$1
Friday, April 28, 2017
Vol. 77, No. 17
BASEBALL OPENING DAY
Woodbury resident runs for Town Supervisor BY GARY SIMEONE
Nassau County Legislators Rose Marie Walker and Laura Schaefer attended the Hicksville Baseball Association Annual Opening Day Parade & Ceremonies. Above, Legislators Walker and Schaefer with members of some of the HBA Teams
Hicksville Memorial Day Parade The United Veterans of Hicksville are preparing for this year’s Memorial Day Parade and Ceremony which will be held on Monday, May 29. Parade participants will begin assembling in the Sears parking lot at 8:00am with the parade scheduled to step off at 9:00am. The parade will turn left out of the Sears parking lot and head south on Broadway to Old Country Road. At Old Country Road it will turn west (right) until it
reaches Jerusalem Avenue. It will then turn south (left) to go past the parade reviewing stand, continue to 4th Street, turn left, and end at the Hicksville Middle School. The service, at the Middle School Veterans Memorial Park, will begin once the parade ends, approximately around 10:30am. The United Veterans of Hicksville is comprised of the American Legion, British War Veterans of America,
Jewish War Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Nassau County Chapter of the Vietnam Veterans of America. This year’s parade is being hosted by the Jewish War Veterans, Gieir-Levitt Post# 655, under the leadership of Post Commander Jack Hayne. Commander Hayne will be the master of ceremonies for the Memorial Day Services. This year’s parade Grand Marshall is See page 27
Marc Herman wants to change the ongoing corruption that has been running rampant in the Town of Oyster Bay. The Woodbury resident and member of the Democratic party said that he plans to run for the position in the upcoming election in November. “I’ve been standing on the sidelines for all these years watching the scandal in the Town of Oyster Bay government and I say that the corruption has to be removed,” said Herman, a practicing dentist and a former President of the Syosset school board. “My feeling is that it shouldn’t be about who you know in politics but what you know.” Herman and three other candidates were announced as Democratic nominees last Wednesday to run against the all Republican Town Board. The three other candidates running for Town council include Woodbury resident, Robert Freier, Seaford resident, James Versocki and Eva Pearson of Farmingdale. Herman said his campaign focus includes eight broad categories which he feels are problems in the Town that are in need of a solution. The categories he listed include finances, ethics, environmental, patronage, open contracting, open bidding, taxes and permits. “Everything needs to be done in a cost effective, efficient manner and government needs to be transparent so that people know where their tax dollars are being spent,” said Herman.
Marc Hermann
Herman brings experience to the position having served on the Syosset school board for eighteen years and working as a dentist in Woodbury for thirty eight years. “I have a lot of experience in things such as payroll, bookkeeping and hiring and firing of employees. One thing about me I am the hardest worker the world has ever seen and I’m one of the most ethical people the world has ever seen.” Herman also served as President of the Gates-Ridge Civic Association of Woodbury and is an active member of the Cerro Wire Coalition, a community group in Syosset that is actively opposed to the building of the new mall. He has also held a voluntary See page 27
World War II re-enactment at OBV PAGE 6 East Street School celebrates Earth Day PAGE 4