gift of Life by skydiving.

“That was a great thing that he did personally,” fellow Rotarian Dennis Brennan said, noting the physical risk involved in jumping out of a plane for charity. “That was a large sacrifice on his part to do that.”

Each jumper in that fundraising effort

was supposed to bring in $1,500 but Di-Nunzio collected $2,150 for Gift of Life.

“He’s true blue,” said Engelhardt, who is also the director of the Comsewogue Public Library.

“He’s got more energy than basically anybody I know.”

Skydiving isn’t the only way DiNunzio brings in funding for Rotary. Engelhardt said the club holds an annual raffle fund-raiser in which each member is expected to sell at least 25 tickets, but “without fail, Ed sells over 200 every year.”

But it’s not just about the money — between attending to his family in Mount Sinai and his law practice in Port Jefferson, DiNunzio also gives his time.

He is heavily involved in the Rotary Youth Exchange program, through which students study abroad and stay with a host family. According to Engel-hardt, DiNunzio has lent a hand on an organizational level for the Northeastern region for many years and has opened his home to exchange students from other areas.

Between those kids and others from the Northeast who had life-changing experiences overseas through the pro-gram, DiNunzio has made an impact on the lives of numerous young people. Engelhardt explained that a lot of them are now grown adults living all over the world, but whenever they are in the area they look up DiNunzio.

She said Rotary is about using your life to make the world a better place, and DiNunzio does that.

“Everybody’s part of something big-ger,” Engelhardt said. “He’s not a child, but he’d be our poster child.”

Brennan described DiNunzio’s metic-ulous nature, which is obvious when the volunteer manages one of the Rotary’s bank accounts.

“He watches it like a hawk,” Brennan said.

And he is meticulous about his physi-cal fitness too. Brennan said DiNunzio brings an important strength to the Ro-tary: The club uses a heavy wooden sign when it collects food for donation, and “we depend on Ed” to bring it to the col-lections because he’s the only one who can lift it on his own.

Once at Camp Pa-Qua-Tuck, a Center Moriches camp for kids with disabili-ties where the Rotary does cleanups and beautification, a group was planting pe-rennials by a flagpole but the ground was hard, making digging difficult.

“Old Ed, he just kept going at it,” Brennan said. “He never quit.”

Brennan refers to the Person of the Year as “Mr. Rotary” because he has his hand in every program and gives his all.

“When he gets involved with some-thing … he puts his whole self into it and the results are easy to see,” he said. “He’s a very caring person and I think that he’s demonstrated that.”

Photos at top from Debbie Engelhardt; file photo above by Dennis BrennanClockwise from top left, Ed Dinunzio skydives for a Gift of life fundraiser; Dinunzio, kneeling, gets painting in downtown Port Jefferson; and he digs deep to beautify a camp for kids with disabilities.

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Just keep shooting.That’s what Kevin Foley used to tell

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That is why Kevin Foley was selected as a 2015 Village Times Herald Person of the Year.

Vice President of Stu-dent Affairs Christopher Adams said Foley has worked at the college nearly 37 years as a pro-fessor and member of the school’s athletic depart-ment. While Adams de-scribed Foley as dedicated and passionate, he said it’s his overall approach to life that resonates with him.

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Cantor Daniel Kramer, Rabbi Emeritus Howard HoffmanExecutive Director Marcie Platkin

Services: Daily morning and evening minyan Friday at 8 pm;Saturday 8:45 am and one hour before sundown • Tot Shabbat

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TEMPLE ISAIAH (REFORM)1404 Stony Brook Road, Stony Brook • (631) 751–8518

A warm and caring intergenerational communitydedicated to learning, prayer, social action, and friendship.

