Mahopac News 08.25.2022

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Son of former county Supply-chain issues still
sheriff charged in plague capital improvements
child porn case School board receives updates on how project is proceeding

BY SOPHIA CASELNOVA Fulmar Road Elementary, and Road, Mahopac Falls Elemen-
STAFF WRITER
the Falls Elementary School tary School, and Fulmar Road.

BY BOB DUMAS at the residence on May 25, assisted by building. It also included the Upgrades to Austin Road
EDITOR PCSO electronic storage detection K-9
Hannah. Investigators began a digital With most of Phase 1 of the installation of new LED light- include a security vestibule,
e son of the former Putnam forensics examination of the electronic
County sheri has been arrested and devices seized and were allegedly able to school district’s $54 million ing at the stadium eld. the library/media center, the
charged with several counts relating to recover evidence and identify a suspect.
the possession of child pornography. capital improvement project According to Glaubitz, the playground, a perimeter fence,
Langley was charged with four counts
Mahopac News ran the story last of possessing a sexual performance by a just about complete, supply- completed portions of Phase 1 the PA and re alarm systems,
week but due to a policy set forth by the child, a class E felony. He was arraigned
county Law Department, the Sheri ’s before Town Justice Daniel Miller and issues are bogging down con- included major upgrades to the clocks, and electrical panels.
O ce was prohibited from revealing released on his own recognizance pend-
the suspect’s name. at policy has since ing a future appearance in the Carmel tractors on some other phases high school: Fulmar Road is seeing similar
been reversed and the sheri released a Justice Court. McConville said Lang-
new statement announcing the name of ley’s release without bond was the result as they try to move forward. • Upgrades to science lab, upgrades, with the addition of
the suspect. of bail reform. He said prior to that leg-
islation, a signi cant bond would have At its Aug. 18 meeting, the music room, and STEAM lab an elevator to “improve accessi-
Sheri Kevin McConville said that been set for this type of felony.
Robert L. Langley III, 36, of Mahopac, Board of Education received • Upgrades to the cafeteria bility,”according to Rodriguez.
was charged with multiple counts of Promoting an obscene sexual perfor-
possessing the pornographic depiction mance by a child is a sexually motivated updates from Tetra Tech Ar- serving area, the locker room, e libraries at both schools
of a sexual performance by a child. Mc- felony. If a person does not have a prior
Conville con rmed to Mahopac News felony conviction, the minimum prison chitects & Engineers,the com- and the library/media center were demolished and are ready
that Langley III is the son of former sentence is one to three years and the
Putnam County Sheri Robert Lang- maximum is one and a third to four pany that designed the project. • Upgrades to HVAC sys- for new nishes, according to
ley Jr., whom McConville defeated in years. A person convicted of that charge
the election last November. is also required to register as a sex of- ey presented the project’s tems, clocks, electrical panels, Rodriguez. e contract says
fender under the Sex O enders Regis-
In March 2022, investigators as- tration Act. budget summary, a review of egress and re alarm systems, that the work must be com-
signed to the Sheri ’s O ce Bureau of
Criminal Investigation (BCI) received McConville said that BCI investi- the timeline, as well as an over- the PA system,and the security pleted by the end of October
information from the Internet Crimes gators worked collaboratively on the
Against Children Task Force that im- investigation with the Putnam County view of completed,current,and vestibule and Rodriguez said they are on
ages and videos of child sexual abuse District Attorney’s O ce, FBI Safe
material were being shared online from Streets Task Force and New York State future construction. e parts of Phase 1 that are schedule.
a residence in the town of Carmel. BCI Police Internet Crimes Against Chil-
Investigators executed a search warrant dren Task Force. Tetra Tech’s Chris Glaubitz still under construction include e Falls School is receiv-

said that the project is broken the main campus water system ing boiler room work and

up into phases: the Early Pack- and the entrance to the middle improvement to the front en-

age, Phase 1, Phase 2a and 2b, school. ese should be com- trance.

