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CONGRESS LOOSENS GUN LAWS On Wednesday, Congress passed H.R. 822, a bill which forces states to recognize concealed handgun permits issued by other states even if that state has lower safety standards than the one the permit was obtained in. The bill passed by vote of 272-154. Carolyn McCarthy, U.S. Congressional Representative for New York’s Fourth District and staunch gun control advocate, voted against the bill and was not happy with the passage of the bill. “This bill is a gross violation of both states’ rights and public safety, as well as a gratuitous gift to the powerful gun lobby when states already have the option to do what this bill mandates. With The White House getting shot at with an assault weapon and the nation demanding that Congress focus on creating jobs and helping the economy, the last thing we need right now is another gun proliferation bill, which does nothing to protect American citizens or help them pay their bills. I hope that more rational heads will prevail in the U.S. Senate, or in The White

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Standard Associate Editor

Last Leaves The final foliage of fall as artfully documented by Woodsburgh’s Michael Goffin. See profile and more photos on Page B9

There wasn’t an empty seat during the Town Hall meeting on Tuesday at the Lawrence Yacht and Country Club, as over 70 residents and Sanitary District No. 1 Commissioners discussed changes and voiced opinions. With the amount of people seated in each row, almost two hours were spent with people voicing their complaints from row to row, some sitting in their seats and some standing. Nobody was required to go in front of a microphone or say their name, but the board took down addresses to rectify complaints and problems at each home. But, some residents had more than just complaints; they’ve had verbal altercations with the garbage men. “… I’ve spoken to you many times because I’ve really been verbally abused by garbage men,” said one resident ardently to the board. Another resident, noted his problems when there’s inclement weather and a run-in with

Inwood: The Other Side of The Five Towns By Scott P. Moore

Standard Staff Reporter

For most of the last century, Inwood was known as Long Island’s own version of Little Italy. However, this unique cultural aspect of the community has become lessened as Inwood has seen a massive increase in the number of Hispanic residents and, to a lesser extent, Orthodox Jews. It shares borders with Far Rockaway to the southwest, other parts of Queens to the northwest, and Lawrence and Cedarhurst to the east, is best described as a mishmoshed hamlet. Residential homes with small amounts of open property are squeezed tightly next to each other and, in some parts, industrial and commercial businesses such as garages and factories, the result of strip-zoning throughout the years. Head into Mamma Betta’s Pizzeria on Dougherty Boulevard or El Chuso on Sheridan Boulevard in Inwood around lunch time and you might hear something a little out of the ordinary for the rest of The Five Towns – languages other than Hebrew or English. From Spanish to some Italian mixed with English, the air is filled with the voices rep-

resentative of those who live and work in the hamlet closest to the Queens border, a more racial and culturally diverse area than most of The Five Towns, but unknown to many of the other area’s residents. “Inwood’s always been the other side of the tracks,” said Roy Meserole, owner of the Meserole Funeral Home in Inwood and a resident of the area for a good portion of the last century. The homes in Inwood vary depending on the street, some are cookie-cutter repeats down the entire block with an addition or two on some and all different colors, while others are more similar to other homes in The Five Towns with manor-like appearances, expansive wings, large driveways, and multiple stories. Further to the west, John F. Kennedy Airport lurks, cracking the otherwise peaceful atmosphere of suburbia with commercial jets taking off and landing every few minutes around the clock. Some parts of Inwood, however, could be baffling to the outside observer. In the northern section of the area on Dougherty Boulevard, a neighborhood is sandwiched

the garbage men. “If there’s any type of snow, I have to constantly be around to make sure that the garbage is picked up…I constantly call because the garbage is not picked up when there’s snow,” he said. “Last winter I had an unfortunate incident of having a run-in with the two garbage men. I called the office and one of them [the garbage men] came and rang my door-

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ATL. BCH SEES TICKETS JUMP By JONATHAN WALTER Standard Staff Reporter

Atlantic Beach Mayor Stephen Mahler got his wish this month as 113 traffic tickets were issued in the month of October. That is up from 22 tickets issued in the month of September. Mahler had been lobbying the police department for more patrols, claiming that residents of Long Beach are speeding through the village on Park Street and that the number of tickets issued had been in steep decline. Also approved at the Atlantic Beach Board of Trustees meeting were two local laws, one restricting where residents can run generators on their property and another limiting the size and placement of political advertisements. “With the power outages, more people have been using generators and we had nothing in our local law to address that,” Steve Cherson, the village’s public works superintendent said. The new law states that gen-

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Gourmet Glatt Reopens Two Weeks After Fire By Scott P. Moore

Standard Staff Reporter

Gourmet Glatt, the popular kosher supermarket located in the heart of Cedarhurst village, reopened at noon on Tuesday, November 15 less than two weeks after a small fire caused minor damage in the basement and smoke damage throughout the ground floor of the business in the early morning hours of November 3rd. “It was a Herculean effort in 12 days,” said manager Howie Klagsbrun, who called those days not opened “hell.” “We just wanted

to see our customers happy.” “There was minor damage. In order to keep up our reputation as ‘always fresh, always gourmet,’ we did not want anyone to have anything come into their house that might smell of smoke,” said owner Yoeli Steinberg. “We basically emptied the entire store, sold off as salvage or discarded.” The process of emptying left the shelves, refrigerators and displays completely void of products from wall-to-wall. “There was not even a bottle of water to be had,” joked Klagsbrun. By noon Sunday, however, the restocking process began

as the first delivery arrived at the store. “We had unpacked roughly 12,000 cases of food by Monday at 8:00 p.m.,” said Klagsbrun, who said he had never seen such an effort in his 28 years working in the grocery industry. “The extra push we had was missing, so everyone needed a little jumping,” said Steinberg. “The shoppers are what bring the energy to the store and when the shoppers are missing... it makes something drag just a drop. We’re happy to have every-

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Pancakes for Parkinsons Emily Messinger, 14, and Sydney Epstein, 15, of Hewlett Neck, sell t-shirts with the winning design at the Pancakes for Parkinson’s Event on Sunday, November 13 at Congregation Sons of Israel in Woodmere. The girls’ families were in charge of the fundraiser. All t-shirt designs were on display at the event, and the winner, Julie Troyetsky of Hewlett High School, got her design printed. All proceeds went to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Disease Research. Photo by Amanda Mayo

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