Rabbi Sharon L. Sobel Cantor Michael F. Trachtenberg Emeritus

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ST. PAULS LUTHERAN CHURCH309 Patchogue Road, Port Jefferson Station

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ServicesSundays – 8:30 am and 10:30 am Holy Communion

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Power of Prayer Hour 10:30 am~ All are Welcome ~

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PRESCHOOL & DAYCARE465 Pond Path, East Setauket

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Sunday Worship Services8:15am, 9:30am & 11:00amSunday School at 9:30 am

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METHODISTBETHEL AFRICAN METHODIST

EPISCOPAL CHURCH33 Christian Ave/ PO2117

E. Setauket NY 11733 (631)941 3581Rev. Gregory L. Leonard–Pastor

Sunday Worship 10:30 amAdult Sunday School 9:30 am

Lectionary Reading and Prayer Wed. 12 noonGospel Choir Tues. 8 pm

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COMMACK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH486 Townline Road, CommackChurch Office: (631)499–7310

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East Setauket • (631) 941–4167Rev. Sandra B. Mantz, Pastor

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By Clayton Collier

Suffolk County Sheriff Vincent DeMar-co has worked diligently over the last nine years going above and beyond what’s asked of his position.

His creation and development of the Youth Re-Entry Task Force, a program cre-ated to rehabilitate youth inmates, among his other initiatives, has earned him the distinction of a 2015 Village Times Herald Person of the Year.

“The sheriff has truly changed the cul-ture of corrections in Suffolk County, and has put particular emphasis on rehabilita-tion of incarcerated youth,” said Kristin MacKay, director of pub-lic relations for the Suf-folk County Sheriff’s Of-fice. “He has been at the forefront of the fight to eliminate state mandates for new county jail con-struction, which saved the county’s taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.”

Though you wouldn’t know it from speaking with him, DeMarco did not initially intend to go into law enforcement. A Ronkonkoma native, DeMarco went to St. John’s Univer-sity, graduating with a degree in economics in 1991.

“I always had an interest in law enforce-ment,” DeMarco said. “But I didn’t think it was going to be my career.”

After two years working in the financial industry in New York City, DeMarco tran-sitioned into law enforcement, becoming a deputy sheriff for Suffolk County in 1994. DeMarco took to the job quickly.

“I think I have the best job in the world, I really do,” he said. “I love coming to work everyday. I love what I do.”

DeMarco was named Suffolk County sheriff in 2006 and became the first uni-formed member of the Sheriff’s Office to be elected sheriff, and one of the youngest sheriffs ever elected in Suffolk County.

From the beginning of his tenure, De-Marco said he has made working with youth inmates a priority of his administra-tion. In 2011, DeMarco began assembling the partners needed for an undertaking like the Youth Re-Entry Task Force.

“We needed partners on the outside in order to make this a success,” DeMarco said. “We needed housing. … We also had to find not-for-profits that were willing to come into the correctional facilities and do some coun-

seling: drug counseling, anger management, life skill counseling, vocation-al counseling, all types of stuff to fill our program, so when they leave the facili-ties they actually have the tools to succeed instead of just warehousing them in a correctional facil-ity where you’re not giving them any tools and they’re going to fail.”

Among the most essential resources De-Marco and his administration found was housing for youths in Hope House Min-istries in Port Jefferson and Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch in Riverhead.

Thaddaeus Hill, executive director of Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch — created and named in memory of his older brother — said the program has seen great success, highlighted by the 50 percent drop in recidi-vism among youths that enter the program.

“Sheriff DeMarco has pioneered pro-grams that few in this country have had the courage to take on,” Hill said. “He looks at the big picture beyond the walls of his jail and that has allowed him to make a sig-

nificant impact on the lives of many young people on Long Island.”

Another key component was Eastern-Suffolk BOCES to incorporate education into the program. Barbara Egloff, divisional administrator for Eastern Suffolk BOCES and Oversight of the Jail Education Pro-gram and Career, Technical and Adult Ed-ucation, said DeMarco has effectively used the strengths of all of his partnerships to make the program a success.

“It is inspiring to work with Sheriff De-Marco,” Egloff said. “He has instilled the im-portance of effective collaboration to all who have the opportunity to work with him.”

Suffolk County Court Judge Fernando Camacho, who heads the County’s Felony Youth Part, a program created in conjunc-tion with Sheriff DeMarco, said it is rare to come across a sheriff so dedicated to creat-ing better lives for his inmates after they have served their time.

