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BY ELANA GLOWATZ AND PHIL CORSO

A cardiologist has pleaded guilty to manslaughter, drunk driving and leaving the scene of a Smithtown car crash, 16 months a� er he killed a fellow medical professional and mother of three.

� e Su� olk County District Attorney’s O� ce announced on Friday that Setauket doctor � omas Stavola, now 56, will spend two years in prison and � ve years on probation a� er last year’s crash, dur-ing which his Audi broadsided victim Monica Peterman’s Mercedes at the in-tersection of Routes 25 and 111. It was shortly before 4 a.m., and Peterman, 45, had been on her way to work as an X-ray technician at St. Catherine of Si-ena Medical Center. Instead, the Middle Island resident was pro-nounced dead at that same hos-pital, where she had worked for

more than 10 years.District Attorney Tom Spota

said previously that the doctor, who sustained minor injuries in the crash, le� the scene without helping Peterman.

“Witnesses who came upon the crash scene said the defendant suddenly le� and began walk-ing west on Route 25,” Spota said in a previous statement. “What I found most troubling is the fact

that a physician chose not to render any kind of aid or use his cellphone to call 911 to get some assistance for a seri-ously injured mo-torist.”

� e DA said those witnesses gave police o� cers a description of Stavola, and a ser-

geant on his way to the scene spot-ted the man about 500 feet from the crash, walking quickly with his head down.

According to the DA’s of-fice, Stavola had a .10 blood al-cohol content 90 minutes after

File photoThomas Stavola, pictured left, will spend two years in prison and � ve years on probation.

Setauket doc pleads guilty to fatal hit-and-runPhotos by Greg Catalano

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the fatal incident.� e impact of the collision had

embedded Stavola’s front license plate into the side door of Peter-man’s car.

Stavola originally pleaded not guilty to his charges. � e vic-tim’s family � led a $20 million civil lawsuit against him last year, saying they hoped it would help make punishments stricter for drunk drivers.

But Stavola changed his plea and Peterman’s family supported the two-year sentence and proba-

tion, the DA’s o� ce said. Her hus-band, Russell Peterman, said in a statement that his family wanted to let go of the anger they felt to-ward Stavola and realized he de-served another chance “to go back to helping people.”

In the courtroom, Peterman’s family members delivered re-marks of forgiveness to Stavola, adding that they believed his punishment suited the crime. In their statement, they said they felt Stavola needed to go back to help-ing others.

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The SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT maintains a Capital Reserve Fund designated as the Capital Reserve Fund for Repair, New and Rebuilt Apparatus, Equip-ment and Communication known as Capital Reserve #2 under Section 6(g) of the Gen-eral Municipal Law in which ac-count there is sufficient funds to accomplish the purpose hereinafter set forth; namely, the purchase of a district vehi-cle and associated equipment, and it proposed to contract for such purchase in order to main-tain the high standards of per-formance of the SELDEN FIRE

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Head of the Harbor grapples with deer hunting issueBy Victoria Espinoza

The deer debate has hit Head of the Harbor.

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

The law was originally written to amend the village code to enable hunting of deer pursuant to the New York State Department of Environmental Conser-vation authorization. But trustees said it was rescinded so as to allow more time for thought before action.

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

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

Mayor Douglas A. Dahlgrad said it is his hope that the committee will meet with other villages and towns to see how they are handling their deer issues, as well as with the DEC. Residents contin-ued to voice their distress for how the board will handle this issue in the up-coming months.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chairman Michael Utevsky will head the committee along with eight other members and trustee liaison Deputy Mayor Daniel White.

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

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

“There is a big concern for transpar-ency now,” Korneffel said. She also felt that the code written “seemed purpose-ly vague.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

While sidewalks and were the main is-

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

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

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

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

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

Friends of the Greenway member, among others, Herb Mones added to the conversa-tion saying that the current “car culture” is oriented toward “performance, acceleration and stunts.” He added that the people in the audience were also part of the issue.

