Kitchen remodels are among the most popular home renovation projects, whether they consist of swapping out cabinet hardware or doing major demolition.
Due to the sheer amount of time families spend in the kitchen, not to mention the number of tasks performed in this space, it is easy to see why Remodeling magazine consistently ranks kitchen renovations as projects that will enable homeowners to recoup a high percentage of their investments.
When investing in a kitchen project, it is important to incorporate items that are coveted.
Deep, double sinks: Having a double sink enables you to soak dishes in one side and then wash on the other. It also makes it easy to wash and prep produce for meals.
Kitchen island and bar stools: Even though many meals are enjoyed around the table, there’s something to be said for the convenience of a kitchen island and some well-placed bar stools for quick breakfasts or snacks.
Smart kitchen storage: Work with a contractor to include storage solutions built into cabinetry and the pantry. Slide-out shelving, nooks for a paper towel roll and custom-designed areas to store stand mixers and other necessities can make kitchens more functional.
Outdoor access: If possible, design a kitchen so it is easy to access the backyard via sliding doors. This can make outdoor entertaining or even coffee on the deck much easier.
Under-cabinet lighting: Fixtures installed under cabinets provide both ambient lighting and task lighting. Such lighting makes it easier to see what you’re working on as well, as even well-placed overhead lighting can fail to illuminate dark corners and spots on the counters.
Convenient warming drawer: This appliance provides backup to the oven. It’s a slide-out drawer that can keep prepared foods out of the way and warm until they are ready to be served. This is particularly handy for holidays and other entertaining.
Beverage station: Designate one area of the kitchen to beverages, such as coffee and tea. Or make the area an informal bar. This can limit traffic in the kitchen to a single area.
Kitchen remodels are exciting to envision, and several choices can make these high-traffic spaces even more coveted.METRO
The ALS Ride for Life board of directors unanimously appointed Ray Manzoni as president of the organization.
Manzoni, of Miller Place and proprietor of Manzoni Real Estate located in Mount Sinai, replaces Chris Pendergast, a beloved community member and founder of the nonprofit, who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in October after a 28-year-long battle.
But Manzoni said Pendergast’s legacy will live on, and he’ll be there to help see the organization through.
When ALS Ride for Life was incorporated back in 1997, Manzoni stood alongside Pendergast — a man he became good friends with.
“We had been friends for years before he was diagnosed. Then he sucked me in and here I am 28 years later,” he laughed. “I knew him well. I knew his mind. He taught me well.”
While Pendergast was still alive and spreading awareness on ALS (often referred to as Lou Gehrig disease), the new president served on the board of directors, eventually — and currently — as board chairman.
“Chris was a nationally known leader in the world of ALS,” Manzoni said. “I was proud to be his friend. I look forward to continuing his mission and that of our organization toward providing patient services, awareness and supporting research so that a cure can one day be found.”
ALS Ride for Life started when Pendergast embarked on a ride with his electric scooter from Yankee Stadium in the Bronx to Washington, D.C., 22 years ago to raise awareness about the disease and raise funds for research. After a few years, the ride was contained to New York state — from Riverhead to the Bronx — where participants stop by schools along the way that take part in the organization’s presentations throughout the school year.
Pendergast, a Miller Place resident and former Northport elementary teacher, had lived with the disease for 28 years. When doctors diagnosed him, they thought he only had a few years to live. He lived to be 71.
Pendergast became an icon and symbol for the North Shore for never giving up.
Even as he lost the ability to speak and had to communicate with an eye-to-speech device, his determination never seemed to relent. Just this year, Pendergast, alongside his wife Christine, released the book “Blink Spoken Here: Tales from a Journey to Within” about his life since his diagnosis in 1993.
The ALS Ride for Life organization has raised over $10 million for advocacy and research. Their yearly Ride for Life trips were later accompanied by visits to close to 90 school districts on Long Island.
“His story still resonates,” Manzoni said. “ALS is not gone.”
The new president is looking forward to keeping Pendergast’s legacy alive.
“We fortunately have this great team,” he said. “We held it all together and are refining in these COVID times.”
Known to visit schools and give presentations on the disease, the group had to change shape to get their word out, while adhering to coronavirus guidelines. But he is asking people to continue supporting their local nonprofits.
