Mahopac News 09.02.21

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Farmers Market!
Josephine Alessi sells fresh pro- vendors than ever and while we are
duce, maple syrup and local honey at the height of the produce season,
at the Carmel Farmers Market at it is drawing record crowds. For
Lake Mahopac at Chamber Park more pictures, see the centerspread
on Sunday. e market has more on pages 16 and 17.

PHOTO: ROB DISTASIO

Mask mandate in place for school opening
O cials await word on vaccination requirements

BY BOB DUMAS many pandemic-related initiatives mandated vaccinations for sta and widely available and convenient.” mask-wearing mandate, many
EDITOR she’s tackling immediately upon eligible students, that requirement DiCarlo said universal mask- contending masks don’t work and
taking o ce, and Mahopac School could be coming once the protocols the decision to wear them should
A small but vocal group of par- Superintendent Anthony DiCarlo and logistics are worked out. ing for the district will begin on be left to them.
ents was on hand for last week’s said the district would comply. Aug. 31. School starts on Sept.
Mahopac School Board meeting “We need to require vaccinations 9 for transitional students (those One parent pointed out that
(Aug. 26) and railed against the At a press conference held af- for all school personnel, with in kindergarten, sixth grade and masks aren’t required in other
district’s decision to require masks ter her swearing-in ceremony last an option to test out weekly, at ninth grade who are entering a places, so why are they needed in
for students when they are on the week, Hochul said that she con- least for now,” Hochul said. “To new building for the rst time), schools?
bus or inside a school building as sulted with parents, elected o - accomplish this in New York, we and then the entire student body
schools get ready to open. cials, teachers, school boards and need partnerships with all levels on Sept. 10. “COVID only comes in
superintendents about how best of government, and I’m working the schools—not in the parks
New York’s freshly sworn-in to implement public safety rules now on getting this done. New “It is happening. We are start- or restaurants?” she said. “Our
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on to create a classroom environment York is launching a back-to-school ing the school year o with masks,” freedom is being taken away. is
Tuesday,Aug.24,the mask mandate safe from COVID-19. COVID-19 testing program to DiCarlo said. isn’t about a stupid mask, it’s about
for state public schools, one of make testing for students and sta
Although she has not yet A handful of parents attended SEE MANDATE PAGE 9
the meeting to argue against the

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BUSINESS & REAL ESTATE 31
CLASSIFIEDS 30
ENGAGEMENTS 28
LEGAL NOTICES 29
LEISURE 25
MAHOPAC MUSINGS
OBITUARIES 2 YOUR NEIGHBOR
OPINION
SPORTS 26

10 Baking Memories 4 Kids
20 pg 3

PAGE 2 MAHOPAC NEWS MAHOPAC MUSINGS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The Staff American Legion At 4 p.m. there will be a one-hour ket at Lake Mahopac will be Sunset Concert
Golf Outing open bar with appetizers, followed held Sunday, Sept. 5, 9 a.m. to Series
EDITORIAL TEAM by dinner at the American Legion 1 p.m., Chamber Park, South
BOB DUMAS American Legion Mahopac Mahopac Post 1080. Registration Lake Boulevard, Mahopac. Free Presented by the Recreation
Post 1080 Golf Outing has been is at 9 a.m. and a shotgun start at admission. Come check out our and Parks Dept., ursday
EDITOR: 845-208-0774 rescheduled to Monday, Sept. 13, 10 a.m. e cost is $150 per golfer market on Lake Mahopac! Shop nights, 7-9 p.m., Chamber Park,
[email protected] due to weather. Enjoy a full day and $50 for non golfers. local and eat fresh. e Rec De- South Lake Boulevard. Bring
of golf at the Mahopac Golf Club partment will be sending out blankets and chairs and enjoy an
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Your NeighborTHURSDAY,SEPTEMBER2,2021 MAHOPAC NEWS PAGE 3