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

Although some residents disagreed with others Hahn said these debates help mem-bers in the community tackle problems like the issue of pedestrian safety.

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

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POLICE BLOTTER Incidents and arrests from Oct. 22-26

Does not computeEarly in the morning on Oct. 23, an

unknown person entered an unlocked business on Oakland Avenue in Port Jefferson and stole a computer.

NoGoodAn unknown person stole a wom-

an’s wallet from her purse on Oct. 25 while the woman shopped at the HomeGoods on Nesconset Highway in Port Jefferson Station.

Got my eye on youPolice said a dispute broke out be-

tween two males on Main Street in Port Jefferson on Oct. 24, during which one punched the other in his face, near his eye. It was not clear if the victim needed medical attention after the altercation.

Left unlockedAn unknown person entered an un-

locked 2005 Toyota Sequoia on Harbor Beach Road in Mount Sinai and stole assorted items between Oct. 22 at 9:30 p.m. and Oct. 23 at 3:30 a.m.

A clean getawayAt some point between Oct. 22 and

Oct. 23, unknown people entered a residence on Norwich Road in Sound Beach through a basement window and stole a washing machine from the residence.

Beer mePolice said on Oct. 23 a man entered

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

Getting to workOn Oct. 24, an unidentified person

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

Smashing pumpkinsAn unknown person smashed a

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

Cold casePolice said three people took off in

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

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

an from Centereach for driving while ability impaired on Oct. 23, after pull-ing her over for failing to maintain her lane while driving east in a 2004

Chevy on Chereb Lane in Port Jeffer-son Station. The officers arrested her at the scene at 1:15 a.m.

Larceny tourPolice arrested a 39-year-old man

from Farmingville on four charges of petit larceny, after he hit different stores throughout the county. Accord-ing to police, on Sept. 11, the man stole assorted merchandise from the Walmart in Centereach, then stole a snow blower from the Kmart in Farm-ingville 10 days later. On Oct. 5, he stole a vacuum from the Walmart on Middle Country Road in Middle Is-land, and on Oct. 20 stole toys from the Kmart on North Ocean Avenue in Farmingville. Police arrested the man at the 6th Precinct two days after the final incident.

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

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

Stay focusedA 33-year-old woman from Selden

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

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

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

Targeted approachA 42-year-old woman from Cente-

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

Man gets battyPolice arrested a 50-year-old man

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

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

Lovers worldwide have embraced the tradition of dec-orating locks with initials and other symbols of partner-ship, and ceremoniously attaching them to bridges. Fear-ing that locks would weaken structures and make them unsafe, municipalities have been removing the tokens of love. Twenty-two love locks were recently taken off the footbridge at the end of Sunken Meadow’s parking field 3. The New York City Department of Transportation re-moved 450 locks from the Brooklyn Bridge in April. And officials in Paris have been prying locks off bridges that span the River Seine.

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

State Parks spokesman Randy Simons said in an email Tuesday that the Parks Department was concerned that, over time, an increasing number of locks could add un-safe weight to the bridge. Locks can get rusted, and that could also affect the bridge, Simons said.

Those who put a love lock on the bridge and want their memento back, he said, can pick it up at the Sunk-en Meadow park office.

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

The Parks Department hasn’t seen love locks at any other state parks, Simons said.

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

“Locks pose a safety risk for those using the Brook-lyn Bridge and are not allowed,” she said. “We strongly discourage visitors from leaving locks on our bridges as it poses a danger to the infrastructure and the cars travel-ing below.”

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

Photos by Susan Risoli From right to left: locks decorate the bridge in a photo taken in January; below view of the footbridge at Sunken Meadow State Park, where lovebirds once saw locks representing their permanent affection. The locks have since been removed.

