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Easter celebrations began a day early in East Meadow last weekend, with an egg hunt at Veterans Memorial Park, thanks to the East Meadow Chamber of Commerce. Benjamin Tian, 7, and Zhi Liang X, from East Meadow, had a blast meeting the Easter Bunny. Story, more photos, Page 3.
Over the last four years, students in Nassau and Suffolk County have had the opportunity to attend the Long Island Youth Wellness Summit, sponsored by the New Jersey-based Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide.
The conference brings together hundreds of students and staff from Long Island high schools, and through specialized training and programs, they learn about the skills today’s youth needs to build a life of resiliency. And this year, both East Meadow High School and W.T. Clarke High School took part in the conference, so students and staff could learn what it takes to
be the best versions of themselves.
The wellness summit was the brainchild of Stacy Brief, 26, who is a 2016 graduate of Mepham High School in Bellmore, a licensed social worker and director of the society’s Long Island chapter. Brief told the Herald that she went through a difficult period in high school, struggling with anxiety and depression.
Through a colleague of her father’s, Brief and her family were connected to the teen suicide prevention group, and began volunteering and working with the organization.
After seeing the success of wellness summits in New Jersey, she decided to bring one to Nassau County. She then discussed the idea with
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Over the last few months, students in East Meadow schools have formed a community service partnership with Love Nana, an organization based in Rockville Centre, that creates bundles of baby items that are donated to young mothers and families in need throughout the local community.
Two classes of special education students at W.T. Clarke High School have led efforts to collect dozens of new and gently used baby clothes and accessories. While the collection has mostly been concentrated to the high school and W.T. Clarke Middle School, it has received district wide attention from community members looking to make a difference in the lives of others.
High School, told the Herald that in their life skills classrooms — which teach students with special needs between the ages of 14 and 21 — students take part in a lot of vocational programming.
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Jen Sobieski and Kerrie D’Angelone, secondary special education teachers in Clarke
Sobieski has worked with Backyard Players & Friends, the organization that oversees Love Nana’s efforts over the last few years. Backyard Players & Friends is an inclusive artsbased program that gives its participants a space to share ideas and experience joy and creativity. It is also based in Rockville Centre.
The organizations are located on North Long Beach Road. Backyard Players & Friends also operates Front Porch Market, which is a storefront operated by people with disabilities. It serves as a space to celebrate neurodiverse entrepreneurs.
Through Sobieski’s relationship with Backyard Players & Friends, Clarke’s students
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Mike Harrington, the superintendent of Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, who gave his full support. The first summit was hosted at the district’s headquarters, the Brookside School, in 2019.
This year’s summit, held on March 26, was “by far our biggest conference to date,” Brief said, drawing a 50 percent increase in school participation across the island, with more than 350 attendees from 43 high schools in Nassau and Suffolk counties.
The event began with a resiliency panel, an open conversation and a question-and-answer session about experiences with suicidal thoughts or loss of a loved one to suicide. Student workshops included Artful Insights, an art therapy program by Susan Kappel, and staff workshops included The Ripple Effect by life coach Chelsea Connors, who led teachers through a presentation about self-care.
A resource fair was also featured, with more than 15 organizations from across Long Island selected to showcase their services. In addition, LeadU made a keynote presentation, where attendees learned about kindness, smart choices, respect and leadership through a high-energy and easy-to-understand discussion.
The growth of the wellness summit has been extraordinary, Brief said.
Over the last year, the teen suicide prevention group has been developing a Long Island chapter to address specific needs in the region.
“Our growth and presence on the island contributed to it, as well as just the culture that youth are really creating,” Brief said. “This generation is ready and wanting to talk about mental health, about suicide prevention. They want to have conversations that have been stigmatized for a very long time.”
This year’s staff workshop differed slightly from the ones in the past, Brief said.
Tjuniors because they’re able to return back to their school and continue implanting what they’ve learned,” she said. “With the freshman, in the past, we have found that it’s sometimes a sensitive topic.”
Brief added that students often leave the summit with the message and feeling that they’re important and valuable.
his generation is ready and wanting to talk about mental health, about suicide prevention.
“We focused more so on helping the staff learn how to care for themselves in order for them to care for their students,” she explained. “School staff members, I think, recognize that their roles more and more so extend beyond the lesson plans. They’re on the front lines when it comes to our youth, mental health and wellness.”
STacy Brief Director, Long Island chapter
The wellness summit is mostly geared towards sophomores and juniors in high school — for specific reasons, Brief explained.
