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Photos by Greg Catalano Scenes from Sunday’s Walk for Beauty in Stony Brook. Residents

lined the streets in celebration of the Ward Melville Heritage Or-ganization tradition, which raises money for cancer research. Top, elected o� cials and organizers of the Walk for Beauty cut the cer-emonial pink ribbon to kick o� the festivities. Top le� , cheerleaders dance in celebration of the events, which included a Hercules on the Harbor 10K run and 4K Color Splash event. Bottom le� , Color Splash participants are doused in colorful powder. Above, runners pose with a festive pup. See more photos on page A4.

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Setauket doc pleads guilty to fatal hit-and-runVictim’s family publicly forgives him in CI courtBy Elana Glowatz and Phil Corso

A cardiologist has pleaded guilty to manslaughter, drunk driving and leav-ing the scene of a Smithtown car crash, 16 months after he killed a fellow med-ical professional and mother of three.

The Suffolk County District Attor-ney’s Office announced on Friday that Setauket doctor Thomas Stavola, now 56, will spend two years in prison and five years on probation after last year’s crash, during which his Audi broad-sided victim Monica Pe-terman’s Mercedes at the intersection of Routes 25 and 111. It was shortly be-fore 4 a.m., and Peterman, 45, had been on her way to work as an X-ray technician at St. Catherine of Si-ena Medical Center. Instead, the Mid-dle Island resident was pronounced dead at that same hospital, where she had worked for more than 10 years.

District Attorney Tom Spota said previously that the doctor, who sus-tained minor injuries in the crash, left

the scene without helping Peterman.“Witnesses who came upon the crash

scene said the defendant suddenly left and began walking west on Route 25,” Spota said in a previous statement. “What I found most troubling is the fact that a physician chose not to render any kind of aid or use his cellphone to call

911 to get some assistance for a seriously injured mo-torist.”

The DA said those wit-nesses gave police officers a description of Stavola, and a sergeant on his way to the scene spotted the man about 500 feet from the crash, walking quickly with his head down.

According to the DA’s office, Stavola had a .10

blood alcohol content 90 minutes after the fatal incident.

The impact of the collision had em-bedded Stavola’s front license plate into the side door of Peterman’s car.

Stavola originally pleaded not guilty to his charges. The victim’s family filed a $20 million civil lawsuit against him last year, saying they hoped it would

help make punishments stricter for drunk drivers.

But Stavola changed his plea and Peterman’s family supported the two-year sentence and probation, the DA’s office said. Her husband, Russell Pe-terman, said in a statement that his family wanted to let go of the anger they felt toward Stavola and realized he

deserved another chance “to go back to helping people.”

In the courtroom, Peterman’s fam-ily members delivered remarks of for-giveness to Stavola, adding that they believed his punishment suited the crime. In their statement, they said they felt Stavola needed to go back to helping others.

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The contest calls for teens grades seven through 12 who live in the Three Village Central School District to cre-ate a children’s picture book. Winning authors will receive a monetary prize, have their book bound and added to the library’s collection, and be recognized at an awards ceremony on April 17.

The contest is divided into two grade categories, grades seven through nine and grades 10 through 12, with one win-ning entry from each group. Each entry can be the work of a single author/illus-trator or can be a collaborative effort of an author and an illustrator. There will be one grand prize winner and one hon-

orable mention winner selected from each category.

Each of the grand prize award re-cipients will receive a $500 scholarship. Winning authors will be recognized at an awards ceremony at the library on April 17 at 2 p.m. where the authors or a children’s librarian will read their pic-ture books to children.

The winning entries will also be bound and added to the Children’s Local Focus Collection. In addition, an e-book will be created for the winning entries. All entrants will receive a Certificate of Participation, will be invited to attend the awards ceremony and will have the opportunity to record a video reading their book for Community Service cred-it.

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tered a store on Middle Country Road in Centereach and took a 12-pack of beer without paying.

Getting to workOn Oct. 24, an unidentified person

stole work gloves and cell phone ac-cessories from the Centereach Mall in Centereach.

Smashing pumpkinsAn unknown person smashed a

pumpkin in front of a residence on Ambassador Lane in Selden on Oct. 23, then threw another pumpkin through the front window of the residence. Po-lice didn’t know if the individual was acting alone or with others.

Cold casePolice said three people took off in

a yellow sedan after stealing five coats from the Kohl’s on Nesconset High-way in Selden on Oct. 23.

Drove my Chevy to the jailhousePolice arrested a 23-year-old wom-

an from Centereach for driving while ability impaired on Oct. 23, after pulling her over for failing to main-tain her lane while driving east in a 2004 Chevy on Chereb Lane in Port Jefferson Station. The officers arrest-ed her at the scene at 1:15 a.m.

Larceny tourPolice arrested a 39-year-old man

from Farmingville on four charges of petit larceny, after he hit different stores throughout the county. According to police, on Sept. 11, the man stole as-sorted merchandise from the Walmart in Centereach, then stole a snow blow-er from the Kmart in Farmingville 10 days later. On Oct. 5, he stole a vacuum from the Walmart on Middle Country Road in Middle Island, and on Oct. 20

stole toys from the Kmart on North Ocean Avenue in Farmingville. Police arrested the man at the 6th Precinct two days after the final incident.

Gone with the ganjaA 38-year-old woman from Mount

Sinai was arrested for criminal pos-session of marijuana on Oct. 23, af-ter Suffolk County police executed a search warrant at her residence on Island Trail in Mount Sinai. Officers found more than one pound of mari-juana. Police did not elaborate on why the search warrant was issued.