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Photos by Greg Catalano Scenes from Sunday’s Walk for Beauty in Stony Brook. Residents lined the streets in cel-

ebration of the Ward Melville Heritage Organization tradition, which raises money for cancer research. Clockwise from top left to right: County Executive Bellone accoustic megaphone; Gloria Rocchio of the Ward Melville Heritage Organization emcees the event, flanked by elected officials Steve Bellone, Steve Englebright, John Flanagan, Ed Romaine and Valerie Cartright; Runners participate in Color Splash; cheerleaders dance in celebration of the events, which included a Hercules on the Harbor 10K run and a 4k Color Splash event; and runners take off at the Walk for Beauty event.

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Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) said he hopes to continue his work ad-dressing the county’s top issues, includ-ing affordable living, financial issues and wastewater management. But in order to do that, he first has to get past Republican challenger Jim O’Connor.

O’Connor (R), a partner in the Manhat-tan law firm of Maroney O’Connor LLP, said he was hoping to unseat Bellone and get a handle of the county’s finances, which he argued are currently in bad shape.

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

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

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

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

O’Connor said he does not know how the county will pay for those salaries, and proposed to freeze them if he is elected.

“One of the things we can control is our labor costs,” O’Connor said.

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

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

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

Both candidates discussed how they planned to fully utilize the county’s re-

County race focuses on finances and planning

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

GOP challenger Jim O’Connor, County Executive Steve Bellone square off on Suffolk’s pressing issues

sources and make living in Suffolk more affordable.

To get there, Bellone said he wants to bet-ter utilize Stony Brook University, because “as Stony Brook University goes, so goes Suffolk County.” He said one the challenges and opportunities residents in the area have is enacting initiatives that better link Stony Brook University with other North Shore assets like Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

O’Connor said he and Bellone have

a fundamental difference on how to go about dealing with affordable living in Suffolk County.

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

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Photo by Desirée KeeganSupervisor Ed Romaine discusses his last term and his goals for another two years if re-elected.

Town supervisor has eyes on illegal housing, environmental issuesBy GiSEllE BaRklEy

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

Romaine is running for an-other two years as supervisor against Democratic challenger Douglas Dittko, who declined to attend a debate at the TBR News-papers office alongside his oppo-nent. Dittko also did not answer a request for an interview.

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

For Romaine, re-election means finishing up current en-vironmental projects, managing the town’s budget and introduc-ing technology to make it easier

for residents to interact with the town. While he said there is still work to be done, he highlighted improvements since his special election in early 2013, which put him into office for several months before he was re-elected to a full term.

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

While in office, Romaine has helped get the town’s debt under control, and this year the town finished paying off its pension debt. One of the ways in which Romaine brought in funding to do that was selling the former tax receiver’s office in downtown Port Jefferson as well as the old town hall in Patchogue.

“I’ve worked on finances be-cause I’ve learned from a long life that all issues of government are

issues of money,” Romaine said.One of the incumbent’s fo-

cuses in another term would be housing. Following the reces-sion, there were more than 200 foreclosed homes that the town is trying to maintain or tear down. And residents of neigh-borhoods near Stony Brook University complain of illegal boarding homes bursting with college students. To combat that issue, Romaine and town offi-cials have already enacted some restrictions, like making it illegal to pave over front lawns to make more room for parking.

Another goal the supervi-sor has for a second full term is expanding his single-stream recycling program beyond Brookhaven’s single-family homes. The single-stream sys-tem, in which residents can put all of their recyclables on the curb together, has already drastically increased recycling townwide, and has made money for Brookhaven because the

Romaine goes for another term

town sells material it brings in. He would also like to continue

his efforts to encourage renewable energy use and reduce nitrogen pollution in local bodies of water.

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

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Kevin LaValle (R-Selden) is always on the move.

The 38-year-old Brookhaven Town councilman, who is running for a second term, said he is trying to bring energy back to his district.

“You want to get people back into gov-ernment,” LaValle said during an inter-view at the Times Beacon Record Newspa-pers office. “[You] have to make people feel the government is their for them.”

