Friday, May 11, 2018
Vol. 94, No.33
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Ninja warriors PAGE 35 n Memorial concert PAGE 3
Traffic, construction headaches on track for rest of the year
GIRL POWER IN GC
BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
Recently, Girl Scout Troop 1348 hosted the annual Brownie Bridging Circus at Garden City Middle School, in which Brownie troops from around the Village enjoyed various activities as they worked towards earning badges. See page 56.
Environmental Board discusses outreach on pesticides, leafblowers BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
The 2018 Garden City High School Science Research Symposium will be held on Tuesday, May 29 beginning at 7 p.m. in the school’s library. Thomas Grlic, a member of GCHS graduating class this June, will be presenting his scientific study and analysis for the final time as a high school
student, as he prepares to attend Adelphi University this fall to study engineering and physics. As the last months of his senior year wind down, he continues working with a proactive village commission to spread awareness on environmental issues impacting their fellow Garden City residents. Grlic, along with his colleague GCHS junior Aidan Pfaff,
are the two student members of the village Environmental Advisory Board (EAB), appointed by a Board of Trustees vote last October 5 and commended by Mayor Brian Daughney for their volunteer service to the community. Working under the direction of GCHS science research teacher Dr. Steven See page 27
On April 25 at the Environmental Advisory Board’s first meeting with its new chairman, Trustee Robert Bolebruch, board members heard from Department of Public Works Superintendent Joseph DiFrancisco about pending action from the LIRR. He spoke about the start of test boring around Garden City in late April and the presence of trucks in some village neighborhoods. Trustee Bolebruch said the first place in Garden City to see a negative impact would be for traffic going along Covert Avenue in the West, which will be shut down for a six-month period in the construction phase ahead. “Once they do that they will come to New Hyde Park Road. On New Hyde Park Road, they will not be shutting it down but cutting it to one lane. You can imagine traffic difficulties there. They will also work on the Merillon Avenue station, and the LIRR will be making the Denton Avenue underpass taller, but not wider than the one lane it is now. The Nassau Boulevard crossing into Garden City will become 14 feet high so we will not have trucks hitting it any more,” he said. Bolebruch went into details on the concept of constructing the underpass which the LIRR envisions at the New Hyde Park Road, similar to the Mineola-Franklin Avenue bridge. He explained the LIRR’s plans to install prefabricated slabs as infrastructure and complete the new roadway in one weekend. DiFrancisco says the spring’s testing phase here coincided with the planned start of Third Track construction in Floral Park, his own hometown, and the project sequence will work its way east. He says the plan for the LIRR to begin “any significant work” in Garden City would be nearly a year away, and the village website will contain the full construction schedule as the LIRR provides it to the municipality. He anticipates the New Hyde Park Road intersection and station to be the albatross for the project, calling it the single-largest component of the 9.8-mile Third Rail from Floral Park to Hicksville. DiFrancisco told the EAB members the LIRR plans to have about 400 days of construction on the New Hyde Park Road location alone. “In regards to the coming months in the village, there is really nothing planned except for the LIRR’s test boring and installation of some gates on their fencing along the railroad tracks to give them easier access to it. For New Hyde Park Road they (the MTA/ See page 29
Challenger Lacrosse plays first game of season PAGE 70 GCHS Girls Lacrosse celebrates Super Seniors PAGES 62-63