Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County Police 4th Precinct Crime Section officers are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate the woman who allegedly stole items from a Commack store in March.
A woman allegedly stole assorted apparel and other items from Walmart, located at 85 Crooked Hill Road, on March 11 at approximately 11:45 a.m. The merchandise was valued at approximately $225.
Suffolk County Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with information about these incidents can contact Suffolk County Crime Stoppers to submit an anonymous tip by calling 1-800-220-TIPS, utilizing a mobile app which can be downloaded through the App Store or Google Play by searching P3 Tips, or online at www.P3Tips.com. All calls, text messages and emails will be kept confidential.
The police are seeking a man who allegedly stole from a Commack Walmart. Photo from SCPD
Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County Police 4th Precinct Crime Section officers are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate a man who allegedly stole items from a Commack store in March.
A man allegedly stole flashlights from Walmart, located at 85 Crooked Hill Road, March 11 at approximately 3:55 p.m. The man fled in a black Hyundai. The flashlights were valued at approximately $390.
Suffolk County Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with information about these incidents can contact Suffolk County Crime Stoppers to submit an anonymous tip by calling 1-800-220-TIPS, utilizing a mobile app which can be downloaded through the App Store or Google Play by searching P3 Tips, or online at www.P3Tips.com. All calls, text messages and emails will be kept confidential.
"Isiah" by Anthony Colley, Harborfields High School
"Grandpa John" by Olivia DeFeo, Northport High School
"Primary Tribal" by Kendal Eggert, Kings Park
"Conceptual Portrait 1" by Samantha Drouin, Commack High School
The Huntington Arts Council recently announced the winners of its High Arts Showcase XVII art exhibit.
HighArtsShowcase XVII is a component of the JOURNEY Arts in Education Program providing partner school 11th and 12th grade students with the opportunity to present their talents in a gallery setting through this exclusive visual art exhibition. Participating school districts include Cold Spring Harbor Jr/Sr High School, Commack High School, Harborfields High School, Huntington High School, King’s Park High School, Northport High School, Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, and Walt Whitman High School. For more information on the artists and their work click here.
Congratulations to the following students awarded Best in Show and Honorable Mentions for their work:
Best in Show
“Isiah” by Anthony Colley, Harborfields High School
Honorable Mentions
“Conceptual Portrait 1” by Samantha Drouin, Commack High School
“Grandpa John” by Olivia DeFeo, Northport High School
“Primary Tribal” by Kendal Eggert, Kings Park
“The Son of Man” (video) by Lauren Gooding, Huntington High School
The exhibit is on view at the Huntington Arts Council’s website, www.huntingtonarts.org, through April 10.
In response to an easing of state regulations and their approach to patient care, area hospitals are relaxing restrictions about patient visitors.
Cheryl Miranda, director of Patient Experience at Huntington Hospital, has been planning the new visitation policy since the beginning of the month. Photo from Huntington Hospital
Starting this past Monday, Huntington Hospital will allow patients who do not have COVID-19 to have one visitor per day, between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. St. Charles and St. Catherine of Siena hospitals also allow one COVID-19 negative visitor per day during those same hours.
Huntington Hospital is responding to the medical, emotional and personal need its patients have for the support of family and friends during whatever health challenges they face.
“There is nothing like having your loved one at your bedside, holding your hand,” said Cheryl Miranda, director of Patient Experience at Huntington Hospital, which is a part of Northwell Health.
Family also provides helpful information, helping medical professionals know whether a patient’s behavior is different from normal
“As a nurse, I’ve always felt that family is part of the caregiving circle,” Miranda said. “The family knows their loved one better than anyone. They will help us provide better care.”
St. Charles Hospital and St. Catherine of Siena started allowing one hospital visitor per COVID-negative patient per day starting about four weeks ago.
Stony Brook is making several changes to its visitation policy.
As of April 1, the hospital is allowing two visitors for patients in labor and delivery, for pediatric patients and for patients in end-of-life situations. This will increase from one to two.
Patients receiving same day surgical procedures will also be allowed a patient visitor until a procedure begins. The visitor is required to wait outside during the procedure and then can return during the patient’s release from the hospital.
Inpatient child psychiatry will also allow a visitor, as will cancer center and outpatient offices.
