the times of smithtown - october 29, 2015

Photos by Susan Risoli Views of the footbridge at Sunken Meadow State Park, where lovebirds once saw locks representing their permanent a� ection, pictured inset. The locks have since been removed, as shown in the lower photo.

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Lost love in Smithtown

BY SUSAN RISOLI

To all the couples who at-tached padlocks to a foot-bridge in Sunken Meadow State Park: sorry, sweethearts. Your public declarations of love were removed recently by the New York State Depart-ment of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

Lovers worldwide have em-braced the tradition of deco-rating locks with initials and other symbols of partnership, and ceremoniously attaching them to bridges. Fearing that locks would weaken structures and make them unsafe, mu-nicipalities have been remov-ing the tokens of love. Twenty-two love locks were recently taken off the footbridge at the end of Sunken Meadow’s park-ing field 3. The New York City Department of Transportation removed 450 locks from the

Brooklyn Bridge in April. And officials in Paris have been prying locks off bridges that span the River Seine.

A recent visit to Sunken Meadow revealed a barren bridge stripped of the locks that adorned it earlier this year. Only one lonely testa-ment to love remained – a heart scratched into the metal railing, bearing the message “LW + GE.”

State Parks spokesman Randy Simons said in an email Tuesday that the Parks De-partment was concerned that, over time, an increasing num-ber of locks could add unsafe weight to the bridge. Locks can get rusted, and that could also affect the bridge, Simons said.

Those who put a love lock on the bridge and want their memento back, he said, can

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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.

File photothomas stavola, pictured left, will spend two years in prison and five years on probation.


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Head of the Harbor grapples with deer huntingBy Victoria Espinoza

The deer debate has hit Head of the Harbor.

Residents sounded off on the ongoing deer management discussion at Village Hall last Wednesday night, and after hearing residents’ concerns with the initial resolution proposed last month to allow more hunting, the board of trustees withdrew consideration.

The law was originally written to amend the village code to enable hunt-ing of deer pursuant to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation authorization. But trust-ees said it was rescinded so as to allow more time for thought before action.

“We retracted that law and it is com-pletely off the table,” trustee Judith C. Ogden said.

The board created an advisory com-mittee that will consider and report to the board on a local deer management program. The committee is expected to give a report to the board by Dec. 31, Ogden said.

Mayor Douglas A. Dahlgrad said it is his hope that the committee will meet with other villages and towns to see how they are handling their deer issues, as well as with the DEC. Resi-dents continued to voice their distress for how the board will handle this is-

sue in the upcoming months. George Kaloyanides, a Head of the

Harbor resident, said this issue has gar-nered more interest than any other in the 30 years he’s lived here. He said he hopes that this issue is dealt with as transpar-ently as possible as it goes forward.

“I hope you [the board] would con-sider expanding this charge to include polling residents of the village to see how many people see the deer as a problem,” Kaloyanides said. “In the in-tent of eliminating concerns, I think a majority vote of the proposed actions would help.”

John Lendino, a Head of the Harbor resident, questioned the board’s judg-ment for the handling of communica-tions on this issue. He said that notices of the public hearing were hidden un-der several other documents on bulle-tin postings around the town.

“All these people tonight wouldn’t even be here if it wasn’t for me,” Len-dino said.

Jeffrey Malkan, a Head of the Har-bor resident, said that a vote should be included for this issue on this year’s ballot so voters can say if they approve.

“The final word should belong to the people,” Malkan said. “In the interest of avoiding controversy, it should go back to the residents as a referendum.”

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A public hearing was held in early September where residents were con-cerned not only with the proposal, but also the way village hall handled alert-ing citizens on the issue.

Julie Korneffel, a Head of the Har-bor resident, was unhappy with how little notice she was given about this issue before it came to town hall.

“There is a big concern for trans-parency now,” Korneffel said. She also felt that the code written “seemed pur-posely vague.”

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Stolen apparelA 36-year old man from Plainview

was arrested after police said he stole assorted apparel from the Smith Haven Mall in Smithtown on Oct. 24. He was arrested at 1:20 p.m. and then, once he was taken to the 4th Precinct, police said he had an altered New York State identification card. He was charged with second degree forgery of an official document.

Smoke sign blows away It was reported that business signs

from Aroma Smoke Shop in Smithtown were damaged by four unknown teens at 4 p.m. on Oct. 24.

Xanax o’clock Police said a 24-year old woman from

Northport was in wrongful possession of Xanax at 5:55 a.m. at 4 Parsons Lane in Nissequogue on Oct. 22. She was charged with seventh degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Not so lucky Police said an unknown white man

entered Gulf gas station on Nesconset Highway and fled with scratch lotto tickets on Oct. 24 at 7 p.m.

Oxy-co-don’tA 17-year old man from Smithtown

was arrested after police said he was in possession of oxycodone at Commack Liquors on Route 25A in Commack on Oct. 23 at 6:05 p.m. He was charged with seventh degree criminal posses-sion of a controlled substance.