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was arrested for unlicensed operation of a vehicle on Oct. 23, after she was pulled over while driving a 2005 Ford Focus down Route 25 in Centereach.

Low maintenanceOn Oct. 25, a 25-year-old woman

from Mount Sinai was arrested for driving while ability impaired. Police said the woman was driving a 2013 Hyundai east on Route 25A in Port Jefferson shortly after 1 a.m., when police pulled her over for failing to maintain her lane.

Targeted approachA 42-year-old woman from Cen-

tereach was arrested for petit larceny on Oct. 25, after she stole clothing and toys from the Target on Pond Path in South Setauket.

Man gets battyPolice arrested a 50-year-old man

from East Setauket for menacing af-ter he prevented the female passenger in his 2002 Toyota from leaving the car on Oct. 26. The driver then exited his car with a baseball bat and hit her car. The incident occurred on Old Town Road in East Setauket.

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By Giselle Barkley

To have sidewalks or to not have sidewalks — that was the topic of debate for residents and town and county officials during a forum, The General Theory of Walk-ability, on Oct. 22 at the Setauket Neighborhood House.

Brookhaven Councilwoman Valerie Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station), Suffolk County Legisla-tor Kara Hahn (D-Setauket), members of the Three Village Community Trust and residents gathered to listen to residents’ thoughts about establishing side-walks along various roads and areas like the Three Village and suggestions about how to make the roads safer for pedestrians.

Former county Legislator Vivian Viloria-Fisher was among the members in the audience. Fisher, an avid walker, was shocked with how many people weren’t in favor of sidewalks after speaking to resi-dents at the event. Fisher said many people didn’t want to take on the responsibility of having a side-walk in front of their home, or they didn’t want to disturb the rural appeal of the area by introducing sidewalks.

A New York Metropolitan Transportation Council study from 1994 to 2004, referred to during the debate, indicated a 25 percent decrease in pedestrian fatalities in New York state with the exception of Suffolk County. The county experienced a 104 percent increase in these fatalities in that 10-year-or-so period.

Sidewalks were introduced as an idea to combat the issue of pedestrian safety especially for children and those who enjoy walking or biking. According to Jen-anne Hominick, who serves as a crossing guard un-der Suffolk County Police Department’s 6th Precinct, sidewalks are fine as long as they are established in an appropriate area.

“[Route] 25A [needs sidewalks] without a doubt. You got college students coming. They have no transporta-tion. These guys are from Japan and all over the world,” Hominick said in an interview after the event.

She added that sidewalks in residential areas might not be necessary.

While sidewalks and were the main issue, panelist Ann Fangmann, director of programs at Sustainable Long Island, said sidewalks or complete streets, which includes sidewalks and a designated turning lane among other features, weren’t the only way to promote pedestrian safety.

“There’s so many different communities on Long Island and they each have their own character,” Fang-mann said during the event. “They each have their own setup. It’s really about planning in a way that is inclu-sive of that community character and not take away from it.”

She suggested that designating a portion of the road for pedestrians is an option.

Others also suggested establishing sidewalks start-ing with schools to help keep children safe when its time to go home. Using speed bumps to help people slow down and adhere to the speed limit as well as stop signs was another suggestion. Elena Sadov of Setauket was one of the few members who pointed out that more advanced cars are part of the issue when it comes to pedestrian safety.

“When you look at historic pictures of our town, we were able to coexist with horse traffic,” Sadov said. “Because horses were slower we did not need sidewalks.

Photo by Giselle Barkley Former county legislator Vivian Viloria-Fisher voices her opinion at The General Theory of Walkability forum.

Now the seed of travel has improved tremendously.”Friends of the Greenway member, among others,

Herb Mones added to the conversation saying that the current “car culture” is oriented toward “perfor-mance, acceleration and stunts.” He added that the people in the audience were also part of the issue.

“I can almost guarantee 70 percent of the people in this audience ... will not come to a stop, you will not observe the speed limit, you will not be the good driver that you pretend to be,” Mones said. “But you will be when you turn onto your street.”

Although some residents disagreed with others Hahn said these debates help members in the com-munity tackle problems like the issue of pedestrian safety.

“I think that when a community plans what the so-lutions are, you get solutions that are more acceptable to everyone — and it sounds like there are a lot of different options to make the roads safer,” Hahn said.

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Spirits Tour brings Three Village ghosts to lifeby beverly C. Tyler

Good evening! Colonel Benjamin Floyd at your service. I was born here in Setauket in 1740, and I started school here at the age of 6 in our one-room schoolhouse. Anna Smith, a good friend and neighbor, started school the same year as me. Anna later married Selah Strong. We were both Loyalists during the Revolutionary War, or so I thought, and we stayed here after British forces took control of Long Island in August of 1776.

I lived my entire life in the Floyd an-cestral home here in Setauket behind the Setauket Presbyterian Church and over-looked Setauket Harbor. My father, Col-onel Richard Floyd, lived here until his death in 1771. He was appointed judge of the Suffolk County Court of Com-mon Pleas and supervisor of Brookhaven town and president of the Brookhaven Trustees until 1763.

I was very proud of my father and basi-cally followed in his footsteps as a trust-ee of Brookhaven town starting in 1772, and then as Supervisor of Brookhaven in 1774 and 1775.

