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BABYLON PUBLIC LIBRARY \Afreepress in a free Society\ BEACON SOUTH SHORE L.I.'S LARGEST CIRCULATION WEEKLY NEWSPAPER S e r v i n g t h e c o m m u n i t y s i n c e 1 9 6 6 VOL. 53 NO. 15 THURSDAY, April 12,2018 • 50 CENTS L r x i r i V / i n u i i u 1 1 o i n i u x \ .Periodicals Postage Paid- Babylon Post Office, Babylon NY 11702 (USPS 03960-8000) FOR SUFFOLK COUNTY •TOWN OF BABYLON . VILLAGE OF BABYLON .BABYLON SCHOOLS • DEER PARK SCHOOLS. LINDENHURST SCHOOLS . COPIAGUE SCHOOLS . WEST BABYLON SCHOOLS .NORTH BABYLON SCHOOLS . WYANDANCH SCHOOLS . BAY SHORE SCHOOLS Published every Thursday by CJ P ublish e r s , I nc . , 1999 65 Deer Park Ave., Babylon, NY 11702 Founders Edward D. Wolfe, Jane D. Wolfe Publishers, Carolyn and Alfred James Lindenhurst Village kicks off its downtown revitalization efforts WBHS student Paulina Trzonkowska wins a rt award Paulina Trzonkowska, a senior AT West Babylon High School, received the Celebrate Achievement Best in Show Award for her colored pencil work tided Too Close in the Heckscher Museuem o f A rt’s competition, Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the heckscher Museum. She was one of four stu dents so honored. The prestigious competition received 385 en tries from a record-breaking 62 high schools across Suffolk and Nassau Counties, The juried selection, narrowed the field down to 80 impressive works currently featured in the Museum gallery. The ex hibition is on view through April 15,2018. Now in its 22nd year. Long Island’s Best is a hall mark of The Heckscher Museum’s education pro grams. This juried éxhibitfoh’is the only one of its kind on Long Island that provides students the o p portunity to exhibit their artwork in a prominent museum and to be featured in a full-color catalog. Museum visitors are treated to exceptional artwork by talented emerging artists. The Heckscher Museum will present scholarships and prizes to a n umber o f young artists in Long Is land’s Best, including Trzonkowska. To subscribe to the Beacon go online to www.babylonbeacon.com by M ichael Scro The Village o f Lindenhurst recently held a joint press conference with S.C. Leg. Kevin McCaffrey announc ing the kickoff o f the Village’s downtown revitalization project. The event was held Mon., March 12 outside the old First National Bank o f Lindenhurst on Wellwood Av enue. Members o f the Village Board members and Mc Caffrey spoke about the importance o f getting the Lin denhurst downtown thriving again, while some new business owners expressed their excitement at joining the Lindenhurst community. “We hope this is the beginning o f a long and fruitful downtown revitalization project,” Lindenhurst Mayor Michael Lavorata said. “We’ve been working on this for many years, and the fruits of labor are finally coming into fruition.” The Village recently hired a grant writer, which Lavorata said has helped secure $40,000, and the Vil lage board restarted its economic development com mittee. Lavorata added that the Village has been making efforts to clean up its downtown, singling out by Kelly Mayberry and Carolyn James The sun had broken through after a morning of cold rain last Friday, and it presented the first hope that spring was finally on its way. To help confirm that promise, Bab ylon High School athletes were playing ball on the field. The crack o f the bats could be heard alongside the sound of seagulls and water lapping on the shoreline on Argyle Lake. People walked casually along the sidewalks as if all was well with the world The day before, however, the scene was not as serene. Police and FBI agents had poured down to that location eventually unearthing the human remains o f what FBI officials believe are those of Ceasar Rivera, 29, who disap peared in October 2015. The FBI believe Rivera is a vic tim o f the MS-13 gang, but declined to confirm that u n til further tests are completed on the remains, said Amy Thoreson, a spokeswoman for the FBI. Riveras disappearance was initially investigated by Suf folk Police as a missing person. Later it was transferred to the Suffolk Homicide Bureau. The FBI took the lead fol lowing that, and worked with Suffolk Police on the case. a blighted property on East Hoffman Avenue, which was a house that burned down many years ago, and demolishing it to make way for a new parking lot. McCaffrey, a former Lindenhurst Village trustee and deputy mayor whose County office is down the street from Village Hall, said the revitalization o f the down town “is near and dear to his heart. “I always felt I had some unfinished business when I joined the legislature, because I was working with former Mayor Thomas Brennan on revitalizing our downtown,” he said. “We wanted to be like the Pa- tchogues, Babylons and Farmingdales.” Over the past four years, McCaffrey said with the help o f Lindenhurst Chamber o f C ommerce President Jo-Ann Boettcher, more than $125,000 in grants has been brought to the downtown and, with the assis tance of the Town of Babylon, a $200,000 grant on a walkability study has been secured. This work will help make the downtown as safe and effective for naviga tion as possible, said McCaffrey. (Continued on Page 5) The body was found next to the Long Island Railroad on North Railroad Avenue. The search began late on Wednesday and was wrapped up by 1 p.m. Thursday. Thoreson said the FBI is not releasing what information they received that led them to the body. They did indicate, however, that Rivera was a victim of MS-13, and that his killers are already in custody on unrelated charges. “We don’t have any information to suggest that there is an im minent threat to the safety of the Babylon community’ she added. Babylon Village Mayor Ralph Scordino said he was im pressed with the professionalism of the FBI and the police throughout the time they were conducting their investi gation in the Village. “I sent our code enforcement down to the area to make sure that our residents were not in any way bothered by their presence; they were not,” he said. “I thought they did a great job completing a very difficult task” Police have linked more than a dozen murders o n Long (Continued on Page 16) atzpfroov3a eOt’E-ZOZD AN NOTA8V8 jjAVTiyypst'Z Auvaan onahd NoiAava ZIOO,.VZZZQ LOT MO ************ Obituary: Margaret Emilie Pauline Knott Voelker, former Lindenhurst resident, at 105...Page 9C Community reacts to discovery of body in Babylon Village
