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Friday, December 30, 2016
Vol. 76, No. 51
Man arrested for trying to kill his dog
Holiday on Ice
Oyster Bay Town Councilman Joseph G. Pinto (left) and Town Clerk James Altadonna Jr. (right) recently attended the Town of Oyster Bay’s 2016 “Holiday on Ice” Skating Show held at the Town of Oyster Bay Ice Skating Center in Bethpage. The “Holiday on Ice” Skating Show features skaters who are enrolled in the Ice Skating Center’s “Learn to Skate” ice-skating program and demonstrates the skating skills they have learned before family and friends in a delightful ice-skating show that celebrates the holiday season. Pictured with Councilman Pinto and Town Clerk Altadonna at the “Holiday on Ice” Skating Show are Santa Claus, New York Assemblyman Joseph Saladino and the dozens of skaters who helped to make this year’s “Holiday on Ice” Skating Show spectacular.
LIRR parking lot plan is scrapped
BY GARY SIMEONE
The Town of Oyster Bay’s proposed premium parking plan for several local LIRR lots including the Hicksville station was scrapped last week because
of negative feedback from residents. The plan which would have offered residents premium parking spaces for $100 a month at its busiest parking lots in Bethpage, Hicksville, Syosset and Massapequa did not sit well
with many residents. “Following the overwhelming feedback the Town has received from our residents regarding the Proposed Premium Parking Plan, the Continued on page 6...
Nassau County Police arrest- the bag, cut the “zip tie” from ed a Levittown man for alleged- the dog’s neck and observed ly trying to kill his dog on his that the animal had suffered a front lawn on severe laceration Friday, December to its head. The 23, in Levittown. dog was then taken According to to the Levittown detectives, at Animal Hospital 2:45 p.m. Michael where it was euthGallagher, 56, anized. while on his Gallagher was front lawn, was located at a nearobserved by a by 7 Eleven at neighbor attempt10:30 pm where he ing to strangle was placed under and suffocate his arrest without Shepard mix dog further incident. Michael Gallagher by placing a plasSPCA was notified, tic “zip tie” around responded and the dog’s neck and placing him assisted with the arrest proin garbage bag. Police say he cessing. Gallagher is charged was then observed striking the with Agriculture & Markets bag with a shovel. After being Law: Aggravated Cruelty confronted by the neighbor, to Animals and Torturing or Gallagher then left the scene on Injuring Animals/Failure to foot. The neighbor then opened Provide Sustenance.
Hindu community requests school calendar change BY GARY SIMEONE
A small group of IndianAmerican mothers and their children stood in front of the Hicksville Board of Education on Wednesday night to discuss the possibility of the school district observing the Hindu holiday of Diwali during the 2017-18 academic year. Diwali is a festival of physical and spiritual light and will be celebrated on
October 19th next year. Sunita Manjrekar led the group of women, all of whom are of Hindu descent, in requesting that the Board consider their petition. “We’d like all the children of the district to be able to celebrate other festivals and cultures as they do for holiday’s such as Christmas and Easter,” Continued on page 6...
Student receives prestigious awards PAGE 4 TOB Senior Citizen Holiday Party PAGE 16 Levittown schools adopt a spirit of giving PAGE 8