Approved visitors to Stony Brook must wear a mask that covers their nose and mouth the entire time, will have symptom checks, including thermal scanning, will not be allowed outside the patient’s room, must maintain six feet of distance and must wash their hands on entering and leaving the room.
Hospitals had generally restricted most or all patient visitors over various periods in the last year amid the pandemic to limit the spread of COVID-19. Nurses throughout Long Island and the world have used tablets, phones and other technology to help their patients connect with family members, enabling them to see spouses, siblings, children, grandchildren and friends from hospital beds that often had them feeling isolated during their health battles.
Allowing visitors, who are still required to wear masks, will help hospitalized patients feel more normal and receive the kind of support that can brighten their day while shortening their hospital visit.
A hospital employee will screen patients on their way into the hospital, asking them questions about any possible symptoms and taking their temperature.
Visitors who are COVID-19 positive can’t enter. Additionally, visitors who come in from out of the state or whom they believe necessitates a screening will have a rapid swab.
“We are not asking everyone to be tested,” Miranda said.
The hospital is spreading the word about its new patient visitor policy by changing its on-hold messages, is sharing information on TV sets and is telling families directly during virtual visits that one person at a time can come to the hospital.
Patients can determine who visits, which includes family members and friends.
“There is nothing like having your loved one at your bedside, holding your hand.”
— Cheryl Miranda
Miranda said the medical staff is well-prepared for an increase in visitors through the hospital.
“I don’t have to tell anybody in this building to follow precautions,” Miranda said. “We’ve all been through this for 13 months now and there isn’t anyone” who needs reminding about personal protective equipment, hand washing or social distancing.
Initially, Huntington Hospital workers will escort visitors to patient rooms, reminding them about safety policies.
During visits, patients and visitors are expected to wear masks. If a family member comes during mealtime or brings food, the patient can eat, but should do so at a safe distance.
Miranda, who has been at Huntington Hospital for 20 years, realizes the suffering patients and their families have endured during the pandemic.
“To tell someone they can’t be here is an awful, awful thing,” Miranda said. “My heart goes out to the families that haven’t been allowed to be here” and to the patients who “haven’t been able to have their loved ones at their side.”
Miranda has been planning this new visitation policy since the beginning of the month.
The hospital has learned numerous lessons about health care, including by providing virtual support for patients.
In addition to bereavement support groups, which have been particularly busy as families mark the one-year anniversary of the loss of a loved one, the hospital is adding a long-haul support group.
Starting on Thursday, April 8 at 2 p.m., Huntington Hospital will offer support to people who have a lingering cough, ongoing debilitating fatigue, body aches, joint pain, shortness of breath, loss of taste and smell, difficulty sleeping, headaches and brain fog.
People interested in joining that group can email Kacey Farber at [email protected].
Dr. Jean Cacciabaudo, associate medical director at Huntington Hospital and a cardiologist, will sit on the long haulers support meeting. Cacciabaudo, who had COVID-19 and has some long haulers symptoms, will attend not just for herself, but to provide the physician’s perspective.
Miranda said the bereavement support groups have helped family members amid a loss.
“It’s the beauty of humanity, when we reach out and help each other,” Miranda said. “There’s no magic solution for grief and loss. For some people, it’s just about remembering all the wonderful things they had when they had that person and sharing that with other people. It’s about not being isolated. That’s a big key.”
Team Breakfast for Dinner had to break through a block of ice to release the keys to their food trucks and begin the competition. Photo from Breakfast for Dinner @bfdfoodtruck on Instagram
By Nancy Vallarella
Season 13 of “The Great Food Truck Race” is looking to be a lucky one for Long Island’s team, Breakfast For Dinner.
Harry Poole, of Smithtown, from team Breakfast for Dinner. Photo from Breakfast for Dinner @bfdfoodtruck on Instagram
Long Island natives Kate Wurtzel and Harry Poole, both of Smithtown, and April Nothdurft, of Islip, have taken first place in the weekly episodes 1, 2 and 3, which started March 7.Their journey can still be followed through the bone-chilling wonderland of Alaska, on the Food Network channel, Sundays at 10 p.m.
In January 2020, the program’s host, Chef Tyler Florence, posted a casting call on Instagram. Mom and spice-blend entrepreneur Wurtzel responded and then scrambled for culinary talent to compose a team.