Phase 3, Energy Performance, pleted by the start of the school Phase 2b was pushed back

and the Smart Bond. year,according to Louis Rodri- due to supply chain issues,

At the time of the meeting, guez of the Palombo Group, according to Glaubitz. Con-

the Early Package and most the construction and contract- struction for 2b will begin in

components of Phase 1 were ing company working on the the summer of 2023. Phase 2b

completed. e rest of Phase 1 project. Also under construc- will cover construction at the

is currently under construction tion is middle school’s syn- middle school and Lakeview

along with Phase 2a and the thetic turf eld which should Elementary School.

energy performance contract. be completed this fall. Also beginning in the sum-

e Early Package includ- Glaubitz said that the con- mer of 2023 is Phase 3. Phase

ed new roo ng for the high struction taking place cur-
school and middle school, rently in Phase 2a is at Austin SEE IMPROVEMENTS PAGE 7

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e worst birthday

OF HUMAN Afew weeks ago, I read two monks, a master and an “Find out for yourself !” course, decidedly local. I doubt
INTEREST one of my columns in acolyte, crossing a bridge. e I complained and even asked a story about fake musicians
LORENZO the Mahopac News and acolyte, gesturing to the rushing my editor to rerun the column. playing violins at a shopping
GARO found its punchline missing. It’s water beneath the bridge, says, Understandably, he had more plaza would play in the big city.
been said that pride changed “Master, how deep is the river important things to worry about
the angles into devils. Naturally, of Zen?” e master moves than the hurt feelings of a part- I saved the article because I
I felt like throwing the paper at toward the acolyte and starts time columnist. wanted to write about the fake
the wall. pushing him o the bridge. e musicians and a group of real
missing punchline went like e next morning, after musicians, who played every
e closing paragraph of this: a good night’s sleep, I felt Saturday at a department store
the column in question had di erently. Stu happens. in Danbury,

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I wanted to try my hand at
writing, after a long hiatus I have trouble understanding
called making a living, how anyone can be taken in
by fake musicians and fake
In the pages of Mahopac babies. And yet, as reported, the
News one can nd jokes that huckster/buskers were raking in
are so unfunny you laugh thousands.
anyway, amusing pictures of
adults bobbing for apples, ere’s nothing unseemly
politics of di erent stripes, a about musicians playing in
community at times divided, public for tips. Rod Stewart
at times united. You can also and Rickie Lee Jones busked
before they became famous.
nd the bizarre. e content of
community newspapers is, of SEE GARO PAGE 13

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GARO that, he was dying of scarlet
fever. He was 47 years old. You
FROM PAGE 12 could hear anguish coming
out of the violin. I couldn’t
Generous strangers helping stop myself from crying. It was
struggling musicians is part of crazy. I didn’t even like classical
the tradition of busking. So, music. Feeling silly and
I should actually be o ended embarrassed, I wanted to shout,
by these frauds and their fake “You don’t understand. My life
babies. But I am not. ey is over! I turned 21 today!”
did nothing wrong by law or
moral standards. ey weren’t Finding what has been
out there playing three-card in front of you all along,
monte. ey were giving a music can do that. I didn’t
performance of their own kind. need Strauss to tell me how
And even if you were fooled, despondent I felt the day I
you still gained. You got to hear turned 21. I didn’t need Strauss
some classical music. e fraud to know how uncertain I was
reminded me of wresting. You about the future, or to realize
know it’s fake but it’s still fun that it was time to put away
to watch. childish things. At 21, you
know those things, instinctively.
ere wasn’t any doubt I needed Strauss and a violinist
about the authenticity of the who could make his instrument
music played every Saturday cry, to help me see that I wasn’t
morning in the lobby of Reeds alone. ere were other people
Department Store. It came who were just as screwed up
from three retired orchestra and scared of the future as me.
musicians who wanted to I had company.
bring the music they loved and
believed in to the public. I had I’ve long since gotten used to
stopped at the store out of a the idea that nothing is certain:
sudden impulse to buy a straw not tomorrow, not democracy,
hat. Why the impulse? Why not toilet paper, and, as you
did I stop there? Do you believe probably read a few issues
in fate? back, not even the continued
existence of this newspaper.
I found out later that the
musicians were playing a piece ursdays without Mahopac
Johann Strauss wrote in the News? Now that’s a scary
last year of his life. He’d lost thought.
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American idle