“We recommend sophomores and
“But on top of that, they also are leaving with the physical materials, information and awareness of different support services that they have access to,” she said. “I really believe that we are effectively reducing the stigma through the summit.”
Staff, she added, leave the summit with the tools they need to be a trusted adult for students in their buildings.
“We’re addressing the most protective factor against suicide,” she added. “They leave with a full toolkit of different prevention, intervention and social-emotional learning programs that our organization offers, that they can start bringing to their individual school communities.”
The Society for the Prevention of
Teen Suicide formed a Long Island Youth Wellness Council last year to help reach as many students as possible. The council focuses on continuing to teach about self-care and coping skills. Registration for the 2024-25 council opened during the youth wellness summit, inviting Nassau County high school students to apply.
If students are accepted, they will attend monthly meetings, potentially earn community service hours and collaborate with other wellness organizations such as the Northwell Health’s Cohen Children’s Medical Center.
“We lay the foundation of suicide prevention teaching and training during the Youth Wellness Summit, and the Youth Wellness Council provides us the opportunity to build upon these initial conversations with high school students of all ages across all of Nassau County,” said Theana Cheliotes, a social worker, summit workshop facilitator and wellness council co-leader. “We want to develop today’s youth into resilient individuals who understand themselves as whole beings and can recognize how to care for themselves, as well as guide them in becoming mental health leaders in their communities who can help keep their peers safe with the confidence to recognize warning signs and offer real, impactful help.”
For more information, visit SPTSUSA.org/youthcouncil.
Saturday was a beautiful day to hunt some eggs, and there was no better place to do just that than at the East Meadow Chamber of Commerce’s 5th Annual Egg Hunt.
The East Meadow community came out in troves on March 30 to take part in a wonderful morning filled with fun, eggs, special characters and of course, plenty of sweet treats. The egg hunt takes place at Veterans Memorial Park, off of Prospect Avenue.
Aside from a special visit from the Easter Bunny, who was out and about meeting children and taking part in the egg hunt, several characters from Star Wars also made an appearance — including a team of Storm Troopers, and many other faces from the “dark side.” Among goodies found scattered throughout the field, there was a cotton candy machine and a face painting station.
Dressed in festive colors, and donning bunny ears and Easter baskets, egg-hunters left no spare egg or treat behind at the park. Once they were given the green light to go, they set their sights on as many eggs as they could hold.
–Jordan Vallone
Nassau County Police Department detectives are investigating a grand larceny that occurred in East Meadow.
According to police, an unknown male entered Car Max, located at 2000 Hempstead Turnpike and produced fraudulent documents to purchase a 2017 Mercedes Benz.
He was described as black, between 25 and 30 years old, approximately 6’0 tall, with a thin build. He was wearing a green jacket and blue jeans.
Detectives are requesting anyone with information regarding the incident to contact the Nassau County Police Department or call 911. All callers will remain anonymous.
Nassau County police say a burglary occurred on March 27, around 4:45 p.m. in East Meadow.
According to detectives, officers responded to Hempstead Convenience and Smoke, located at 2125 Hempstead Turnpike for a commercial burglary.
According to the New York State Bar Association, “medical aid in dying is a medical practice that has been adopted in ten US jurisdictions (WA, MT, VT, CA, CO, D.C., HI, ME, NJ, NM) that allows a terminally ill, mentally capable adult with a prognosis of six months or less to live to request from their doctor a prescription for medication they can decide to self-ingest to die peacefully in their sleep.” New York’s MAID law will be considered by the legislature this year.
Protections in the proposed law include (1) a requirement that two physicians confirm the person is terminally ill with a prognosis of six months or less months to live, (2) the individual is informed of palliative care and hospice options, (3) there is a mandatory mental health evaluation if either physician has any concerns about the person’s mental capacity, (4) the request be in writing witnessed by two people, neither of whom stand to benefit from the person’s estate, and (5) anyone attempting to coerce a person will face criminal prosecution.
MAID is inextricably tied to hospice and palliative care, of which a core value is patient dignity and autonomy. New York ranks last in the country for hospice utilization due to health providers failing to provide information and counseling on these end of life options. Options will now be required to be discussed under a provision requiring “informed consent”.
Public and organizational support for MAID is widespread.
Gallup reports that 74% of US adults believe that doctors should be allowed to end the life of a patient with an incurable disease “by some painless means”. By a margin of 50% to 26% New York physicians support MAID.