With British control of Long Island, I was again elected as town supervisor in both 1777 and 1778. In fact all our Brookhaven town trustees were Loyal-ists including my neighbors in Setauket, Joseph Brewster and Gilbert Smith. The Loyalists were a majority in the town when I was elected. Those with Patriot leanings including Jonathan Thompson and Selah Strong lost their seats on the Town Board. In fact, Jonathan Thomp-son and his son Dr. Samuel Thompson fled to Connecticut and I heard that they had joined in supporting the Patriot cause in Connecticut.

Selah Strong was actually arrested and imprisoned in New York City in 1778 for alleged correspondence with the enemy. However, his wife Anna appealed to her brother and other Loyalists in Manhat-tan and got him released. He then fled to Connecticut. Anna stayed here on the

neck with her six children and kept the farm going as well as she could. We all helped each other during this very dif-ficult time and Anna was particularly looked after by her neighbor across Little Bay, Abraham Woodhull. I had thought that Woodhull was a Loyalist during the war but I found out later that he had been a spy for General Washington.

Other Loyalists who lived in Setauket included John Bayles, Dr. George Muir-son and Caroline Anglican Church Pas-tor James Lyons.

I married Ann Cornell in 1767 and we had four children between 1768 and 1773. Unfortunately our first child, Mar-garet, only lived two years and my wife Ann died after giving birth to our third son, Samuel, in 1773. My mother , Eliza-beth, helped me as much as she could until her death in April of 1778.

Members of my family were split dur-ing the Revolutionary War with many including my brother and I supporting the British Crown and remaining loyal to His Royal Highness King George the third. In fact my father and my brother Richard and I were loyal members of the Anglican Church in Setauket. My father was the first warden of Caroline Church and helped get the Anglican church or-ganized and the building built in 1729. I am very proud that I again followed my father as a warden and member of the vestry of the church.

By 1780, British and Loyalist forces had stripped many areas of Long Island of their cattle, horses, hay, wheat, cord-wood and anything else of value. British and Loyalist officers gave us chits, writ-ten notes, for what they took and said we would receive compensation after they won the war. In addition the officers al-lowed their troops to take much of what remained without any thought of repay-ment. By 1780, we were in need of many of the basic things to sustain life in our communities. It was for these reasons as well as for many atrocities committed against Long Island residents that many who had been Loyalists wanted nothing

more than for the British to be gone, thus in actual fact becoming Patriots.

Thus in May of 1780, I was voted out of office and Selah Strong, a Patriot who only recently returned to his home in Se-tauket, was elected as supervisor of the Town of Brookhaven. The tide of war was turning in favor of General Wash-ington, despite the fact that British forc-es still controlled much of Long Island and would continue to do so until after November of 1783. Like many Long Is-landers I was torn between loyalty and reality. I chose to support my commu-nity and the direction it was headed but I

wisely kept a low profile.I continued on the vestry of Caroline

Church and worked over the next few decades, as America became an indepen-dent country, to help the new Caroline American Episcopal Church become a valued addition to religious diversity in the United States of America.

Editor’s note: Benjamin Floyd died in 1820 and is buried in the Floyd plot of the Setauket Presbyterian Church cemetery.

Beverly Tyler is the Three Village His-torical Society historian.

Photo from Beverly TylerThree Oct. 17 Spirits Tour interpreters, from left to right, Dennis O’Connor as Abraham Woodhull, bonnie bryant O’Connor as Abraham Woodhull’s wife Mary, and beverly Tyler as Colonel benjamin Floyd.

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proposed to freeze them if he is elected.“One of the things we can control is

our labor costs,” O’Connor said. Since his election, one of the examples

Bellone heralded as evidence that he was working to streamline government effi-ciency and cut spending was his propos-al — approved by public referendum last year — to merge the offices of the county comptroller and treasurer to cut costs. Bellone said it should save more than $1 million annually. He also said he has reduced the government by more than 1,100 positions.

Bellone said he is focused on shoring up the county’s water quality in his re-election bid.

“Unless we reverse the decades of de-cline that we’ve seen in our water qual-ity, we are mortgaging our future,” Bel-lone said of why improving the county’s wastewater management is so crucial. Bellone celebrated SepticSmart Week over the summer, when he encouraged residents to stay informed on how to properly maintain their septic systems.

Both candidates discussed how they planned to fully utilize the county’s re-sources and make living in Suffolk more affordable.

To get there, Bellone said he wants to better utilize Stony Brook University, be-cause “as Stony Brook University goes,

so goes Suffolk County.”He said one the challenges and op-

portunities residents in the area have is enacting initiatives that better link Stony Brook University with other North Shore assets like Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

O’Connor said he and Bellone have a fundamental difference on how to go about dealing with affordable living in

Suffolk County.“I don’t agree that the way to do

this is more [government] programs,” O’Connor said. “The way to do this and stimulate more economic growth is by turning things around and making sure Suffolk isn’t the second-most expensive place to do business and live in the Unit-ed States. The only way to do that is by reducing the costs.”

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After his first full term at the helm, Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) said he thinks the Town of Brookhaven should look better than it does, and if re-elected plans to continue the town on its positive trajectory.

Romaine is running for another two years as supervisor against Dem-ocratic challenger Douglas Dittko, who declined to attend a debate at the TBR Newspapers office alongside his opponent. Dittko also did not answer a request for an interview.

According to the Suffolk County Democratic Committee’s website, Dittko, a Manorville resident, is a civ-ic leader who has worked to preserve open space and has been involved in other community issues.

