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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER Periodicals Postage Paid- Babylon Post Office, Babylon NY 11702 IN THE MEWS I f l Kuhn visits Mt. St. Mary College Charlie Kuhn of North Babylon, a senior at St. John the Baptist Diocesan High School in West Mip, i ecently attended an Admissions Barbeque at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh. While undecided about his major, Kuhn said he is Kuhn, an avid lacrosse player, enjoyed seeing Mount Saint Mary College's all weather, synthetic turf field and six tennis courts, which will serve as the home for mens and women’s soccer, lacrosse and tennis teams “The new turf field and scoreboard axe proof that West Islip's IB program gives students an edge The West Xslip School District now offers an International Baccalaureate program, a rigorous global, educational progiam for students that helps them gam admission to some of the best known universities in the country, according to Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Curricu lum & Instruction Bernadette Bums. While individual college and university poli cies vary greatly, they leiogmze the value of the IB Diploma in a number of ditfeient ways, includ ing through iccruitment of Diploma Program {Continued on page 3} VOL. 4 4 NO. 37 . t o w ; •BABy LINDENHL BABYLOl WYAN] Published 65 Deer Park Ave., Babylon, NY 11702 Founders Edward D Wolfe, Jane D. Wolfe Publishers, Carolyn and Alfred James w n - i m v AN ’N01A8V8 3AV TläVO S VI (0 A a v a a n NOiAava £00D* jlo t la - a v c w , » « « IN S ID E We remember UR LOST-9/11 ee Page 15C bis Sunday, Country Fair at Argyle Lake I A B Y L Q N P U B L IC L IB R A R Y THURSDAY, Septem ber 1 6 ,2010 50 CENTS Panthers open big; by Tony Spota The Babylon Panthers opened the season with a solid attack as they roared for 563 yards on of fense to rip the Greenport Porters 43-7, at Dorrie Jackson Memorial Field in Greenport. Quarterback Sam Zamet completed 10 o f 14 passes for 243 yards and two touchdowns, all in the first half. Tailback Trevor Fudim scored four TDs with 17 carries for 80 yards and six receptions for 112 yards. Eight Babylon backs rushed for 314 yards. Wideout Steve Loudon had four catches for 109 yards. A solemn pregame moment of silence was ob served for our nation’s victims o f 9/11. It was also noted that Greenport Elementary has been chosen a Blue Ribbon School, one of 304 schools in the country. The award is for academic achievement. The game opened with the Panthers driving 74 yards on thirteen plays, capped by Fudim’s blast off right tackle from the 6-yard line. The Big Cats led the way, as they did throughout the contest - center Casey Holgan, guards Brendan Cunningham and Harrison Dittmeier, tackles Nick Brennan, Ryan Visgauss and John Sutherland and tight end Greg (Continued on page 3) Trevor Fudim makes this leaping catch for big yardage in the 1st quarter. Photo by Garret Meade Police hiring debate brings arresting war o f words by Carolyn James A war of words between political opponents is nothing new, but the level to which the current debate between S.C. Leg. DuWayne Gregory (D- Amityville), and S.C. Exec. Steve Levy has reached could be a prelude to next year when Levy is up for reelection—or just political tantrums. The salvo opened on Tues., Sept. 7, with a state ment released by Gregory calling Levy’s police budget for 2011 “a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff blush.” Levy’s Director of Communications, Mark L. Smith, fired off a response hours later calling Greg ory’s remarks bizarre and suggesting that he seek therapy for his display of “paranoid rage.” Gregory was taking exception to Levy’s an nouncement that he will propose hiring 150 new police and 140 new correction officers in his 2011 budget, which calls for no tax increase. However, the plan is contingent upon several things, includ ing the legislature’s willingness to sell the Foley Nursing home in Yaphank or the laying off of 500 other county workers. “There’s no free lunch,” said Levy in making the announcement. “If lawmakers decide they don’t want to deal with nursing home (financial) losses, they will have to cut cops, lay off a lot o f employees or raise taxes.” But Gregory said that Levy has “pilfered the pock ets of taxpayers, left them vulnerable to high crime and low police presence” because taxpayers already paid for new police officers in the 2010 budget. “After receiving taxpayer monies, County Execu tive Levy did what even Bernie Madoff couldn’t find the nerve to do after stealing millions of dol lars from investors: blame the victims/taxpayers of his Ponzi scheme saying they could not get 200 more police officers because they did not live up to their side of the bargain by maintaining sales tax revenue,” he said. The budget for 2010 included a three percent in crease in the Police District taxes purportedly for hiring new officers, but the actual hiring is a judg ment left to the County Executive. S.C. Leg. Tom Barraga, (R-West Islip), said that hiring the new officers, which will cost the county hundreds of millions of dollars over the next 20 years, “was not the responsible thing to do,” as the county faced a $250 million deficit, while S.C. Leg. Wayne Horsley (D-Lindenhurst) said hiring new police officers is the only responsible thing to do.” “I think what you are seeing is a level of frustra tion by not only DuWayne but also the entire legis lature ” said Horsley. “There is a lot o f angst among the lawmakers who have watched as Levy has re sorted to name calling and leveled threats, which frankly is wearing thin.” Levy’s decision to hold off on the hiring also came as other anticipated sources of revenue failed to materialize, such as federal funding for county clinics and the sale of other county-owned lands. In addition, the county has not raised the general (Continued on page 3)