Some people would tell you that puzzles so complicated that it took me a have in our kitchen. Maybe their reunion (it was July), or why don’t you play with
there’s nothing worse than killing week to nish one, and I congratulated didn’t last long and maybe their act hasn’t your pet (I had a snake) or doesn’t your
time. Time is money, after all, and myself from my padded cell while an aged that well, but “Old Spice” didn’t t friend have a house over by the quarry,
either. I put “Eno” in as the answer; it’s why don’t you drop in (she never said
you wouldn’t kill money, would you? orderly waited to give me my medication. not like anyone is checking my work. that but she must have thought it)?

Others would tell Since then I have Another thing I like to do when I I sometimes see people on the train
have nothing to do is scroll down the typing away on a laptop and I assume
you there’s nothing limited myself to internet news. I don’t think you can that they’re members of a think tank,
call these wasted moments, because adding more thoughts to try and ll
more satisfying than ON completing crossword it’s informational and keeps me up it up to the top. But when I look over
on current events. One current event their shoulder, they’re playing computer
just doing nothing. ASSIGNMENT puzzles, because I have I totally caught up on today is that solitaire. What fun is winning at a game
“Alessandra Ambrosio Looks Like a if the person you beat is YOU?
Trying to gure RICK convinced myself that Mermaid Rocking an Aquamarine
out who’s right is a MELÉN there is an educational Bikini in Montenegro.” Which IS What is your guilty pleasure? Not
waste of time. But component to them. informational because I looked up where everyone has the same de nition of
Montenegro is on the o -chance that “wasting time.” Some parents tell me that
now that Americans You can learn words she might still be rocking there. I also their kids sometimes play online games
had no idea that mermaids could even for hours. It seemed like a senseless waste
have tendered their that don’t usually wear a bikini. of time to me until I found out how
much money a professional gamer could
resignations in come up in normal My spare time is de nitely better spent make with sponsorship deals. Having
now than when I was a kid. I remember my employer pay me to do something I
unusually high numbers, many people conversation, if you expect people to sometimes being bored at home, and think is a waste of time is a career goal of
I was not allowed to take a car even mine. “Free time” is what a lot of people
are going to have a lot more time on converse with you more than once. e though we had two (I was 12 but I could have now, since no one is paying them
reach the pedals). I would ask my mother for it. I would tell you my guilty pleasure,
their hands, and they’re going to have to word “Eno” comes up in a puzzle every what there was to do. Her suggestions but I may take a plea bargain before the
were not helpful; they were bland ideas jury reaches a verdict.
gure out what to do with it. Almost 48 day, and it’s the name of an extremely like why don’t you clean your room (if I
cleaned my room I’d never be able to nd Look for Rickster Melen on Facebook! Say
million workers quit their jobs in 2021, innovative musician. He’d probably love anything), or why don’t you write thank- hello at rlife8@hotmail.com.
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and while many of them hired on with to be remembered for something other

new employers, others have since taken a than his ground-breaking work on 94-

satisfying position on the couch. down.

What do you do to pass the time? Just the other day the clue was, “One

I used to spend hours doing Sudoku, of the Spice Girls,” and I wracked my

because there are so few number puzzles brain trying to remember their names.

where you only need to know how to I’m pretty sure there was a “Dances

count to nine. I got better at them, Better an She Sings Spice” and a

and then I found harder ones so that “Really? Look Who’s Talking Spice,” and

I could waste even more time while a “No One’s Ever Noticed Either One

accomplishing less, which seemed like of You Spice,” but those didn’t t. I took

keeping with the target objective. My a casual glance at the spice rack, which

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Path to overcoming dyslexia

reverses her numbers, doesn’t need reading in every subject in • Reads a word correctly several • Cries or becomes upset when

STRONG mean she’s got the problem, either. school and in almost every facet of times on a page, but then forgets it asked to read
LEARNING
Millions of kids have poor reading life. If you’re concerned that he’ll in seconds Dr. Linda

skills, which may be due to lack be scared going to the reading • Reads slowly and with great