For Romaine, re-election means finishing up current environmental projects, managing the town’s budget and introducing technology to make it easier for residents to interact with the town. While he said there is still work to be done, he highlighted im-provements since his special election in early 2013, which put him into of-fice for several months before he was re-elected to a full term.

“My predecessor left in mid-term and he left with a fiscal crisis. He was firing over 100 people as he left,” Ro-maine said, referring to former Super-visor Mark Lesko (D). “We stopped some of those firings — I haven’t laid off [anyone] since I took office.”

While in office, Romaine has helped get the town’s debt under con-trol, and this year the town finished paying off its pension debt. One of the

ways in which Romaine brought in funding to do that was selling the for-mer tax receiver’s office in downtown Port Jefferson as well as the old town hall in Patchogue.

“I’ve worked on finances because I’ve learned from a long life that all is-sues of government are issues of mon-ey,” Romaine said.

One of the incumbent’s focuses in another term would be housing. Fol-lowing the recession, there were more than 200 foreclosed homes that the town is trying to maintain or tear down. And residents of neighbor-hoods near Stony Brook University complain of illegal boarding homes bursting with college students. To combat that issue, Romaine and town officials have already enacted some restrictions, like making it illegal to pave over front lawns to make more room for parking.

Another goal the supervisor has for a second full term is expanding his single-stream recycling program beyond Brookhaven’s single-family homes. The single-stream system, in which residents can put all of their recyclables on the curb together, has already drastically increased recy-cling townwide, and has made money for Brookhaven because the town sells material it brings in.

He would also like to continue his efforts to encourage renewable energy use and reduce nitrogen pollution in local bodies of water.

“It’s time for us to wake up,” Ro-maine said. “We’re going to lose what we cherish about living in this town if we don’t start to preserve our wa-terways.”

Photo by Desirée Keegansupervisor ed romaine discusses his last term and his goals for another two years if re-elected against challenger Douglas Dittko, left.

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A stark difference in opinion over the town’s management of funding is a key component of the race for Brookhaven Highway superintendent.

The incumbent, Superintendent Dan Losquadro (R), squared off against Demo-cratic challenger, Jason Kontzamanys, at the Times Beacon Record headquarters, where they discussed finances in the high-way department, use of subcontractors and why they deserve the job.

Kontzamanys has worked in the de-partment of parks and recreation in Brookhaven for the past decade. He said it was that experience that helps shape his workers-first mentality, which he hoped to bring into office: “As I worked my way up, I realized the most brilliant ideas come from the workers doing the work day in and day out.”

Kontzamanys said he wants to consol-idate the department as much as he can in order to save money and streamline government. One way to do that, he pro-posed, would be placing the Holtsville Ecology Site within the jurisdiction of the town’s parks department.

He also said he thinks he can bring changes to a “financially mismanaged” department, especially by cracking down on the usage of subcontractors.

“I do not want to rely on subcontractors,”

he said. “I want to embolden the unionized work force and expand it as much as I can.”

He said subcontractors should not handle routine projects like lawn cutting, drainage and tree removal. Instead, he said he wants to do as much work as he can in-house within a 40-hour week.

“To deal with them on a continual ba-sis, as far as I’m concerned is a violation of public trust when it comes to tax payers money,” the challenger said.

In terms of hiring fewer subcontrac-tors, Losquadro said he believes there is no way around it, as Brookhaven’s scope is so large that the town needs more hands to handle the amount of work it accrues.

“With 3,350 lane miles of road to main-tain and 200 employees, there is no way we could get all the work done without sup-plementing and augmenting some of that work to subcontractors,” Losquadro said.

With another term, Losquadro said he wants to continue to reform and update the department. He said he has already modernized the department a great deal and improved communication.

“There were no radio communications that were reliable [when I came into of-fice],” Losquadro said. “I designed and installed a new radio communication sys-tem which is the same technology that the police and fire service use.”

Losquadro said the new system is reliable

and gives the department coverage in parts of Long Island with serious topographical challenges.

He also mentioned major storms over the past year in which the department was able to dispatch and respond to pub-lic safety concerns in real time.

Another improvement Losquadro said he has brought to the department is with the work order system. He referred to the old system as “archaic,” in which a rou-tine work order took weeks of mailing to different departments.

The town already uses this system for severe weather events like snowstorms,

but Losquadro said he was still in the process of rolling out a fully electronic work order system.

Kontzamanys said many of the updates that Losquadro has brought to the depart-ment have already been in effect at the park’s department for years and he would like to see even more updates under his watch.

“I would try to embrace solar projects through federal grants, including solar bike paths and solar sidewalks,” Kontza-manys said. He also said he would then sell the energy back to utility company PSEG Long Island for a profit.

Photos by Phil Corsoincumbent Highway superintendent Dan Losquadro faces Democratic challenger Jason Kontzamanys on nov. 3.


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Is third term the charm?By Elana Glowatz

Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn said she wants a third term in office to continue working on protecting pub-lic health, while Republican challenger Donna Cumella said she wants to focus on Suffolk County’s finances.

Hahn (D-Setauket) has spent much of her two terms in the 5th Legislative Dis-trict on environmental and public safety issues, crafting a bill that put Narcan, an antidote for opioid overdoses, into the hands of first responders and another that set the gears into motion to ban tiny plas-tic pellets called microbeads that pollute our water supply, among others. But in a recent debate at the Times Beacon Record Newspapers office, Cumella said while that work is important, the county’s fiscal state is a more pressing issue.