“I’ve worked in criminal justice my entire professional career, over 30 years, and I’ve worked with a lot of individuals running correctional facilities, and I can honestly say I’ve run across somebody who’s actu-ally bringing in social workers and service providers into his jail to help young people to identify what the issues are, and to try to come up with solutions,” Camacho said.

Camacho said it is important to work with youth inmates to improve their situa-tions upon leaving the jail.

“Rather than putting them Upstate for three years and forgetting about them, we’re actually thinking about it in a different way,” Camacho said. “Let’s see if we can fig-ure out why this kid got in trouble, and let’s see if we can put a plan in place that’s going to give this kid an opportunity to break out of the cycle and get back on track.”

As DeMarco explains, the program’s numbers speak for themselves.

“Nationally, the average inmate has an

83 percent chance of returning,” DeMarco said. “The kids that come through our pro-gram have a 23 percent chance of coming back; that’s a big difference.”

Overall, the program contributes to low-ering the number of inmates in county jails, allowing DeMarco to prevent the costly un-dertaking of additional facilities.

“It doesn’t cost us any more to provide these services to the youth in this facil-ity, but the return we get is that they don’t come back to the facility and we lower the jail population, and that has enabled us not to build more jail cells; a huge cost to the taxpayers.”

In the future, DeMarco hopes to expand for additional age groups. The more people he can help, he says, the better.

“If someone winds up touching the crim-inal justice system and they wind up in this facility, and we can find out the underlying reason why this crime was committed,” he said, “we can change that and change their behavior when they get out, we’ve increased public safety, and that’s the goal.”

County sheriff reduces return rate of inmates

Photos from Kristin MacKay above, Vincent DeMarco, center, poses for a photo with some members of the youth re-entry task Force during a regular bi-monthly meeting. Below, DeMarco is reducing the rate of recidivism in county jails.

‘He looks at the big picture beyond the walls of his jail and that has allowed him to make a significant impact on the lives of many young people on Long Island.’

— Thaddaeus hill


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Th e decision to break from the traditional broker-age or commission-based model was intentional, says Dina. “Before we offi cially launched the busi-ness, we found ourselves protecting my mother from fi nancial advisors more interested in a commission check than doing the right thing. She was tending to my father’s health issues and deserved great care and consideration with the fi nancial decisions she was making. It was then we realized this service was very diffi cult to fi nd and was desperately needed.”

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being older than most guys who do that, since the physical requirements are high.

As a testament to his fitness, Mee-han can be seen walking to school every morning, Neubert said, and students and teachers can sometimes catch a glimpse of him walking the school halls “in his suit and hiking boots.”

That’s not the only place they can see him. He’s at his students’ sports games and all around the village. During the Charles Dickens Festival earlier this month, Superintendent Ken Bossert said, he watched his students perform and then roasted marshmallows with them.

“He is just everywhere at all times,” Bossert said. “All the kids know him and love him.”

Well, almost everywhere: “Mr. Meehan is rarely in his office,” Neubert said, be-cause he frequently drops into classrooms around the school.

Meehan has joined Neubert’s class a few times to share musical facts he knows, which the kids loved.

“In their minds, Mr. Meehan knows everything,” Neubert said.

That goes for sports too. A physical education teacher was once absent and a swimming class at the end of the day needed a qualified teacher or it would have been canceled. Meehan, a certified lifeguard, didn’t want to disappoint the kids, Bossert said, so he went home to get

his swimsuit and taught the class.Bossert said he was the “first principal

that they ever saw in the water.”According to a letter the superinten-

dent wrote, nominating Meehan as a Person of the Year, “He was dry and back in his dress suit in time for dismissal.”

Meehan has helped kids on an indi-vidual basis as well. Bossert described a time when Meehan pulled some strings with the Long Island Rail Road on be-half of a special needs student who had “a fascination with trains,” and the child was able to conduct a train between the

Port Jefferson to Stony Brook stations. He also brings gifts to kids during the holidays when he knows their families can’t afford them.