Rims goneIt was reported that two sets of rims

and tires were stolen from a 2016 Cadil-lac Escalade at a dealership in Smith-town sometime between 10 p.m. on Oct. 20 and 8 a.m. on Oct. 21

Bad contactOn Oct. 22, a 23-year old woman

from Commack was arrested after po-lice said she hit someone on the head on Route 454 in Commack at 3 a.m. She was charged with second degree physi-cal contact.

The nail polish removerAn unknown person stole numer-

ous bottles of nail polish at 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 21 from Walgreens on Larkfield road in Commack.

Home Depot items have new homeA 47-year old man from East North-

port was arrested on Oct. 22 after police said he stole miscellaneous items from Home Depot on Jericho Turnpike in Commack at 10 p.m. He was charged with petit larceny.

Wrong turnOn Oct. 24, a 40-year old man from

Bay Shore was arrested after police said he made an illegal left hand turn on Route 25A in Smithtown and they dis-covered he was driving drunk. He was charged with driving while intoxicated.

Boozing and speedingA 36-year old man from Centereach

was pulled over for speeding on Route 347 in Commack when it was discov-ered that he was driving drunk at 1:50 a.m. on Oct. 22. He was charged with driving while intoxicated.

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Smithtown budget reduces spendingBy Phil Corso

Smithtown’s 2016 preliminary budget proposal called for a small increase in taxes despite some spending cuts, but of-ficials said they anticipated no layoffs because of it.

The $101 million budget, if approved, would reduce the amount of money the town spends by about 3.4 percent when compared to this year’s budget, the preliminary pro-posal said. An average Smithtown home assessed at $5,500 would see an increase of roughly $18.01 in annual taxes, or $1,271.25 in total, the budget said.

As for the town’s tax levy, the budget pegged it at $55.49 million, which was more than last year’s $55.04 million levy.

In his budget message, Smithtown Supervisor Pat Vec-chio (R) said the town was building on an initiative started in 2015 in a five-year capital plan that targets strategic infra-structure upgrades.

“[The budget] substantially moves the town to a struc-turally balanced budget that does not reduce resident ser-vices,” Vecchio said. “It recognizes the initiatives started in 2015 of replacing only essentially needed positions as em-ployees retire or otherwise leave the employ of the town.”

Last year, the town used more than $5 million of surplus funding to balance the budget. But this year, the town was able to use much less than that at $500,000. The use of sur-plus funding to balance the budget was one of the key rea-sons Councilmen Bob Creighton (R) and Ed Wehrheim (R) voted against the proposal last year, but both officials told Times Beacon Record Newspapers last week that they were glad to see the town working to end that practice.

In regards to the town’s general fund, Vecchio said taxes increased by $31.62 for the average home without the use of surplus dollars, which he called a change from Smithtown’s past practices. Expenditures went down by nearly $1.1 mil-lion, or 2.5 percent, he said.

“The town continues a ‘pay as you go basis’ for repairs and separation pay for retiring workers,” the supervisor said. “Large capital expenditures have been reduced in the operat-ing budget because they have been included in the 2015-19 capital program, which acquires long-term assets through borrowing instead of the use of current operating funds.”

The town was also able to meet the 2 percent tax cap with help from roughly $900,000 in health insurance and work-ers’ compensation increases, which a decrease in required state pension contributions help address, Town Comptrol-ler Donald Musgnug said. Also included in the budget were longevity and step increases for nearly 30 Smithtown Ad-ministrative Guild and 375 Civil Service Employees Asso-ciation union workers, he said.

Projects in line with the town’s five-year capital budget plan between 2015 and 2019 helped Smithtown save money in the 2016 preliminary budget, officials said, citing vari-ous savings that came as a result of them. The town’s LED streetlights project helped save $200,000 in utility costs, and taxes in the outside village fund decreased by $8.80.

The town also allocated savings of about $35,000 in the animal shelter supervisor’s salary to pay for trap, neuter and release services as well as the hiring of a part-time trainer to help train the eight dogs housed at the shelter, town of-ficials said.

On the subject of Highway Department savings, Vecchio said $500,000 of surplus funds there was used to stabilize taxes. Funding was also increased in the town’s snow cof-fers by $2.14 per household assessed at $5,500 because of severe storms, which he said exhausted funding last year.

The Town Board must adopt the budget by Nov. 20.

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Elevated levels of fecal bacteria found in local waters

DEC limits shellfishingCiting recent bacteriological surveys,

the New York State Department of En-vironmental Conservation announced emergency regulations to change the des-ignation of underwater shellfish lands in Suffolk county. Shellfish harvesting will be closed or limited to particular months in approximately 1,844 acres of bays and harbors in Brookhaven, Huntington, Is-lip, Smithtown, Riverhead, Southampton, Southold, East Hampton and Oyster Bay, to comply with state and national stan-dards to protect public health.

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In Stony Brook Harbor, approximately 300 acres shall be reclassified as closed from May 15 through Oct. 31, to closed instead from May 1 through Dec. 31, for the harvest of shellfish.