Harry Poole, a never-met-before neighbor and chef/owner of two family-owned restaurants — Jackson’s in Commack and Morrison’s in Plainview — joined Wurtzel and Poole’s longtime co-worker Nothdurft.A day later, the trio interviewed with the Food Network via Skype.
The team had a concept. Poole’s wife Shelby designed a logo, and team Breakfast For Dinner was set to film at the end of March last year.
Then COVID-19 struck, closing down not only their businesses but also their Food Network dream. The months passed.
“It felt as though the opportunity was lost,” Poole said.
While the members of team BFD were acclimating to the “new normal” in the fall, Food Network reached out to the trio, and the race was back on.With renewed spirit Wurtzel, Poole, and Nothdurft gave the opportunity their all. They became fast friends, fierce competitors and a family.
Team BFD can only speak about the episodes that have aired. Competing in the frigid and icy conditions of Alaska was a daily obstacle. Slipping, sliding, falling, on-the-fly snow-chain installation and driving trucks with 110 pounds of propane on board up and down snowy mountains became part of the daily routine.
Fortitude, teamwork, positive attitudes and culinary skill have all played in the success team Breakfast For Dinner has achieved.
In episode 1, contestants met on a snow-covered mountain top in Anchorage, where they had to break through a block of ice to release the keys to their food trucks and begin the competition. The fun continued in episode 2 in the city of Palmer, with an outdoor cookout requiring a fire started with flint for an old-fashioned cook-off in blustery conditions. Onto Homer for episode 3, where the competitors found themselves at sea catching salmon before traveling to a location to prep the day’s menu and begin selling from their food trucks.
Today, Wurtzel is growing her spice-blend company Keep It Spicy!; Poole continues to use Wurtzel’s spices in his food served at Jackson’s and Morrison’s; and Nothdurft is a mixologist at The Brixton in Babylon.
Three competition episodes remain. Tune in to see if Long Island’s team makes its way to winning $50K.
Last week, a Shirley man was killed on the streets of Port Jefferson in broad daylight.
He was gunned down at 3:35 p.m., outside the Dunkin’ Donuts that many of us frequent on our way to work.
It’s a tragedy. No one deserves to die.
But here’s where another problem lies: The impact of social media when it comes to an incident such as the one on that Wednesday.
People began spreading rumors across Facebook, in private — and not so private — groups. They claimed there was an active shooter, a robbery gone wrong, a drive-by gunman attacking the innocent women and children enjoying the sunshine.
None of that was true.
It was mind-boggling, seeing what people were posting online while an active investigation was going on. They blamed the local government, the Suffolk County Police Department, the school district, the media — one resident even posted that this event in our village was all the fault of President Joe Biden (D).
Some residents began playing detective or journalist — they wanted to track down the guy who “soiled” our perfect little town. Some used it as a jumping pad for their own agendas.
Everyone made it about them.
Even a comment such as, “That could have been me dead,” is false. This was a targeted attack between two men.
We understand this was scary — we were frightened, too. But this was someone’s son, a brother, a friend. No matter what he got caught up in, someone lost their life the other day.
Stop meddling in what the police and local government are trained to do in these situations.
On Facebook, people shared photos of David Bliss Jr. dying in the street. In one of the photos, you see him lying there, covered in blood while people hold up their phone cameras around him.
How would you feel? Your last visions of the world are of people leaning above you, filming your last breath.
We are disappointed in the community. Instead of coming together, they are taking the event personally and spreading fear among others.
Let the mayor do her job. Let the police do their job and let the media do their job.
Things are kept private for a reason. Names and residencies are not released because an investigation is ongoing. Any leaked information can completely ruin a case.
And that’s the worst part. People began believing false rumor-filled Facebook threads and posts. The rumors caused anxiety and instead of coming together, it pulled people even further apart.
We found out the shooter was from Port Jefferson Station — not far from where he killed the 25-year-old man — and he was found within 72 hours thanks to the village cameras and hard work of law enforcement.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time something like this has happened on social media as we have seen it happen with other incidents across the Island, state, country and around the globe. And in those events, social media took over, too.
Only newspapers and their digital media check all facts. Social media does not.
It’s sad, it’s terrible, but it happened, and we need to grow from it.
When I was in college, I learned an important lesson in class that had nothing to do with the subject I was studying. Many years ago, I attended an early morning anthropology lecture.
