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Village lease to add parking at Stewart athletic fields
LIGHTING UP THE SEASON
BY RIKKI N. MASSAND The Village of Garden City will be providing 45 additional parking spaces near the Stewart Field park, after signing a lease agreement with Nassau County, the Board of Trustees announced during a December 12th work session. The Board also discussed a the possibility of creating new 100 yard synthetic playing field at Community Park since the existing one is in heavy demand.
Stewart Field lease
from Hofstra University, and a bachelor’s degree from St. John’s University with honors in French. In 2015, Mayor Trouvé received the Woman of Distinction Award for commitment to one’s community from New York State Assemblyman Edward Ra. Trouvé told a capacity audi-
A lease for the village’s use of a stretch of Nassau County property behind Stewart Field, adjacent to Stewart School in the easternmost section of Garden City, has finally been executed after plans were first brought up at a Board meeting on December 6, 2018. “We finally got the Nassau County Legislature to sign the lease agreement with the Village. We will clear out decades of overgrowth and vegetation immediately north of Stewart Field (part of the circa 1908 Vanderbilt Parkway) and we will make this a half-park/half-parking area. Once it is cleared out village staff can begin creating the commemorative signage and park area for the Vanderbilt Parkway,” Trustee Brian Daughney explained. Garden City’s Superintendent of Public Works Joseph DiFranciso said the DPW expects to have bid specs in to the village’s Purchasing Department by January 31, 2020. “Hopefully we can advertise either by February 7 or February 14 which would allow us to do a bid opening by about February 28 or the first week in March. If so we would be able to award this project at the March 19 Village Board of Trustees meeting. If we did that and started work in early April it should take between two and four weeks to complete, finishing this project by late April or the start of May at the latest,” he said. Deputy Mayor Robert Bolebruch raised a point about installations of lighting for the new parking spaces, as he recalled when his children played, parents picked up kids after practices “as nightfall hit quickly and kids and adults need to be able to see and be safe.” Trustee John Delany, a representative of the East POA
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The Christmas spirit was in the air at the Garden City Community Church Nursery School’s annual Christmas program on December 13th. Above, children sing “This Little Light of Mine.”
2019: Village news in review BY RIKKI N. MASSAND The Village of Garden City and its municipal government enjoyed a very festive, productive year in 2019 celebrating the Sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) of Garden City’s founding by Alexander Turney Stewart in 1869 as well as the 100-year anniversary of the village’s incorporation, often referred to
as “Garden City’s Gentleman’s Agreement.”Dr. Theresa Trouvé became Garden City’s first female mayor in 14 years and second overall in 100 years when she took her oath of office on April 8. The mayor holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University; an M.A. with Distinction and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Educational Administration
Village lights menorah on first day of Hanukkah PAGE 18 Rotary celebrates at annual holiday party PAGES 28-29