His Democratic opponent, Christian DeGeorge, did not return a request for an interview.

One big accomplishment of LaValle’s first term was finishing negotiations for athletic fields by Hawkins Path Elemen-tary School in Selden, near where Boyle Road meets Hawkins Road. The Middle Country area has long needed field space, and LaValle began targeting that property when he was an aide for Legislator Tom Muratore. The county now owns the land, and the town is utilizing it and making im-provements to it.

LaValle said he wants to continue work on that property, perhaps adding a walk-ing trail and a parking lot to make it easier for people to use.

Moving forward, taxes and road main-tenance are two of the most important is-sues in the 3rd Council District, according

to LaValle, who grew up in Centereach. He said he tried to prioritize the roads in need of maintenance, like filling potholes and improving drainage, in his past term and will continue to do so if re-elected.,

“I tell every resident this: We can’t pave every road. I’d love to pave every road, but we don’t have the money to do that.”

He also sees cleaning up graffiti as an important issue. Greentree Park in Farmingville, for one, has been tagged over and over. Since removing graffiti is costly, LaValle hopes to help law en-forcement gather enough information to build a case and eventually catch those responsible for the graffitti.

To improve the flow of traffic and safe-ty on the roads, LaValle wants to push more businesses along Middle Country Road to allow vehicular access between their properties.

“There’s so many entrances and exits [on Middle Country Road],” the coun-cilman said. “There’s always somebody jumping out in front of you or the car in front of you. [It] backs up [the lane and] causes all the accidents.”

The cross-accesses would allow drivers to move between businesses without hav-ing to get back onto the road as frequently.

Regardless of the problem at hand, LaValle said action is important when it comes to improving the district.

“[A decision] may not change the prob-lem tomorrow, but 20 years from now it could completely solve … a problem, so

every decision you make, you always have to think four or five steps ahead.”

LaValle looks for a second term in the 3rd CD

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

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

This is the fourth time Mura-tore (R-Ronkonkoma) is running in the 4th Legislative District, which includes Selden, Cente-reach, parts of Ronkonkoma and Farmingville, Coram, Holbrook, Lake Ronkonkoma, Lake Grove, Medford and Port Jefferson Sta-tion. His Democratic opponent, Jonathan Rockfeld, has not active-ly campaigned for the position.

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

For Muratore, ensuring public safety was one of the top issues he wanted to work to address. Over

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

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

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

One idea he has is to make it mandatory for those flying drones to become members of the American Model Association,

which would help track the owner of a drone and provide insurance if the drone harms an individual.

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

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

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

In a fourth term, Muratore also plans to continue his in-volvement with the Red Light Safety Program, through which cameras at traffic signals help catch and ticket cars that run red lights. While county Democrats and Republicans have not always seen eye-to-eye on the issue, with Republicans calling the ticketing program a money grab, Muratore

wants to continue talks to reform it. While he voted in favor of initi-ating the program a few years ago, he disagreed with the county’s supposed manipulation of fees as-sociated with the program.

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

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

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Highway head candidates spar over subcontractorsBy VicToria espinoza

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

The incumbent, Superintendent Dan Losquadro (R), squared off against Dem-ocratic challenger, Jason Kontzamanys, at the Times Beacon Record headquar-ters, where they discussed finances in the highway department, use of subcontrac-tors and why they deserve the job.

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

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

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

“I do not want to rely on subcontrac-tors,” he said. “I want to embolden the

unionized work force and expand it as much as I can.”

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

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

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

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

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

“There were no radio communica-tions that were reliable [when I came into office],” Losquadro said. “I designed and installed a new radio communication system which is the same technology that the police and fire service use.”

Losquadro said the new system is reli-

able and gives the department coverage in parts of Long Island with serious top-ographical challenges.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Photos by Phil Corsoincumbent Highway superintendent Dan losquadro faces Democratic challenger Jason kontzamanys on nov. 3.