“The kids want this, administrators want this,” he said.
Pack the family into the car for a Birds of Prey Drive Thru event at Sweetbriar Nature Center, 62 Eckernkamp Drive, Smithtown on Thursday, March 4. You’ll be meeting and learning about five of their raptor animal ambassadors from the comfort of your own car. Select 3, 3:30 or 4 p.m. $25 per car. To register, visit www.sweetbriarnc.org. Rain/snow date will be 4/11. For more information, call 631-979-6344.
Sheet Pan Chicken and Roasted Veggies. Photo from Pixabay
By Barbara Beltrami
We who are both cooks and chief pot and bottle washers love one-pot meals. How nice to throw everything into a big pot and cook it all together. Then how wonderful to have only that one pot to wash. Well, what one pot is to the stove top, the sheet pan is to the oven. How nice to preheat the oven to a high temperature, then throw everything onto a sheet pan, and bake or roast the whole meal together in just a little time. Then how great it is to have just that one sheet pan to wash. (Invest in a nonstick one while you’re at it). No wonder this cooking method is all the rage and has been for a while now. As you will notice, all the following recipes are for straightforward, no nonsense easy prep dishes which should double their popularity with you.
Sheet Pan Chicken and Roasted Veggies
YIELD: Makes 4 servings
INGREDIENTS:
Nonstick cooking spray
One 3 1/2 – 4 pound chicken, cut up
2 large onions, peeled and coarsely chopped
4 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into1/8ths
4 carrots, peeled and diced into 1/2 diagonally
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
1 T chopped fresh oregano or 1 tsp. dried
Freshly squeezed juice of two lemons
1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 425 F. Spray rimmed baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray. Wash chicken pieces in cold water and pat dry with paper towels; place, skin size up, at one end of baking sheet. Place onions next to chicken, then potatoes, then carrots at other end. Season everything with salt, pepper and oregano and press seasoning into chicken and veggies; drizzle lemon juice over everything, then olive oil. Place in preheated oven and roast for 30 to 45 minutes, turning chicken when skin is a nice brown and with a spatula, turning veggies to brown on all sides. Serve hot or warm with a Greek salad (if you don’t mind cleaning the salad bowl afterward!)
Sheet Pan Sausage and Peppers
YIELD: Makes 4 to 6 servings
INGREDIENTS:
8 sweet Italian sausages
6 cubanelle peppers, cored, seeded and cut into 1” strips
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 to 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 425 F. If they are linked, detach sausages from each other and space across one end of a rimmed baking sheet. In a large bowl, toss the pepper strips with the oil, vinegar, salt and pepper and crushed red pepper. Transfer to empty part of sheet pan. Bake 30 to 45 minutes, turning everything occasionally, until brown on all sides. Serve hot with garlic bread.
Sheet Pan Balsamic Swordfish with Brussels Sprouts and Fennel
YIELD: Makes 4 servings
INGREDIENTS:
2 pounds swordfish, cut into 4 pieces
1 bruised garlic clove
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
Freshly squeezed juice of half a lemon
1/4 cup Balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon prepared mustard
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/4 cup dry white wine
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
1 1/2 pounds trimmed Brussels sprouts, halved
2 fennel bulbs, trimmed, cut into 1/4” slices
Nonstick cooking spray
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 425 F. Press and rub garlic clove against sides of a small bowl to release some of its flavor, then remove and discard; in same bowl whisk together the oil, lemon juice, Balsamic vinegar, mustard, brown sugar, wine and salt and pepper. With pastry brush, coat swordfish on both sides with 1/4 of mixture; let sit 10 minutes. in a large bowl toss remaining mixture with the Brussels sprouts and fennel; let sit 10 minutes.
Spray a rimmed sheet pan with nonstick cooking spray. Arrange swordfish pieces on 1/3 of the pan, then veggies on other 2/3; use any left over marinade from veggies to baste fish. Turning once, bake swordfish until it flakes in center when tested with a fork, about 10 to 15 minutes; if done remove and set aside to keep warm. Continue baking veggies, turning once, until al dente, about another 10 to 15 minutes. Serve with sweet potatoes baked in their skins.
