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Covid halts in-person class at two schools School having the most reported cases — 83 as of Dec. 23. Baldwin Middle School had 25; Meadow Soaring Covid-19 cases among Elementary School, 16; Brookschool faculty caused some Bald- side Elementary School and win schools to transition back to Plaza Elementary School, nine full remote learning the first each; Steele Elementary School, week of the new year. five; Lenox Elementary School, In an announcement by the three; and Shubert and Hastings, Baldwin Union Free zero. School District Jan. There is no offi2, all Baldwin elecial state mandate m e n t a r y s ch o o l s on remote educawould proceed in tion. Districts are person, while Baldallowed to decide on win Middle School closures as needed. and Baldwin High The State EducaSchool went remote tion De par tment for the week of Jan. 3 recently canceled to 7. the January Regents BHS at Shubert exams, citing rising and the Hastings Covid-19 case counts. Instruction Center BalDWiN In a recent poll remained in-person conducted by the SChool and followed their nonprofit Education normal schedules. DiStriCt Trust-New York, the Additionally, all high majority of parents school athletic games indicated they would choose a were to continue, but all other remote education option if availextracurricular events were can- able. “That was true across celed for the week. racial groups, although Black The district finished its parents were far more likely to update with, “While this was a say they would choose a remote difficult decision, it is the right option (72 percent compared to decision.” 55 percent of white parents and The number of cases reported 69 percent of Latinx parents),” in the district varied across schools, with Baldwin High Continued on page 3
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Baldwin F.D. battles blaze Members of the Baldwin Fire Department quickly extinguished a Dec. 26 fire at a vacant Jackson Street home. Volunteers stretched hose lines into the two-story structure, from which smoke spewed, to put out the blaze.
Baldwinites go green at Mulchfest By KariNa KoVaC kkovac@liherald.com
The second annual Town of Hempstead Mulchfest is allowing environmentalists, gardeners and other townsfolk to chip in and recycle their Christmas trees in exchange for bags of mulch at Baldwin Park on Grand Avenue. Started by Supervisor Don Clavin last year, the program is run by the town’s parks department and the sanitation department, which this year is
collecting plastic and cardboard recyclables at two exchanges. At the first one recently, the loud whirr of an industrial woodchipper could be heard every few minutes as residents pulled in with their seasonal trees on their car roofs for dropoff. Firs, spruces and pines were tossed efficiently by parks workers into the machine, which ground them up, giving off a fresh, sappy tree aroma. Parks Department Regional Supervisors Chris Maloney and
Terence Murray reflected on their experience at Mulchfest last year by telling a story of one Levittown woman who called the town hotline after the event and requested mulch to plant her prize-winning tomatoes in the spring. “We brought over about 30 bags of recycled mulch [to her home], and she let it dry from January to the spring and sprinkled it throughout her garden,” Murray said. The woman was so Continued on page 3
hile this was a difficult decision, it is the right decision.