The challenger, a Port Jefferson Station resident, said county officials, in crafting budgets, habitually overstate county rev-enues and understate expenses, creating a serious deficit.

“Projections far exceeded what the re-ality was,” she said, referring specifically to county estimates on sales tax revenue.

She said borrowing is “out of control”

and called for a smaller government.But Hahn fought the idea that the

county is spiraling.“Our debt burden is manageable,” she

said, adding that Suffolk tends to pay off its debt quickly and legislators always look for ways to decrease borrowing. About the size of government, she noted that the county has been reduced by about 1,200 positions in the last few years.

The incumbent also said that a certain amount of debt is unavoidable, because “you can’t pay cash for everything.”

Cumella and Hahn agreed that neigh-borhood revitalization is important. The Republican emphasized that the county could get help from state and federal grants to push along the projects. The Democrat stressed that the county needs to grow its number of high-paying jobs and said she has an idea to boost the economy by train-ing workers for technology-based positions at Suffolk County Community College.

There were not many other similari-ties between the two women. One of the ways the candidates stood apart was on their methods for improving the county’s cash flow. Cumella said the county should be sharing more services with other mu-nicipalities, specifically local towns, and

Hahn said she has been holding meetings on finding new revenue streams, such as penalizing polluters like those who use certain fertilizers on their lawns.

The legislator is looking for another term because she is “deeply committed to making a difference” and there is still work to be done. She has been working on initiatives to raise awareness of chemi-cals used in dry cleaning, affecting water quality and public health; to make it eas-

ier for people to safely get rid of leftover prescription medication; and to change the way the county addresses domestic violence and its victims.

Cumella, on the other hand, spoke against partisanship in the Legislature and said getting the county’s finances in order will help keep young people on Long Island.

“We need to keep our families together,” she said.

Photos by Desirée KeeganDonna Cumella, left, is challenging legislator Kara Hahn, right, for her seat.

Debate for 5th District comes down to money vs. initiatives


By Elana Glowatz

Two neighborhood leaders are bat-tling for Brookhaven Town’s 1st Coun-cil District seat, with incumbent Valerie Cartright leaning on her record of com-munity involvement and challenger Ed Garboski on his background as a small business owner and civic president.

In a debate at the Times Beacon Record Newspapers office last week, Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station), who is seek-ing her second term on the town board, and the Republican Garboski, president of the Port Jefferson Station/Terryville Civic Association, did not stand apart on many of the area’s biggest issues.

Both said they agreed that repaving town roads, upgrading parks and pre-serving open space were important, as well as holding the line on taxes. They also made similar statements about the need to crack down on illegal housing in the area, specifically overcrowded homes rented to raucous Stony Brook Univer-sity students — Cartright and Garboski said the town has to work with the uni-versity to alleviate the problem.

But one issue for which they had different solutions was the pace of the town’s approval process for businesses looking to locate or expand in Brookhav-en. Many stakeholders have argued the process for site plan approval and other planning and zoning concerns is slow and deters business, particularly in a sluggish economy. The candidates said they heard those complaints and had plans to address them.

“I was a home improvement contrac-tor and had to deal with the Town of Brookhaven,” Garboski said, adding that he also witnesses the movement of busi-ness in his role as civic president. “The bureaucracy … [has] just too many rules and regulations.”

He said the town should keep watch

on businesses, but needs to move things along. According to the challenger, his first step would be determining whether the holdup is a personnel issue or can be attributed to the approval process itself.

The incumbent, on the other hand, pointed to a department restructure in the town in January 2014 — among other changes, the town board split up the building and fire prevention depart-ment, putting building into the planning department and fire prevention into the public safety department.

“I think it’s time for us to sit down as a board and evaluate that restructuring to see if it’s been more effective,” Cartright said. “To see if there’s any additional stuff that needs to be restructured.”

Another topic that received different responses was the issue of drug abuse and addiction on Long Island. While Garboski stressed the need for outreach programs in neighborhood schools and educating parents so they can identify a child with a drug problem, Cartright said Brookhaven should be assisting community groups that are already tackling the issue and should work with the county to get homeless people, many of whom struggle with addiction, the services they need.

In endorsing herself for re-election, Cartright said she has worked to bridge the gap between the government and the community, touting the bulletin that she sends out to residents with information about upcoming public hearings and pro-posed laws, among other outreach efforts.

Garboski said he agreed that bulletin is helpful to people like him, who are keeping an eye on town news. For his own part, he emphasized his experience as a business owner with negotiating and budgets, and said he has time to put to-ward alleviating quality of life issues.

The two community advocates will face off on Nov. 3.

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After leading by two sets, the Ward Melville boys’ volleyball team dropped the next two to send the match into a deci-sive fifth set, where the Patriots overcame a six-point deficit to defeat the Tigers.

Both teams fought for every point in the first set, which was tied 21-21 before Ward Melville put the set away, 25-23.

The second set was a lot like the first. Both teams tied at 9-9 and again at 17-17, with neither team giving an inch. The Patriots edged ahead 22-20, and were able to take the set, 25-21.

“We were fortunate, early on, to go up 2-0, but we knew they would come back and force that game four,” Ward Melville head coach Chris Holden said. “They’re

not a team that’s going to back down and go out without a fight.”