In honor of Black History Month, Errol Toulon Jr. (D), of Lake Grove, is the first African American Suffolk County sheriff. Ever since his youth through the lessons that he learned from his father, Toulon has been motivated to achieve his duty and responsibilities.
As a kid, he asked his father, a longtime correction officer, what he did for a living. His dad replied, “We rehabilitate individuals that are incarcerated, we never throw away the key and we try to help these people safely return back to society.”
The story of Toulon Jr. began in the Bronx, where he was born in 1962, and he lived in the city until 1990.
Yankee batboy
Errol Toulon Jr. as a Yankee batboy. Photo from Errol Toulon Jr.
A talented baseball player who excelled as a center fielder and a leadoff hitter during his high school and college years, Toulon had the unique chance of being a batboy for the New York Yankees in 1979 through 1980.
He was in the locker room to observe the impressive leadership skills and character of the late Yankee great catcher Thurman Munson. In the Bronx, Toulon watched Billy Martin manage the baseball stars of Reggie Jackson and Bobby Murcer, and he also met boxing champ Roberto Durán.
As a young man in the Yankee Clubhouse, Toulon encountered a young boy, and asked him his name. It was Hal Steinbrenner, who now owns the team after his father George.
The former batboy ended up becoming the first African American sheriff of Suffolk County, and had a wonderful time being welcomed back by senior management of the Yankees. Players like Ron Blomberg and Mickey Rivers were pleased to see their former batboy who has always worked to protect his community. Still to this day, Toulon is an avid baseball fan who glowingly recalls his special time in pinstripes around the “Boys of Summer.”
City correction officer
Errol Toulon Jr., left, with Hal Steinbrenner, general partner of the New York Yankees. Photo from Errol Toulon Jr.
During those earlier years, Toulon took the city correction officer exam, after he completed an associate’s degree in business.As a 20-year-old, he became one of the youngest recruits within the New York City Department of Correction.
He observed the older jails that were built from the 1930s through 1960s, were cold, secured with steel, and lacking any of the advancements of the penitentiaries of today. Early in his career, Toulon was impacted by watching inmates hold few liberties and living in poor conditions.
There were dangerous moments during fights, riots and emergencies, that saw officers isolated and unable to see each other where their own safety was compromised. Over the years, Toulon has learned from these lessons to ensure the constant support of the current officers of his department.
As a lifelong officer, a captain and official, Toulon always follow the examples that were established by his father. Toulon Sr. was employed by the NYC Department of Correction for 36 years in positions ranging from officer to a warden at Rikers Island.
From his dad, he learned the value of attention to detail and always treating his staff with the utmost amount of respect. Whether it was his junior years as a correction officer or as the present Suffolk County sheriff, Toulon never loses focus on the evolving complexities of operating the county system of imprisonment. Over the past decades, he has been involved in hostage crisis, handling drug abuse, attempted escapes, and seizure of guns and contraband that were smuggled into jails by prisoners.
Suffolk County sheriff
Gov. Andrew Cuomo administers the oath of office to Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr. during his inauguration ceremony in 2018. Toulon was joined by his wife Tina. File photo by Kevin Redding
Toulon has always believed in the necessity in analyzing the complexity of criminal justice problems that are always evolving. There was recently a major riot in St. Louis, where the inmates broke windows and set debris on fire. Always understanding the usefulness of information, Toulon’s Sheriff’s Office examines these situations by calling different corrections agencies around the country. They try to determine the root of local or national incidents and utilize these resources to be prepared to sufficiently handle these concerns in Suffolk County.
Town of Brookhaven Councilwoman Jane Bonner (R-Rocky Point) has worked with him through their tenures in office.
“Sheriff Toulon leads a proud department of men and women dedicated to upholding the law and running the Suffolk County Correctional Facility,” she said.
There is always the major process of investigating prisoner grievances over health care, food, communication with family members, religious services and more. Toulon tries to improve these concerns before they materialize into a major crisis.
During his career, he has dealt with the Ebola and swine flu outbreaks and the health implications within the jail environment. Through the determination to always contain the strength of these sicknesses, protective measures were already established within the county jails before the first COVID-19 case hit New York in last March.