Pacing at the front and bottom of a semicircular stage, the professor shared details about the hungry ghost festival. In various parts of Asia and India, people practice a ritual in which they relieve the suffering of their deceased relatives by providing food. During this time, the professor said, people prepare meals and leave empty seats for ghosts, who ritualistically consume the food.
Seated next to a friend from our dorm, I was busily taking notes, not only because I wanted to do well on a future test, but because I also found the description fascinating.
That’s when the professor became distracted. Someone from the audio visual department was quietly packing up equipment at the back of the room.
“Excuse me,” the professor yelled to the man. “What are you doing?”
“I’m sorry,” the man said.
“Well, you should be,” the professor barked back.
The man continued to try to pack up the materials quietly. The noise, which I barely heard from a seat that was much closer to the back of the room, was still too much for my professor.
“You’re sorry, but you’re still disrupting my class!” he shouted.
“I’m packing up the material. I work for the university. One of the other classes needs it now,” the man replied. “I’ll keep it down.”
“No, this is ridiculous,” the professor said through gritted teeth. “I won’t tolerate this. You will leave.”
The man stood still, unsure of what to do. In that moment, I felt like I had a choice: I could either say something to support the man in the back of the room or walk out of the class. By doing and saying nothing, which is what I did, I felt like I was accepting the professor’s behavior.
When the man spent one more minute doing his work, the professor demanded to know where he worked so he could show up and bother him while he was trying to concentrate.
All these years later, I still think of that small moment. These types of incidents require a readiness to think, speak or act, especially to something that disturbs or distresses us. It’s akin to what coaches say all the time in sports: know what you’re going to do with the ball before it comes to you. If you have to think too much about your next move, it’s going to be too late.
A recent anti-Asian incident in New York City, in which security guards watched as a man knocked down and kicked a 65-year-old woman on her way to church, reminded me of the need to be prepared to do the right thing, even when someone wrongs someone else.
We are more likely to act when we are prepared to help, even if the moment creates discomfort for us.
Nowadays, we all have an opportunity to support each other, particularly amid anti-American attacks on members of the Asian American community. These cowardly verbal and physical assaults will become less prevalent if perpetrators know we’re all prepared to stand up for our friends and neighbors who have become the target for random anger during the pandemic. Asian Americans are not an enemy of the rest of us any more than our heart is the enemy of our body. We should stand with, and for, each other.
President Kennedy greets Peace Corps volunteers in 1961. Wikipedia
By Leah S. Dunaief
Leah Dunaief
Here is an idea that you may find goofy. It has to do with the unaccompanied young people hoping to enter the United States at our southern border and our sperm count crisis.
I don’t know how many of you remember when President John F. Kennedy called to our young and proposed the Peace Corps initiative exactly 60 years ago. How we responded stands as one of our finer moments as a nation.
In that program, those wanting to make a difference in the world could volunteer to work in other countries on health campaigns, encourage entrepreneurship or teach English to name a few possible jobs.
Today, the opportunity still exists to serve in over 141 countries (as of 2018), and what was required then still is: resiliency and heart. Those who entered the two-year program had appropriate skills and found the experience gratifying, even life changing.
Now I propose turning the idea on its head. The unaccompanied minors gathered at the border, mostly 16-to-17-year-old males, probably have little in the way of skills except for two assets: youthful energy and desperation. These are both of powerful value.
The government could offer them the following path into the country: They would agree to be assigned to families in different cities and towns and to help those families as directed. This proposition might be of particular aid in agricultural settings but certainly not limited to those. They would not be paid but would enter into a work-study program in which they might gain education, room and board. They would provide much needed work to those who have lost immigrant helpers on farms, in hospitality jobs and childcare, for example, over the past few years due to limitations on foreign workers imposed by the government.
In return for their efforts, these young people would earn, in due time, a path to citizenship, just as there once was an offer to foreign-born males during WWII to enter the army in return for naturalization. There is still such a pathway today which they could eventually opt for.
A reverse Peace Corps program would require a complex administration in which the families offering such a position would be carefully vetted, as would the young people entering the country. And monitoring within the country would of necessity be in-depth and ongoing. The young people would have to be protected from gangs seeking to force them into their ranks, as well as from exploitive families. Duties would have to be carefully laid out, with hours and goals met.