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PEOPLE

Charles L. Coppola, 74, of Cente-reach, passed away on Oct. 13.

He was the cherished father of and is survived by Anna (Stephen) Rust, Catherine (Mario) Biganini, Robert and Caroline Bamberger. He was also the loving grandfather of five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. He is sur-vived by many other family members

and friends. The funeral service was held at

Branch Funeral Home in Smithtown. Coppola’s internment was in St.

John’s Cemetery in Middle Village and followed the funeral service.

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

OBITUARY

Robert Caruso, of Centereach, was recently named a recipient of the Grand Skookum Award, an honor pre-sented by Western New England University's Alumni Association. The Skookum is award-ed to students who have demonstrated a com-mitment to excellence in all of their endeavors: academics, cocurricular activities, sports and community service. "Skookum" is the Native American Chinook In-dian word meaning "ex-cellence." Caruso was one of 15 outstanding students to receive an award at the ceremony.

Caruso, a communications major with a minor in media and theater, is a member of Alpha Lambda Delta, Lambda Pi Eta, Mortar Board and Omicron Delta Kappa. He was also

selected to attend the Alpha Lambda Delta National Leadership Workshop.

Caruso has been a peer advisor, a first year seminar as-sistant and an orienta-tion group leader. He is a committed partici-pant and former ex-ecutive board member of the Stageless Players and a member of Class Council. Further, Ca-ruso is involved with the university's me-dia outlets, including WNEK and GBTV. He has held intern-ships at VH1, The

Huffington Post, the Springfield Republican, BlueLink Marketing

and with State Senator Eric Lesser.Currently, Caruso is studying

abroad at the American University of Paris and continuing to work with VH1. His goal is to work with E! News.

Photo from Western New England University

Robert Caruso

Suffolk County Community College Equestrian Team rider Brittany Diez won her over-fences class and helped Suffolk clinch its first blue ribbon of the season.

The Suffolk County Community Col-lege Equestrian Team, only in its second year, now boasting 25 riders, finished fifth out of 10 teams last year and is the only junior college in the region to have a team.

The team was recently honored as the President College for the region that in-cludes Stony Brook University, St. Joseph’s College, Dowling College, LIU Post, New York University, Columbia University, Hofstra University, Adelphi University and Molloy College.

Suffolk will be hosting the regional finals in March 2016.

Photos from Drew Biondo Suffolk County Community College President Shaun L. McKay, center, is surrounded by students who are taking part in raising awareness on domestic violence.

The statistics are startling. One in three women and one in four men will experience domestic violence in their life-time, and right here in Suffolk County, more than 7,500 incidents of domestic violence were reported in 2013, according to the New York State Division of Crimi-nal Justice Services.

“Domestic violence shatters families, leaves loved ones and friends feeling helpless, and tears apart communities,” said Suffolk County Community College President Shaun L. McKay.

McKay said that according to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly 1 in 4 women in the United States reports violence by a current or former spouse or partner at some point in her life.

Now, Suffolk County Community College is joining the effort to raise awareness and help stamp out the scourge of domestic violence during

October, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and is partnering with NO-MORE.org, the Suffolk County Sher-iff’s Office, Suffolk County Executive’s Task Force to Prevent Family Violence and others.

College President McKay joined more than 50 Suffolk County Community College students who were photographed as part of the awareness campaign: No More – Together We Can End Domes-tic Violence & Sexual Assault. Several students role played in awareness videos and others, courageous domestic violence survivors, shared their story on camera.

“Education and awareness are the keys to prevention in the future,” McKay said.

The stunning student photographs will be displayed throughout Suffolk’s three campuses to raise awareness among the college’s student population, faculty, administration and staff. Photo from Drew Biondo

Brittany Diez successfully clears a fence.