Due to the pandemic, new ways had to be developed to handle the services that were needed for the prisoners. Toulon’s office made a goal in always sharing current information on the threats and changes that COVID-19 presented to both the outside world and the jails. The virus prevented family visits, but prisoners were allocated two extra calls a week, pictures of loved ones were printed for inmates, and there were virtual substance and psychological programs.
Professional and educationalexperiences
Errol Toulon Jr. with Yankees Mickey Rivers and Ron Bloomberg
Education has always been an important part of Toulon’s life which he has incorporated into his many correctional positions. He has a doctorate in educational administration, an advanced certificate in Homeland Security Management and an MBA.
Since his election as sheriff, Toulon has spoken to many educational programs with local school districts to address the daily concerns that his department handles, always with a positive demeanor.
VFW Post 6249 Rocky Point Comdr. Joe Cognitore has always viewed Toulon “as an upstanding and an energetic people person that has always protected our residents, worked well with community leaders, aided veterans that have fallen on criminal times in jail, and he has helped create local 9/11 memorials.”
For two years, Toulon taught at Dowling College as an adjunct faculty member. He planned to instruct students at St. John’s University, but was unable to do so due to his present position.
Harvard University has invited Toulon to address its student body on his professional and educational experiences. While he enjoys his current position and is hopeful that he will be reelected to another term, Toulon enjoys teaching, and he would like to teach again. A leader with a tremendous amount of energy, there have been some personal battles that he has had to endure as a survivor of pancreatic cancer and Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Whereas Toulon is determined to have a secure prison system within the county, provide resources and support for his officers, he also wants to ensure that prisoners do not return. Through the Sheriff’s Transition and Reentry Team, known as the START program, correction officers help inmates find housing, jobs, medical services and food, and to become productive and safe citizens.
Alex Christie started for a second straight game on Sunday. Photo courtesy of Stony Brook Athletics
The Stony Brook men’s basketball team is headed to the America East Tournament as the seventh seed.
The Seawolves dropped their regular-season finale, 67-59, at UAlbany on Feb. 21 to complete the regular season 9-13 overall and 7-9 in league play.
Coupled with an NJIT loss, the Seawolves earned the No. 7 seed and will face No. 6 UMass Lowell at New Hampshire on Saturday at 1 p.m.
The winner faces No. 3 seed and pod host UNH the following day.
“We’re excited to play against a really good Lowell team,” said coach Geno Ford, whose squad swept UMass Lowell during the regular season. “It’ll be a hard game. They played us well both times.”
Stony Brook split a pair of games this weekend with the Great Danes.
On Sunday, the Seawolves continued to play shorthanded as Mouhamadou Gueye remained unavailable.
Tykei Greene nonetheless stepped up with a double-double for the second straight day and his fifth of the season.
“I really want to give a lot of credit to Dan Leonard, our trainer, who has had to deal with testing, protocols, travel, and really has carried the brunt of the load with all of that, which has allowed the coaches and players to stay safe. He’s been the real MVP of our season,” Ford said. “I don’t think a lot of people had confidence within college basketball that we’d get this far. We have.”
Matt DeMeo works against Bryant midfielder Jon Miller on Saturday at LaValle Stadium. Photo courtesy of Stony Brook Athletics
The Stony Brook men’s lacrosse team cracked the Inside Lacrosse media poll’s top-20 rankings last week for the first time in four years.
And things continue to look up for coach Anthony Gilardi‘s Seawolves in Year 2 at the helm.
No. 20 Stony Brook clamped down on defense after halftime and produced a 14-8 win against Bryant on Feb. 20 at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium.
Stony Brook (2-0) has won consecutive games to open a season for the first time since 2017 — the same season the Seawolves last were ranked.
The Seawolves limited Bryant to one goal after intermission.
Wayne White gave Stony Brook its first lead, 8-7, when he opened the third-quarter scoring with 6 minutes, 55 seconds remaining in the period.
Mike McCannell followed with a goal less than two minutes later for a two-goal cushion and Stony Brook led the rest of the way.
Bryant was held scoreless for 14:16 spanning the middle two quarters. And once that drought was broken to pull the Bulldogs within 9-8, USILA Team of the Week selection Dylan Pallonetti got on the scoreboard for the first time on the afternoon with a tough-angle unassisted goal. That was the first of six straight goals for Stony Brook, which held the Bulldogs scoreless over the final 19:11.
