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

� e adjustment, a deduc-tion taken out of each New York school district’s state aid, was enacted several years ago to help the state govern-ment close a budget de� cit. While the amount deducted

has decreased in recent years and there have been e� orts to completely restore the fund-ing, state Sen. John Flanagan (R-East Northport) has recent-ly sponsored legislation that would completely eliminate the system this year, giving more � nancial help to public schools struggling to make ends meet.

� e bill passed in the Senate and must make its way through

Minding the gapSchools applaud move to nix state aid cuts

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Photos from Je� Bressler WEEKEND FIRE REQUIRES MULTIPLE TEAMS: Firefi ghters from Smithtown, Nesconset, Nissequogue and St. James came to battle the fl ames at a residential property in Smithtown on Saturday. Read the full story on page A10.

File photo Sen. John Flanagan has put his weight behind a bill to restore state aid to school districts.

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Sweetbriar Sam will make an appear-ance on Sunday, Jan. 31, at 1 p.m. at Smith-town’s Sweetbriar Nature Center at 62 Eckernkamp Dr., Smithtown, and choose between another six weeks of winter or an early spring. The event, which runs through 3 p.m., will also feature a scavenger hunt to

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The event is open to all, and admis-sion is $10 per child and $5 for adults and Scouts. For more information, residents can call 631-979-6344 or visit www.sweetbriarnc.org.

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By Alex Petroski

Through 45 games, the New York Islanders sit in second place in the Na-tional Hockey League’s Metropolitan Division, one point ahead of the New York Rangers. On the ice, the first half of their inaugural season in Brooklyn has looked similar to the past few years for the Islanders — they look like a playoff team with the potential to make a run at the Stanley Cup in the spring.

Off the ice is a different view: With 25 of the team’s 41 regular season home games in the books, the Islanders are 28th out of the NHL’s 30 teams in av-erage attendance, drawing a little more than 13,000 people per game, according to approximate figures reported by media outlets, including ESPN.

The league does not confirm official attendance statistics until the end of the season, but reported that the Islanders drew more than 15,000 fans on aver-age during their final run at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, in the 2014-15 hockey season.

The trip from Smithtown to Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, where the Barclays Center is located, takes more than an hour and a half by car. Taking the train from the Long Island Rail Road’s Smithtown train station takes about two and a half hours,

including a change at Jamaica Station.In an unofficial TBR Newspapers poll

of Islanders fans from Suffolk County, most people said they had not yet been to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn to watch the Islanders this year.

Ron Carlson, a Port Jefferson resident

and former village recreation director who had season tickets to the Coliseum for about 10 years, said the trip is too far by car and “I’m not a train person.” He has not been to a home game yet this season.

Erin Morano, of Shoreham, who reg-ularly used to take her family of five to

games in Nassau, hasn’t been to a game in 2015-16 either.

“It’s not as convenient,” Morano said. “Parking is tough and expensive in Brooklyn.”

Brittney Skarulis, of Smithtown, used to attend Islander games as a fan and an employee, but not so far in Brooklyn.

“It’s too far to go and the traffic is terri-ble,” Skarulis said. “I was a guest Islander ice girl when the games were in Nassau Coliseum. It was more convenient to go there than the Barclays Center.”

Some parents, like Ken Hayes from East Setauket, said it’s hard to bring their kids to game due to the long ride home — when games begin at 7 p.m. and end anywhere between 9:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., they would get home too late.

Hayes went to his first game in Brook-lyn in January. He said that it was fairly quiet for a hockey game.

Distance, lack of convenience, lack of parking and expense of the travel were the most common explanations for those who haven’t yet taken in a game this sea-son. No one had a bad thing to say about the brand of hockey that the Islanders are putting on the ice. With a young core of talented players, the team is trending in the right direction. But fans from Suf-folk County are not there to witness it as frequently in 2015 and 2016.

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By Giselle Barkley

After decades of waiting, Brookhaven officials said they were taking legitimate steps toward giving Route 25A a face-lift — right next door to Smithtown.

