Joseph Janowicz of Mattituck died Oct. 12 in Titusville, Fla. He was 77. 

Mr. Janowicz was born July 13, 1941, in Richmond Hill, N.Y., to Matthew and Dorothy Janowicz. He spent most of his working years as a salesman for the Lipshultz Stationery Company in Queens. After retirement, Joseph and his wife, Martha, enjoyed traveling (especially taking cruises), playing golf, traveling to their vacation condo in Titusville and spending time with family.

He is survived by his wife; daughter Pamela Talbot of Ronkonkoma; sons Craig Janowicz of Deer Park and Mark Janowicz of Smithtown; stepdaughter Shelly Milowski of Mattituck; brothers Matthew Janowicz of Virginia and Albert Janowicz of California; his mother, of Riverhead; and five grandchildren.

Services in New York will take place at a later date. Condolences may be sent to northbrevardfuneralhome.com.

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Longtime Greenport resident Eileen Marie Kiski died Oct. 18 at San Simeon by the Sound in Greenport. She was 83.She was born Sept. 17, 1935, in Canarsie, N.Y., to Helen (Young) and John Aylward and graduated from Prospect Heights High School in 1954.

She married Bruno Kiski Jr. at Holy Family Church in Canarsie March 17, 1967.

For 10 years, Ms. Kiski was a keypunch operator at DeCoppet & Doremus in New York City. She had also worked in after-school care, at San Simeon by the Sound and for Burns & Roe on Plum Island.

She was a member of the Greenport Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary and enjoyed playing cards and spending time with family.

Ms. Kiski was predeceased by her husband Aug. 9, 1987. She is survived by her daughter, Jennifer Bond of Greenport; her son, Bruno, of Massapequa; her brother, Edward Aylward of Staten Island; and nine grandchildren.

The family will receive visitors Saturday, Nov. 10, from noon to 4 p.m. at Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport, where a service will also be held. Cremation was private.

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Albert Wells Albertson Jr., 89, formerly of Southold, passed away Sept. 16 at Broward North Hospital in Deerfield Beach, Fla., following a brief illness.

Albert, better known as “June,” was born Oct. 8, 1928, at home in Southold to Genevive (Merwin) and Albert Wells Albertson Sr.

He attended Southold Schools and enlisted in the Navy at the age of 17, serving aboard the USS Portsmouth on a goodwill mission throughout Africa and Europe following World War II.

Mechanically inclined, June worked for Goldsmith Marine prior to starting his own business, Albertson Marine. He was also one of three partners of Stirling Harbor Marina in Greenport. Following the sale of Albertson Marine, he started Albertson Real Estate in Southold.

He was devoted to Southold Fire Department. He became a volunteer fireman at age 16, joining the Packard Hose Company, and participated on the racing team. He became captain at age 21, chief at 29, chairman of the board for 10 years, and served as commissioner for 19 years. Seventy-four years a fireman.

During their time together, June and his wife, Carol, divided their time between Southold and Florida until retiring to Florida in 2014.

June was predeceased by his son, John “Jack” Albertson; his former wife, Alice Johannsen; and his six siblings, Jennie, Marion, Flora, William, Pauline and Lester.

He is survived by his wife of 32 years, Carol (Gardner) Albertson; daughter, Jane Albertson-Kelly, and her husband, Robert Kelly; his six grandchildren: Andrew Larsen and his wife, Julie; Katherine Johnson and her husband, Matthew; Jennifer Cunningham and her husband, Ben; Jill Cohen and her husband, Josh; and John Albertson Jr.; as well as six great-grandchildren: Joseph, Alice and Lily Larsen, Emery and Davis Cohen and Callen Wells Cunningham. He is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews.

A Celebration of Life and firematic service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, at First Presbyterian Church of Southold, with interment to follow in the memorial garden behind the church. The Rev. Dr. Peter Kelly will officiate.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Albert’s name to Southold Fire Department or First Presbyterian Church of Southold.

June has left us with many wonderful memories. It was a life well lived!

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I’m Christopher Kelly. I’m the owner of Promised Land Apiaries located here on the North Fork of Long Island in Mattituck.

I’ve been running Promised Land Apiaries now for a little over 30 years, but I’ve been keeping bees for almost 48 years.

My primary goal is actually to rear Long Island survivor stock bees and we’ve been pretty successful doing that. Bees are under quite a bit of pressure now from parasites, pesticides and from loss of food. As a result we’ve got a real loss of honey bee genetics going on, and we’ve found that locally-raised bees survive better in our environment.

The second thing that we do is of course one of the byproducts of keeping beautiful honey bees is, guess what? They make beautiful honey. I have a management style philosophy when it comes to keeping bees at Promised Land Apiaries, which I call the minimally-intrusive approach. What that means is that the best I can do not screw the bees up. What we try to do is manage them so they can make enough honey for themselves to hold them over the winter, and then they make me a little bit.

When I harvest the honey here at Promised Land, we don’t heat. We don’t filter it. As it comes out is exactly what you see in those jars.

Christopher Kelly of Promised Land Apiaries. (Rachel Siford photo)

The honey that I sell out of my house here, quite honestly every year I have a 200 to 300 person list. But honestly the demand is so high for it. I made about 3,000 pounds of honey this year.

I had been a bug nut all my life. I wanted to start studying honey bees and my dad introduced me to a beekeeper in Lindenhurst. And it started as, I like them, and then I’m going to keep one or two bees and it kind of took over from there. I’ve gone to Cornell University and studied entomology, so I’m a trained entomologist. I recently did the master’s program in apiculture from Cornell. I was a professional beekeeper for a number of years out in Hawaii. It kind of went from being a sideline thing to really being a passion and a profession.