SCCC raises awareness on domestic violence

Suffolk’s Equestrian team captures first blue ribbon

Student honored


By Bill landon

After dropping the first set to the Cen-tereach, Newfield won the next three on the road, defeating their crosstown rival 3-1 in League III volleyball action Friday afternoon.

The Wolverines looked to put the first set away, leading 20-15 at the first time out, but the Cougars battled back to tie it at 24-24, ultimately winning 26-24.

Newfield head coach Christy Innes said her team came out flat.

“The girls did not come out with a lot of energy, but they turned it around in game two,” she said.

The second set was very different from the first.

The Wolverines turned up the intensity, and in convincing fashion, claimed the sec-ond set 25-16, to tie the match.

Centereach senior co-captain Lauren Meigel said she wasn’t surprised at the mar-gin of victory in set two.

“That was to be expected, as they were angry and wanted to get back [at us],” Cen-tereach senior co-captain Nicole Fellone

said. “Today we had great communication, where we had problems [with that] before.”

Trailing by six, Centereach battled back in the third set to tie the game at 21-21, and took a 24-22 advantage, but Newfield re-fused to lose, rallied back to tie it at 25-25, and neither team would give way, as the ri-vals retied the game at 26-26.

“Our attacking was a lot better in the lat-er matches,” Newfield junior Rachel Men-nonna said. “We talked a lot more and we moved our feet better.”

With a 27-26 lead, Newfield finished the third set, to go up 2-1 in the match.

“We played a team that was better than us,” Centereach head coach Mike Weaver said. “We’ve had a number of injuries over the season. We’re down three starters.”

Newfield showed why they took third place in league play this season, by stretch-ing their legs in the fourth set to break out to a 19-11 lead, thanks to the senior captain Gabby Darnaby. On a service tear, rattling off eight consecutive points, Darnaby pro-pelled her team to a 22-11 lead, with a pair of service aces along the way.

“We had better energy after that first set — we had better communication and we played better defense,” Darnaby said. “We set up the blocks where they were supposed to be, and that helped a lot.”

Newfield junior Dayna Hunter brought her team to the brink with her kill shot, for a 24-11 advantage. Coping with an injury-riddled lineup, Weaver had to make adjust-ments — rotating players to fill the holes.

“Emily Timarky, who is a freshman who was thrown into a spot she’s never played, she stepped up and had nine kills, so I was very happy,” Weaver said.

But it was too much for Centereach, as Newfield put the fourth set away, 25-11, to win the match.

“I think we worked as hard as we possi-bly could; everyone gave 100 percent,” Mei-

gel said. “We hustled the whole way, and on offense, we just kept swinging away; we swung hard and we were not going down without a fight.”

With the loss, Centereach fell to 5-8, and with a win to finish off the regular season, Newfield improved to 10-4, which places them solidly in the playoff picture, which gets underway Monday, Nov. 2.

Newfield girls serve up win over crosstown rival

Photos by Bill Landon Clockwise from above, dalia Perez digs one out; Gabby darnaby sets up the ball; lauren Meigel makes contact with the ball; and Rachel Masullo leaps up to spike the ball.

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LaValle’s your palKevin LaValle has only been a

Brookhaven Town councilman for two years, but he’s been on the scene for much longer.

He got his feet wet working for Suffolk County Legislator Tom Mu-ratore, which means he’s well-versed in Middle Country’s issues.

One of the things he did with his first term in the town was helping to finally acquire space for athletic fields in Selden, something the com-

munity desperately needed and had waited years for. LaValle started the project in Muratore’s office and then picked up the torch for the town when he was first elected. Now, Selden is on its way to have more sports and leisure space for kids and adults alike.

We have a feeling LaValle, a Republican who grew up in Middle Country, will only keep getting bet-ter as time goes on. He has shown high energy and commitment. Voters should re-elect him on Tuesday.

More MuratoreSuffolk County Legislator Tom

Muratore (R-Ronkonkoma) said he doesn’t consider himself a politician but, instead, a man of the people. We agree.