Taking into account the sensibilities of those health professionals who oppose MAID (formerly known as “physician assisted suicide”) on moral or religious grounds, by allowing them to opt out without penalty, the proposed law will offer an end to needless end of life pain and suffering for countless New Yorkers.
Upon arrival, it was determined that an unknown male subject, wearing a brown sweatshirt, black and white pants with a yellow shirt, threw a rock through the front window and entered the business. The investigation revealed, assorted tobacco products were removed by the subject who left the scene and fled in an unknown direction.
Detectives are requesting anymore information regarding the incident to please contact the Nassau County Police Department of call 911.
All callers will remain anonymous.
Hofstra’s softball team is seeking an encore from the program’s first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2018 last season with many new faces.
Led largely by five veteran fifth-year players, the Pride punched its NCAA Tournament ticket with a dramatic 5-4 walk-off conference title win in the bottom of the seventh inning against Towson after trailing by one entering the final frame. Hofstra was picked to finish third in the Coastal Athletic Association this season and coach Adrienne Clark is hoping her team is once again positioned for some postseason magic.
“Anytime you yield success it is motivating for the incoming class,” said Clark, who as a Hofstra player led the Pride to four straight CAA titles from 2002-05.
Hofstra got a big confidence boost it can go toe-to-toe with the nation’s best when it battled then 12th-ranked Missouri on March 26 at home and took the SEC power to extra innings before falling 2-1. The late afternoon game against Missouri, which is coached by former Hofstra coach Larissa Anderson, came immediately after the Tigers crushed Fordham 20-0 on the same field that afternoon.
“Having a top 25 team come here and have that game at home was really incredible,” said Clark, who played for Anderson when she was an assistant coach at Hofstra in the early 2000s. “It shows we are capable of beating anyone on any given day.”
Senior pitcher Julie Apsel showed why she’s the ace of the Pride staff in the Missouri gamer tossing a four-hitter over nine innings to an explosive lineup. She continued the momentum of the Missouri game with three wins during a CAA sweep North Carolina-Wilmington last weekend, where she surrendered just two runs.
Apsel is among a number of pitchers Clark can turn to in the bullpen including local high school products Marisa Ogden (Sewanhaka) and Anna Butler (Seaford.)
Junior Haley Venturini, a Rhode Island
native, has been working her way back from an injury suffered last season and Clark also expects her to play a key role in a deep rotation.
“They are different types of pitchers which is positive for us because we can put them in different situations to allow for success,” Clark said.
While Clark lost some key offensive talent from last year’s conference championship squad, the Pride returned reigning All-CAA First Team center fielder Chelsea Manto, who hit .301 with 27 stolen bases. The graduate student from Robbinsville, New Jersey is on pace for another big season with a .280 average and 12 stolen bases through the first 27 games.
Senior catcher Becca Vaillancourt has emerged as the Pride’s leading hitter so far with a..373 average with five home runs while also leading the pitching staff behind the plate. Olivia Malinowski and
Aliya Catanzarita have also been big producers at the plate early on this season displaying home run power at times.
Sophomore shortstop Allana Morse, a Mepham High School graduate, is another big focal point of the Hofstra offense after earning CAA All-Rookie Team honors as a freshman with 46 hits including a double in the NCAA Tournament against top-ranked Oklahoma. The North Bellmore native has also blossomed into a solid defensive player anchoring the middle infield.
“She has been so incredible at shortstop this year with some of the plays she has made,” said Clark of Morse. “The ball rarely gets by her in the infield.”
Freshman right fielder Lily Yepez, a former Mepham teammate of Morse, has
also emerged as a key bat in the lineup and was fifth on the team in batting to close the month of March. The North Bellmore native helped lead the Pirates to three county championships and two Long Island titles.
After hosting North Carolina A&T this weekend, the Pride return home to face Long Island rival Stony Brook in another crucial three-game CAA series from April 12-14. The final home conference games are slated for April 26-28 against Hampton.
The CAA Tournament is May 8-11 at UMC-Wilmington where the Pride will look to defend its crown. Hofstra entered the week tied for second in the CAA standings at 8-4 with 15 conference games remaining.
began volunteering at Love Nana during the school day.
“We go there once a month for about two hours,” D’Angelone said, “and help with laundry and make baby bundles. They were looking for more baby donations, specifically boy and girl clothing for infants.”
