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Local officials address global pandemic
IT’S COOKIE TIME!
BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
Spring time weather paid a visit on Monday afternoon, in Garden City. Girl Scout Troop 1242 picked a great day to set up their cookie booth at the Nassau Boulevard Train Station. All the favorites were available for those passing by, though Tag A Longs were the big seller. The girls will be back on March 23rd from 4-6pm to sell any remaining cookies they have left! Photo by Regina Moran
St. Joseph crosswalk unresolved at Traffic Comm BY RIKKI N. MASSAND At its Thursday March 5 meeting the Garden City Traffic Commission heard from St. Joseph School Principal Brian Colomban and Lisa Spohr, director of the after school Religious Education program for 1st through 8th graders offered at St. Joseph’s (the program is commonly called CCD). Deputy Mayor Robert
Bolebruch, a current Traffic Commission member and its former chairman, said he’s quite frustrated with a lack of progress on the initial application made last fall by St. Joseph’s School and lack of outreach to residents of Fourth Street, as the November 21, 2019 Commission meeting featured a room full of parents and residents expressing their views. In the months since then, and leading up to the
March 5 Commission meeting he can’t understand how the only solution St. Joseph’s has in mind is the Village of Garden City coordinating police presence during the school drop-off and pick-up times as well as around evening CCD classes. “This room was full of parents before and we are now in the middle of March, nothing got
In the wake of cases of coronavirus on the rise in Nassau County, Legislator Laura Schaefer, Town of Hempstead Councilman Thomas Muscarella and Councilman Dennis Dunne and Town Receiver of Taxes Jeanine Driscoll addressed the Estates Property Owners’ Association at its meeting Wednesday night March 11. By Wednesday 25 people had reportedly tested positive for COVID-19 in Nassau County, and County Executive Laura Curran announced that 20 of the 25 cases are in the Town of Hempstead, three are in the Town of Oyster Bay and two are in the Town of North Hempstead. Numbers are expected to rise daily all across the downstate New York/New Jersey and MidAtlantic U.S. region, with nearby Westchester County circled as the main cluster of coronavirus declared in the country with New Rochelle under a “containment zone”. County Legislator Laura Schaefer says she was informed that decisions to close area schools are up to each individual district acting on the information it receives and evaluates, and superintendents including Dr. Kusum Sinha in Garden City track information vigorously. Schaefer said all area hospitals and healthcare operations have communicated with See page 49
Village of GC election Wednesday, March 18
The Village of Garden City’s annual election will take place on Wednesday, March 18th. Registered voters can cast ballots between noon and 9 p.m. at Village Hall.
Four incumbent trustees are seeking re-election to two year terms of office: Robert Bolebruch, John Delaney, Colleen Foley and Louis Minuto. All are unopposed.
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Exciting play in GCAA basketball championship games PAGE 50 Kellenberg student starts feminism group project PAGE 16