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SPRING FORWARD at 2 a.m. on Sunday. Remember to change your smoke detector batteries.
HERALD Infections as of March 7
4,178
COMMUNITY UPDATE
Infections as of March 1 4,031
$1.00
Nassau libraries need funding
Coliseum to be a vaccine site
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Billions still available in loan program owners, representatives of Vision Long Island and Long Island Main Street Alliance and There is lots of money left in others in Hicksville to urge the Paycheck Protection Pro- small businesses to take advangram, and small businesses, tage of PPP loans by the March independent contractors and 31 deadline. sole proprietors remain eligible Rushi Patel and Rajeev Maini, for a portion of the program’s co-owners of the Metropolitan $128 billion. Those c at e r i n g h a l l i n who work as consulGlen Cove, attended tants can also apply the news conference for what is left of the and encouraged original $380 billion. other small busiBut Richie Krug n e s s e s t o ap p ly. Jr., president of the They did so last East Meadow Chamyear, and received a ber of Commerce, loan. Maini said he said at a March 1 had been in businews conference ness for only six that many small month at the time, businesses are not and had little to aware of who is elishow in the way of ERIC gible or how to apply profit. What he did ALEXANDER for the funds. have was overhead “Small business- Director, costs. e s n e e d t o t a ke “I have $60,000 Vision Long Island advantage of this,” worth in expenses Krug said. “People to just open the have no idea that there are doors,” said Maini, adding that resources out there to help them he had applied for the second to apply. We have the resources round of PPP. “It’s a challenge to point businesses in the right every day.” direction. And you don’t have to The program was enacted be a member of the chamber to last April as part of the Coronaget this information.” virus Aid, Relief, and Economic Krug joined a group of local chamber members, business CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
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Being Thing 1 or Thing 2 for a day Patty Kelleher’s kindergartners at Barnum Woods Elementary School created their own Dr. Seuss Thing 1 and Thing 2 replicas for Read Across America Day. More photos, Page 7.
East Meadow Board of Education adopts amended safety plan By JENNIFER CORR jcorr@liherald.com
The East Meadow School District adopted a district-wide safety plan last August, but the district is now required by law to establish protocols to protect itself from another threat, a communicable disease. That plan was adopted at the March 3 Board of Education meeting. New York’s Safe Schools Against Violence in Education
Act, or SAVE, passed in 2000, requires districts to submit to the state an outline of their protocols for dealing with an implied or direct threat of violence, and their prevention and intervention strategies in collaboration with local law enforcement, including drills. Now, procedures for dealing with a public health emergency involving a communicable disease have been added to the list, after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed
into law a measure requiring all public employers, including school districts, to plan for an outbreak of a virus like Covid-19. “With that said, the district added a pandemic plan, and the plan was then submitted to the community for review or for comment back on Jan. 15,” East Meadow Schools Superintendent Dr. Kenneth Card said at last week’s meeting. “There are four CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
he agitation started when the banks gave the loans to bigger companies.