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Wild West: Firehouse debate heats up at WPOA
STARTING THE YEAR RIGHT
BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
Stratford School held its Starting the Year Right presentation, promoting positive behavior, recently. Above, Assistant Principal Christopher Hartigan conducts a Zoom session with the entire school. See page 48
Schools team addresses reopening glitches, technology problems BY RIKKI N. MASSAND At the Board of Education’s meeting held Tuesday night, September 22, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kusum Sinha explained the role of a new district Problem-Solving Team which has been meeting once every two days to address safety protocols prior to the start of each school day. The “P.S.T.” has been focusing on ways to implement plan-
ning and strategy-building time blocks for district teachers, as a busy start to 2020-’21 left some considerations for how classes were structured. Teachers are working to balance plans for students taught in-classrooms, with hybrid models and also in fully-remote learning. “We’re looking for the additional time our teachers can plan as this came up in our
problem-solving team meetings…. It’s almost as though we’ve started, but we need time set aside to readjust and to keep planning for class instruction. Time is hard to stretch, but we will figure out ways for teachers to plan for even better and more efficient instruction. You can have things outlined, as with our reopening, but once you See page 59
During the Western Property Owners’ Association meeting held at St. Paul’s Cluett Hall in Wednesday, September 30, the POA’s Fire House Committee presented alternatives to a plan that the Village Board has been considering. The Village Board has been contemplating demolishing the existing fire station on the corner of Stewart Avenue and Edgemere Road and building a new fire station, complete with bays to fit the larger fire trucks the department has, plus interior accommodations. The new fire station would have an estimated cost of between $8 million and $10 million, according to estimates delivered to the village trustees in July. The WPOA’s own committee consists of volunteers who have evaluated conditions for the fire station. Architect Cosmo Veneziale, an architect specializing in preservation, led the presentation on Wednesday night and received applause from an audience of about 45 attendees. Following his opening remarks, he delivered a history of the structure, which was built in 1930. He also provided slides showcasing the current firehouse and potential expansions on its sides to accommodate GCFD apparatus. Veneziale challenged the communication chain the Village of Garden City and its consulting architecture firm PKAD Architecture & Design -- have had about the project, as the WPOA committee has requested information, of which Cosmo says roughly 50% has been delivered. “PKAD is proposing a new construction, 10,000 square-foot firehouse See page 40
Ten businesses burn in fire
Ten businesses on Covert Avenue, just west of Garden City, were damaged or destroyed by fire in the early morning hours of Sunday, September 27th. The Garden City Fire Department was one of 23 departments that fought the blaze, which began in the kitchen area of Park Place Restaurant.
According to the Nassau County Fire Marshal’s department, the fire began at 6:32 a.m. and was only brought under control by noon. Three firefighters at the scene were treated and released for exhaustion, but no other injuries were reported.
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