Juliette Cazzari is helping bake Memories 4 Kids
Sandra
Mahopac grad takes college internship to new level Marinelli,
owner of
BY BOB DUMAS (Aug. 29) she was at the Farmers Market in Cham- Brooklyn
EDITOR ber Park. Her bake sales were lled with packaged Organic
treats along with donations from local shops and Kitchen.
Juliette Cazzari has always had a sweet tooth. So, bakeries including Brooklyn Organic Kitchen, with Juliette
interning with Baking Memories 4 Kids was a natu- Olympic Diner, Villa Barone Hilltop Manor and Cazzari at
ral match. Our Town Bagels & Bakery. Cazzari raised a grand the Farmers
total of $1,200 from all the bake sales. Market on
e Mahopac resident and junior at Manhattan Sunday
College nished her internship with Baking Mem- Sandra Marinelli, owner of Brooklyn Organic
ories 4 Kids earlier this summer but decided the Kitchen in Mahopac, not only donated baked PHOTO: ROB
company’s mission was so important she wanted to goods but also provided space at her table during DISTASIO
the Farmers Market. She donated part of those
nd ways to keep raising money for its cause. proceeds in hopes of helping more families create ‘My favorite part
Baking Memories 4 Kids, established in 2012 by life-long memories. though was when
cancer survivor Frank Squeo, sells chocolate chip I was assigned to
cookies each holiday season to send children with Cazzari said she heard about Baking Memories a speci c family.
life-threatening and terminal illnesses along with 4 Kids through a friend and immediately signed on My job was to get
their families on all-expense paid vacations to all the for the internship, which was facilitated by Women the kid’s reaction,
theme parks in Orlando, Fla. Each year, volunteers Inspiring Successful Enterprise (WISE). the surprise, when
come together to bake, package and ship thousands she found out
of containers of cookies in hope that they will be “ e reason why it was important to me is be- she was going to
able to help families in need create memories that cause my older sister Catherine was diagnosed with Disneyland.’
will last a lifetime. thyroid cancer when she was 16,” Cazzari said. “I
After the summer internship ended, Cazzari was only 10 at the time. Now it’s something she - Juliette Cazzari
planned her own bake sales to help surprise more lives with.”
kids with trips of a lifetime. She hosted bake sales on
ursday (Aug. 26) in downtown Mahopac, while On behalf of Catherine, the Cazzaris got involved
her family ran one at Red Mills Market. On Sunday with the Make a Wish Foundation, which sent

SEE MEMORIES PAGE 4

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Cazzari at her bake sale in downtown Mahopac laat Thursday. PHOTOS COURTESY OF JULIETTE CAZZARI One hundred percent of the proceeds from the sale of Brooklyn Organic
Kitchen’s muffins went to Baking Memories for Kids.

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Counties devising strategies Local business owner
to combat COVID variant pleads guilty to felonies

As the COVID-19 Delta stressed, we could be looking Failed to pay prevailing wage,
falsi ed records
variant continues its sweep at Tier 3—face masks for all,

across the state, county execu- vaccine proof for indoor dining

tives statewide have taken ac- and limiting gatherings to 25.

tion and identi ed the preven- It all sounds terribly familiar.

tion strategies they will use to We thought we were past this.