The town board approved a resolution on Thursday, Jan. 14, to conduct land use studies for Route 25A in Three Village and Port Jefferson Station. The town said it would be holding several meetings over the coming months at which residents can suggest ways to improve the de facto Main Street, especially near the Stony Brook Long Island Rail Road station and where Route 25A meets Nicolls Road.

This three-phase study will start with the Smith-town line to Nicolls Road. The two other phases, including the Port Jefferson Sta-tion study, will follow. Route 25A near the Stony Brook train station is part of the first phase.

Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Ro-maine (R) said the town will use money from a contingency fund in its operating and capital budgets to fund the study. The town hasn’t established dates, times and location, but Romaine said meetings

will begin once the weather gets warmer in March or April.

“It’s long overdue,” Romaine said about the study. “We will be sending letters to [the Department of Trans-portation] and ask them to participate because a lot of the work we’re going to comment on are things [DOT has] to do, like additional sidewalks.”

Several civic leaders across the Three Village and greater North Shore commu-nity came out in full support of the land

use study on Thursday with hopes of spurring the town board to expedite progress along 25A.

“The intersection of Nicolls Road and Route 25A is really the gateway to the communities of the Three

Village community, and quite frankly it’s sort of a hodge-podge of commercial and retail buildings,” said George Hoff-man, vice president of the Three Village Civic Association. “We also have a real problem with safety ... because the cor-ridor is really lacking crosswalks and sidewalks.”

The town also asked Stony Brook Uni-versity to participate in this study. Similar land use studies and plans for Route 25A

were conducted in 1963 and 1975 accord-ing to Robert de Zafra, former president of the Civic Association of the Setaukets and Stony Brook. A third study was con-ducted around 20 years ago.

Current civic leaders like Shawn Nuzzo, president of the Civic Association of the Setaukets and Stony Brook, have tried kick-starting revitalization efforts for Route 25A near the Stony Brook train station for several years. Nuzzo has often been at the forefront of all discussions re-lating to upgrading 25A and ushering in a new era of commercial and residential

prosperity across the main road.At last Thursday’s town board meeting,

Nuzzo said the town was finally taking a different approach when working with civic groups.

“There’s been a lot of false starts with this area because it was based in the past on this old top-down model, where the people at the top were going to tell the people at the bottom what they’re going to live with for the next 50 years,” Nuz-zo said at Town Hall before Brookhaven passed the resolution. “But this model

Full speed ahead on 25ATown moves forward with plans for land use study

Photo by Giselle Barkley residents and Brookhaven officials will address ways to improve route 25a near the stony Brook train station, above, in the first phase of the study.

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‘There’s been a lot of false starts with this area.’

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U.S. Rep. Steve Israel’s announcement that would he would not see another term in the 3rd District, which spans from the North Shore of Queens through parts of Smithtown, has sparked discussion across the region about who will succeed him. Suffolk County Legislator Steve Stern (D-Dix Hills) is the latest to throw his hat into the race for the seat.

Israel (D-Huntington) made the decision two weeks ago that he would not be seeking re-election in November, and legisla-tors and lawmakers from across Long Island have been declaring their intention to fight for his seat. This week, Stern said he believes his record sets him apart from the rest as a candidate who listens to his neighbors.

“My record tells a story, it high-lights issues that are important to me,” Stern said in a phone interview. “When my neighbors see what’s happening in Washington, they think their voices are not being heard. I know I will be the con-gressman that hears them.”

He said his record has consistently sup-ported the local issues that are important to the residents of the 3rd District and many pieces of legislation he has drafted

have become state and national models.Stern said that with his family in

mind, he created the Safe and Sustain-able Procurement Act, which bans baby products made with BPA, a chemical found in plastics that can seep into the food or beverages inside the plastic con-tainers and have harmful health effects.

“It was the first legislative initiative banning these type of products throughout the entire country,” he said. “I was proud that this lo-cal bill was used a model for other jurisdictions.”

This act was eventu-ally adopted by the New York State Senate, the

European Union and the Food and Drug Administration.