The teachers began discussing ways to help Love Nana in the Clarke community, and came up with the idea of holding a baby clothing and accessory drive in November. By January, the drive was up and running — and still ongoing today.
“That’s how the inspiration came to be, it can be hit or miss with donations there,” Sobieski said. “We were happy to do the drive.”
Students in their classes led efforts to spread the word about the collection.
“There was a lot of promotion,” Sobieski said. “Students created fliers, and they made announcement, for the purpose of the baby bundles, which they always enjoy doing.”
Mostly clothing has been donated, the teachers said, for young children up to 24-months old. People can also donate small toys and books for babies, and accessories like hats, socks and booties for infants. All items donated can either be new or gently used.
Donation bins have been set up around Clarke High School and Middle
School, but word about the drive was also spread via email to the entire district. Parents of students who are part of the Special Education Parent Teacher Association have also sent information out, and the teachers said the bins in Clarke are often overflowing with items. When the students volunteer at Love Nana during the school year they build life skills, Sobieksi said. They work the laundry and folding stations, and sort
clothes based on things like gender and size. Each baby bundle the students create has 8 to 10 outfits, books, blankets, toys and shoes.
“For families in need,” Sobieski said, “it’s a great start to have that clothing.”
The drive will run through May, which will be the last time the class goes to volunteer at Love Nana this school year.
D’Angelone said she feels their stu-
dents really get a lot of working at Love Nana, and running the drive.
“It shows them that they are contributing to a greater need in their community while they are getting vocation skills,” she said. “Along with vocational skills, they know these are going to babies in need. Putting together a complete product, and giving it to somebody, will bring them joy — and fulfill a need.”
that she could hear how prominent the low instruments were, which inspired her to practice more and improve her own skills as a musician.
The event served as a wonderful opportunity to expose students in the Clarke High School band to a professional-level production.
Brian Donahue, an East Meadow native who now resides in Connecticut, was named the 2023 Officer of the Year in the Stamford Police Department. Donahue was raised in East Meadow. The award is given to a police officer who exemplify their dedication and service.
Donahue is a 10-year veteran of the Stamford Police Department who joined the Special Victim’s Unit as an investigator in 2019. During his time as an investigator, he has shown a natural ability to investigate cases involving social media, internet crimes, and child exploitation.
Donahue has closed some of the most technically advanced and emotionally
difficult cases as he is required to process, analyze, and corroborate millions of images involving child exploitation. In closing these cases, Donahue has provided justice for juvenile victims and their families arresting hands on offenders, simultaneously protecting future children by removing some of the most dangerous sexual predators from the street.
Donahue’s efforts, personal sacrifice, and dedication to these most sensitive investigations in 2023 illustrate what it means to be honored with this distinguished award.
Courtesy East Meadow Union Free School District
On March 13, members of the W.T. Clarke High School Band in East Meadow visited New York City to see Disney’s ‘The Lion King’ and enjoyed lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe.
The East Meadow High School string ensemble, under the direction of Nicole Pellman, performed for the Nassau County Legislature on March 25.
For the second year, the East Meadow School District was thrilled to help represent the tens of thousands of music students in Nassau County by celebrating with these students for the county legislators.
Throughout the U.S., March is recognized as Music in Our Schools Month. School music programs throughout the country celebrate this occasion through both professional advocacy, and the greatest advocates of all are the young musicians making music in public spaces and legislative buildings. In New York State, music groups perform twice a day at the NYS Legislative Building in Albany.
Music students are raising awareness of the importance of music education, which promotes healthy physical, mental and emotional development for students, as well a sense of belonging and cultural contribution to each of the communities that is truly unique.
–Jordan Vallone
It was another year of an “egg-stra” special event at the East Meadow Stew Leonard’s on March 26. The store hosted its annual Easter Egg Hunt Egg-Stravaganza, geared towards families with children ages 8 or younger.
Easter eggs filled with candy and other prizes could be found all throughout the store. There were are several beloved characters, such as the Easter Bunny, that helped make the egg hunt just a tad more magical.
Five lucky children walked away with an egg that had a special ticket inside, redeemable with customer service for a grand prize: “a WOW Easter Basket,” bursting with extra treats.
The Easter Egg-Stravaganza was completely free to the community, and got children and families out and having fun — and putting their egg hunting skills to the test — a few days before the actual holiday.
For more on upcoming holiday events, which take place all year long at Stew Leonard’s, visit StewLeonards.com/Stew-Leonard-Events/. The East Meadow store is at 1897 Front Street, East Meadow.