In Cold Spring Harbor, approximately 99 acres shall be designated as closed during from May 1 through Oct. 15, for the harvest of shellfish.

For more information about shellfish safety and New York’s role in the Nation-al Shellfish Sanitation Program, visit the DEC’s website. The emergency regulations adopting the changes are effective immedi-ately. Additional information may also be obtained by contacting the DEC’s Shell-fisheries office at (631) 444-0492.

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Sponsored legislation to:• Limit campaign contributions from unions and companies doing business with the county• Require hotels, motels and businesses to have direct access to 911• Identify and cut $64 million in welfare waste, fraud and abuse

Outspoken fighter:• Against placing red light cameras on every corner• Exposing wasteful 18 year bonding of police cars that only last 3 years• For the protection and preservation of our environment• For transparency to budget and regulatory processes• Against excessive government spending and debt• For personal responsibility and ending the growth of welfare programs

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“Through my experience with the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force, I know that integrity, dedication and hard work is the only way to get the job done right. As a legislator, I am watching the bottom line and stopping wasteful spending to help keep Suffolk County affordable for our families.”

Rob is committed to transparent & honest government that eliminates waste, fraud and abuse of our tax dollars, and to policies

that improve our economy and quality of life.

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Photos by Susan Risoli Top, a pair of locks decorate the bridge in a photo taken in January. Below, a more recent photo of the bridge shows the locks have been stripped.

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“We encourage our visitors to ex-press their friendship and love in other ways that do not interfere with others’ enjoyment of the natural setting and park property,” Simons said. Going forward, if park officials see anyone at-taching a lock to the bridge, “We would explain to the individual or individu-als that this is not permitted and have them remove the locks,” he said. “We do not see locks being placed on any of our bridges in the future.”

The Parks Department hasn’t seen

love locks at any other state parks, Simons said.

The New York City Department of Transportation has been taking love locks off the city’s bridges since 2013, said a DOT spokesperson in an email Tuesday. She said the department re-moved 9,363 locks this year, from Jan-uary through the end of September.

“Locks pose a safety risk for those us-ing the Brooklyn Bridge and are not al-lowed,” she said. “We strongly discour-age visitors from leaving locks on our bridges as it poses a danger to the infra-structure and the cars traveling below.”

“We ask that all visitors to the Brook-lyn Bridge and other bridges across the city help keep our landmarks clean and in a state of good repair.”

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By Victoria Espinoza

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bel-lone (D) said he hopes to continue his work addressing the county’s top issues, including affordable living, financial is-sues and wastewater management. But in order to do that, he first has to get past Republican challenger Jim O’Connor.

O’Connor (R), a partner in the Man-hattan law firm of Maroney O’Connor LLP, said he was hoping to unseat Bel-lone and get a handle of the county’s fi-nances, which he argued are currently in bad shape.

“We are in massive amounts of debt,” O’Connor said. “Our taxes are a signifi-cant problem.”

Bellone said that he inherited a $500 million deficit when he arrived to his position in 2012, and during his short time in office he said he has been able to resolve a “legacy of issues” left to him — including minimizing that deficit.

O’Connor also said one of the issues looming over the next several years is the county’s handling of negotiations with police salary contracts.

“They are back-loaded contracts,” O’Connor said. “The real impact of these contracts won’t be felt until 2017 and 2018.”

O’Connor said he does not know how the county will pay for those salaries, and

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.”

County race focuses on finances, planning

Photos by Giselle Barkley Jim o’connor is facing off against suffolk county Executive steve Bellone.


Smithtown incumbents face bipartisan oppositionBy Phil Corso

Over the past several years, if a Smith-town Town Board vote resulted in a 3-2 tally, chances were incumbent Republi-cans Bob Creighton and Ed Wehrheim were the lone naysayers. Both electeds have been seeking re-election this fall, as political newcomers from both sides of the aisle have stepped up for their seats.

Creighton, 77, came out on the bottom of a three-way Republican primary back in September, losing the GOP line on Tuesday’s ballot to both Wehrheim and Lisa Inzerillo, 50, of Kings Park, while still retaining a spot on the Conserva-tive, Independent and Reform party lines. Meanwhile, Democrat Larry Vet-ter, 62, threw his hat into the race over the summer and has been vying to break the town’s all-Republican board.

All the candidates, except for Inzeri-llo, sat down with the Times of Smith-town last week to discuss top issues facing Smithtown and what their plans were to address them if elected.

Creighton said he hoped his record would speak for itself in his bid for an-other term, citing his background in law enforcement and private sector success before joining the Town Board in 2008. In the interview, both Creighton and Weh-rheim discussed that familiar 3-2 split on the board and argued that dissension too often got in the way of progress.

Earlier this year, Creighton, who is in his second four-year term on the board, took to a work session to propose that the town consider installing commissioner

positions similar to those held in neigh-boring townships like Brookhaven and Islip, which he argued would streamline workflow and make department heads more accountable. Town Supervisor Pat Vecchio (R) was outright against the pro-posal and opposed it each time it was dis-cussed before the board, which Creighton said stonewalled it from progressing.

