BNL Tapped for 'One-Of-A-Kind' Ion Collider
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YOUR HOMETOWN PAPER SINCE 1871 | www.longislandadvance.net | JANUARY 30, 2020 | $1 VOTE ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18 RE-ELECT Mayor Paul Pontieri Trustee John A. (Jack) Krieger Trustee Lori Devlin • Trustee Thomas Ferb EXPERIENCE YOU CAN TRUST FOLLOW @PATCHOGUE2020 ON #PATCHOGUE2020 Paid for by Friends of PAtchogue PATCHOGUE2020.COM Should Patchogue ban new bars? The Village of Patchogue is con- templating the need for an 18-month moratorium on all restaurants/bars/ taverns/nightclubs and cabarets, and the surrounding downtown, after the public hearing held by the board earlier this week. The board closed the pub- lic hearing and reserved decision for further review before returning for a vote. Several people spoke both for and against the proposal. PRO Gives time to successfully plan for additional parking and create a more sustainable down- town Mayor Paul Pontieri proclaimed that he has never been a proponent of mor- New equipment will be added to these giant underground tubes used to isolate and test molecules, leading to research that could involve up atoriums in itself due to the issues to 1,000 scientists from 30 nations. he has with infringing on property Photos courtesy of Brookhaven National Laboratory owners’ rights; however, he said, there comes a time to take a step back and look at the situation. “This is about the sustainability of our BNL tapped for downtown. We have been moving too fast, and we need to take a step back and think about our next step.” Paul Pontieri, mayor of the Village of ‘one-of-a-kind’ ion collider Patchogue Collider will show 3-D images of the building blocks of all matter BY GLENN ROHRBACKER world, including Stony Brook Univer- CON sity, a managing partner of Brookha- Doesn’t consider property owners’ rights and Earlier this month, the U.S. Depart- ven Lab. Thomas Jefferson National will deter investments ment of Energy named Brookhaven Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) Kyle Kelly, the owner and operator of National Laboratory in Upton as the in Newport News, Va., is expected to movetopatchogue.com and a local real site for a new Electron-Ion Collider. be a major partner in the project and estate agent, said that as a member of The facility will be used make significant contributions. the National Association of Real Estate Agents, he felt ethically and morally UPTON to study the relationship “The EIectron-Ion Collider will between the basis of all open up a new frontier in nuclear obligated to speak up on behalf of pri- matter, electrons and physics that will expand our knowl- vate property owners’ rights. protons. edge of the fundamental constituents According to a statement from BNL, of the atoms that make up all visible “In an open and fair market, the right way the EIC will be funded by the federal matter in the universe today and the to reduce competition is to provide a better government through the DOE Office force that holds it all together,” said product or service, not work with your local of Science, drawing on expertise from Brookhaven Lab director Doon Gibbs. government for your own benefit.” throughout the DOE national labo- “We look forward to working with The Electron-Ion Collider will use some Kyle Kelly, owner of movetopatchogue.com ratory complex and at universities See ION COLLIDER on page 7 infrastructure from Brookhaven Lab’s FOR THE FULL STORY, SEE PAGE 3 and research institutions around the existing Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. WEEKLY PERIODICAL Vol. 149, Issue 25 PATCHOGUE VILLAGE Local couple opening new packing, shipping store PAGE 3 BELLPORT VILLAGE Town’s deteriorating docks being rebuilt for spring PAGE 5 2 LONG ISLAND ADVANCE | JANUARY 30, 2020 | longislandadvance.net Oscar shorts offer a brief glimpse of humanity BY CAMPBELL DALGLISH back seat, with a woman in the passenger wife who hides behind a veil and is silent by American director Marshall Curry, seat making a cell phone call to whom through most of the film, annoying the opens with a couple in their apartment What is the zeitgeist of our unique era? we do not know. What we do know is that hell out of his father, who wants to know so busy with the care of their children The current selection of Oscar shorts something abnormal is going on. At first what her big mysterious secret is. 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Currently a sur- proposal came after realizing the dire vey within the bars and restaurants is need for parking and frustrations with being conducted to see just how many acquiring more while awaiting Suffolk employees are utilizing the parking County’s decision to build a parking lots. Also, the plan is to break the garage in the Suffolk County Sixth downtown up into quadrants to find District Court lot on West Main Street. areas to add additional parking where The village board closed the pub- it is most needed. And lastly, a flyover lic hearing and reserved decision for has already been done to see how further review by the Suffolk County many cars are using the lots. Planning Board before returning to Patchogue Mayor Paul Pontieri and Deputy Mayor Jack Krieger are working with the Greater vote. Patchogue Chamber of Commerce’s restaurant committee to alleviate the stress of parking board will work with the chamber PRO: Time will be provided to success- should the moratorium be instituted. On Monday the village board closed the public hearing to address the employee parking and fully plan for additional parking and create and reserved decision for further review by the Suffolk County Planning Board before acquire more spaces, both on surface a more sustainable downtown for all busi- returning for a vote. and in the proposed garage. nesses. ADV/Fuentes He explained that of the current Mayor Paul Pontieri proclaimed that owners’ rights; however, he said, there figure out employee parking; it will be 40-plus establishments, it is estimated he has never been a proponent of mor- comes a time to take a step back and a “huge relief valve on our parking,” that employees use about 500 of the atoriums in itself due to the issues look at the situation.