Friday, June 16, 2017
Vol. 93, No.39
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St. Paul’s on Village Board “priorities list”
STATE CHAMPS!
BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
Will the iconic structure of St. Paul’s be saved, demolished, or considered for an “adaptive re-use”? That question is again before the Garden City Board of Trustees. The June 1 Board of Trustees’ meeting concluded with a special work session, in which a list of municipal priorities and projects for 2017-2018 was established. The public was not permitted to comment during the trustees’ work session, but the list was posted on the village website this week along with a press release. At the June 1 work session Mayor Brian Daughney introduced the familiar St. Paul’s scenario and all village priorities, intended as a “road map” for now. “It is a map of our goals with things we want to try to address. Some things are just studies and some are actually to complete. It will be fluid and there are all sorts of issues that come up during any periSee page 29
Garden City High School’s Girls Varsity Lacrosse team won the New York State championship this week by a score of 16-8. See pages 42-43
ing of school principals and teachers at all grade levels including five Garden City kindergarten teachers. Monthly meeting from September 2016 to June plus research on scholarly texts and a series of 10 articles brought several items up for dissection. A consultant for reading, Dr. Katherine Dougherty Stahl, was also involved in the committee’s discussions over the course of the 2016-2017 school year. Stahl is the director of
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the NYU Literacy Clinic and was a public schools’ classroom and reading teacher for 25 years, plus a member of the International Literacy Association RTI Commission. Lynette Abruzzo, GCUFSD director of Pupil Personnel Services, said the Committee’s literature review looked into articles on best practices and reading diversity. “Our literature review analyzed items at the core of all reading instruc-
In response to several serious accidents along Cathedral Avenue in the heart of Garden City, the Central Property Owners’ Association has decided to start a subcommittee on traffic safety, spearheaded by two of its new directors, Keith Hochheiser and Kathryn Carney Cole. The subcommittee is in response to a series of accidents along Cathedral Avenue, a Nassau County road, and a lack of progress with the village’s Traffic Commission efforts to advocate for a traffic light – at either Third Street or Fourth Street, blocks leading up to the downtown Seventh Street area and the school district administration building. At their October 20, 2016, meeting the Traffic Commission voted to refer the Cathedral Avenue conundrum to the Nassau County Department of Public Works. That ballasted a request initiated by residents of the area and supported by the Central Property Owners’ Association for Nassau County to install a new traffic signal on Cathedral Avenue. Ahead of the Commission’s June 15 meeting, on June 2 the Garden City Police Department provided the county with accident data for
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Interim school supt. reviews curriculum
At its Tuesday, June 6 work session the new interim Superintendent of Garden City Public Schools, Dr. Alan Groveman, joined the board of education, faculty and a few parents as they were brought up to speed on the Reading program in the district. Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction Dr. Edward Cannone began a presentation from the district’s 32-member reading committee, compris-
CPOA forms committee to address traffic safety
Village to refurbish Rainbow Division monument PAGE 3 Non-profits fight to stay active amid fee increases PAGE 8