On behalf of all the members of HUG Manhasset, I would like to encourage the Manhasset community to attend the Thanksgiving Ecumenical Service sponsored by the churches and synagogues of Manhasset. As a community, we have much to be thankful for and what better time to come together to say it than at this service. This year the Ecumenical Service in which all the clergy participate will take place on Sunday, Nov. 22 at 3 p.m. at Temple Judea of Manhasset. I personally have attended this service and can tell you it is very beautiful. We hope that you will all take the time to attend and that we can share this lovely afternoon.

Phyllis Trigg

Co-chairperson HUG Manhasset

It is beyond dispute that the demise of the Nicolls homestead is a great historical loss for our community. Nonetheless, your criticisms are misplaced, because in lauding the history of that structure, you overlook other historical traditions of even greater import.

One of our most sacred historical treasures is, as the great Justice Louis Brandeis stated, "the right to be let alone." Such eloquence should need no explanation, but, if it does, then it means the right to be left alone to pursue our own path, one freely chosen, and without overt governmental interference. It would seem to me that the purchaser of the parcel in question is as much entitled to his constitutional right to be let alone as you or I, and as long as he stayed within the bounds of the law, we should be respectful of that.

Moreover, merely because that particular village government thought it wise not to impose its will upon its residents, that is not a fair basis to attack them for their supposed inaction. Indeed, their decision, intentional or not, to respect each citizen's right to be let alone is something that should be praised, not criticized.

Anthony Michael Sabino, Esq.