Northport was hanging by a thread, and although the team broke out to a three-point lead, Ward Melville’s Matt Lilley, on a service tear, put his team out in front 13-12, before the teams tied it 14-14. The Tigers edged ahead 19-17, and put the set away, 25-22.

Although his team was down two sets, Northport senior Dom DellaMarco said he was confident his team could turn it around and avoid a shutout.

“In that third set, we knew we had to come together as a team, dig deep and keep pushing,” DellaMarco said. “We can’t let up and we can’t get down on ourselves.”

Northport led the fourth set like it did in the third, and the Tigers surged ahead 21-13 before the Patriots rallied back to trail 24-20.

“We were pretty confident going into that third set, but I think we took a little bit for granted — some of us thought that team would just roll over,” Ward Mel-ville’s Chris Allen said. “But Northport showed us that wasn’t going to happen. They fought back. They’re a quality team.”

Northport senior Nick Bitetto said his team had to leverage their victory in the third set and bring that energy to the fourth.

“I knew we just couldn’t give up — we had to come together and we had to build mo-mentum,” Bitetto said.

“We had to fight. We didn’t come this far to lose.”

Northport scored next to win the fourth set 25-20, and force a decisive fifth.

Ward Melville stayed one step ahead of its opponent, as they stretched their legs to lead 15-10. Both teams traded points, and minutes later the Patriots

had a 20-15 lead.Northport wasn’t about to go quietly,

and the Tigers closed to within two, 22-20, late in the set.

“We were well prepared; we saw them in a couple of tournaments where we went head to head with them — start-ers against starters — and we came out on top all three times,” Northport head coach Robert Hamel said. “We knew we matched up well with them. We knew it was going to be a playoff-type of game.”

After several long ball rallies, Ward Melville won the final set, 25-21.

“We knew we needed our passing to come down — when we’re in system, we know we can beat any team we need to,” Lilley said. “We did well in our transi-tion, passing and hitting, and because of that, we got better and better in the fifth set.”

With the win, the Patriots improve to 10-3 and Northport fell to 8-6. Both teams are still headed to the playoffs, which begin Nov. 3.

Patriots edge out Northport in five setsPhotos by Bill Landon

above, Chris allen sends the ball over the net. left, Matt lilley leaps up for the block.

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‘We did well in our transition, passing and hitting, and because of that, we got better and better in the fifth set.’

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The Ward Melville girls’ volleyball team traveled to Sachem

East Monday and shut out the competition.

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The No. 5 Ward Melville girls’ soccer team hosted No. 12 Deer

Park Monday and narrowly fell in the first round of playoffs.

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Romaine is superEd Romaine has a solid record

of getting things done. He has kept the lid on taxes; brought single-stream recycling into the town, which added revenue and made collection day easier on residents; and fought bad neigh-bors who run their homes as ille-gal boarding houses or abandon their properties and allow them to fall into disrepair.

And under the leadership of the Republican Center Moriches resident, the town paid off its

pension debt this year — an important factor in maintaining fiscal stability in the future.

On top of these efforts that affect residents where they live, he has attacked broader initia-tives, including supporting laws that encourage residents to use alternative energy sources.

His Democratic challenger, Douglas Dittko, is nowhere to be found, but that’s OK because what Romaine has been doing is working.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Re-elect Romaine.

ENDORSEMENTS

Help Hahn win re-election

Since 2011, Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket) has worked to defend the public’s health and safety. She spearheaded a law to protect our water supply from hazardous plastic materi-als; worked to eliminate toxic chemicals from toys; preserved open space; and put a lifesav-ing drug into the hands of our first responders to help them

prevent opioid overdoses.Hahn is accessible to the

people she represents, and her ideas are moving the county in the right direction.

Republican challenger Donna Cumella has lived in Suffolk County for 44 years and is quite knowledgeable about the big is-sues, and we applaud her willing-ness to serve the community. But Hahn has proven that she takes action to improve her constitu-ents’ quality of life. She should be re-elected to another term.

The race to represent Brookhaven Town’s 1st District is a good one with two ambitious and qualified candidates, but we feel one of them is just the right fit at just the right time, and that’s incumbent Valerie Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station).

Cartright, an attorney, was first elected to the seat two years ago and has been busy ever since. She can be seen at various community events and working on some of the town’s most press-ing issues, like drug-related crime, zoning and planning. She has hosted roundtable discussions as part of her “be a good neighbor” campaign, bringing all involved parties together to address illegal student housing in the com-munities surrounding Stony Brook University, resulting in new code proposals to better regulate the housing. All in all, she has been re-sponsive in addressing what her constituents identify as concerns facing the district.

Much of the same can be said for Cartright’s op-ponent, civic president Ed Garboski. The face of the

Port Jefferson Station/Ter-ryville Civic Association, Garboski is a proven leader on community issues and was named a Times Beacon Record Newspapers Person of the Year because of it.

However, Cartright’s per-spective and life experience is necessary to the Brookhaven Town Board. Not only is she a Democrat on a Republican-controlled board, but she also has a background unlike her council colleagues — she brings a valuable perspective to town politics that would be lost without her.

Garboski is still a great can-didate and an effective leader, and we hope he does not go away if he loses this election.

If re-elected, Cartright said she hopes to build upon her constituent outreach by perfecting her communica-tion methods, knocking on doors and bringing in the senior community to better address their concerns in the district. She has already made great strides in bringing groups together to address and discuss problems, and she should be given another term to continue her work.