Training other beekeepers is probably my all-time favorite. I love the interaction with the diversity of people.

I have traveled around the world looking at beehives and I think Long Island’s honey is about the best there is.

“The Work We Do” is a Suffolk Times multimedia project profiling workers on the North Fork. It is made possible by Peconic Landing in Greenport. See photos on Instagram @thesuffolktimes.

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Tenedios Agricultural Barn, otherwise known as Fresh & Co., was in front of the Southold Planning Board yet again during Monday’s work session.

The applicants have proposed a 8,664-square-foot building to house livestock and store feed, supplies and farm equipment on 34.5 acres of farmland owned by Fresh & Co. adjacent to Narrow River Road in Orient.

Fresh & Co. have submitted a revised site plan moving the proposed structure 200 feet west after the Architectural Review Committee and the Land Preservation Committee recommended that the Planning Board during an August work session.

At that same work session, the board requested information on how the owner plans to manage the animals and that he had good farm management practices such as rotational grazing and buffers from the wetlands, which was provided, although details were not discussed.

The attorney representing the applicant, Pat Moore, asked that since construction of this project has been backed up due to the application process, the applicant may be allowed to install a 24-foot-by-60-foot hoop house to house animals through the winter. She said that it would be placed on non-restricted property.

“He lost a lot of animals last year and there’s a bunch of fall newborns that are not going to survive,” Ms. Moore said.

Planning board president Donald Wilcenski said that hoop houses require a site plan, which can be submitted separately from the current plan so it does not delay the agricultural barn application.

He also said that they needed more information on dimensions, drainage and exact location.

It was recommended that the site plan for the 8,000-square-foot storage building be sent to the building department for use certification, and after that has been received, the site plan will be scheduled for determination by the Planning Board.

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Photo Caption: Bill Kelly and Pat Moore, representatives for the Tenedios Agriculture Barn application. (Rachel Siford photo)

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One year after losing their liquor license, the owners of Vineyard 48 were hit with $160,000 in fines, Southold Town officials announced Monday.

In a press release, Supervisor Scott Russell said 32 convictions were secured against the owners, John Paul Winery, Inc. in court last month.

The controversial Cutchogue winery had been the source of complaints from neighbors for years. Incidents reported by neighbors and Southold police include loud music, public urination and cases of couples having sex in plain sight.

Southold Town issued numerous violations to the owners during the summer of 2017, town officials said. A bench trial on all charges was held Sept. 17, 2018, and four days later, Southold Town Justice Brian Hughes found the defendants guilty on all charges.

The owners face a $5,000 fine for each charge, totalling $160,000.

“We pursued the maximum fines because the operators repeatedly thumbed their noses at our community and the Court agreed,” said Southold Town Attorney Bill Duffy in a press release.

Town officials said in a statement that the way the business was run led to “serious disruptions” in the community and the “erosion of the quality of life” for nearby homeowners.

“They abused the people of Southold and now they have to pay the price,” Mr. Russell said.

Vineyard 48 closed for good last October, after the SLA ordered an emergency suspension of the license. The suspension came after after an altercation involving “400 disorderly, heavily intoxicated patrons,” broke out at their the tasting room. Six Southold police officers responded and ordered the vineyard to close that afternoon due to an overwhelming crowd size.

The vineyard had been the source of legal issues and frustrations dating back at least five years.

The State Liquor Authority revoked the vineyard’s license in 2013, but the decision was later overruled by a state Supreme Court judge. In 2016, the vineyard was slapped with $10,000 in SLA fines due to continuing complaints from locals, but reopened three weeks later.

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Elizabeth T. Anderson of Greenport died Oct. 15 at Westchester Medical Center. She was 73.

Born Nov. 24, 1944, in Center Moriches to Jennie (Dayton) and Bud Anderson, she resided in Greenport for more than 50 years.

A high school graduate, Ms. Anderson was a homemaker who enjoyed cooking, baking and photography. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Greenport.

She is survived by her brother, George, of Melbourne, Fla.; her sisters, Patricia Shore of East Quogue and Glenda Sorenson of Riverhead; four sons, Louis Strittmatter of Calverton, Paul Strittmatter of Deltona, Fla., Joey Strittmatter of Connecticut and David Strittmatter of Texas; 11 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Visiting hours will be held Tuesday, Oct. 23, from 4 to 8 p.m. at Horton-Mathie Funeral Home. Pastor Tom LaMothe will conduct funeral services Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 10 a.m. at First Baptist Church of Greenport. Cremation was private.

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Theodore E. “Teddy” Benson of Roseland, N.J., and Orient died Oct. 22 in Orient. He was 90.Born Dec. 19, 1927, in Orange, N.J., to Katherine (Miklusak) and Leonard E. Benson, he lived in Roseland for 60 years and spent his summers in Orient for 20 years.

On May 5, 1946, he married Julia Globis at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in West Orange, N.J.

Mr. Benson was a high school graduate and worked for 61 years as an automotive service technician at Ed Carney Ford in East Hanover, N.J.

He was a member of the West Orange Elks. Family members said he enjoyed tinkering with mechanical projects.

Mr. Benson was predeceased by his wife of 63 years, Julia, in 2009; his significant other, Helen Bush; and his siblings, Frances, Katherine and Matthew. He is survived by his children, Robert Benson of Tannersville, Pa., and Catherine Craig-Chaudhuri of Orient and Manhattan; two grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Interment will take place at Gates of Heaven Cemetery in East Hanover.

Memorial donations may be made to the West Essex Volunteer First Aid Squad, P.O. Box 662, 642 Bloomfield Ave., West Caldwell, NJ 07007-0660.

Arrangements were in the care of Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport.