“I’ve worked to try and change gov-ernment a little bit and to make it more accountable, but it really hasn’t been act-ed on,” Creighton said of the plan, which Wehrheim also supported. “It will not be acted on until two of the other council people take a stand, which they will not do as long as Mr. Vecchio is there.”

Wehrheim, who is running for his fourth term on the board, said he would use another term in office to stimulate economic growth in the town, specifi-cally with downtown business revitaliza-tion and infrastructure repairs in mind.

When asked how he planned on bet-tering his standing in the classic 3-2 Town Board split, Wehrheim said he would only keep doing what he has been doing — bringing business to every work session with hopes of spurring action.

“It’s a political issue that doesn’t need to exist. It might be great press, but I don’t pay much attention to the dissen-sion,” Wehrheim said. “I bring business to every board meeting, because I have constituents that need me to discuss is-sues important to them.”

Wehrheim cited a recent legislative ef-fort he championed alongside Creighton, adding that the two “went back and forth”

over a minimum wage proposal for the town’s seasonal workers. That minimum wage hike was subsequently included in the 2016 preliminary budget in September.

Vetter, the lone Democrat in the four-way race, said one of the key points that set him apart from the rest, in his first run for public office, was his “outside looking in” perspective coupled with his extensive background in environmental science and business. He centered his campaign on attacking the “Long Island brain drain” and fighting to keep young adults in Smithtown by making it a more vibrant place to live and raise a family.

“I have four adult children — they’re all gone and off Long Island,” Vetter said. “I have three grandchildren I’m watching grow up on Skype. Everything springs from that, and that includes in-dustrial development, downtown revi-

talization, housing initiatives, and other aspects, like sewers, infrastructure.”

Vetter said that if elected, he would only seek out one or two terms before re-moving himself from the board because of his strong support for term limits.

Earlier this month, Vecchio joined oth-er marquee Republican names in Smith-town on the steps of Town Hall to endorse Inzerillo, flanked by councilmembers Tom McCarthy (R) and Lynne Nowick (R) as well as Suffolk County Legislator Rob Trotta (R-Fort Salonga) and state Assem-blyman Mike Fitzpatrick (R-St. James).

Inzerillo, however, did not respond to several attempts to organize a four-way candidate debate at the Times of Smith-town’s headquarters. She was also absent at other debates throughout the town, with the latest one a week before Election Day at the Smithtown Fire House.

Photos by Rohma Abbasincumbents Bob Creighton, left, and Ed Wehrheim, middle, are squaring off against Demo-crat larry Vetter, right, and republican lisa inzerillo, not pictured, for their seats on the smithtown Town Board.

Trotta takes on Macellaro for county LegislatureBy Phil Corso

A difference in philosophy underscored the race between an incumbent Republican legislator and his Democratic challenger.

Rob Trotta (R-Fort Salonga) was first elected to the Suffolk County Legislature in 2013 and said his first term in office opened his eyes to the county’s financial woes. But to keep working at it, he must first win re-election against Kings Park resident Richard Macellaro.

The two sat down in the Times Beacon Record Newspapers newsroom last week to discuss their campaigns and demon-strate why they deserved to represent the county’s 13th District, which encom-passes Smithtown, Fort Salonga, Kings Park, Nissequogue, St. James, Commack, Head of the Harbor and East Northport. Trotta kicked it off with strong rhetoric.

“It’s been an eye-opening experience over the past two years. I am shocked and saddened at how bad the county is fiscal-ly,” Trotta said, highlighting the crux of his concerns looking ahead in the Legisla-ture. “I’ve seen serious, serious problems. Worse than anybody even knows.”

The legislator said the looming threat of the county’s bond rating being reduced coupled with the growing sentiment that

it’s too expensive to live in Suffolk have made his job all the more challenging. The blame, Trotta said, rests on out-of-control spending, too much union involvement in politics, and too much money being tossed around in campaign contributions.

A mismanagement of funding was at the heart of almost everything Trotta dis-cussed as key campaign concerns. He cited recent development — part of a downtown revitalization plan — in Wyandanch as “overkill” and cautioned that communi-ties like Kings Park would benefit from his voice of concern as the community looks toward a similar revitalization.

“Kings Park is a diamond in the rough, and we have a plan there when it comes to sewers,” he said. “But we don’t want it to be another Patchogue.”

Macellaro — who identified himself as a “new kid on the block” when it comes to seeking political office, despite unsuc-cessful bids for the state Assembly in 2010 and Smithtown’s Town Board in 2013 — said he wanted to put his experience as a civic member of the Kings Park com-munity to work. With the campaign slo-gan “A different voice, a different choice,” the Kings Park resident said he hoped to use the office to prevent an increase in property taxes by consolidating all the

county’s school districts, allocating just one per town. While a move like that does not rest in the hands of a Suffolk County legislator, Macellaro said he would use his office as a bully pulpit to enact the change.