–Jordan Vallone
It was the first of its kind event at the Coleman Country Day Camp in Freeport last week, as Mayhem Baseball welcomed in troves of young athletes for Mayhem Media Day. The event allowed baseball and softball players to feel like they were professional players, and fostered team spirit, as they embark on their 2024 season.
Mayhem Baseball, which was founded five years ago, is a travel program that has drastically increased in size since 2019.
Over the course of 5-hours on March 29, Mayhem welcomed its 19 teams through winter training facilities at Coleman.
“16 baseball teams, 3 softball teams,” Mann said. “They’re coming in and they’re doing their photos, and then they’re doing an infield workout. Then they move over to the press conference area. Really, the thought behind today is the Super Bowl has a media day, so we wanted to do a media day for the organization ahead of our season which starts tomorrow. This is just something fun for the kids.”
Each team spent about an hour in the facility, which is where the teams train during the winter, as Coleman is a sponsor of Mayhem Baseball. “We do a lot of indoor workouts here
in the winter,” Mann said, “and our teams also train indoors at various facilities in the area.”
The spring season started this week, and will go through the summer, Mann explained. After a reset, teams will con-
tinue playing throughout fall, ending in November. Mayhem Baseball competes against a lot of Nassau and Suffolk County programs, but also a lot of other teams throughout the northeast region.
Tryouts for the 2025 season will take
place sometime in the fall, but that doesn’t mean that there’s not earlier opportunities to join ‘s teams.
“We’re always looking for players,” Mann said. “We can be reached through our website for any information at any time. We’re always looking to add pieces here and there.”
There will be a smaller tryout in August, ahead of the fall season, and a larger tryout in October and November for teams next year.
Looking ahead, Mayhem will be working this season to expand its softball program.
“We are starting this year to really build out softball program,” Mann explained. “We’re going to start to build the softball side of the organization, the same way we built baseball, which will be good for not only our organization, but for the level of play for the town. We’re excited.”
As for Mayhem Media Day, it was all about trying something different.
“We are always kind of thinking of things to offer our families, something different versus other travel organizations out there,” he said. “The idea is to kick off the season, in a way where we’re making the kids feel like they’re professional players for a day.”
For more on Mayhem baseball, and to learn more about the program this season and what’s to come, visit MerrickMayhem.com.
Tim Baker/HeraldIt was a month of honoring women, but an evening of actually celebrating women as hundreds gathered once again for the Premier Business Women of Long Island Awards.
Hosted by RichnerLive and Herald Community Newspapers, the gala took place at the Heritage Club at Bethpage, 48 businesswomen were honored in more than a dozen different categories. Two special awards also were handed out for the Next Generation-Under 30, while the late Karen Tenenbaum was commemorated for her work founding Tenenbaum Law.
“This feels so much like a homecoming,” said Tifphani White-King, principal U.S. national tax practice leader of Mazars Group — and the event’s keynote speaker.
“I grew up here in Long Island, and there’s nothing like being celebrated and recognized and humbled by your hometown.”
The workplace, she added, “is really about women helping other women. Lifting each other up as we continue to climb the proverbial crystal staircase that Langston Hughes has talked about in his poetry.”
“I think that it’s great to have these awards to honor women who are working so hard and building these businesses,” said Liz Bentley, president of Liz Bentley Associates in Cold Spring Harbor. “As women leaders, we have to go first on things that may be difficult or scary, but we can do it and we’re good at it. It makes a difference.”
Aimee Kestenberg Elan, founder and designer for Affordable Luxury Group, was honored in the entrepreneur category. Now celebrating the company’s 10th anniversary, she reflected on the long path that got her here in the first place.
“I was the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors,” she said. “This is definitely an accomplishment for my family since we didn’t know if we were going to make it in general. Being here tonight is something special for me to show my children that women can do anything — which is a big reason I do what I do.”
The awards highlighted women from many different industries, like health care. That’s where Tameka Wallace, associate executive director of perioperative services at Glen Cove Hospital, shares her pride in being among the women leaders acknowledged.
“To be honored amongst all these amazing women — and for my hospital — it feels amazing,” she said.
Managing more than $18 million in revenue while overseeing more than 100 employees, Wallace admits she can’t do it alone.
“You do such hard work, it’s important to acknowledge both the people in and out of work,” she said. “My family is just as part of my success as I am a part of theirs.”