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Known as “Jack,” John W. Hearn was born Jan. 11, 1927, in Brooklyn to Helen (Breaker) and Cornelius Hearn Jr. as the youngest of four children. Mr. Hearn died peacefully Oct. 20, 2018, at his home in Southbury, Conn.He was predeceased by his three siblings, Helen Hearn Jones, Elizabeth Hearn Brautigam and Cornelius Hearn III.

Mr. Hearn is survived by his wife, Joan Rudin Hearn of Southbury; his three children, John W. Hearn Jr. of Northford, Conn., Barbara Allen-Lyall of Norwalk, Conn., and Ann Hearn Ziluck of Newtown, Conn.; as well as two grandsons, Richard Hearn Allen of Arlington, Mass., and Michael Hearn Ziluck of Ames, Iowa.

His lifelong joy was spending time at the 1910 Hearn family summer home in New Suffolk.

Jack attended school in Brooklyn, served in the U.S. Navy as a corpsman and attended Yale University in New Haven, Conn., after completing his military service.

Mr. Hearn worked as a packaging engineer in western New York, where he met his future wife, Joan. They married in June 1950 and celebrated their 68th wedding anniversary earlier this year.

In 1963, he moved the family to Stamford, Conn., joining his brother, Cornelius III, in expanding and franchising the family business of specialty cheese and gourmet food shops. The original store opened in 1860 on Fulton Street in Manhattan. Six generations of the Hearn family contributed to its success.

Jack retired in 1986 and with his wife, Joan, relocated to their dream location, Cutchogue, on Long Island’s North Fork.

For more than 20 of their happiest years, they enjoyed travel, golf, community service and the warm fellowship of their dozens of friends.

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Lifelong Peconic resident Helen E. Booth passed away Monday, Oct. 22, 2018. She was 90 years old and lived with a generous heart.

Helen was born in Peconic April 5, 1928, to Anna (Hamil) and Herbert Booth. Over the many years, she was most proud to be one of the first women drivers for United Parcel Service, where she worked for over 20 years.

Helen is survived by many generations of nieces and nephews.

The family will receive friends Wednesday, Oct. 24, from 3 to 6 p.m. at DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Southold, where funeral services will be held at 5 p.m., the Rev. John Carrick officiating.

Graveside services will be held Thursday, Oct. 25, at 1 a.m. at Willow Hill Cemetery in Southold.

In lieu of flowers, donations to the Southold Fire Department Rescue Squad or North Fork Animal Welfare League would be appreciated. Envelopes will be available at the funeral home.

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Longtime Greenport resident Deborah A. Barrett died Sept. 25 at Westhampton Care Center. She had been a resident of Riverhead for the past 1 1/2 years. She was 92.

Ms. Barrett was born Jan. 30, 1926, in Greenport to John and Louise (Tillinghast) Drumm. She attended school through ninth grade. She married James Barrett Nov. 27, 1952, at St. Agnes R.C. Church in Greenport. Her husband died Feb. 9, 2009.

For 27 years Ms. Barrett worked as a seamstress for Wm. J. Mills & Co., in Greenport.

She was a past president of the St. Agnes Rosary Society, past president of Companions of the Forest of America and past president of Greenport Homemakers. Her hobbies included crafts and sewing.

Besides her husband, she was predeceased by her daughter Deborah Barrett Parker; her son, James L. Barrett Jr.; sisters Katharine Klos, Edith VanSickle and Joan Konarski; and her brothers, William Drumm and John Drumm.

She is survived by her daughter Darlene Pacholk of Riverhead; sisters Marie Dinizio of Greenport and Theresa Owen of Pennsylvania; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Visiting hours were held Sept. 27 at Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport. A funeral Mass took place Sept. 28 at St. Agnes R.C. Church, with Msgr. Raymond Walden officiating. Burial followed at the church cemetery.

Memorial donations may be made to the Greenport American Legion.

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They call it Cardiac Hill for a reason.

Sunken Meadow State Park’s Cardiac Hill is a challenge for all high school cross-country runners, including Payton Maddaloni. The Mattituck High School junior has had her troubles with the infamous hill.

“I was just not moving well up it,” she said. “I was destroying my time because of it.”

For whatever reason, Maddaloni had better luck with Cardiac Hill on Tuesday — as did her eighth-grade teammate, Ava Vaccarella. Together, they led Mattituck to its fourth straight Section XI Division IV championship.

Vaccarella was the top Division IV finisher and 17th overall in the girls championship race on the 3.1-mile course in 20 minutes and 22.66 seconds. Maddaloni was 35th overall in 21:14.72.

“I was moving a lot faster up Cardiac and especially at the end I felt great and I kept on running and running and I felt like I could pass everybody because I just felt so good, mentally and physically,” said Maddaloni, who has been on the team since she was an eighth-grader.

As for the rest of the Tuckers in the race, sophomore Bella Masotti was 59th overall in 22:07.32, sophomore Kylie Conroy was 65th in 22:24.37, freshman Kate Schuch was 70th in 22:31.69, sophomore Abby Rosato was 108th in 23:58.12 and senior Miranda Annunziata was 124th in 24:47.17.

The weather was pleasant, with temperatures in the mid-60s and sunny. If anything, it was a bit warmer than runners routinely expect this time of the year. With Sunken Meadow to host both the Section XI Championships (Nov. 2) and the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Championships (Nov. 10), it was a good test run for runners to prepare.

“I feel like today was a good test for us to see how we’re going to do in the heat,” Maddaloni said. “The weather conditions for me, myself, are not ideal, but you know what? We got to get used to it because it’s going to be like this for the rest of the season.”