“It can be done,” he said. “Someone has to begin to force the school districts to lessen property taxes for our residents.”

Another important issue he said he planned on addressing, if elected, was working to construct an all-encompass-ing master plan for the county. Doing so, he said, would revitalize downtowns throughout the county, enhance trans-portation and ultimately help entice

young families to stay in Suffolk.Beyond finances, Trotta said he was

not a proponent of the county’s Red Light Safety Program, which utilizes cameras at traffic signals to catch and ticket cars that run red lights. He argued that some of its regulations, including the right-on-red violations, are nothing more than a mon-ey grab on innocent residents. But Ma-cellaro, who has worked for the county’s traffic and parking violations agency in the red light division, said he disagreed.

“I think the government is function-ing very well,” he said. “Taxes are what we pay for the lifestyle we choose.”

Photos by Rohma Abbassuffolk County legislator rob Trotta, left, is facing off against Democrat richard Macellaro.


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By Giselle Barkley

Suffolk County Legislator Tom Muratore said he doesn’t consider himself a politician, but more of an advocate for the people he represents. He said he hopes that mentality will help him earn an-other term on the job.

“People don’t realize how much government has to offer,” he said. “Yes, you pay the taxes, but you also enjoy the services. My priority is to provide those services.”

This is the fourth time Mu-ratore (R-Ronkonkoma) is run-ning in the 4th Legislative Dis-trict, which includes Selden, Centereach, parts of Ronkonk-oma and Farmingville, Coram, Holbrook, Lake Ronkonkoma, Lake Grove, Medford and Port Jefferson Station. His Democrat-ic opponent, Jonathan Rockfeld, has not actively campaigned for the position.

With an absentee opponent, Times Beacon Record Newspa-pers had the chance to sit down with Muratore alone and discuss his past term and future plans, if re-elected to a fourth term.

For Muratore, ensuring public

safety was one of the top issues he wanted to work to address. Over his last term, Muratore proposed a resolution to monitor the use of drones in the county, citing past incidents in California and Con-necticut where drones were prob-lematic — planes carrying water remained on the ground during a wildfire in California, impeded by drones taking photos. In Con-necticut, a man put a 9mm auto-matic pistol on a drone before it took to the sky.

His initial resolution proposed banning drones on beaches from May 15 to Sept. 15, as well as around public buildings in the county. The resolution was watered down before it was ap-proved, 17-1, after legislators and County Executive Steve Bellone (D), who is also running for re-election, took issue with the bill. If re-elected, Muratore hopes to revisit the issue and possibly tighten restrictions.

“Something’s going to hap-pen, I just know it,” Muratore said. “[But] I hope [nothing happens] before we can revamp this drone bill.”

One idea he has is to make it mandatory for those flying

drones to become members of the American Model Associa-tion, which would help track the owner of a drone and provide insurance if the drone harms an individual.

Increasing staffing within the police department is another is-sue on Muratore’s list. He men-tioned that the county has fewer officers now than it did 10 years ago and said the limited staff makes it difficult to address prob-lems like drug abuse.

“Drugs are like a tree: If you really want to kill a tree … you start at the roots,” Muratore said. “By going out and making arrests for small amount of heroin [and] small amounts of marijuana, you’re just trimming the leaves.”

Drug dealers are the stem of the issue, according to Muratore, but insufficient police staffing prevents officers from conducting longer, in-depth investigations.

In a fourth term, Muratore also plans to continue his involve-ment with the Red Light Safety Program, through which cam-eras at traffic signals help catch and ticket cars that run red lights.

While county Democrats and Republicans have not always seen

eye-to-eye on the issue, with Re-publicans calling the ticketing program a money grab, Muratore wants to continue talks to reform it. While he voted in favor of ini-tiating the program a few years ago, he disagreed with the coun-ty’s supposed manipulation of

fees associated with the program.“If you’re getting tens of thou-

sands of tickets and you increase the fee by $5, you’re getting half a million to a million dollars, maybe more,” Muratore said. “That’s just money-grabbing right there.”

Photo by Ron Pacchiana legislator Tom Muratore, above, runs for re-election for the 4th legisla-tive District.

Muratore seeks re-election for the 4th LD


Stern, McNally vying for county Legislature

By Rohma aBBas

A longtime Democratic Suffolk County legislator, seeking a final term in office to represent parts of Hunting-ton Town, will go head to head in an election on Tuesday against a political newcomer who said a fresh perspective is in order.

Suffolk County Legislator Steve Stern (D-Dix Hills) has been in office for a decade and is seeking a sixth and final two-year term before being term-limited out of that seat. He’ll have to fend off a challenge by Tom McNally, a Republican attorney from Dix Hills, who is part of the Huntington Republi-can Committee’s executive board.

In phone interviews this week, both candidates talked about what they see as top issues in this year’s campaign. The topics centered on how to steer Suf-folk’s financial ship, ways to fund sewers in Suffolk, the government’s role in assist-ing veterans and more.