Those close to him said he knows ev-ery child’s name and if one needs extra attention, Butera said, “he’ll find ways throughout the day of stopping by” to check on that student.

But his subtle approach to offering that extra attention puts the kids at ease, Boehm said. She described it as, “Hey, I’m here, and we’ll take care of this together.”

Around the hallways, Meehan is also known for his sense of humor, cracking jokes with kids and dressing up as Mario for Halloween, making him more ap-proachable.

“He has such a great rapport” with all the parents, the staff and the kids, and ev-eryone in the community knows who he is, said Sean Leister, the assistant super-intendent for business. Usually that kind of reverence comes with someone who’s been in his position for 20 years, Leister said, but Meehan’s attained it in five.

Even so, he doesn’t take credit for most of what he does.

“He’s not the kind of guy that likes any limelight or fanfare,” Boehm said. “He would never make a big deal about what he was doing.”

MEEHANContinued from page A1

File photosClockwise from top: Tom Meehan participates in the Royal Educational Foundation’s fun run through Port Jefferson Village, and receives an award for his contributions to the community; he stands, seventh from the left, with his fellow firefighters for a recent group photo in front of the firehouse on Maple Place; and Meehan, far right, poses with singers from the elementary school at the fire department’s annual 9/11 memorial ceremony in September.

‘In their minds, Mr. Meehan knows everything.’

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LegalsNOTICE OF SALE

SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLKWells Fargo Bank, N.A., d/b/a Americas Servicing Company, Plaintiff

AGAINST

Stephen Tworek; Edna Tworek; et al., Defendant(s)

Pursuant to a Judgment of Fore-closure and Sale duly dated April 10, 2015 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auc-tion at the Brookhaven Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farm-ingville, New York, 11738 on Jan-uary 12, 2016 at 9:45AM, prem-ises known as 30 Uhl Street, Lake Ronkonkoma, NY 11779. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of NY, Section 647.00 Block 01.00 Lot 005.005. Ap-proximate amount of judgment $354,496.14 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold sub-ject to provisions of filed Judg-ment Index# 10-43461.

Elsie Acevedo, Esq., RefereeShapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLCAttorney(s) for the Plaintiff175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624(877) 759-1835

Dated: November 11, 2015

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SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONSIndex #: 068312/2014Date of Filing: October 9, 2015 Premises Address: 21 COLBY DRIVEKINGS PARK, NY 11754SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKCOUNTY OF SUFFOLKCITIMORTGAGE, INC., Plaintiff,-against-CHERRIE LATUNER AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF EI-LEEN ALAIMO; GARY ALAIMO AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF EILEEN ALAIMO; JO-SEPH ALAIMO AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF EILEEN ALAIMO; LAURA SONDAK AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF EILEEN ALAIMO; STEVE ALAIMO AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF EILEEN ALAI-MO; THOMAS ALAIMO AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF EILEEN ALAIMO; PETRO, INC.; AMERICAN EXPRESS BANK, FSB; CITIBANK, N.A.; CLERK OF THE SUFFOLK COUNTY DISTRICT COURT; HSBC BANK USA, NA-TIONAL ASSOCIATION; JPMOR-GAN CHASE BA NK; MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXA-TION AND FINANCE ; PORTFO-LIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES, LLC; UNITED STATES OF AMER-ICA - INTERNAL REVENUE SER-VICE; JOHN DOE 1 THROUGH 50; JANE DOE 1 THROUGH 50, IN-TENDING TO BE THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, DISTRIBUTES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, TRUSTEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, AND ASSIGNEES OF THE ESTATE OF EILEEN ALAI-MO WHO WAS BORN ON FEB-RUARY 15, 1933 AND DIED ON OCTOBER 29, 2012, A RESIDENT OF THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, THEIR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST IF ANY OF THE AFORESAID DE-FENDANTS BE DECEASED, THEIR RESPECTIVE HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE AFORESAID