It occurs to me that there have been such immigration programs in history, most recently the Kindertransport that brought some 10,000 children up to the age of 17, whose lives were in mortal danger from Nazi atrocities, to England between 1938-1939. After the war, several thousand remained in Britain, and as adults “made considerable contributions to Britain’s services, industries, commerce, education, science and the arts for the defense, welfare and development of their country of adoption.” [Wikipedia.]
Now back to our own situation. Not unrelated, there has been a serious drop in births in the United States over the past half century, in part due to economic circumstances and even to declining sperm count as a result of ongoing pollution. We have learned from previous recessions that for every one percent increase in unemployment, there is a reduction of one percent in the birthrate.
The current pandemic is anticipated to bring a baby bust, not a baby boom. Even before COVID-19, underpopulation was expected by some researchers, as our falling birthrate was most recently below the 2.1 babies per woman (2019) required to sustain our population through birth alone.
We are, after all, a nation of immigrants, and those seeking to enter our country, by and large, bring the aforementioned energy and grit, determined to realize the “American Dream.” They are an easy way to solve the need for more people. The ultimate goal here is for any such policy to be done according to the law.
County Executive Steve Bellone stands outside the H. Lee Dennison Building in Hauppauge where a new vaccine rollout will begin in a couple of weeks. Photo by Kimberly Brown
By Kimberly Brown
A new COVID-19 vaccination site finally opened at the H. Lee Dennison Building in Hauppauge, where the vaccine’s mass distribution will be given out to hundreds of residents in the upcoming weeks.
The latest expansion will help Long Island recover from the consistent 4% positivity rate that surged to a height of 12% during the second spike of the coronavirus outbreak in February.
“The numbers have declined since, but they are not declining any further at this point,” Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (D) said March 24. “We have undoubtedly hit a plateau and are stubbornly maintaining this approximate 4% positivity rate.”
Predicting the positivity rate would drop down to 1% by March, Bellone said his predictions did not happen. The hospitals are still hovering around 400 COVID patients and even with vaccine quantities increasing, officials are continuing to see the positivity rate at a steady level.
According to Bellone, the reason for the consistently high percentage in COVID cases is due to warm spring weather creating an overall eagerness to leave quarantine, making opportunities for locals to catch the virus.
“The fact that many people are getting vaccinated and that spring is here, people are rightly feeling optimistic and positive,” Bellone said. “That is leading to more people coming out, which is a positive thing, but we do need to be cognizant of the fact that the virus is not gone and that there are still risks.”
So far, the county has vaccinated more than 400,000 residents with at least their first dose, but expects to see a rapid increase in vaccination supply in the upcoming weeks.
Despite the positive outcome of Suffolk County opening up its latest mass vaccination site, other areas on the Island, such as the Twin Forks, remain some distance away from distribution points. Bellone said he is aware of the problem.
“We’ve gone to great lengths to get to every corner of the county,” he said. “We even took a plane to Fishers Island to make sure we can get residents, who are isolated, the vaccine.”
Many eyes of the Long Island football universe were focused on the South Shore last Saturday, March 27.
However, there was an important contest that took place on the North Shore, too. The Northport football Tigers were back in business and business was booming.
Booming with pad-popping tackles and the pounding of bass drums.Booming with explosive hits over the middle, running backs and quarterbacks thrown around like rag dolls and bellowing voices cheering from all corners of Tiger Stadium.A March day in 2021 time-warped to a typical October afternoon in any other year, as Northport lowered the boom on crosstown Huntington, 23-6.
After taking a week off due to pandemic protocols, the Tiger defense was as ferocious as ever, stifling and suffocating Huntington’s offense. Making matters worse for the Blue Devils, they lost All-State running back Nasir Youngblood to a foot injury early in the second half. He was held in check even before the injury, finishing with 31 quiet yards on eight carries.
The leader of this band of mayhem-making marauders is linebacker Anthony Canales. But could he possibly top his superlative performance against Connetquot from two weeks ago?
Sixteen total tackles? Ridiculous.
Four tackles for loss including a sack? Silly.
Add in two passes batted down and five or six bone-crunching hits and we are talking about quite an encore from Opening Day, and outstanding enough to be one of Newsday’s top players of Week 3.
“Anthony has great linebacker instincts, plain and simple,” said Head Coach Pat Campbell. “He knows how to fill a window and when he sees a gap that he can get through, he flies through that gap and gets there and makes plays.”
