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111th Year- Issue. No. 36 Your Hometown Nel.llsiJ.aper.- Since 1884 September 21, 1995 Robert Moses Beach cleanull Kevin Olney,&, center, of Commack, helps his grandmother ~ncy Olney and grandfather Owen Olney, both of East Northport, pick up beach litter at Robert Moses State Park last Saturday morning, part of National Beach Cleanup Day. · Suffolk County News/Anthony J. Howard Can Connetquot do lunch? Plan to make lunch program pay for itself ·expected next week by Anthony J. Howard The Connetquot school board wants to restore the dis- trict's suspended lunch program, but state education offi- cials and a few board membe!S are not convi..nced they can. The school board decided last week to restore school lunches, initially eliminated in the district's 1995-96 austerity budget. After voters rejected the district's 1995-96 budget proposal last August 16, the board made the controversial decision to suspend the program. The program was subsidized by the district's general bud- get fund and has accrued a $180,000 debt over the last 10 years. State law prohibits a school distrid operating under an austerity budget from subsidizing its lunch program. Because the program consistently lost money, the board thought it was barred from offering it in an a\JSterity budget. One board member, William Baker, decided otherwise. He was told by State Senator Caesar Trunzo that sD long as the school's general budget fund does not subsidize the pro- gram, it can be offered. At the September 12 board meetlng, Baker surprised his fellow board members, and the 120 residents gathered, by Please turn to page 19 Police raid Blue Point Avenue house by Anthony J. Howard Responding to community com- plaints about potential drug activity, police raided a ·Blue Point house last week and arrested three suspects, but none on drug charges. Suffolk County Police Neighborhood Enforcement teams, along with Emergency Services officers, executed a search warrant at 248 Blue Point Avenue last Friday morning. Arrested in the raid were Eduardo Cintron, 37, and Ileana Rodriquez, 26, of that address, and Frederic D'Ambrose of 58 Buckley Road in Patchogue. Cintron and O'Ambrose were charged by police with criminal pos- session of a hypodermic needle, wllile Please turn to page 4