Jennifer Mock Donohue has been vice president of Disney Local Advertising for five years, overseeing local,
regional and political sales for the Disney ad sales team.
“I think it gets better and better for female executives, because now we have each other to lean on,” she said. “It’s so important to see — especially for future generations that you can do anything in this world.”
That’s something Seema Bhansali, vice president of employee experience
and inclusion for the Henry Schein health care company, also focuses on.
“I brought my 16-year-old daughter because I want her to see that women have their own space and can own themselves in a very specific way,” she said. “It can be hard for women to say, ‘Yeah, I’m good.’ I want her to see that (imposter syndrome) doesn’t have to be her reality.”
“You see more CEOs, COOs, CFOs … women in all areas of business now,” she said. “The ceiling is smashed. There’s nothing we can’t do.”
The dinner and award ceremony are reminders to the communities of Long Island about the women who are leading the way.
“It was a privilege to be in the same room with such a talented, driven and giving group of strong and fearless women,” said Amy Amato, executive director of RichnerLive.
The Premier Business Women of Long Island Awards gala gold sponsor was Glen Cove Hospital-Northwell Health. Silver sponsors were Mazars, Henry Schein, Certilman Balin, Greenberg Cosmetic Surgery and Dermatology, Valley Women in Business, and Capell Barnett Matalon & Schoenfeld.
Other sponsors included Liz Bentley Associates, National Grid Ventures, NHG Law Group, Jewish Community Relations Council of Long Island, and Jaspan Schlesinger Narendran LLP, Nassau
There’s something I like about small numbers. Especially 1, 2 and 3. For me, more than 3 is typically unmanageable. Everything I need to do, and everything I want to remember, should be no more than 3 at any one time.
Let me give you 3 examples to illustrate what I mean:
If you’re running around trying to get 101 things done during the day, stop! Ask yourself what the 3 most important tasks are that you need to take care of today. Then get them done. 3 is manageable; 101 is not. If you finish the 3 and still have energy for more, do another 1. When you finish a task, take a moment to pat yourself on the back and say, “I’ve done it!”
If you’re having difficulties with technology, feeling like an idiot because you don’t understand a whole lot on your new digital device, stop! It’s all too much. Learn 1 thing, only 1! When you figure out this one feature, you’ll feel less tech
challenged. Success is created with 1 accomplishment at a time!
If you’ve had a frustrating day and are ready to explode, don’t try to calm your anger by counting to ten. That doesn’t work.
When you’re furious, counting to ten takes seconds and then wham, you erupt with more fury than before. Instead, take 3 deep breaths, inhaling slowly, exhaling slowly. If you still haven’t calmed down, take another 3 deep breaths. Then say something reassuring to yourself. Appreciate the closure as you put your frustration behind you.
absorb at any one time. So, don’t read on until you’ve digested the first 3 ideas. Then, and only then, are you ready for more.
Let’s say you’ve read an article entitled, “25 Ways to Get More Organized.” Twenty-five, are you serious? The author must think you’re just sitting around with nothing to do except master her obsessivecompulsive techniques. No, no, no! You’ve got a life to live. So, either throw that magazine out (1 task accomplished) or skim that article for an idea or two that might be helpful to you. Just 1, 2, or 3 will suffice.
er pound or two. That’s it! You put on 1 or 2 pounds at a time; you take them off the same way!
Instead of enumerating all the faults of another as your anger revs up, choose 1 trait that’s most annoying to you. Then suggest a good time to discuss it. Fingers are not to be used to tally up the wicked, nasty, stupid things others do. Your fingers are meant for better things.
That’s all folks; enough is enough! I hope you spend the rest of this day enjoying yourself. Not enough of us do.
©2024
Okay, have you gotten those suggestions down pat? If not, reread them, till they sink into your brain. I don’t care how many gray cells you have; there’s only so much you can
Big numbers can interfere with weight loss. If you want to lose weight, aim for 1, 2, or 3 pounds this week. Whatever you accomplish, that’s great! Next week, lose anoth-
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By Karen Bloom
s we eagerly welcome spring — and Earth Month — the moment has arrived to think about how you want your yard to serve your family, pets and wildlife.
Maybe you’re aiming to have the best yard on the block, want to install an outdoor “family room,” or expand your space for entertaining. Perhaps your kids or pets could use a better play space. Spring and backyarding — the act of doing indoor activities such as dining, working, entertaining, even exercising, in our own backyards — surely go hand in hand.