Stern touted his signa-ture legislation, the Hous-ing our Homeless Heroes initiative, a package of bills that aims to end veteran homelessness in Suffolk through a number of avenues.

The legislator, who sits on the Suffolk County Veterans and Seniors Commit-tee, said he wants another term in of-fice to continue accomplishing goals in that package of bills — particularly be-ing able to say “in the very near future, that we have ended veteran homeless-ness in Suffolk County.”

“I do believe we are going to accom-plish that goal,” he said.

Meanwhile, while McNally lauds Stern’s veterans initiative, he said he’d take it a step further. The contender said he’d work to create legislation that would make sure vets returning from service have a job. “If they want a job, they have a job. If I’m fortunate enough to be elected, I would double down and continue forward with all the efforts Mr. Stern has implemented on veterans and senior issues.”

County spending is one of the main tenets of McNally’s platform.

If elected, he said he’d mandate a reduction in spending at all Suffolk County agencies by 2.5 percent per de-partment, except police, and 1 percent for the police budget. Spending caps are necessary, he said, because of the county’s “huge, huge deficit.”

“It’s not impossible, it’s just a matter

of doing it.”The legislator countered, however,

that the county has worked steadfastly to reduce the size of government in re-cent years by 1,100 positions, and by consolidating departments — like the recent merger of the county offices of comptroller and treasurer.

He said he has had to make tough choices as a legislator, like deciding not to continue operating the John J. Foley Skilled Nursing Facility, an operation county taxpayers subsidized at the cost of millions of dollars.

“It was an excruciatingly difficult decision to make, but the right one for Suffolk County taxpayers.”

Another reason Stern said he’s run-ning is to work on the county’s sewer issue. He called himself a leading pro-ponent of sewer infrastructure devel-opment, cosponsoring legislation iden-

tifying what areas would best served by sewers and choosing how to prioritize which neighborhoods get developed first.

It’s particularly crucial to Huntington, he said, be-cause that priority list in-cludes the expansion of the Southwest Sewer District,

which serves Deer Park, North Baby-lon and other western neighborhoods.

With expanded capacity comes the ability to rev up revitalization in Hun-tington, particularly in Huntington Station, where developer Renaissance Downtowns already has plans in place.

Stern said the county’s getting $388 million in funding from the federal and state government to embark on these infrastructure projects, some-thing he wants to see through.

“Will we see movement on the issue? The answer is yes. We are starting to see that now.”

McNally, by contrast, agrees water quality is a big issue on Long Island, but doesn’t see how the county could fund such a large investment.

“I think it’s an investment we have to make, but I think we have to cut back in other areas. We’re not cutting back in other areas.”

Stern was critical of his opponent’s take on the issue, noting the $388 mil-lion in sewer funds the county has.

“These kinds of opportunities is where the money comes from,” he said. “If you just throw up your hands and say this is too big, too bold, can’t afford it, then you miss out on opportunities like we are participating in.”

File photo s suffolk County Legislator steve stern, top, and Republican Tom mcNally.

Both candidates talked about Suffolk’s finances, sewers and how to assist veterans.

Longtime Suffolk legislator set to face off against Republican challenger looking to reduce spending


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School magazine earns first-place awardKaleidoscope is Kings Park High School’s literary and art magazine. For the fifth

year in a row, the magazine and its staff members earned American Scholastic Press Association’s First Place Award. To achieve this, the members dedicated their time to gathering submissions of creative writing, such as poetry and prose, and artwork, such as paintings and photography, and other visual arts created by the student body. The members then evaluated the submitted works, employing scholastic criteria in order to select the pieces that were published in this year’s magazine. The result of their hard work speaks for itself.

Learning to flyEighth-grade science students at Nesaquake Middle School in Smithtown Central

School District recently became parachute engineers by using the steps of the scien-tific method to design and test a parachute.

As part of the experiment, the students designed and tested a parachute based on a hypothesis, recorded its sail time, and examined ways to improve its design. After the first experiment and adhering to the scientific method, the students were allowed to make one final adjustment to their design to see if the parachute would fall at a slower rate.

As a follow up, the students formulated a second hypothesis and retested the parachute’s fall time. The information was recorded in a data table, and a double line graph was created to further organize collected data. Based upon their results, students developed conclusions and drafted a lab report detailing how the scientific method applied to their experiment.

The experiment enabled the classes to explore complex science concepts in a hands-on and practical manner, while challenging them to work within the param-eters of the scientific method.

Photo from Smithtown Central School DistrictNesaquake Middle School students used the scientific method to design and test their own parachutes.

Photo from Kings Park High School From left, Michael Inzerillo; Marlena Urban; Lino Bracco, Kings Park High School principal; Vincent Mangogna; Laura Macy, advisor; Nicole Christodoulou; Timothy Eagen, superinten-dent; Dara Blitzer; and Courtney Luning. Eric Homeyer and Peter Montenegro are missing from the photo.