DR. LINDA of practice, poor memory skills, or teacher, talk to the reading teacher di culty Dr. Linda is co-author of “Why

SILBERT something more organic. But, they rst and nd out exactly what will • Weak vocabulary Bad Grades Happen to Good Kids,”

don’t have dyslexia. In addition, happen. You also have the option • Poor comprehension and director of Strong Learning

due to Covid, many ve through of going outside the school to a • Good comprehension, but Tutoring. Send your questions to

eight-year-olds can’t read because private evaluator. Your pediatrician di culty with reading Linda@stronglearning.com.

Dear Dr. Linda, they never learned how to read. can help you with that.

Our son Jake is entering rst ey do not have dyslexia, nor are In the meantime, here are some

grade in a few weeks. At the end developmentally delayed. ey symptoms that may indicate if a

of last school year, his teacher simply didn’t learn how to read child has dyslexia, but remember

called my husband and me in for because they were being taught one or two symptoms don’t

a conference because he doesn’t to read online. Did some of them automatically mean dyslexia.

know the alphabet yet. She learn to read? Yes, but many did Dyslexia Symptoms

recommended that he meet with not. e good news is that they • Di culty learning the

the reading teacher this coming will catch up when given the alphabet

year and that eventually be tested proper instruction. • Speech and language problems

for dyslexia because having Since dyslexia impacts all areas • Di culty rhyming words

di culty learning the alphabet of life, an early dyslexia diagnosis • Di culty associating a sound

which is one of the early signs. is important so that remediation with its written symbol

We told her that he just nished can begin. erefore, listen to your • Skips words or puts in extra

kindergarten and we’d rather mother-in-law because reading is words when reading

have him stay in the class with his one of the most important skills • Changes words when reading

friends and not go to the reading your child needs to master. He will • Guesses wildly at words

teacher. We don’t want to push

him and if need be, we’ll hold him

back so he has more time.

We’re really angry because she’s

scaring us over something she can’t

even diagnose yet. He’s not even

reading yet, so she has no proof

that he’ll be reading backward. My

mother-in-law now is angry with

us because she said the teacher is

right. He should be seen by the

reading teacher. Isn’t he too young?

Krista

Dear Krista,

Let’s begin with the falsehood

that dyslexia means someone reads

backward. at’s an old wives’tale.

It is not true. Dyslexia is NOT

reading backward. Due to modern

technology, we now know the part

of the brain that causes dyslexia

and it has nothing to do with

reading backward. It is a learning

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What dental hygiene does for overall health

Brushing and ossing your that gum disease is linked to

teeth may save you extra ses- heart problems, kidney diseas-

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hygiene do not end with pearly in their patients’ mouths may be

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Over time, that bacteria can in- certain areas of the heart. is

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When we think of the term A timeout
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“timeout”, we think of punish- kindergarten to high school, take the time to focus on mind-

ment for unruly behavior, some- sometimes reluctant students fulness, but just a few minutes

thing administered to youngsters take part in these exercises. Most can lead to calm and relaxation.

at times of unacceptable acts or students respond positively, feel- Who wouldn’t want to feel that?

uncontrollable emotions. During ing “relaxed and calm” afterwards. In an era when everything is at

timeouts we are simply asking our Our program encourages stu- our ngertips, our phones are an

children to take a deep breath, re- dents to try multiple techniques extension of us. ere are many

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a timeout? We are familiar with prefer not to rely on technology,

the term mindfulness, but what is tive or overwhelmed by what’s word, but when we allow our- PROGRESSIVE MUSCLE take a walk, sit down, or try the

it and how do we make that work going on around us.” is is what selves to focus of mindfulness, we RELAXATION: above-mentioned techniques our

in our lives? According to Mind- we want our children to achieve are gifting ourselves a moment to • Sit quietly in a comfortable students love. Dedicate 5 or 10

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Scammers and seniors

GUEST dropped in the mail to cover a communicate is a scam’s best Scammers may believe that a
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bill, and electric bill are long but the plausible scenario will play
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