Canales, who celebrated Senior Day on this sun-splashed Saturday, doesn’t just put up gawdy numbers. He establishes and enforces an attitude on defense that makes an impression with the opposing team. For instance, early in the game Huntington receiver John Chirico came over the middle in an attempt to make a short reception. Canales separated the intended receiver not only from the ball, but from his mouth guard as well. The Northport side of the field hooted and hollered with delight and Chirico didn’t run that particular pass pattern for the rest of the day.
“He cleaned that kid up”, said Campbell. “The thing about Anthony is that when he gets there, he gets there with bad intentions.”
The entire defense has had plenty of bad intentions in both Tiger wins this year. It’s a hard-hitting and speedy bunch that is always on the attack, giving offenses absolutely no room to operate. Defensive Linemen Cole Ronan, Dan Lugo and Ryan Farrington were in the Devils’ backfield all day long, disrupting whatever Huntington tried to do.
“Our defensive line eats up blockers like crazy,” Canales said.“It makes it easier for me to run downhill and get the ball carrier.That’s what I love to do.”
They have allowed an average of 93 total yards in two contests and a grand total of six points. Those points scored on this day by the Blue Devils was a garbage time touchdown when the game was no longer in doubt.
The likeable linebacker had extra motivation as Huntington has always been an archrival of Northport, as the two schools sit five miles apart.
“We took this game personally,” Canales said. “There is no way we were going to let our crosstown rivals beat us, especially on Senior Day. No way!”
The Tiger offense, which was very run-heavy in the opening win against Connetquot, had a nicer balance to it against Huntington. Quarterback Conner Gallagher had six completions for 73 yards, including a super accurate rainbow to senior running back Rafe Carner for an 18-yard touchdown in the 1st quarter.
“We were practicing that play all week and we liked the matchup we had in that down and distance,” Gallagher said. “Once Rafe had a step on his defender, I tried to drop it in. Rafe made a great catch.”
“Conner had to make an adjustment because Rafe got knocked off his original route,” Campbell said. “It was a nice throw and a good, athletic play by Rafe.”
Gallagher had another touchdown on a quarterback sneak and Northport is 2-0. They have again cracked Newsday’s Top Ten Power Rankings and their next matchup is at Smithtown East, who got bullied by Bellport 46-14 on Saturday — but all is not roses for the Tigers.Starting Center Joe Keller-DelPrete suffered a knee injury in the third quarter and was replaced by Canales’ brother Andrew. Keller-DelPrete is one of the team leaders and when he went down the festive atmosphere of the afternoon became muted.
“He’s one of our big-time leaders, an energy guy, a vocal guy and he’s going to be hard to replace,” Campbell said. “But you have to be a ‘next-man-up’ type of crew and I think we are.”
Another issue the Tigers need to address is the fumbling of the football. They have lost six of them in their two games.
“We have some things we got to fix for sure,” Campbell said. “You don’t win a lot of football games turning the ball over as much as we have. It’s a lack of focus and it has to be our primary job – to take care of the football.”
So far, the defense has bailed them out of dicey situations caused by these turnovers.One of those defenders, sophomore Owen Johansen had eight tackles, including a safety. Huntington, who made it obvious that they were playing their first game of the year, sloppily snapped the ball over its punter’s head and Johansen tackled him in the Devil end zone.
“That was a big momentum shift for us,” Johansen said. “I think the tide really turned for us after that.”
Johansen’s not kidding.After his play made the score 16-0, senior Rocco Stola showed off one of the many tools he has in his football tool belt — his blazing speed.
He took the free kick 69 yards straight up the middle, blew past three or four white-shirted Blue Devils for a touchdown.There wasn’t a Huntington player within 15 yards of Stola when he crossed the goal line.
“Perfect blocking,” said Stola, who plays on all three units of the football team. “As I saw the kick coming towards me, I knew I had to score. I thought I was a bit late for a split second, but I ran my fastest, I saw the hole and I wasn’t going to let anyone catch me.”
“We all knew he was gone as soon as he touched that ball,” Canales said.
Rocco’s run closed the scoring for Northport at 23 and put a ribbon on this one, for all practical purposes.
Oh, and in that game on the South Shore, Sayville beat Floyd. But lest people forget, there are good football teams north of I-495 as well.
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