Muratore, who was first elected to the Legislature in 2009, has plenty of evidence to back that up as he seeks his fourth term.

He stood up to the county Legis-lature alongside fellow Republicans earlier this month to call for changes to the Red Light Safety Program, with hopes of finding a fairer ap-proach. He raised his voice alongside other county Republicans to push for more fiscal responsibility, but did not allow it to get in the way of advocacy for community-centric programming. He helped usher in key parkland projects throughout his Middle Country-centered district, including new baseball fields and walking paths.

He also kept his finger on the pulse of his district by listening to constituent concerns surrounding taxes and public safety, and making them key components of his agenda. He even took a proactive lead on one of the county’s first cracks at regu-lating the usage of drones, using it as a springboard to discuss privacy issues; and sponsored legislation establishing “safe spots” throughout the county to eradicate robberies stemming from online commerce.

On the issue of combatting Suffolk County’s drug epidemic, we stand behind Muratore in his approach. Muratore said the county needs to kill the roots of the drug problem by putting more police on the beat, performing outreach and targeting dealers.

Muratore’s Democratic opponent, Jonathan Rockfeld of Islip Terrace, has not actively campaigned.

Come Election Day, we say vote for Muratore.

POLITICAL ENDORSEMENTS

Romaine is superEd Romaine has a solid record of get-

ting things done. He has kept the lid on taxes; brought single-stream recycling into the town, which added revenue and made collection day easier on residents; and fought bad neighbors who run their homes as illegal boarding houses or abandon their properties and allow them to fall into disrepair. And under the leadership of the Republican Center Moriches resident, the town paid off its pension debt this year — an important factor in maintaining fiscal stability in the future.

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

Losquadro paves way

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

Losquadro came into office two years ago with the inheritance of a mounting debt and crumbling infrastructure, but we feel the highway superintendent has been proactive and pragmatic in finding solutions to the county’s problems, while

remaining transparent throughout his office’s shortcomings.

In one of the most tangible litmus tests, Losquadro has remained acces-sible with his office’s attempts at putting a dent in a backlog of road repaving and repair projects, while also admitting there was no way he could tend to every single one, demonstrating his honesty.

The winter was brutal and full of snow-fall, and it didn’t stop there — a tornado barreled through the North Shore in Au-gust. All the while, we were pleased with Losquadro’s handling of the storms,.

He has also worked to bring the High-way Department into the current century, ushering in new technology and imple-menting new methods of doing business.

Losquadro’s opponent, Democrat Ja-son Kontzamanys, has based much of his opposition campaign on knocking the county’s debt and vowing to watch af-ter the taxpayer’s dollar. While we agree with the sentiment of his argument, we don’t feel that is something the current superintendent fails to recognize or act upon. Losquadro works to deal with town debt as much as a highway super-intendent can.

Losquadro is just getting started. He had a tough winter with very little criti-cisms, especially from his constituents, and we feel he should get another term under his belt.

Photo by Phil Corso Dan Losquadro hopes to win another term.

Photo by Desirée Keegan Ed Romaine is vying for another term.

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

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

The current county executive has some big plans ahead, including better connecting Suffolk’s existing down-towns to its research institutions to create an attractive environment that entices millenials and employers to stay on the Island.

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

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

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

It’s great to have ideas that would transform the way we live on Long Island, but we can’t get there in just one leap, which our county execu-tive’s rhetoric seems to demonstrate.

We have to take small steps that add up to larger ones.

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

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

Vote for Bellone on Election Day.

Bellone is best in county exec race

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

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Re-elect Ro-maine on Nov. 3.

Photo by Giselle BarkleySteve Bellone seeks another term as Suf-folk County Executive


Getting our mojo working in a sea of negativity

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

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

D. None of the aboveby DaNiel DuNaief

[email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

When they play their musical

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

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

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

irritating and ridiculous.Still, when it comes to that

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

poll already knowing how it is laid out.

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

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

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