The Protect Our Fallen Heroes Act is another piece of legislation Stern created that expanded to the national level. The purpose of this act, he said, was to pro-tect the sanctity of funerals, specifically military funerals, from protesters.

Stern said this is now the adopted pol-icy of all national cemeteries. The federal version of the bill, Respect for America’s Fallen Heroes Act, was first enacted by Congress in 2012, two years after Stern’s original bill was drafted.

Recently, Stern worked with Israel to adopt Stern’s Housing Our Homeless

Heroes Act into a federal bill to provide housing for homeless veterans.

Stern also said many of his initiatives were accomplished with bipartisan sup-port on the county level.

“I have a proven leadership, working with colleagues from both parties,” he said. “The way that I have been able to do my job, it clearly shows I am a represen-tative that is sorely needed in D.C.”

Israel has served in Congress for the last 15 years, and said that after this year he feels it is his time to step down and make room for a new perspective.

“While I will miss this place and the people I have had the privilege to serve, I am looking forward to spending more time home,” he said in a statement. “Sim-ply put, it’s time to pass on the torch.”

Stern said Israel would be missed, but also said he is eager to continue his lega-cy, which includes continued support for veterans.

“I have had the great privilege of working with Congressman Steve Israel for the past 10 years,” Stern said in an email. “He has been an outstanding ad-vocate for our community and especially for our men and women currently serv-ing our great nation.”

Stern gave Israel kudos for his collab-oration on the legislator’s Housing Our Homeless Heroes Act and said it was an honor to work alongside him.

Aside from Stern, Suffolk County Legislator William “Doc” Spencer (D-Centerport), Huntington Town Coun-cilwoman Susan Berland (D) and state Assemblyman Chad Lupinacci (R-Hun-tington Station) are among the North Shore politicians who intend to campaign for the seat. From Nassau County, North Hempstead Town Board member Anna Kaplan threw her hat into the ring.

Stern stands up for Israel’s congressional spot

File photo suffolk county Legislator steve stern, at center, speaks with congressman steve israel, at left, during the announcement of the Housing our Heroes act last year.

‘I have a proven leadership, working with colleagues from both parties,.’

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Incidents and arrests from Jan. 14 - Jan. 17

Sister, Sister A 20 year-old woman from Trumbull,

Conn. was arrested on Jan. 17 just before 6:30 a.m. after police said she parked her 2002 BMW on the Northern State Park-way in Commack in the right lane of trav-el and then discovered she was drunk. At the 4th Precinct she gave her sister’s name instead of her own and had prescription pills in her possession without a prescrip-tion. She was charged with second-degree forgery of a public record, seventh degree criminal possession of a controlled sub-stance and driving while intoxicated.

Oh no-seOn Jan. 17, a 19-year-old woman from

Brentwood was arrested after police said she punched a woman in the face and fractured her nose on Garet Place in Commack at 8:05 p.m. She was charged with third degree assault with intent to cause physical injury.

Can’t focusPolice said a 27-year-old man from

East Setauket was driving drunk on Jan. 16 at 2:30 a.m. He was originally pulled over while speeding and failing to main-tain inside his lane while driving a 2012 Ford Focus on Route 25 in Smithtown when police said they discovered he was driving drunk. He was charged with driving while intoxicated.

Crook on Crooked Hill Police said a 30-year-old woman

from Brentwood was driving a 2003 Lincoln Navigator with a suspended license on Crooked Hill Road in Com-mack on Jan. 17. She was arrested at 10:45 a.m. and charged with aggra-vated unlicensed operation of a vehicle.

Trying to dodge the lawA 34-year-old man from Kings Park

was arrested on Jan. 15 at 3:10 a.m. af-ter police pulled him over for failing to signal when he was making a left onto Enfield Lane in Kings Park while driv-ing a 1998 Dodge pickup truck. Once he was pulled over, police said he was driv-ing drunk and charged him with driving while intoxicated.

Suspicious activity On Jan. 17, a 20-year-old woman from

Commack was arrested at 3:30 a.m. after police said she was driving suspiciously in front of a business on Indian Head Road in Commack that was recently burglarized, and then realized she was driving drunk. She was charged with ag-gravated driving while intoxicated.