Senior selected as semifinalistOfficials of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation recently announced the

names of approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 61st annual National Merit Schol-arship Program. These academically talented high-school seniors have an opportu-nity to continue in the competition for some 7,400 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $32 million. Kings Park High School congratulates high-school senior Ju-lian Ubriaco, who has been selected as a Semifinalist from a pool of more than 1.5 million students in more than 22,000 high schools.

Photo from Nancy SparlingFrom left, Timothy Eagen, superintendent; Julian Ubriaco; and Lino Bracco, Kings Park High School principal

Special Education gets Classey

Hauppauge School District is pleased to welcome Caitlin Classey as a new special education teacher at Forest Brook Elementary School. She previ-ously was a special education teacher at P.S. 155 William Paca in Manhattan, and served as a teaching assistant at Pines Elementary School, among other teaching positions.

Classey received a bachelor of arts degree in child study and speech com-munications and a master of arts degree in literacy/cognition from St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue. She holds profes-sional certifications in Literacy, Birth to Grade 6; Early Childhood Education, Birth to Grade 2; Childhood Education, Grades 1 to 6; Students with Disabili-ties, Birth to Grade 2; and Students with Disabilities, Grades 1 to 6.

Classey is a resident of Smithtown.Photo from Camille S. Koorey

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By Desirée Keegan

John Kazubowski said he normally doesn’t score goals, but if he told you that Tuesday, he’d be lying.

The Smithtown West senior forward scored a hat trick to lead the No. 3-ranked Bulls, 4-2, over No. 14 East Islip in the first round of the Class AA playoffs.

Just over 10 minutes into the first half, Kazubowski went to knock the ball deep-er into East Islip’s territory from the 30-yard line, only to hit the top of the cross-bar and bounce into the right corner of the net for a good goal and the 1-0 lead.

In shock, the forward threw his hands up in disbelief as the crowd erupted.

“I don’t usually shoot during the sea-son a lot, so I thought, ‘Hey, might as well,’” he said. “I had space so I took it and it came out nice, I guess.”

Minutes later, an East Islip player es-caped defenders and on a one-on-one with the goalkeeper, knocked it into the right corner to tie the game.

Smithtown West head coach Tom Lips said that since his team was going against a low seed, the other team knew they had to give it their all if they wanted to prog-ress through the bracket.

“They have everything to loose, but

more importantly, we’ve had two starters out of our consistent lineup,” he said of ju-nior defender Reed Massaro and sopho-more midfielder Andrew McDonnell who were both injured in the last game of the regular season. “We’ve had no injuries until the last game of the season and this is our first game playing without them, so it obviously affected us greatly — es-pecially in our back line where we’re very thin defensively.”

Despite Kazubowski scoring again in the eighth minute off an assist from se-nior midfielder and co-captain Matt Mc-Donnell, East Islip tied it up, 2-2, off a foul kick four minutes later.

“I don’t think we rose emotionally to the occasion,” Lips said. “I think the other team outworked us. Do I think we’re a better team? Yes, but they outworked us. We have talent, it’s just we weren’t cohe-sive, pretty much played their style and it’s a compliment to them. We just weren’t good today.”

The Bulls opened up the second half with an early attempt, but couldn’t capi-talize, which happened multiple times throughout the game.

“We came a little not awake in the first half and it was a tough one, but we rallied through the second half,” Kazubowski said. “We have to play better in the next round if we want to do something big this season. We have to wake up for the next round and produce something better.”

At the 21:53 mark, the senior forward proved he couldn’t be stopped, when he

grabbed a tipped rebound in front of the box and faked out the keeper, shooting the ball into an empty right side for the 3-2 advantage.

“We didn’t play our best, but we defi-nitely came back after they scored a goal or two and pushed in the end,” Matt Mc-Donnell said. “I think we were physical-ly a little more fit toward the end of the game, which helped us.”

With 15:09 left on the clock, McDon-nell took a penalty kick shot after a team-mate was blocked on a breakaway, and he shot it past a diving East Islip goalkeeper

for the 4-2 win.“I think we were just able to persevere,”

he said. “We had a few missed plays and couldn’t finish a few opportunities, but we worked hard and got back in it. If we come together as a team we can go far.”

Smithtown West hasn’t lost a game since Sept. 16, when the team fell to crosstown rival Smithtown East, 1-0, and are now 14-1-1. The Bulls move on to host No. 11 Half Hollow Hills West on Friday at 2 p.m.

No. 16 East lost its outbracket game at home against No. 17 Sachem North, 3-1, on Oct. 24.

Kazubowski hat trick propels Bulls to first-round win

Photos by Desirée Keegan Clockwise from left, John Kazubowski kicks the ball behind him; Max Mohrmann pushes the ball forward toward east islip’s net; and, below, nathan Biondi maintains possession as east islip defenders swarm around him.

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Incumbents on the mark

Experience and track record are the name of the game in this year’s Smithtown Town Board race, and on that note, we endorse Republican incumbents Bob Creighton and Ed Wehrheim.

The two work well as a team, and say they have downtown re-vitalization high up on both their lists of priorities for another term.