CLASSES OF PERSON, IF THEY OR ANY OF THEM BE DEAD, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE HUSBANDS, WIVES OR WIDOWS, IF ANY, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO THE PLAIN-TIFF; ‘’JOHN DOES’’ AND ‘’JANE DOES’’, SAID NAMES BEING FIC-TITIOUS, PARTIES INTENDED BEING POSSIBLE TENANTS OR OCCUPANTS OF PREMISES AND CORPORATIONS, OTHER ENTI-TIES OR PERSONS WHO HAVE, CLAIM, OR MAY CLAIM, A LIEN AGAINST, OR OTHER INTEREST IN, THE PREMISES, Defendant(s),TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFEN-DANTS:YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your Answer, or, if the Com-plaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s At-torneys within twenty (20) days after the service of this Sum-mons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the State, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief de-manded in the complaint.NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOMEIf you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this fore-closure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERV-ING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAIN-TIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT.The following notice is intend-ed only for those defendants who are owners of the prem-ises sought to be foreclosed or who are liable upon the debt for which the mortgage stands as security.YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NO-TICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. The amount of the Debt: $403,125.55 consisting of princi-pal balance of $248,349.25 plus interest of $56,951.83, escrow/impound shortages or credits of $97,101.29, late charges of $94.74; Broker’s Price Opinion, inspection and miscellaneous charges of $459.00; suspense balance of ($1,579.12), surro-gate search fee $21.73; attorney fee $1,200.00 and title search $526.83. Because of interest and other charges that may vary from day to day, the amount due on the day you pay may be greater. Hence, if you pay the amount shown above, an adjustment may be necessary after we receive the check, in which event we will inform you.The name of the creditor to whom the debt is owed: Citi-Mortgage, Inc.Unless you dispute the valid-ity of the debt, or any portion

thereof, within thirty (30) days after receipt hereof, the debt will be assumed to be valid by Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates P.C.If you notify Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates P.C. in writing within thirty (30) days after your re-ceipt hereof that the debt, or any portion thereof, is disputed, we will obtain verification of the debt or a copy of any judgment against you representing the debt and a copy of such verifica-tion or judgment will be mailed to you by Rosicki, Rosicki & As-sociates P.C.Upon your written request within 30 days after receipt of this notice, Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates P.C. will provide you with the name and address of the original creditor if different from the current creditor.Note: Your time to respond to the summons and complaint differs from your time to dispute the validity of the debt or to re-quest the name and address of the original creditor. Although you have as few as 20 days to respond to the summons and complaint, depending on the manner of service, you still have 30 days from receipt of this summons to dispute the validity of the debt and to request the name and address of the origi-nal creditor.TO THE DEFENDANTS: The Plain-tiff makes no personal claim against you in this action. TO THE DEFENDANTS: If you have obtained an order of dis-charge from the Bankruptcy court, which includes this debt, and you have not reaffirmed your liability for this debt, this law suit is not alleging that you have any personal liability for this debt and does not seek a money judgment against you. Even if a discharge has been ob-tained, this lawsuit to foreclose the mortgage will continue and we will seek a judgment autho-rizing the sale of the mortgaged premises.Dated: October 7, 2014 Nicola Holmes, Esq.ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C.Attorneys for PlaintiffRosicki, Rosicki & Associates,P.C.51 East Bethpage RoadPlainview, New York 11803(516) 741-2585 Help For Homeowners In Fore-closureNew York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. Mort-gage foreclosure is a complex process. Some people may ap-proach you about “saving” your home. You should be extremely careful about any such prom-ises. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. There are government agencies, legal aid entities and other non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about foreclosure while you are work-ing with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the Department’s website at www.banking.state.ny.us. The State does not guar-antee the advice of these agen-cies.

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Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action

Suffolk Supreme Court of the State of New YorkCounty of Suffolk----------------------------------------------------------------X

Action to Foreclose a Mortgage

Index No.: 604165/2015

Mortgaged Premises:2 Pinedale Avenue Farmingville, NY 11738

DSBL #: 0200 - 696.00 - 02.00 - 007.000

U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, Successor in Interest to Bank of America, National As-sociation, as Trustee, Successor by Merger to Lasalle Bank Na-tional Association, as Trustee for Wells Fargo Home Equity Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certifi-cates, Series 2004-1 Plaintiff, vs.