Maddaloni joked that Tuesday was a homecoming, the sectional championships state qualifying meet is a semi-formal and the state meet is the prom. “So, preparing for the big dance is really what it’s called,” she said.

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Photo caption: Mattituck eighth-grader Ava Vaccarella was the top Division IV finisher and 17th overall in the girls championship race. (Credit: Robert O’Rourk)

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In soccer, it’s not always how you start, but how you finish.

And the Mattituck/Southold/Greenport high school girls soccer team is in the midst of finishing the season quite nicely, thanks to some nice finishing.

Second-seeded MSG continued its late-season surge with an emphatic 4-0 triumph over No. 3 Southampton in the Suffolk County Class C semifinals at Southold High School Tuesday afternoon.

“It was the best game we ever played together as a team,” said co-captain and forward Jill Golden, who finished with a goal and an assist. “We connected very well in the second half. We definitely settled into the game and showed what MSG was really all about. The beginning of the season was rough. We all played like individuals. You saw a team out here today.”

And a pretty lethal one at that.

“There was one game we had a lot of energy, there were some games we had a lot of composure and for the first time we put it together,” center back Sarah Santacroce said. “We had energy, we had determination, we had composure and we had all of the above. And we finished, which we weren’t doing at the beginning of the season.”

MSG (8-8), which combined the teams of perennial Class B powerhouse Mattituck and Southold/Greenport, a Class C state semifinalist last year, began the season with six losses. It has won four in a row as it will face top-seeded Babylon for the county crown in Center Moriches Saturday at 4:30 p.m. Babylon blanked Center Moriches Tuesday, 3-0.

“It’s not where you start so much as where you finish when the leaves turn color,” MSG coach Chris Golden said. “In the beginning we struggled. Not the team’s fault. That was more on me understanding players’ abilities and how they would fit into a role in a particular system. We experimented and struggled a little bit. We hit on something a couple of weeks ago. We really stuck to it with a style of play, composure and a simplicity to the game.

“I just sit back. I let them play a little bit, not mess it up too much.”

Added Maggie Bruer: “We were trying to get the chemistry from the three schools all year. It finally came together.”

MSG left little to chance, deploying a high-pressure attack that essentially turned the match into a half-field game as it kept its foes off balance and literally on their back foot. Its forwards and midfielders stifled the Mariners (6-9-1), forcing them to cough up the ball in their defensive end.

“It was definitely super important for us to pressure and win all of the balls in the air and just to dominate in all aspects,” said Claire Gatz, who had two assists. “We’re a team that always works hard. We use that to fuel our possession.”

“It’s a huge part of our offense,” Kaitlin Tobin said.

MSG struck with the game 2 minutes and 2 seconds old. Gatz started and finished her eighth goal that gave the hosts all the scoring they needed. She sent a pass into the middle to Jill Golden, who slipped it back to her partner up front. Gatz fired a shot past goalkeeper Angely Ramirez.

“Early and often, early and often!” a happy Chris Golden shouted from the bench.

Jill Golden connected for her second goal off a Nikki Searles corner kick during a scramble in the penalty area with 20:42 remaining in the half. Bruer slammed a shot into the lower left corner for a three-goal advantage and her second goal this season with 27:09 left in the second half before Tobin took advantage of an open net for a 4-0 lead for her fourth with 15:12 remaining.

“What’s really beautiful about this team was that four different people put the ball into the back of the net,” Jill Golden said. “We have a lot of players who could put the ball into the back of the net, whereas last year there were one or two players on both teams who scored a lot.”

Goalkeeper Krissy Worysz was credited with three saves for the shutout.

After the game, the MSG team walked to the center circle, sat down, prayed and gave thanks.

“Yesterday at the end of practice Rosie [Mollica, a midfielder] suggested that we go to the ‘S’ in the middle and that we go say a prayer and [our] goals,” Santacroce said. “We went around the circle and passed the ball and set goals for the today. Some of them actually got accomplished. We just thanked the circle.”

On Saturday, MSG hopes to have another opportunity to give thanks.

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The Southold Town Board discussed possibly adding another police officer to staff as part of the 2019 tentative budget. Right now, only two new officers were proposed, but it is likely that number will go to three.

The Southold Police Chief Martin Flatley requested four new officers total, in order to be able to pursue the state accreditation process, Mr. Russell said.

The town police department is the only one in the county that hasn’t been accredited through that program. Implemented through the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services the program will add a level of transparency to department operations on matters such as crime statistics.

The accreditation process is said to take about a year or two, and would require a full-time employee dedicated to the process, and also would require maintenance after accreditation is received.

The board discussed whether or not accreditation was worth it, since it is very expensive to add police officers. Councilman Jim Dinizio thinks accreditation is worth it, because it will highlight things that could improve the department and that it could be legally beneficial.

Mr. Ruland said he would rather see more patrol officers on the street, because safety of the town is the most important issue.

Hiring three police officers instead of two will likely cost $100,000 or more, which will have to be offset somewhere else in 2019 budget.

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When Greenport’s pre-K students hop aboard the school bus this week, they may be escorted by an older student wearing a silver badge and neon-colored sash that reads “Safety Patrol.”

These student escorts are members of Greenport’s School Safety Patrol, a group of 23 fourth- through sixth-graders charged with directing their peers in traffic-heavy areas. Greenport is the first school district on the North Fork to establish a Safety Patrol.

“Members learn far more than just good traffic safety habits,” Greenport Elementary School principal Joseph Tsaveras said. “Membership helps develop attention to duty, alertness, dependability, leadership qualities and a sense of social obligation.” 

The Safety Patrol will be on duty during heavy traffic periods — 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. and 2:40 to 2:50 p.m. — in and around the Greenport school building, paying close attention to make sure pre-K students get on and off buses safely. 