keep their communities safe But really, getting everyone eli- BY BOB DUMAS about the project and together
EDITOR with the New York State Police
and healthy, according to Put- gible vaccinated is the only way launched an investigation.
A Carmel-based landscape
nam County Executive Mary- out.” business owner and his company It was discovered that the
pleaded guilty last week to sever- company failed to pay its em-
Ellen Odell. In Putnam County, 78 per- al felony charges regarding work ployees the prevailing wage rate
they did at the Putnam County as required by New York State
e guidelines developed by cent of those 18 years and older Golf Course in Mahopac where law—cheating the workers out of
they failed to pay workers a pre- a total of $46,889 in pay. Fregosi,
the New York State County have been vaccinated and our vailing wage and then falsi ed through his corporation, sought
business records to cover it up. to conceal the crime by ling
Executives’ Association (NYS- seven-day rolling average per certi ed reports containing false Joseph Fregosi
Putnam County District At- payroll information. e paper-
CEA) o er a three-tiered ap- 100,000 population per day is torney Robert Tendy said that work indicated that the money run-ins with the law. He said the
Joseph Fregosi, 63, of Fregosi was paid to employees when in conviction would also likely bar
proach of strategies that will be 20.08. As for hospitalizations, Landscaping Inc., pleaded guilty fact it had not. him from ever getting anymore
to perjury in the third degree, and government contracts.
implemented depending on a there have been 0-3 people his corporation pleaded guilty to In addition to pleading guilty
willful failure to pay the prevail- and paying back the workers “Wage theft in New York,
county’s infection rates, hospi- hospitalized with COVID in ing wage and falsifying business what they were owed, Fregosi particularly on government proj-
records in the rst degree. and his company were ordered to ects, is a big problem and it takes
tal bed availability and vaccina- Putnam County over the past pay $20,000 in nes. Tendy said hard-earned money away from
Tendy said that during the that the New York State Police those who deserve it the most,”
tion rate, Odell said. three weeks. summer and fall of 2020, Fregosi and the district attorney’s o ce Tendy said. “We won’t tolerate it.
Landscaping Inc. was a subcon- saw to it that the workers were
NYSCEA’s plan allows for NYSCEA emphasized the tractor on a project at the Put- paid in full. is investigation was the result
nam County Golf Course. e of a tip—and we ask anyone with
exibility for each community, importance of ongoing mitiga- Putnam County District Attor- Tendy said no jail time was information about wage theft in
ney’s O ce received a complaint imposed because of Fregosi’s our county to contact us. Every-
while providing guidance in tion strategies—getting vacci- age and the fact he had no prior thing is kept con dential, and we
take this very seriously.”
the absence of standards and nated, staying home when sick,
e case was prosecuted by as-
requirements from the State social distancing and hand sistant district attorneys Nicholas
LaStella and David Rosenberg.
Health Department. washing—to stop the virus

“Right now, based on the from spreading.

numbers from our Putnam To keep up with the latest

County Department of Health, Putnam health news, see the

we are at the lowest level— county website at putnam-

Tier 1—which calls for face countyny.com.

masks for the unvaccinated,”

Odell said. “If our infection Article provided by Putnam

numbers increase dramatically, County Executive’s O ce

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To advertise in Mahopac News, call Brett Freeman at 845-208-8151 or email LETTERS the military since that was called
[email protected]. FROM PAGE 11
into question? at our ghting

men and women are the greatest

real competition as this type of of the great—they are the back-

educational malaise coupled with bone of our nation to which we

lack of patriotism and no under- all owe a debt of gratitude. e

standing how capitalism works, military, unfortunately, have not

has not served this community been allowed to do what they do

well at all. What do you think? best because of politicians and

James Scarangella their lies and ridiculous policies.

LICENSED & Mahopac President Eisenhower warned
INSURED
the nation about the military in-

Didn’t intend to dustrial complex and the dangers
disparage VFW they represent. In other words,
that the nation could be manipu-
lated into con ict by that com-

• Well Pumps • Residential & To the editor, plex.
• Water Heaters Commercial
Wow! I wrote to your paper to And furthermore, once we
• Boilers • Emergency Services
try to get the boat with the Con- were in con ict, the politicians

federate ag to stop zooming would screw-up the battle plans

around Lake Mahopac. To that and the execution of that con ict.

end, I was apparently successful. Vietnam is but one example.

YOUR FULL SERVICE I did not name the person who And here we are today where

PLUMBING & HEATING CONTRACTOR owned the boat or the organiza- a president and his minions have

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degasperiplumbing.com • [email protected] because of my respect for the serted themselves into a with-

military. What occurred there- drawal from Afghanistan that

after was a letter by that orga- put our brave men and women

nization to your paper in which, in unjusti able harm’s way. It is

among other things, a personal unconscionable. It is a dereliction

broadside was leveled against of duty. It is unbelievable. We, the

CARPET me—comments that I will not people, should hold the president

individually respond to. and these people accountable.

Let me be clear, the letter I While our military acts nobly, our

wrote was intended as a tongue- leaders do not and this is nothing

in-cheek request to the organiza- short of infuriating.