Neal Wright if living, and if he/she be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or spe-cific lien upon the real prop-erty described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devi-sees, legatees, creditors, trust-ees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or un-der them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to Plaintiff; Tara A. Wright AKA Tara Pocchiare, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Good Sa-maritan Hospital Medical Cen-ter, Clerk of the Suffolk County District Court, People of the State of New York, United States of America Acting Through the IRS;John Doe (being fictitious, the names unknown to Plaintiff intended to be tenants, occu-pants, person orcorporations having or claiming aninterest in or lien upon the property-described in the complaint or their heirs at law, distributees, executors, administrators, trust-ees, guardians, assignees, credi-tors or successors.) Defendants.

----------------------------------------------------------------XTo the above named Defendant:You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Supple-mental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the ser-vice is complete if this Supple-mental Summons is not person-ally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief de-manded in the Complaint.

The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie.Trial to be held in the County of Suffolk.The basis of the venue desig-nated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises.To: Neal Wright, Defendant in this Action. The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. JOHN H. ROUSE of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated the Third day of December, 2015 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suf-folk, in the City of Riverhead.The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, exe-cuted by Neal Wright and Tara A. Wright AKA Tara Pocchiare dat-ed December 6, 2003, to secure the sum of $215,000.00. The Mortgage was recorded at Book 20728, Page 94 in the Office of the Suffolk County Clerk, on the April 28, 2004. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed De-cember 6, 2003 and recorded on April 28, 2004, in the office of the Suffolk County Clerk at Book 20728, Page 95. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed De-cember 16, 2014 and recorded on January 15, 2015, in the Of-fice of the Suffolk County Clerk at Book 22559, Page 982.

The property in question is described as follows:2 PINEDALE AVENUE,

FARMINGVILLE, NY 11738NOTICE

YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME

If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this fore-closure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERV-ING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAIN-TIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT.DATED: December 8, 2015Gross Polowy, LLCAttorney(s) For Plaintiff(s)1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 The law firm of Gross Polowy, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose.

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NOTICE OF SALE

SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAUNationstar Mortgage LLC, PlaintiffAGAINSTMarie Jose Brignol; et al., Defendant(s)

Pursuant to a Judgment of Fore-closure and Sale duly dated September 2, 2015 I, the under-

signed Referee will sell at public auction in the Calendar Control Part (CCP) 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, New York, 11501. on January 26, 2016 at 11:30AM, premises known as 840 Night-ingale Road, West Hempstead, NY 11552. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and be-ing in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of NY, Section 35 Block 588 Lot 3. Approximate amount of judg-ment $369,012.42 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 14-009316.

Mark Ricciardi, Esq., Referee

Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLCAttorney(s) for the Plaintiff175 Mile Crossing BoulevardRochester, New York 14624(877) 759-1835

Dated: November 25, 2015

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NOTICE OF LEGAL POSTPONEMENT OF SALE

SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007-AHL1, Plaintiff, vs. LORNA MES-SINA, STEVEN MESSINA, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to an Order Amending Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on January 19, 2011, an Order Appointing Sub-stitute Referee filed August 11, 2014, an Order Amending Judg-ment of Foreclosure and Sale dated October 20, 2014 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Brookhav-en Town Hall, 1 Independence Hill, Farmingville, NY on Janu-ary 06, 2016 at 9:00 a.m., prem-ises known as 8 Brayton Court South, South Setauket, NY. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York, District 0200, Section 389.00, Block 01.00 and Lot 041.010. Ap-proximate amount of judgment is $912,070.69 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold sub-ject to provisions of filed Judg-ment Index # 27728/07. THE ORIGINAL SALE WAS SCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER 18, 2015 AT 9:00 A.M. AT THE SAME TIME AND LOCATION.

Donna England, Esq., Referee

Gross Polowy, LLC, 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100, Williamsville, New York 14221, Attorneys for Plaintiff

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