Not very family likeAt Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace on

Route 111 in Smithtown on Jan. 14 at 3:30 p.m., police said an unknown per-son stole property from an unlocked 2010 Dodge Ram including an iPod, change, a pocketknife and prescription medication.

Take care On Jan. 14 at 9 p.m., police said an un-

known person stole personal care items from CVS on Smithtown Boulevard in Nesconset and then fled the scene.

Polo pocketedAn unknown person stole men’s

Ralph Lauren Polo clothing from Ma-cy’s on Veterans Memorial Highway in Commack on Jan. 15 at 12:12 p.m.

Not a sign of the crookPolice said an unknown person dam-

aged a business sign at St. James Island Health Care on Lake Avenue in St. James on Jan. 14 at 7:19 p.m.

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Edward McNulty

Edward McNulty, of Stony Brook and formerly of Smithtown, died on Jan. 2.

He was the beloved husband of Hel-en; loving father of Peggy Ann, Robert (Nanette) and the late Daniel; cherished grandfather of Tavish, Cole, Brianne, Kyleigh and Peighton; and dear brother of Jack (Audrey), Tom (Connie) and Trudy (the late William) Ewart.

Arrangements were entrusted to The Branch Funeral Home. A funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Patrick’s R.C. Church in Smithtown. Interment fol-lowed at St. Patrick’s Cemetery.

An online guest book is available at www.branchfh.com.

Marie DogonniuckMarie L. Dogonniuck, 82, of

Hauppauge died on Dec. 17.She was the beloved wife of the late

Jack; devoted mother of Karen and Susan Wheeler (Jenny Ball); and loving sister of Onofrio Mazza and Concettina Mazza.

Arrangements were entrusted to Mo-loney’s Funeral Home in Hauppauge. Cremation was private.

An online guest book is available at www.moloneyfh.com.

Victoria Saglimbeni

Victoria Saglimbeni, 84, of Smith-town, passed peacefully on Jan. 5.

She was the beloved wife of Joseph; cherished mother of Joseph; and loving grandmother of Joseph and Brianna.

Arrangements were entrusted to The Branch Funeral Home in Smithtown. A funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Pat-rick’s R.C. Church and entombment followed at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.


Robert BadeerRobert Bruce Badeer, 76, of Smith-

town, died on Dec. 7.He was the beloved husband of Phoe-

be; cherished father of Bob (Erica), Scott (Nancy), Carrie (Michael) and John (Christine); and loving grandfather of Barbara, Corinne, Jack, Cooper, Tanner, Will, Audrey, Madison and Cassidy. He is survived by many other family members and friends.

Arrangements entrusted to Hawkins & Davis Funeral Home. A religious service was celebrated at Smithtown Methodist Church and interment followed at Smith-town Cemetery.


Hamilton McMainsHamilton J. McMains Jr., 81, of Kings

Park, died on Dec. 22.He was the beloved husband of Bar-

bara; devoted father of Diane (James) Hopper, Brian (Christine), Chris (Katie), Kerri and Maureen; loving brother of Susan Potter; and cherished grandfather of Christopher, Kaylee, Brittany, Aidan, Christopher and Connor. Arrangements were entrusted to Moloney’s Funeral Home in Hauppauge. Interment fol-lowed at Calverton National Cemetery.

An online guest book is available at www.moloneyfh.com.

Josephine Vitale

Josephine Vitale, 93, of St. James, passed away peacefully on Jan. 2.

She was the beloved wife of the late Albert; loving mother of Joanne Henle, John (Carol) and Paul; cherished grand-mother of Darlene, Lisa, Cheryl, Sharon and Samantha; and adored great-grand-mother of Arianna, Jack, Nicholas, Lu-cas, Anthony and Gavin.

Arrangements entrusted to The Branch Funeral Home in Smithtown. A funeral Mass was celebrated at Sts. Philip and James R.C. Church in St. James. In-terment followed at St. Charles Cemetery.