Goalie Anthony Palma made a career-high 16 saves to improve to 2-0 in two collegiate starts.
“We started off rocky, but our defense knows how to play the game,” Palma said. “We just really sunk in and played our game. We didn’t get overexcited. We calmed down and we did what we had to do.”
Said Gilardi about Palma: “He has that in him to get hot. He’s been really consistent this entire year. We knew he would settle in.”
Pallonetti had produced six goals in last Saturday’s season-opening win against Sacred Heart — a program record for a collegiate debut.
Bryant (1-1) had opened Saturday’s game with four straight goals during the opening five minutes. The Seawolves then answered with four straight goals of their own — including the opening pair by Cory VanGinhoven — to even the score at 4 after one quarter.
VanGinhoven produced his second straight hat trick to open the season. McCannell also had a had trick, his first since April 20, 2018, against UMass Lowell.
White had a pair of assists in addition to his tiebreaking goal.
Stony Brook avenged a loss at Bryant last year, after which the season was shut down due to the pandemic.
“I wish there was some big Knute Rockne speech at halftime,” Gilardi said. “It was just, ‘Hey, we knew this was what the game was going to be like. Let’s continue to do what we do offensively, defensively and in the clearing game.’ And Palma really stepped up in the goal and made some unbelievable saves.”
Stony Brook returned to action on Saturday, Feb. 27 at Hofstra.
R.C. Murphy Junior High School students in Stony Brook are exploring the history of animation and its basic principles as part of their participation in the buildings’ art and amination class, which is taught by art teacher Brian Baker.
Above image by Chloe S.Above image by Morganne P.
To date this year, the students have worked hard to create different animated projects. They made thaumatropes to illustrate a simple two step action or change between two related images. Each picture was drawn and attached to a circular disc. When spun at a certain speed, each picture blends into the other, creating the illusion of movement.
Students also worked on making digital flip books. They first used note cards to create the different pictures needed for their animation. After they finished drawing, they used a registration to line each image up in their camera. After shooting their photos, students used the google slide program to make a digital version of their flipbook.
Finally, students have recently completed different designs for original cartoon characters that they will be using to create Disney Studios style cell animation.
Images courtesy of the Three Village Central School District
This week’s shelter pet is Angel, a 7 year old Blue Nosed Pit Bull that has been at the Smithtown Animal Shelter for 2.5 years. Affectionate and goofy. Angel adores most people, car rides, destroying stuffed animals and, above all, FOOD!
Angel is a very dominant dog that needs a bully breed savvy owner that can provide her with some structure. She would do best in a home with no other pets.
She is spayed, microchipped and up to date on her vaccines.
If you are interested in meeting Angel, please call ahead to schedule an hour to properly interact with her in the shelter’s Meet and Greet Room.
The Smithtown Animal & Adoption Shelter is located at 410 Middle Country Road, Smithtown. Shelter operating hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the week, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on the weekend. For more information, please call 631-360-7575 or visit www.smithtownanimalshelter.com.
Stem cell growth, required for kernel development, is controlled in corn by a set of genes called CLEs. But how these genes change the corn is complicated. Using CRISPR genome editing, CSHL researchers found they could change kernel yield and ear size by fine-tuning the activity of one of the CLE genes, ZmCLE7. In the image: an unmodified corn cob with normal ZmCLE7 gene activity (1) is packed with regular rows of kernels. Shutting off ZmCLE7 (2) shortened the cob, disrupted row patterns, and lowered kernel yield. However, decreasing the same gene’s activity (3) led to an increase in kernel yield, while increasing the gene’s activity (4) decreased the kernel yield. Jackson Lab/CSHL 2021
By Daniel Dunaief
The current signal works, but not as well as it might. No signal makes everything worse. Something in the middle, with a weak signal, is just right.
By using the gene-editing tool CRISPR, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professor Dave Jackson has fine-tuned a developmental signal for maize, or corn, producing ears that have 15 to 26 percent more kernels.
Dave Jackson. Photo from CSHL
Working with postdoctoral fellow Lei Liu in his lab, and Madelaine Bartlett, who is an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Jackson and his collaborators published their work earlier this week in the prestigious journal Nature Plants.