Last Tuesday, Southold Town Police Officer Gregory Simmons inducted the students into the AAA School Safety Patrol. Student patrollers followed Mr. Simmons in repeating the Patrol Member Pledge.

“I promise to do my best to report for duty on time,” they recited in unison, “perform my duties faithfully, strive to prevent crashes and always set a good example, obey my teachers and officers of the patrol and report dangerous student practices.” 

Mr. Simmons and fellow Southold Police Officer Richard Buonaiuto often work in North Fork districts through the police department’s Community Response Unit, which works to bring the department close to the community. Mr. Simmons, who helped train Greenport’s student patrollers, said their role involves much more than coordinating students around traffic — it’s a huge responsibility, mirroring that of the officers themselves. 

“Whether it’s in the classroom, on the playground, in the hallway, in school — we all share the same responsibility,” he said at the induction ceremony. “You are not simply a patroller; you are now my partner.” 

The AAA Safety Patrol Program was started in 1920. According to its website, patrollers are required to make sure other students behave appropriately and to teach fellow students about traffic and bike safety.

The idea of bringing the Safety Patrol Program to Greenport, Mr. Tsaveras said, arose in June, when he and teacher Roseanne Gianmugnai were discussing student safety. 

“It started from brainstorming ways to help the pre-K students,” he said. “We wanted to get another student with them on the bus, so they had a familiar face when the year started. Then, we thought, ‘Well, it’d be good for all kids to have a familiar face getting on and off the bus.’ ” Each bus will have two regular patrol members who will ride in the morning and afternoon. 

Ms. Gianmugnai, who also serves as the school’s Safety Patrol adviser, said students who wanted to join the Safety Patrol had to complete applications that included answering a series of essay questions and obtaining parental permission and teacher approval. 

“We wanted the students to feel like this is a job,” she said. 

The student patrollers have been training for three weeks, working in conjunction with a AAA School Safety Patrol Club and the Southold Town Police Department. Ms. Gianmugnai said they’ve completed a series of training exercises during club meetings, most of which were provided by AAA. 

“We showed them where they needed to stand and what they needed to do,” she said. “The students, at this point, will start to run their own meetings.”

The meetings, Ms. Gianmugnai said, will be run by a club captain, lieutenant and two sergeants she will select. This month, she said, she’s on the lookout for independent, dutiful patrollers to nominate for these positions. They will also monitor the other patrollers. 

“We’re keeping an eye out for the shooting stars of the group,” Ms. Gianmugnai said. 

Mr. Simmons said that by working alongside students, he’s formed relationships with them. They often greet him with high-fives in the hallway, he said. 

“This is really helping to foster a good relationship between the police department and the youth in this community,” he said.

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Photo caption: During dismissal, Greenport UFSD student patrollers block other students from exiting the building, waiting for buses to be completely stopped. (Kate Nalepinski photo)

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The Southold Town Board held another public hearing Tuesday on proposed legislation that would require the owners of rental properties to obtain permits certifying their safety.

The latest iteration of the law mandates that owners of rental properties have a valid certificate of occupancy and show that the unit adheres to state fire prevention and building codes and has not been physically altered in any way without a valid building permit.

Owners could either allow the town building department to inspect their rental unit at no cost or hire their own home inspection personnel.

Residents, who have spoken out against the proposed rental law at past hearings, did so again Tuesday, raising concerns about the potential burdens it would place on property owners.

Town Board members say the proposal would protect the health of tenants.

“You should have a valid [certificate of occupancy] whether you’re renting or not,” said Councilwoman Jill Doherty in an email last week. “Over time, this will give us an idea of how many rentals are out there and what the future needs of the town are.”

Ms. Doherty had been leading the charge for rental permit regulation, citing safety concerns.

Some residents and real estate agents in the audience feel the proposed law is too restrictive.

“You are taking away rights when you do this,” said realtor Marie Beninati. “You’re creating a second class of people,” by requiring rental owners to obtain permits, she said.

Supervisor Scott Russell disagreed. “It doesn’t stop rentals,” he said.

Ms. Beninati wondered why other town agencies — like the police or fire department — can’t deal with unsafe properties. “They know who the offenders are. Do something about it,” she said.

Other speakers agreed, arguing that the majority of rental properties do not pose a threat to health or safety.

“We can’t easily just go into these places when we have just a simple verbal complaint,” Ms. Doherty said.

Cherry-picking enforcement would be wrong, Mr. Russell noted. “I would certainly hope any legislation we create is applied evenly throughout the entire town,” he said.

Other residents asked how the town would pay for the extra staff needed to process permits and perform inspections. Ms. Doherty said existing code enforcement officers would work with the building department and added that the town is also poised to hire a fire marshal who could assist with safety inspections.

The fire marshal position is included in the supervisor’s tentative 2019 budget and would begin June 1, 2019, if the rental law passes. Though the law itself would take effect immediately, it would not be enforced until Aug. 1, 2019, to give landlords time to apply for permits. Officials said permits would cost $100 annually, but that rates are set at each annual reorganizational board meeting and are not passed as part of the legislation itself.

Violators could face fines up to $5,000 for the first offense and up to $10,000 for a second offense.

Anne Murray of East Marion spoke in support of the proposed law and urged the board to vote. “The situation with rentals in the town, I think, is pretty out of control,” she said.

After the two-hour public hearing, the board did not put the measure to a vote.

Southold resident and attorney Patricia Moore suggested clarifying in the code that uses like residential care facilities, motels, hotels and B&Bs would not need to obtain rental permits. She also suggested that the board consider exempting affordable housing programs, including Section 8, from having to obtain permits.