Former Smithtown fire chief honoredDuring the annual Suffolk County Fire Chiefs Council Installation Brunch held

at the Snapper Inn in Oakdale, Antonio Cruz, former chief of the Smithtown Fire Department, was honored as Chief of the Year.

Cruz was honored for his dedication to fire service in Suffolk County. He is active with the Suffolk County Fire/EMS Safety Officers Association and the Firefighter Cancer Support Network, where he was recently honored by the Stony Brook Uni-versity Medical Center with its Above and Beyond Award.

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Fierro trio going for a National MeritKings Park High School seniors Julia, Danielle and Michelle Fierro are can-

didates in the competition for a special scholarship to be awarded through the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program. They have been nominated based upon their academic achievements.

Photo from Kings Park school districtPrincipal Lino Bracco poses with, from left, Julia, Danielle and Michelle Fierro.

Photo by Steve SilvermanFrom left, Smithtown Fire Department Third Asst. Chief Patrick Diecidue, Smithtown Chief of Department Timothy Murphy III, Chief Antonio Cruz, Smithtown Engine Company 1 Capt. Joe Palazzo and Engine Company 1 First Lt. Dave Lewis


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now with this corridor study and community visioning, this is a bottom-up model.”

Over the last several years, Stony Brook University students have worked with their profes-sors to propose idealistic and practical ways to improve the area by the train station. The groups have been hosting events with residents at the Bates House in Frank Melville Memorial Park in Setauket and other loca-tions, where they have pitched their plans based on various land studies of the 25A corridor.

Professor Marc Fasanella from Stony Brook University has been leading entire classes on the revisioning of Route 25A and challenging his students with finding realistic ways to make the corridor more appeal-ing visually and logistically.

In a previous interview with Times Beacon Record News-papers, he said the crux of the challenge was to think outside the box, no matter how out-landish the plans might seem.

“We looked at this as a tre-mendous opportunity for our students and for the commu-nity moving forward,” Fasanel-la said. “Are we dreaming? Of course we’re dreaming.”

Nuzzo said the area by the train station has united people throughout the community, but the entire corridor, especially near the LIRR, can not only be safer but also more visually ap-pealing to the community.

“This is an issue that tran-scends political lines,” he said. “This is an issue that has unified both the civic association and the Chamber of Commerce who have historically been at odds with one another. We’re in that redevelopment phase of this cor-ridor and this is really a once in a lifetime opportunity to have a community vision to have some-thing nice for 75 to 100 years.”

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the Assembly before heading to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D). And as schools across the state wait for the final vote, administrators applauded Flanagan’s efforts in helping them restore their funding.

James Grossane, superintendent for Smithtown schools, said he was happy to see Cuomo express commitment to end the GEA, but he added that help was needed sooner rather than later.

“We’ll be even more pleased if it were full this year,” he said. “We’re hopeful that the Legislature will come up with something, come up with a number that’s a little more beneficial for the district. Over the years it has cost the district in excess of $35 million or so that just hasn’t come our way.”

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

“Since 2011, the Senate Republicans have worked to restore $3 billion in funding that was lost to schools because of the GEA and we will not pass any budget that does not fully eliminate it this year,” Flanagan said. “The GEA has been hurting schools and students for way too long.”

Former Gov. David Paterson (D) imposed the GEA in 2010 despite wide-spread opposition from Republicans.

Since it was approved, Flanagan said he and his Republican colleagues have been leading the charge to abolish the GEA and deliver funding increases to help mitigate its impacts on educa-tion. Over the past five years, he said, the GEA cuts have been reduced by roughly 85 percent, to $434 million in the 2015-16 budget.

State Sen. Ken LaValle (R-Port Jef-ferson) co-sponsored the legislation

alongside Flanagan. In a statement, he said the move was long overdue.

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

The legislation has already gained support on the other side of the state Legislature, with Assemblyman Mike Fitzpatrick (R-St. James) saying he was in favor of the GEA elimination and calling on the governor to return all the funds taken from schools since it was imposed.