Cartright’s the right pick

Bellone is bestIt’s a real race for the Suffolk

County executive spot this year. In one corner, you’ve got a seasoned incumbent, Steve Bel-lone (D), who has an ambitious vision for the region’s future. On the other side, you’ve got Republican Jim O’Connor, who knows finances and is in tune with the taxpayers’ pockets.

It was a tough call, but we say re-elect Bellone.

While Bellone’s judgement call in tapping James Burke — who recently resigned as the county’s police chief amid a federal investigation — gives us pause, the county executive has some big plans ahead. Those include better connecting Suf-folk’s existing downtowns to its research institutions to create an attractive environment that entices millenials and employ-ers to stay on the Island.

O’Connor said he sees it in a different light, saying it’s too expensive to live on Long Island and that county govern-ment needs to make it cheaper for residents, who are leaving in droves, to stay put. We appre-ciate a focus on finances, but we prefer Bellone’s long-term vision of the county’s future.

Now, if he could only prevent his dreams from getting in the way of action.

The county executive has grand plans to change a lot of things in Suffolk, from his pro-posal to connect those down-towns to his desire to increase the sewer network and improve water quality. But after trimming his salary, the size of government and his own body weight, there’s one more thing he must trim: his big goals, into more tamed, specific plans of action.

It’s great to have ideas that would transform the way we

live on Long Island, but we can’t get there in just one leap, which our county executive’s rhetoric seems to demonstrate. We have to take small steps that add up to larger ones.

Bellone can do it. He dem-onstrates an understanding of complex issues — for instance, he knows the solution to the Island’s drug addiction issue is to work on prevention and treatment resources, not just add more cops on the streets. Simple improvements like get-ting all the county’s town su-pervisors in one room to agree on streamlining a building process in the county may seem small, but it’d make a huge dif-ference in spurring economic growth, which would also feed into his larger plans.

And maybe he might want to add O’Connor to his adminis-tration. He seems to have some good ideas.

Losquadro paves the way

Brookhaven Highway Super-intendent Dan Losquadro had a busy year filled with rain, sleet, snow and, now, a re-election bid. We think he handled them all fairly well and deserves a second term.

Just two years removed from being elected, Losquadro is just getting started at the Highway Department level after stints in the Suffolk County Legislature and New York State Assembly. After coming into office with the inheritance of a mounting debt and crumbling infrastructure, we feel the highway superin-tendent has been proactive and pragmatic in finding solutions to the county’s problems, while re-maining transparent throughout his office’s shortcomings.

In one of the most tangible litmus tests, Losquadro has re-mained accessible with his office’s

attempts at putting a dent in a backlog of road repaving and re-pair projects, while also admitting there was no way he could tend to every single one. That kind of honesty demonstrates his willing-ness to work with the public and trust in those he serves.

The winter was brutal and full of snowfall, and it didn’t stop there.

We even saw a horrific tornado barrel through the North Shore in August. All the while, we were pleased with Losquadro’s handling of the storms, hitting the pavement quickly and remaining acces-sible throughout.

He has also worked to bring the Highway Department into the current century, ushering in new technology and implementing new methods of doing business.

Losquadro’s opponent, Democrat Jason Kontzamanys, has based much of his opposi-tion campaign on knocking the county’s debt and vowing

to watch after the taxpayer’s dollar. While we agree with the sentiment of his argument, we don’t feel that is something the current superintendent fails to recognize or act upon.

There is always debt in government, but Brookhaven has stood out with a Moody’s bond rating of Aa2. If Moody’s has given the town a favorable rating, then the town is not in dire financial straits.

Businesses that don’t carry debt are few and far between, and while we recognize the town has mounting debt, we also feel Losquadro is privy to the financing of that debt and works to deal with it accord-ingly as much as a highway superintendent can.

Losquadro is just getting started. He had a tough winter with very little criticisms, espe-cially from the ground level of his constituents, and we feel he should get another term under his belt.

Luft: Tough but fairMartha Luft has served as a

judge in Suffolk County Family Court for the past decade, and her experience and compas-sion while serving are why she deserves another term.

She is no stranger to serving in emotional courtrooms and meeting face-to-face with some of the most vulnerable members of our society. She comes to the job with humility, and the passion she shows while discussing different

aspects of her work is impressive.Some of the driving qualities

she said keep her going include patience, communication and an ability to deliver tough love for those who need it most while still operating with compassion and understanding. She said she often calls on her experience as a moth-er of three and a grandmother of as many to guide her when work-ing to balance her heart with her mind in her judgeship.

In her re-election bid, she faces off against Marlene Budd,

George Harkin Jr. and Matthew Hughes. But of the four candi-dates seeking the two judgeships up for election this year, Luft was the only one rated highly quali-fied for the position, according to an Independent Judicial Election Qualifications Commissions report. Luft is an exceptional candidate with a track record that supports our conviction.

She told us she loves family court. She said she thinks she found her calling, and so do we. Re-elect Martha Luft.


Getting our mojo working in a sea of negativity

The first few moments after we open our eyes, our minds process everything

around us. Wait, what day is it? Hmm, did we dry clean the right suit for today? Do we really have to do that presentation? Could it possibly have snowed and might we have a day when we can relax at home?

D. None of the aboveby DaNiel DuNaief

[email protected]

Daniel Dunaief’s recent book, “The Other Parent,”

may be purchased online from www.tbrnewsmedia.com/ebooks.