“The federal government and [Housing and Urban Development] programs have their own inspection criteria,” she said. “If you are not trying to hurt affordable housing by this law, at least give credit or an exemption of this law for programs that already have a regulatory scheme.”

She also raised concerns about the law’s language regarding zoning.

“The way you’ve defined the permitting process, if you have a rental unit — regardless of the zoning district it’s in — you get a rental permit,” Ms. Moore said. But “dwellings” in residential zones are not the only ones who must get permits, the board agreed. “It’s based on use, not zoning,” Mr. Russell said.

Ms. Moore suggested the board clarify the code to say “dwelling unit” instead of “dwelling” to include apartments that may, for example, be located on commercial or mixed-use properties with second-floor apartments.

“ ‘Dwelling’ implies the house, but the dwelling unit may be a part of the house or some other building,” Ms. Moore said.

The rental permit proposal will remain on the agenda for two weeks, Mr. Russell said, for consideration by the board at its next meeting on Nov. 7.

tsmith@timesreview.com

Photo caption: Southold resident and attorney Patricia Moore spoke at Tuesday’s public hearing. (Tara Smith photo)

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The Suffolk County Board of Elections has reversed a controversial decision to deny voters the ability to cast absentee ballots in person as they are received at its Yaphank headquarters.

The decision came Wednesday afternoon.

“This decision is a win for voters. We will remain vigilant in identifying and calling out any additional efforts to prevent people in Suffolk County from exercising their right to vote,” said Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said in a statement.

Suffolk County Board of Elections officials announced a solution in a statement around 5 p.m. Wednesday.  According to GOP Elections Commissioner Nicholas LaLota, the Board of Elections has hired four temporary employees who will enable the board to do what is “required and what is desired,” he said.

Voters who will be absent from Suffolk County on Election Day can visit the Board of Elections in Yaphank during business hours to apply for an absentee ballot and receive one to fill out in less than 30 minutes, Mr. LaLota assured.

Earlier this week, Newsday reported that Mr. LaLota ordered election workers to process absentee requests on a first-come, first-served basis.

The result?

Those who showed up in person to cast an absentee ballot reported waiting hours to be processed and even being told to return the next day.

According to Mr. Bellone, the practice of processing in-person ballots has been long standing for years. Disallowing absentee ballots to be cast in person is “tantamount” to voter suppression, the county executive said before the decision had been reversed Wednesday. “Quite frankly, this is an affront to democracy.”

“In practice, it has taken Board employees approximately five times as long to process an in-person absentee application than one that is mailed in,” Mr. LaLota said. 

He attributed two causes that led to the suspension of the practice this year. “The board has received a near record number of mailed-in absentee ballot requests,” he wrote in an email.

The second cause, he said, was that the final ballot wasn’t finalized until Oct. 9, when the Conservative Party submitted a certificate of substitution naming Democrat Theresa Whalen as its candidate for Judge of the Surrogate’s Court.

“As a result, much of the work that would have gone into preparing machines in late September had to be put off until much later in the Election Cycle. This has caused an extra crunch in resources, and put the discretionary practice on ice,” Mr. LaLota said.

On Wednesday morning, the county executive filed a complaint with the state Board of Elections, asking for intervention to reverse the policy. He threatened legal action in court if the decision was not rescinded.

Allegations of voter suppression have popped up nationwide during this election cycle, from purging voter rolls in Georgia to restrictive voter ID laws in North Dakota that disproportionately impact indigenous voters. Long lines, changes to polling places, and other oddities have become routine experiences, most notably in communities of color.

This week, those tactics arrived in Suffolk County too, as misleading campaign mailers were sent out by Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley). A postcard sent by the Zeldin for Congress campaign quotes Mr. Zeldin as saying, “The right to vote is one of the most fundamental rights guaranteed to us. It protects our democracy by making officials accountable to the people. I urge you to exercise that right, by completing your requested absentee ballot and postmarking it by November 6th.”

The actual deadline is one day earlier; Nov. 5.

His opponent, Democrat Perry Gershon, accused the incumbent congressman of targeting college-aged voters and communities of color.

Mr. Zeldin’s campaigned has chalked it up to a mistake.

“We have seen this kind of behavior and activity in other parts of the country and frankly, I did not think we would see it here in New York,” Mr. Bellone said, adding that the Board of Elections further disenfranchised voters by sending out absentee ballots five days late. “People were waiting for their absentee ballots to arrive,” he said.

Reached by phone by the Times Review Wednesday, Mr. Bellone said Suffolk County residents should not be punished for trying to cast their vote. “[Absentee voters] are going the extra mile to do what we encourage all citizens to do,” he said.

Asked how these actions are reflective of current politics, Mr. Bellone offered this:

“It tells me we’re in strange times. We see footage of people in other states where they’re waiting hours online to cast their vote. That’s unacceptable. We should never allow that in New York.”

tsmith@timesreview.com

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The pain of defeat was just too much for at least one inconsolable young person on the Mattituck side of the soccer field. Tuckers coach Will Hayes tried his best to comfort the distraught youngster, but the bawling continued.

It wasn’t one of Hayes’ players, but his 8-year-old son, Owen. Mattituck’s 4-1 loss to rival Center Moriches in a Suffolk County Class B semifinal Wednesday was just too much for him to take.

“He’s very upset,” Hayes said after his son left the Center Moriches field with his 4-year-old sister, Evelyn, and their mother, Jen. “He’s very excitable. He thought we were going to come in here and win.”

The third-seeded Tuckers (10-7) couldn’t cry, however, about their effort against the defending state champions. It was a 1-1 score until Center Moriches (11-4-2) broke the game open with three late goals within a span of 5 minutes and 27 seconds.

