Friday, December 22, 2023
Vol. 100, No. 51
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St. Paul’s: New committee, stained glass preservation
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BY RIKKI MASSAND At the Garden City Village Board of Trustees’ last meeting of 2023, held on Thursday, December 14, Mayor Mary Carter Flanagan shared a few notes about the St. Paul’s School main building. The fate of the landmark building is has yet to be determined, although a public opinion vote in October showed that the public is in favor of some form of reuse of the building. What that entails is still to be determined. Mayor Carter Flanagan thanked the village’s executive staff, fellow Board of Trustees’ members and many residents of Garden City for staying engaged in the issue. The mayor announced the establishment of a new, Mayor’s Advisory Committee on St. Paul’s, and commented that the residents serving on it “will be a great resource as we begin with the important steps needed to achieve our goal of a project at St. Paul’s that preserves all or part of the building; has widespread community support and can be executed.” The five residents set to serve on the new advisory committee are: Bill Cavan, John Cantwell, Soraya Zarghami Gage, Jim Apostolides and Walter Beal, a CNY Construction executive and project manager. “As the Board of Trustees moves forward we will be involving more resident volunteers and the process will depend on everyone staying engaged on this issue,” the mayor See page 38
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BY RIKKI MASSAND At the Garden City Village Board of Trustees’ last meeting of 2023, held on Thursday, December 14, Mayor Mary Carter Flanagan shared a few notes about the St. Paul’s School main building. The fate of the landmark building is has yet to be determined, although a public opinion vote in October showed that the public is in favor of some form of reuse of the building. What that entails is still to be determined. Mayor Carter Flanagan thanked the village’s executive staff, fellow Board of Trustees’ members and many residents of Garden City for staying engaged in the issue. The mayor announced the establishment of a new, Mayor’s Advisory Committee on St. Paul’s, and commentSee page 37
Meeting set for traffic calming plans BY RIKKI MASSAND
The Garden City Wings Varsity Ice Hockey team is undefeated so far this season with a record of 7-0. See page 54. Photo by Ed Rotondo
At the Village Board of Trustees’ final meeting of 2023, held last Thursday December 14, Trustee Charles Kelly announced that the Traffic Commission will hold a special meeting to present information about traffic calming studies. The meeting will take place at the Garden City Library on Thursday, January 11th at 6 p.m. in the lower-level large meeting room. Trustee Kelly, chairperson of the Traffic Commission since 2022, said that engineers from firm Creighton Manning will present data from two recently-completed Traffic Calming studies. First, the firm will review its final study on the potential Stewart Avenue Road Diet, See page 37
Holiday House Decorating Contest PAGE 18 Wreaths Across America Day celebrated PAGE 22