Somewhere in those moments when we put the pieces of our lives and minds together, we might take stock of how we feel about the coming day and its challenges. Are we going to puff out chests, knowing that we’re going to ace that test, that we’re going to give the perfect presentation or that we’re going to do so well in that job interview that the company will not only offer us a position but will give us a higher salary than they had intended.

Where do we find the zen, strength and confidence to suc-ceed, while having something to offer? And why, like a reputation, does it so often seem so fragile?

Let’s take a look at children. They are smaller versions of us — up until high school — and some of the thoughts, emotions and reactions to experiences that they have are more visible. They haven’t learned how to cover so much of themselves up.

When they play their musical

instruments, for example, we can tell that they’ve played the wrong note by the color of their faces and by the way they slump their shoulders when they stand with the group for a final applause. We can watch them pull their hats low over their eyes when they throw a ball into right field from shortstop or when they shake their heads and roll their eyes at their misfires.

Even surrounded by a large col-lection of friends and family, our children can so readily believe the worst about themselves. In a way, I suppose, believing that we can and should be better could be motiva-tional. We’re not where we want to be, we’re not who we want to be, and we have to figure out how to get from the now of point A to the goal of point B.

It’s also important for us to find some humility. If we walked around town, the house or school acting as if we were the preor-dained future leader of the free world, we would be insufferable,

irritating and ridiculous.Still, when it comes to that

balancing act, we seem so much more likely to look down on ourselves, our efforts and our achievements. No matter how much our parents or friends tell us we’re fantastic and that we contributed something extraor-dinary, we are still ready to home in on the imperfections and won-der whether we’ll ever live up to our own expectations.

We read inspirational books, follow the examples of people who have achieved what we’d like to do and surround ourselves, sometimes, with sayings like, “Today is the start of something incredible.” Along the way, how-ever, someone nudges us off the tracks and we hope that tomor-row might be the real start of something spectacular.

Maybe there are people who have become so effective at be-coming “nattering nabobs of neg-ativity,” to borrow from former

Where do we find the zen, strength and confidence

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Inside this issue is a treasure trove of first-hand informa-tion about the candidates and

the issues in the coming election. How do I know? Because we, the different members of the edito-rial board of Times Beacon Re-cord Newspapers, personally in-terviewed 16 people running for office across the three towns that we serve: Brookhaven, Smith-town and Huntington. The of-fices the candidates are running for are all local, which means that these are the officials who

Vice President Spiro Agnew, that we are ready to believe them. It’s easier, after all, to knock someone off a mountain than it is to climb one yourself.

Maybe, in addition to all the diet plans to help us avoid giving in to our cravings for the sugar our country produces and uses to celebrate so many occasions, what we need is a new industry: Mojo Inc.

This could allow us to succeed in a humble way, perhaps, while refueling us with positive energy.

Election special from TBR News Mediawill have the most direct effect on our lives. The positions range this year from county executive and county legislator to town supervisor and town council, to highway department supervisor and family court judge.

We asked them questions without bias, seeking only to understand who they were, what they believed and what we could expect from each of them, should they be elected — or re-elected, as the case might be. The setting in our conference room was relaxed, and we hoped comfortable, with opponents for each office seated together around the table responding to questions put to them by our editors and reporters.

Sometimes there were four candidates, sometimes only one who might be running unop-posed or against a shadow oppo-nent, but mostly there were two during each session. Most of the time, the hour goes by calmly, but occasionally the opponents get testy with each other — they may even become openly hostile.

At one such session some years ago, one of the candidates

invited the other out to the back parking lot “to settle things.” When the other began to take off his jacket, we quickly inter-vened. But there was no such flare-up this year.

The answers were timed in an attempt to get to the main ideas without running on too long. There was ample time at the end for each visitor to tell us anything more that per-haps we hadn’t elicited with our questioning.

We have written up the de-tails of each interview in a separate article for the election section. And we discuss the candidates at the end of each hour and come to a conclusion for the endorsement.

Most of the time, the edito-rial group was unanimous be-cause the choices were fairly direct. But for a couple of races, we talked over the pros and cons of each candidate at length before making the selection. These endorsements are based on both the in-depth interviews and the considerable informa-tion we know about the incum-bents since we have been cov-

ering them closely throughout their terms in office. Of course, after reading the stories, you may or may not agree with our conclusions. Our job is to get you thinking.

The many hours that are giv-en to this task, throughout the month of October, are a service for our readers. We are privi-leged to enjoy an extended face-to-face time with those standing for election, and we feel an ob-ligation to pass along whatever information, facts and impres-sions we gather during these sessions. We sincerely hope we help in the sometimes-difficult job of casting a responsible vote.

Each year we include in the election section a sample bal-lot that we are able to procure, with greater or lesser difficulty, from county election officials. This year the effort took most of an entire day until we got to the right person. It was finally our art director who located the prize. We believe it was well worth the trouble, because readers have told us that it is a great advantage for them to receive the ballot at the voting

poll already knowing how it is laid out.

Our editorial board is made up of staffers with different po-litical leanings, but when we put our journalists’ hats on, we try to judge each race strictly on the merits of the opposing candi-dates. And while it is technically possible for me to be tyrannical about the final selections, that is almost never the case. We de-cide by majority rule.

Sincere thanks to the talent-ed staff who join in this extra work each year. We truly be-lieve that we are watchdogs for the people, and nowhere is that more necessary than in report-ing about government and its office holders. We hope we have helped you, whether you read by newspaper and/or online. Now please vote.

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