“We gave it our all,” Mattituck senior center back Bryce Grathwohl said. “We played with a lot of heart today, and the last 10 minutes it sort of fell apart.”

Center Moriches will play No. 1 Babylon or No. 4 Hampton Bays in the county final Sunday at Diamond in the Pines in Coram.

It wasn’t a kick or a header that turned this game so much as a throw — a long throw-in by Center Moriches’ Matt Alifano. His throw-in ricocheted around the Mattituck penalty area. Jack Mahoney got a touch on the ball and then teammate Mike Batholomew put it away for a 2-1 lead with 10:05 left in the second half.

Alifano’s long throw-ins had an impact on the game, putting the Mattituck defense under pressure.

“That was the difference in the game, really, for me,” Hayes said. “Alifano’s long throw-ins were a constant threat for us. It’s like being under seige in a trench. Eventually you break.”

A cutting pass by Jack Wicks sent Tommy Luongo through and the senior forward flicked the ball past goalkeeper James Jacobs 3:45 later for his second goal of the game.

Wicks wrapped things up with 4:38 left to play. A hard shot by Bartholomew was stopped by Jacobs (six saves), but Wicks was in place to tuck in the rebound.

“You could really see our team deflate after they gave up that (second) goal,” said Hayes.

Mattituck didn’t get off to the sort of start it wanted. Jacobs, looking to distribute the ball, threw it toward defender Bryan Soto, but Soto wasn’t looking. Center Moriches’ Ryan McDermott swept in, intercepted the pass, dribbled the ball to the right end line and drove a ball that Jacobs got a piece of. It wasn’t enough, though, to prevent it from being knocked in on Luongo’s first-time shot 5:40 into the match.

“It was a miscue between the goalkeeper and the left back,” Hayes told reporters. “James thought that the left back, Bryan Soto, was ready for the ball, and Bryan thought that he was going to punt the ball up the field, so when James threw the ball out, Bryan didn’t know about it. So, it’s not any one player’s fault. They need to communicate better in that circumstance. As a result of that, we gave up a very costly goal because of a miscue between two good players, and that happens.”

Mattituck fought its way back. Alp Kilinc fired in an equalizer with his left foot before Center Moriches’ Mike Luongo could close in on him at 28:42. Dane Reda assisted.

“I think we gave them as good a game as we possibly could give them and in the end the wheels fell off,” said Hayes, whose team lost to Center Moriches, 2-1, on Sept. 17. Mattituck might have gone up a goal, but a low shot by Reda was well saved by Curtis Copenhaver at 56:19.

Tommy Luongo ripped a blazing shot over the crossbar with 15:27 left in the match.

“I think we went out there and gave it our all,” said Jacobs, who did well to push a wicked shot by Tommy Luongo over the crossbar with 14:57 left in the first half.

While it may not be as intense as it once was, Mattituck-Center Moriches is still a big rivalry.

“In terms of rivalries, it’s one of the big ones, but there’s not a lot of the venom that there used to be,” Hayes said. “I mean, there would be heavy tackles all over the field and there would be fights breaking out in the stands. Now it’s just two teams that respect each other.”

Hayes called this a “growth season” for his team. Mattituck started five seniors Wednesday: Charlie Bordsen, Jake Catalano, Grathwohl, Jacobs and Kilinc. Another senior, Kyle Schwartz, came off the bench and played most of the game. Hayes said junior center back Chris Nicholson, who had battled illness throughout the week, played “extremely well.”

Jacobs said: “I was happy with how we did this year. It just (stinks) that it ends.”

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Photo caption: Mattituck’s Dane Reda (left) and Center Moriches’ Matt Alifano duel for the ball during their Suffolk County Class B semifinal Wednesday. (Credit: Bob Liepa)

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Listings prepared for Times Review Media Group by Suffolk Research Service, dated Aug. 27-Sept. 2, 2018.

Brought to you by:

AQUEBOGUE (11931)

• Long Island House Wines to Northeast Farm LLC, Sound Ave (600-7-1-31), (V), $100,000

• Long Island House Wines to Northeast Farm LLC, 5120 Sound Ave (600-20-3-9.2), (V), $500,000

• Long Island House Wines to Northeast Farm LLC, 5120 Sound Ave (600-20-3-9.3), (V), $200,000

• Long Island House Wines to Northeast Farm LLC, 5120 Sound Ave (600-20-3-9.4), (V), $1,600,000

BAITING HOLLOW (11933)

• Tuccio, E & P to 33 Baiting Hollow Corp, 33 Baiting Hollow Ln (600-40-3-11), (R), $305,000

• Foxwood Corporation to Mary Ellen Real Estate Co, 1407-1 Middle Rd (600-101-1-6.3), (V), $625,000

• Green Meadows & Sustain to Sustainable Property Hldgs, 4153 Middle Country & Peconic (600-116-1-7.5), (V), $9,378,866

• Green Meadows & Between to Green Meadows LLC, 4153 Middle Country & Peconic (600-116-1-7.5), (V), $4,670,750

CALVERTON (11933)

• Chedd, M to 1846 Edwards Ave LLC, 1846 Edwards Ave (600-39-2-17), (R), $418,000

CUTCHOGUE (11935)

• Lynch, S to Kockenmeister, Erik, 1140 Crown Land Ln (1000-102-7-11), (R), $780,000

FISHERS ISLAND (06390)

• Warden, R & M to Gibbs, Bradford, Top of the World Drive (1000-4-5-8), (V), $625,000

• Grebe Jr, A by Executors to Emmono Properties LLC, Fox Ave (1000-6-7-6), (V), $500,000

FLANDERS (11901)

• Robusto, D to Town of Southampton, 12 Enterprise Zone Dr (900-141-1-9.14), (V), $407,000