“Knowing your backyarding personality type can help you be better prepared to craft a yard that is not only beautiful, but is also purposeful and specifically suited to how you backyard,” says Kris Kiser, president of the TurfMutt Foundation, which advocates for the care and use of green space.
The TurfMutt Foundation celebrates 15 years in 2024 teaching families how to save the planet one yard at a time.
“There really are no rules. Create an outdoor area that reflects your unique personality and style while supporting the things you like to do in your green space,” Kiser says. “Your yard isn’t just for aesthetics. It’s purposeful and contributes to our and the planet’s well-being. We encourage you to design your space that shows off your sense of style and supports what is important to your family.”
For most of us, that means filling our home environment with flowers. Plant summer bulbs and you’ll enjoy extra flowers in your garden next summer for months on end. Pick a nice spring day and turn planting into a fun outdoor activity — and get everyone involved.
Starting in early spring and all through summer, flower bulbs give you that lovely spring feeling. Even if March and April are often still cold and bleak, the first brave bulbs already start flowering. Imagine how fun it will be to cut some flowers from your own garden to put in a vase. In this way, you can enjoy spring inside as well.
Once the danger of night frost has passed, it is time to plant summer bulbs. If you don’t have enough garden space, no worries. Summer bulbs thrive planted in pots as well. With so many varieties available, you can you create the most colorful displays. You can enjoy these eye-catchers on your deck, patio or terrace for months.
All summer bulbs are suitable for planting in pots, by the way, They come in all kinds of shapes and colors. Five of the best-known include dahlia, Begonia, gladiolus, Calla and lily. They all have their own charm,
so it all depends on what you like. Low-growing summer bulbs are particularly suitable for pots, such as dahlias up to about 20 inches tall and tuberous begonias.
For an extra exuberant effect, mix several varieties of summer bulbs together. It is a smart choice if you want to extend the flowering period. Some flowers, such as dahlias and begonias, will actually continue to flower until the first frost.
Well-known or lesser known
Once the threat of night frost has passed, it is time to get started with summer bulbs.
The planting period runs until late May. You can choose popular dahlias, gladioli (Gladiolus), lilies (Lilium) or tuberous begonias. You could also go for lesser-known varieties, such as Crocosmia (previously known as Montbretia), variegated pineapple lily (Eucomis), Tigridia or Liatris.
Have you picked the perfect spot yet? Most summer bulbs need at least six hours of daily sun for rich flowering. So, check the packaging to see if your chosen bulbs prefer sun or (semi-)shade. Their demands on the soil are modest — it just needs to be sufficiently permeable to water.
Lower-growing varieties are best planted at the front of the border. Taller-growing ones thrive in a sheltered spot, against a wall or near a shrub, for example.
Group similar color hues together, or indeed, choose contrasting colors. Crocosmia, Dahlia and Liatris make a good team, as do lilies with gladioli and Canna lilies.
Summer bulbs are also a perfect match with perennials and shrubs.
Plant bulbs twice as deep as they are tall. Exceptions to this rule are dahlias and begonias, which should be planted less deep (with a few inches of soil above them).
Place bulbs in the soil with the growing point (“nose”) facing up. For begonias, the concave side is the top. Don’t worry if you’re not sure — once they sprout, they will grow upward on their own.
Fill the hole with soil and tamp it down lightly — water your bulbs.
In a pot, you can plant them a little closer together. Make sure there are holes in the bottom of the pot to allow excess water to drain away.
Put some shards or clay pellets at the bottom of the pot with potting soil on top. Next, follow the steps above. The bulbs will grow out on their own. They need watering only during long periods of drought.
Just a little more patience before you can enjoy the colorful results.
The South Shore Symphony Orchestra welcomes spring as it continues director Adam Glaser’s inaugural season. The orchestra is joined by the Adea Horn Quartet, composed of Alyssa Cherson, David Stevens, Erik Beuttenmuller and Anthony Hayes. The evening’s fascinating repertoire includes Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances, Op. 45, the most substantial work in the program. One of his most beloved works, it’s known for lush melodies and rich harmonies combined with dance rhythms, a sprinkle of jazz, and modern harmonic twists. Also of note, he wrote it on Long Island, in Huntington. The program also includes Lili Boulanger’s D’un Matin de Printemps, a brilliant work with hints of Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, and Robert Schumann’s Concertpiece for 4 Horns, Op. 86.