“It’s simple: The state has an obliga-tion to fully fund our school districts. Some members of the legislature made the shortsighted decision to allow the governor to borrow against the fu-ture of our children to close a budget gap created by rampant, uncontrolled spending,” Fitzpatrick said. “It was wrong then and must be resolved once and for all.”

Victoria Espinoza, Elana Glowatz, Desirée Keegan and Alex Petroski contributed reporting.

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File photo Legislators in Albany, above, enacted cuts to that aid several years ago to help close a state budget deficit.

By PhiL Corso

An early morning fire on a residen-tial street near Roundabout Road and Woodland Drive in Smithtown quickly turned into a dangerous situation over the weekend, requiring teams of emer-gency responders to tame the flames.

The fire was reported around 3:40 a.m. on Saturday at 46 Roundabout Road, Smithtown Fire Department Pub-lic Information Officer Jeff Bressler said. The homeowners who lived in the house were away at the time of the fire and no one was in the house, which was why there were no reported injuries, Bressler

said. The cause of the fire was still under investigation.

Chief of Department Timothy Mur-phy ordered crews there to tackle the flames from the outside of the home, Bressler said. The fire was eventually brought under control by 5:20 a.m. — nearly two hours after it was reported, Bressler said.

The entire ordeal required assistance from Nesconset, Nissequogue and St. James fire departments, Bressler said.

Smithtown fire takes multiple teams and time to tackle

Photo from Jeff BresslerNone of the residents at the roundabout road and Woodland Drive property were injured in the tough fire.

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Photo by Victoria Espinozashawn Nuzzo, center, speaks to Brookhaven officials before the study was passed on Jan. 14.


As a member of the volleyball team, Smithtown East junior Haley Ander-son has been named All-State and All-County and selected for the All-Tour-nament team and All-County Elite 8. She also received the Smithtown Booster Club MVP award for 2015.

Photo from Smithtown Central School District Smithtown East’s Haley Anderson, pic-tured with head coach George Alamia, has received many awards following her junior season.

East v-ball junior is valuable

Former Smithtown coach will head new lax program at St. Joe’sBy DESiréE KEEGAn

A familiar face is stepping onto the college lacrosse scene.

Tom Rotanz, a former head boys’ la-crosse coach for Shoreham-Wading River for 18 years, will helm St. Joseph’s Col-lege’s new men’s lacrosse program, which will begin its first season in spring 2017.

“It’s something I always wanted to do,” Rotanz said of joining the college ranks. “I think any competitive athlete and coach wants to show someone what good can come from having the right people around you and the good players that are willing to commit themselves, and I hope to have another successful tenure at St. Joseph’s.”

Rotanz has a long history with la-crosse. His elder brother was on the team that won Ward Melville’s first Long Island championship in 1974, and the younger Rotanz was part of the squad that won the second and third in 1976 and 1977. The la-crosse captain earned All-American hon-ors as a senior in 1977, after his team also made it to the New York State champion-

ship game, the first one for lacrosse. The boys lost that game, 12-11.

From there, he was the captain of the Suffolk County Community College la-crosse team that won a national champi-onship and earned All-American honors twice. He then repeated that feat at Adel-phi University, where he was also named an All-American twice.

“Tom was a great player,” said his for-mer high school coach, and a legend on the lacrosse scene, Joe Cuozzo. “He was a great competitor, had a great sense of humor about him, and I really enjoyed working with him.”

As a coach himself, with the Shoreham-Wading River Wildcats’ program only a year old, Rotanz took over a roster of 14 players, including six freshmen. The team went 1-15 his first season, scoring 38 goals on the year. But seven years later, the team was ranked fourth in the country, after winning a New York State championship and scoring close to 400 goals.

“It snowballed into something that was really neat to be a part of,” he said. “In the last 13 years I was there, we won 10 county championships, five Long Is-land and three New York State. People always wondered why or how we kept winning every year and being ranked one or two in the county. I say if you have bright kids that buy into the system, I think anything is possible.”