HARDWOOD Let tion at issue to have the person Howard Fuchs
REFINISH HARDWOOD Us
Floor who docked his boat at their Mahopac
FLOORING You
CERAMIC TILES dock to take down the Confeder-

AREA RUGS ate ag. ree times I called that Driving is not an
WINDOWS ’N BLINDS organization and did not get a individual activity
call back. Finally, I constructed a
letter to the editor that was pub-

lished a few weeks ago. To the editor,

In that letter, I did not state His name was Jonathan. He

anywhere that the members of was only 37. He died late Sat-

that organization were racist or urday afternoon. Not from CO-

unpatriotic. I simply stated that VID. From negligence. His own.

one might see the docking of a Jonathan crashed his motorcy-

boat with a Confederate ag as cle into a highway guardrail at a

unpatriotic. Just an observation high rate of speed after failing to

that I shuddered to make given pass through center lane tra c,

the bravery and patriotism of our as another rider had just brazenly

military. SEE LETTERS PAGE 13

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LETTERS are the other drivers who were rne’’ event of the year in the town participants for taking the time more welcoming to businesses as
unfortunate enough to witness
FROM PAGE 12 it. ousands of other drivers of Patterson. Since we launched to attend. well as job creators. We also dis-
were no doubt long delayed and
done. e rst cyclist’s maneuver otherwise inconvenienced by the these informal outdoor forums Our trailblazing forums gave cussed the importance of public
delayed, for just a second, a trac- tra c jam that resulted from the
tor-trailer driver’s move from the accident and its aftermath. in May, we’ve successfully held me a special opportunity to lis- health and safety, in addition to
third lane to the second, a move
that any observant driver would Driving is not an individual at least one forum in each of ten and speak with constitu- doing more to respect local gov-
have expected and predicted him activity, as most people seem to
to make. think—it’s a team activity. Ev- the six towns within New York’s ents in-person about a large ar- ernments, parents and families.
ery driver on the road has an
However, Jonathan didn’t take obligation to every one of their 94th Assembly District (Somers, ray of issues a ecting our state I had valuable conversations
the time to assess the situation, teammates to maintain constant
and pass the truck on its left, as awareness of what every observ- Carmel, Southeast, Yorktown, and region. We shared ideas on with several local parents who
he should have done. Instead, he able vehicle is doing, thereby al-
accelerated and recklessly moved lowing tra c to ow as predict- Putnam Valley, and Patterson). how we can work to make New expressed their legitimate
from the rst lane to the sec- ably and safely as possible—for
ond, just as the truck began to all of us. Failure to do so, for even Each event was di erent and York more a ordable, reduce concerns about some of the
slowly move from the third to the briefest of moments, can have
the second. Too late, Jonathan devastating, even deadly, conse- garnered participation from a di- the crushing tax burden, invest highly controversial frameworks
saw what the truck was doing, quences. Jonathan lost sight of
and he braked hard. I thought that. He paid the ultimate price verse group of people. I’d like to in transportation infrastructure, SEE LETTERS PAGE 14
he was going to dump the bike for it, and he might have caused thank each and every one of the combat out-migration, and be
under the back of the truck, and others to do so as well.
that we, in our car, surrounded as From closets to kitchens
we were by fast-moving tra c, Don’t make a similar mis- to bedrooms and more,
would probably hit and kill him. take. Whenever you drive, do barn doors make for the
His life, my life, that of my wife, so with full knowledge that you perfect functional accent piece.
and those of every other driver are engaging in a team activity in
on that highway were endan- which the players, who all have Built with superior craftsmanship,
gered by Jonathan’s poor decision the same goal in mind—safe ar- Woodgrain barn doors set the bar
to just go for it. And for what? rival at their destination—are for the industry’s highest standard of
forever changing. Maintain con- authentic stile and rail construction.
at brief rush he’s have gotten stant vigilance, and always as-
from that one bit of dangerous sume that every other driver on Give your home a
driving. For nothing! To my great the road is about to do something timeless and rustic feel
relief, he didn’t hit the truck. But stupid and dangerous that could with Woodgrain
just as I exclaimed some deroga- result in loss of life, possibly even barn doors.
tory comment about him, he your own. Unfortunately, your
jumped into the third lane and a assumptions will quite often be These barn doors are on display
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into and under the guardrail. He not be able to save them, but you
wasn’t moving. Another cyclist just might save yourself.
appeared at his side to adminis-
ter aid. He was later pronounced Steve Rock
dead at a hospital.
Mahopac
He’d be alive today if he’d only
resisted the temptation to im- Byrne: Trailblazing
mediately pursue the rst cyclist, forums a success
took a moment or two to assess
what was going on in front of To the editor,
him, and driven more carefully. Last month, we wrapped up

He’s dead, and I am stuck for- our last “Trailblazing with By-
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