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Vol. 58, No. 31
THURSDAY, August 1, 2024
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Lindenhurst taps Vincent Caravana as school superintendent
Babylon Town hosted the 17th Annual Soldier Ride to benefit the Wounded Warrior organization July 19. Shown are NYS Assemblyman Michael Durso, Taylor Durso, Suffolk County Legislator Jason Richberg, Babylon Town Supervisor Rich Schaffer, Walter E. Piatt, CEO of the Wounded Warrior Project, and Dominic Bencivenga, Trustee of the Village of Babylon. See story and photos Page 3
Babylon Village Board rejects plans for new restaurant at Argyle Grill site By Carolyn James By a vote of 4-1, the Babylon Village Board denied an application from DHT Babylon to open a bar/restaurant in the former Argyle Grill & Tavern at 90 Deer Park Avenue. After a review of the application, as well as a visit to the applicants’ three other bar/ restaurants, the board made the decision to reject the application. “We thank them for considering the Village; however, the trustees and myself felt that their business model would not be successful at that location,” said Mayor Mary Adams. “The Argyle has a long, successful history in the Village and we want to achieve something like that there again.”
The applicants met with the mayor and the board on several occasions and formally presented their proposal at a public hearing June 25. Adams said that on those occasions the plan seemed to be inconclusive and not clearly defined. In addition, she said that the other DHT establishments were more like sports bars than restaurants and attracted large crowds of younger people in a party-like atmosphere that extended into the late-night hours. The dissenting vote came from Trustee Anthony Cardali. While he said he did not want the application approved as presented, because he believed,
Board cites lack of clarity on proposal
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The Lindenhurst Board of Education has named Vincent A. Caravana as the permanent Superintendent of Schools. Carvana, an educator with almost 25 years of experience, including nearly 16 years in the Lindenhurst School District, had served as Lindenhurst’s Interim superintendent for this past school year. “When I think about where most of the building blocks of who I am as a person came from, I think about all of the excellent teachers that I had,” Caravana said. “I started my career in education because I wanted to be that person for the next generations of students.” Caravana started as a high school English teacher at West Islip High School in 2000 before moving to his first administrative position as Assistant Principal at Beach Street Middle School, also in New West Islip, in 2007. He said working in public administrator school administration has strong not only allowed him to broaden his impact on ties to the student education but community also gave him the opportunity to become a teacher and mentor to other teachers. “The science of teaching never stays stagnant. There are so many layers to how humans learn,” Caravana said. “As an administrator, you’re not only working in the academic realm of education but also the social one. You are trying to get your teachers to grow and push themselves out of their comfort zone to become better teachers. But you can only do that if you have gained their trust.” First coming to Lindenhurst as Coordinator of Secondary English in 2009, Caravana became Assistant Principal at the high school in (Continued on Back Page)