• Maggio, R & D to Bhagwandin, Tristan, 114 June Ave (900-148-2-2.1), (R), $610,000

• O’Neill, A to Bunce, Jeanne, 128 Royal Ave (900-148-2-33), (R), $295,000

GREENPORT (11944)

• Bendicksen Jr, P & M to Wachenfeld, Scott & Dianne, 3 Beach Pl (1001-3-3-26), (R), $650,000

LAUREL (11948)

• Krupski, M to Brodarick, Sean, 2880 Delmar Dr (1000-125-4-12), (R), $435,760

• Ziozis, C & S to 27 Bay Avenue LLC, 1540 Laurelwood Dr (1000-127-5-5), (R), $558,000

MATTITUCK (11952)

• Jackson, W to Miguel Gregorio, Santos, 1175 Village Ln (1000-114-6-13), (R), $422,500

• Lou Griffins LLC to Mattituck Holdings LLC, 825 Pacific St (1000-141-4-11), (C), $840,000

• Gunther, H to Farley, Lance, 615 Sigsbee Rd (1000-143-2-12), (R), $349,000

ORIENT (11957)

• Raphael, F & C to Greller, Howard, 455 Three Waters Ln (1000-15-7-11), (R), $861,500

RIVERHEAD (11901)

• Zuhoski, A & T to Glass 1997 Trust, 120 Louise Ct (600-17-1-8.3), (V), $750,000

• Insource East Properties to Newberry, Melody, 33 White Birch Ct (600-68-4-55.7), (R), $417,150

• Church of the Harvest to 1120 Enterprises LLC, 1120 Middle Rd (600-81-1-30.5), (V), $187,000

• BKRG LLC to Meyer, Lowell, 246 Main Rd (600-85-2-5.6), (V), $100,000

• JRE and C LLC to Sinchi Dreams Realty Inc, 43 Zion St (600-85-3-58.1), (R), $115,000

• Smith, A to 437 Hamilton Avenue LLC, 437 Hamilton Ave (600-123-2-70.3), (R), $235,000

• Peruso-Kirshenbaum RH to Rivshore LLC, 419-425 & 431-433 Osborn Ave (600-126-1-8.1), (C), $1,750,000

• Inisfada Realty Corp to Velasquez, Jorge, 702 East Ave Ext (600-126-3-10), (R), $250,000

• Hattorff, M to Middleton, Arthur, 334 Howell Ave (600-127-5-2), (R), $369,000

SHELTER ISLAND (11964)

• Gardiners Bay Cntry Clb to Bocci, Lorraine, Gardiners Bay Dr (700-3-2-32.2), (V), $52,000

• Guzzardi, A Trust to Gaze-On LLC, 7 Gazon Rd & 28.002 & 29.001 (700-18-2-30), (R), $1,270,000

SOUTH JAMESPORT (11970)

• Aronowitz, C & Sperling to Rameau Holdings LLC, 1039 Peconic Bay Blvd (600-91-2-1.2), (R), $385,000

SOUTHOLD (11971)

• Capital One National to Town of Southold, 54265 Route 25 (1000-61-2-12.2), (C), $3,100,000

• Terry, E to Ormond, Jeremy, 615 Jockey Creek Dr (1000-70-2-18), (R), $435,000

WADING RIVER (11792)

• Kelly, P to Sztabnik, Brian, 8 Tide Ct (600-31-2-18), (R), $450,000

• Nohejl, K & J to Kenniston, Timothy, 57 Shirley St (600-33-1-2), (R), $339,000

• Yakaboski, M to Soto Garcia, Erick, 106 16th St (600-34-1-38), (R), $249,000

• Wynkoop, P & A by Referee to Bank of New York Mellon, Trust Co NA, 19 Sound Rd (600-49-1-36.2), (R), $589,839

• Pisano, B & L to Kuang, Chongai, 103 East Ct (600-57-1-14.86), (R), $450,000

• Mayer/Krauss, J to DeSousa, James, 52 Fairway Dr (600-58-4-9), (R), $419,900

(Key: Tax map numbers = District-Section-Block-Lot; (A) = agriculture; (R) = residential; (V) = vacant property; (C) = commercial; (R&E) = recreation & entertainment; (CS) = community services; (I) = industrial; (PS) = public service; (P) = park land; as determined from assessed values in the current tax rolls.)

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The Greenport Village Board will vote on a proposal to regulate short-term rentals in the village at its board meeting Thursday, Oct. 25. 

The board has been discussing enacting such a law for six years and held two packed public hearings on the proposal this year. 

The village is one of the few East End municipalities that doesn’t regulate short-term rentals. 

Mayor George Hubbard Jr. said he had met Saturday with Greenport homeowner Brian Cheeseman, who said he’d met with many of the short-term rental owners who opposed the proposed law and offered an alternative. 

However, the majority of the board wanted to move the issue to a vote, rather than consider more changes, which would likely require another hearing.

The proposed law, which the village now appears ready to adopt, defines a short-term rental as less than 14 days and a long-term rental as a period of at least one year.

Short-term rentals of less than 14 days would be permitted only in one- or two-family homes that are either owner-occupied or occupied by a long-term tenant.

Board members decided to stick with that proposal, which is the version that went to public hearing most recently. 

“The law we have is adequate,” Trustee Julia Robins said. “I’m going to support it.”

“I like the law that was written,” Trustee Jack Martilotta said. 

“It’s time for us to stand up and go with our convictions and do what the village residents what us to do, which is to do something,” Trustee Doug Roberts said. 

Mr. Roberts said the board can adopt the existing proposal and then make changes later. 

tgannon@timesreview.com

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