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UVA prof featured at environmental sustainability event
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BY RIKKI MASSAND On Wednesday evening January 10 at Village Hall, co-chairs of the Environmental Advisory Board (EAB) Mayor Mary Carter Flanagan and Trustee Michele Harrington, along with EAB members, welcomed students and young professionals from Garden City to share their experiences sustainability, clean energy and environmental justice. The featured guest speaker for the 2024 Sustainability Roundtable was University of Virginia Professor Dr. James F. Groves, who teaches courses in the Engineering and Society, Materials Science and Engineering departments. One of his UVA students is Garden City native Caroline Flanagan, the daughter of Mayor Carter Flanagan, who is completing her degree in Mechanical Engineering. Groves brought up the demand on industrial agricultural infrastructure, as a high yield of crops is achieved only with tremendous pressure on land use, fresh water, plus the use of See page 43
Garden City High School’s fencing teams have had successes in recent meets. Above, members of the girls’ team during a meet with against the Wheatley School. See our sports section for coverage of boys’ and girls’ fencing.
GCHS: Environmental Library Board discusses technology research in action costs, upcoming budget process BY RIKKI MASSAND
BY RIKKI MASSAND The Garden City Public Library Board of Trustees held its first meeting of the new year on Monday January 8, and scheduled a library budget work session meeting for Monday, January 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the lower level’s large conference
room. The work session is open to the public. Library Director Marianne Malagon shared some updates on the process ahead for budget development prior to presenting the proposed budget to the village Board of Trustees in March. Starting with the GCPL Technology Equipment account,
which generally includes computers, printers and servers, additional software, consulting equipment and other items, there are previously-funded items that were left incomplete. A major point of discussion during the meeting a proposed contract with a technology partner, and whether or not that cost See page 20
The new year of meetings at Village Hall started with multiple inspiring stories and ideas as young adults and teens met during the Environmental Advisory Board’s third annual Sustainability Roundtable, held January 10. The evening was moderated by Sabrina Diaz, a Garden City High School alumna and currently a junior-year student at Lehigh University. Diaz is majoring in civil engineering and political science. Garden City High School students in the Science Research program, Niamh Pfaff and Roisin Pfaff, shared a report and PowerPoint on sustainability and environmental topics See page 24
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