They’ve backed a proposal to restructure Smithtown govern-ment to lead to more account-ability and cooperation. The plan would involve creating four commissioner positions that would oversee about five to six department heads, compared to the 26 department heads currently answering to the supervisor. That plan stalled due to opposition from Republican Supervisor Pat Vecchio.

When it comes to economic development, both men encour-

age it. Wehrheim said he helped facilitate the redevelopment of the Smith Haven Mall and as-sisted in bringing Bob’s Discount Furniture to the Smithtown area. With Wehrheim’s support, Creighton also pitched rais-ing the minimum wage, which eventually made its way into the town’s 2016 preliminary budget.

It will be an uphill battle at the polls next Tuesday for Creighton, as he won’t be running on the Republican line. That spot belongs to Lisa Inzerillo, a Republican who narrowly beat him out in a primary election on a rainy day — the perfect storm for low voter turnout.

Inzerillo did not show up for a debate at the Times of Smith-town’s headquarters.

Democratic challenger Larry Vetter is a knowledgeable, nice man, who strikes us as creative, energetic, bright and prag-matic. It would be great to see him take on some government position. But we feel right now

is not his time as councilman.Vote Creighton and Weh-

rheim on Election Day.

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 mem-bers 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 com-passion and understanding.

She said she often calls on her experience as a mother of three and a grandmother of as many to guide her when working 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 for Suffolk County Family Court judge.

ENDORSEMENTS

Two more for TrottaThe incumbent advantage

is the name of the game in the race for the 13th Legisla-tive District in Suffolk. And to Legislator Rob Trotta (R-Fort Salonga) go the spoils.

A focused and practical lawmaker, Trotta has served his district — the Town of Smith-town and a small portion of Huntington Town — well in the last two years.

He is a watchdog, unafraid

of pulling punches, particularly when it comes to the county’s financial standing. He says the municipality is heading in the wrong direction, that money is being spent unnecessarily and that the county needs to increase its sales tax revenue.

He blasts the Suffolk County Red Light Safety Program, calling it a money grab, and he’s passion-ate about cleaning up the cozy relationship between campaign contributors and politicians.

He’s also not afraid to admit

when he feels he’s messed up — he told us that he wishes he voted in favor of raising the tobacco purchase age from 19 to 21.

Trotta’s opponent Rich Macellaro, a Democrat, has a noble platform — to consoli-date school districts into one per town — but we ask, how? County government has really no jurisdiction over that kind of local change, and so we question how much having a position in the Legislature would work in getting the job done.

Macellaro also works for the Suffolk County Red Light Safety Program and feels the initiative helps with a safety is-sue. While it does address some safety concerns, on the whole we side with Trotta and other GOPers in the notion that the program is a money grab and does not do enough to address the crux of the issue.

Trotta is on a roll, and we say give him two more years. We endorse Rob Trotta for Suffolk County Legislature.

File photoCounty Legislator Rob Trotta is a financial watchdog.

Ending veteran homeless-ness in Suffolk, seemingly an impossible feat, is something Suffolk County Legislator Steve Stern (D-Dix Hills) says he’s confident he can declare if given one more term in office in an election next week.

We endorse Stern. Not because of this vow. But be-cause of the steps he’s taken to try and achieve this goal.

The legislator spearheaded a package of bills to at-tack the scourges of Suffolk County’s veteran home-lessness problem. The bills propose to do so in a number of ways, including making properties available for vet-eran housing, working with nonprofits to offer greater services to vets and more.

He’s spent 10 years in office and he’s vying for his final two-year term before he is term limited.

While his challenger Re-publican Tom McNally, also

of Dix Hills, has thought of some solutions to fix the county’s finances, we feel his plans need some work. Cutting from departments across the board may not be the best approach in certain cases.

Aside from his work on the ground with veterans, Stern chairs the county’s Veterans & Seniors Commit-tee. In that role, he’s worked to help both populations while also saving the county money. He found a way to reorganize a program that provided free legal assis-tance to seniors funded by the county and the feds by getting Tauro Law school involved. The school now manages the program, and the county keeps the money it used to spend on it.

Experience is invaluable, and for that, coupled with his achievements, we say elect Stern to a final term in office next Tuesday.

Let’s stick with Steve Stern

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.

File photos Town councilmen Bob Creighton, top, and Ed Wehrheim.


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

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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

to succeed?

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by leah S. [email protected]

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.

EDITOR AND PUBLISHERLeah S. DunaiefGENERAL MANAGERJohness Kuisel MANAGING EDITOR Phil CorsoEDITORPhil Corso

LEISURE EDITORHeidi SuttonSPORTS EDITORDesirée KeeganONLINE EDITORElana Glowatz

ADVERTISING DIRECTORKathryn MandracchiaART AND PRODUCTIONDIRECTORDavid R. LeamanINTERNET STRATEGY DIRECTORRob Alfano

CLASSIFIEDS DIRECTOREllen SegalBUSINESS MANAGERSandi GrossCREDIT MANAGERDiane WattecampsCIRCULATION MANAGERCourtney Biondo

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