Jackson calls the ideal weakening of the CLE7 gene in the maize genome the “Goldilocks spot.” He also created a null allele (a nonfunctional variant of a gene caused by a genetic mutation) of a newly identified, partially redundant compensating CLE gene.
Indeed, the CLE7 gene is involved in a process that slows the growth of stem cells, which, in development, are cells that can become any type of cell. Jackson also mutated another CLE gene, CLE1E5.
Several members of the plant community praised the work, suggesting that it could lead to important advances with corn and other crops and might provide the kind of agricultural and technological tools that, down the road, reduce food shortages, particularly in developing nations.
“This paper provides the first example of using CRISPR to alter promoters in cereal crops,” Cristobal Uauy, Professor and Group Leader at the John Innes Centre in the United Kingdom, explained in an email. “The research is really fascinating and will be very impactful.”
While using CRISPR (whose co-creators won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in October) has worked with tomatoes, the fact that it is possible and successful in cereal “means that it opens a new approach for the crops that provide over 60% of the world’s calories,” Uauy continued.
Uauy said he is following a similar approach in wheat, although for different target genes.
Recognizing the need to provide a subtle tweaking of the genes involved in the growth of corn that enabled this result, Uauy explained that the variation in these crops does not come from an on/off switch or a black and white trait, but rather from a gradient.
In Jackson’s research, turning off the CLE7 gene reduced the size of the cob and the overall amount of corn. Similarly, increasing the activity of that gene also reduced the yield. By lowering the gene’s activity, Jackson and his colleagues generated more kernels that were less rounded, narrower and deeper.
Uauy said that the plant genetics community will likely be intrigued by the methods, the biology uncovered and the possibility to use this approach to improve yield in cereals.
“I expect many researchers and breeders will be excited to read this paper,” he wrote.
In potentially extending this approach to other desirable characteristics, Uauy cautioned that multiple genes control traits such as drought, flood or disease resistance, which would mean that changes in the promoter of a few genes would likely improve these other traits.
“This approach will definitely have a huge role to play going forward, but it is important to state that some traits will still remain difficult to improve,” Uauy explained.
Jackson believes gene editing has considerable agricultural potential.
“The prospect of using CRISPR to improve agriculture will be a revolution,” Jackson said.
Other scientists recognized the benefits of fine-tuning gene expression.
“The most used type/ thought of mutation is deletion and therefore applied for gene knockout,” Kate Creasey Krainer, president and founder of Grow More Foundation, explained in an email. “Gene modulation is not what you expect.”
While Jackson said he was pleased with the results this time, he plans to continue to refine this technique, looking for smaller regions in the promoters of this gene as well as in other genes.
“The approach we used so far is a little like a hammer,” Jackson said. “We hope to go in with more of a scalpel to mutate specific regions of the promoters.”
Creasey Krainer, whose foundation hopes to develop capacity-building scientific resources in developing countries, believes this approach could save decades in creating viable crops to enhance food yield.
She wrote that this is “amazing and could be the green revolution for orphan staple crops.”
In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration is currently debating whether to classify food as a genetically modified organism, or GMO, if a food producer used CRISPR to alter one or more of its ingredients, rather than using genes from other species to enhance a particular trait.
To be sure, the corn Jackson used as a part of his research isn’t the same line as the elite breeding stock that the major agricultural businesses use to produce food and feedstock. In fact, the varieties they used were a part of breeding programs 20 or more years ago. It’s unclear what effect, if any, such gene editing changes might have on those crops, which companies have maximized for yield.
Nonetheless, as a proof of concept, the research Jackson’s team conducted will open the door to additional scientific efforts and, down the road, to agricultural opportunities.
“There will undoubtedly be equivalent regions which can be engineered in a whole set of crops,” Uauy wrote. “We are pursuing other genes using this methodology and are very excited by the prospect it holds to improve crop yields across diverse environments.”
This week’s shelter pet is Angel, a 7 year old Blue Nosed Pit Bull that has been at the Smithtown Animal Shelter for 2.5 years. Affectionate and goofy. Angel adores most people, car rides, destroying stuffed animals and, above all, FOOD!
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