Rotanz led Shoreham-Wading River to the program’s first county champi-onship in 2001. In 2002, the program repeated as Suffolk champs en route to Long Island and New York State titles. The team also swept Suffolk, Long Island and New York State championship titles in 2007 and 2012.

In 2012, the coach added to his list of accolades, serving as an assistant for the 2012 USA Men’s U-19 lacrosse team that won a world championship.

Following his exit from Shoreham, Ro-tanz served as the assistant lacrosse coach at Smithtown West for the last two years.

Now, he hopes to be able to bring that same success to St. Joseph’s, and Shantey Hill, assistant vice president and senior director of athletics and recreation for the

college, thinks Rotanz is the perfect fit.“We were very lucky in that Coach Ro-

tanz applied,” she said, referring to the school’s intensive, national search across all NCAA institutions. “He has a plethora of experience, and … he knows the land-scape of Long Island, and he’s very well-connected with his peers to be able to do good recruiting for what we’re looking for.”

Read the full story on our website at www.tbrnewsmedia.com.

Photos from Tom Rotanz Above, Tom rotanz, who on left, coached the boys’ lacrosse team at Shoreham-Wading river for 18 years, makes a save for Ward Melville.

The Smithtown West girls’ basketball team hosted West Islip

Tuesday and handily sank its competitor.

Smithtown West . . . 44West Islip . . . . . . . . . 29

The Kings Park girls’ basketball team hosted Bellport Tuesday and

topped its opponent.

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The Smithtown East boys’ basketball team hosted Centereach

Tuesday and outscored its opposition.

Smithtown East . . . . 63Centereach . . . . . . . . 49

The Kings Park boys’ basketball team traveled to Bellport

Tuesday and narrowly fell to its competition.

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Support our veteransTO ThE EdiTOr:

As veteran homeowners across Kings Park, hauppauge and Commack open their 2016 real property tax bills this year, they were greeted with a welcome surprise in the form of a veterans real property tax exemption extended to them by grateful school boards. The amount of relief ranged from 15% to 25%, depending on their service status.

On the other hand, veterans of the Smithtown school district, (Smithtown, Nesconset and St. James) were not so lucky, since the Smithtown school board voted down extending the exemption to the town’s veteran homeowners. Personally, i feel that Smithtown’s school board could care less about my 34 years and 10 months of military service, along with each and every other Smithtown vet-eran. Shame on them!

Our Smithtown, Nesconset and St. James veterans should urge their neighbors to attend the school board meetings to show

support for the veterans of the community. They should also write letters to the Smithtown News and Messenger urging community support for the veter-ans real property tax exemption.

Let’s not give up so easily and let the school board win; Smith-town veterans should not be considered second-class citizens compared to all the other school districts that voted to support their veterans by passing the exemption.

Kenneth G. dolanSmithtown

File photo Some veteran homeowners received a real estate property tax exemption this year. However, the Smithtown school board voted down this option.

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EdiTOriALPublic education should come first

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

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

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

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

helping to fund education is one of the most important services the state government provides. Aside from the crucial task of shap-ing the future contributors to our society, the state’s school aid helps even the playing field by equipping poorer districts with the means to provide a level of education comparable to what wealthier districts can give their students, even without aid. To yank some of that money out from underneath them is wrong.

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

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

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


A young team savors winning moments

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The games presented ample opportunities for

victories.

Breaking the sound of silence

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

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

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

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

who finally broke the logjam. Out of the blue, one day

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

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

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

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

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

pretty to contemplate.Then they got a flurry of

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

During a week last sum-mer they all met for the first time in over a decade and immediately fell to again be-ing brothers and sister. They didn’t bother to speak about what had originally angered them. It didn’t matter. What was important was to be in the moment, enjoying each other,

catching up on so much news.When the week was over,

they made sure to plan for their next get-together. The rock that had weighed them down was lifted. They had found each other again, recon-nected the family and were moving into the future, stron-ger for being together.

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

Blessed is the peacemaker. And so she is.

It just took one brave outreach.

D. None of the aboveby DaNiel DuNaief

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