Saturday, April 6, 7:30 p.m.
Madison Theatre, Molloy University, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre. Tickets available at MadisonTheatreNY.org or (516) 323-4444.
The dynamic band takes everyone back to a time when all you needed was love, and a little help from your friends in its lively celebration of the iconic ‘Abbey Road’ album. Rain is renowned for delivering a note-for-note theatrical event that critics and audiences proclaim as the next best thing to seeing the Beatles live. Together longer than the Fab Four, Rain has mastered every song, gesture and nuance of the legendary foursome, resulting in a show that thoroughly captures the essential essence of Beatlemania. Their performance transports you back to the iconic era of Sgt. Pepper and the Magical Mystery Tour, along with all your favorite hits. From energetic classics to reflective favorites, the band delivers an unforgettable performance that appeals to fans, old and new. With vibrant costumes and psychedelic visuals, Rain creates a stunning concert full of nostalgia and good vibes. Join the band on an extraordinary journey that captivates hearts and inspires all generations.
Friday, March 29, 8 p.m. Tickets start Wednesday, April 10, 8 p.m. Tickets start at $45. Flagstar at Wesbury Music Fair, 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury. Tickets available at LiveNation.com.
Grab your leather jackets, and get ready to rock! The Wallflowers have hit the road and bringing their epic sound to the Paramount stage, Thursday, April 17, at 8 p.m. The line-up consists of Steve Mackey on bass, Stanton Adcock on lead guitar, Lynn Williams on drums, and founder Jakob Dylan on lead vocals and guitar. Expect to hear fan favorites, including the Billboard 100 charter “Sleepwalker.” Formed in 1989 by Dylan and guitarist Tobi Miller, over the last two decades the band has seen many changes. 1992 saw the release of their debut album, followed in 1994 by their best-known and highest-selling album, Bringing Down The Horse, which featured Grammy award-winning track ‘One Headlight’. The Wallflowers went on to release three more albums before going on a hiatus. 2012 was the year the band reunited and released their sixth album “Glad All Over.” Nearly a decade later, The Wallflowers released their seventh album, “Exit Wounds,” which hit number three on the Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart — making it the highest charting album for the band yet! For the past 30 years, this Dylan-led act has stood as one of rock’s most dynamic and purposeful bands — a unit dedicated to and continually honing a sound that meshes timeless songwriting and storytelling with a hard-hitting and decidedly modern musical attack. That signature style has been present through the decades, baked into the grooves of smash hits like 1996’s “Bringing Down the Horse” as well as more recent and exploratory fare like “Glad All Over.” While it’s been nine long years since we’ve heard from the group with whom he first made his mark, The Wallflowers are silent no more. And Jakob Dylan always knew they’d return, claiming The Wallflowers is much of his life’s work. $75, $45, $35, $25. The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. Tickets available at Ticketmaster.com or ParamountNY.com.
Join L.I. Cabaret Theatre for their latest performance, Saturday, April 6, 2 p.m., at the Elmont Library Theatre. In this spirited show music is on the menu as the cast travels back to different years in the past to find clues and knowledge to save the Melody Diner from demolition. A cast of 35 keeps the action moving along, with a live band. Singers and dancers perform current hits, oldies and also tunes from the Broadway stage. Free admission. Elmont Memorial Library Theater, 700 Hempstead Turnpike, Elmont. (516) 354-5280 or LICabaret@aol.com.
Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in East Meadow will celebrate the Divine Liturgy every Sunday at 9:30 a.m. during the Great Lent, which occurs through April 26. Each Sunday has its own special theme, reflected in the New Testament readings and hymns of that day, as well as the sermon. All services are conducted in English. A Lenten coffee hour will follow. Services are also streamed on Facebook.com/HTOCEM. 389 Green Ave. For more information, email htocem@gmail.com or visit HTOCEM.org.
Nassau County Museum of Art’s latest exhibition, “Urban Art Evolution,” is a comprehensive exhibit featuring a diverse range of compositions from the 1980s through the present by creators who were based in the rough and tumble downtown area of New York City known as Loisaida/LES (Lower East Side/East Village) and close surrounding neighborhoods. Artists pushed the boundaries of what was considered “art” with a primary focus on street/graffiti art. The exhibit’s scope, guest curated by art collector/gallerist Christopher Pusey, offers an even broader view from other creative residents, who worked inside their studios but still contributed to the rich fabric of the downtown art scene from different vantage points and aesthetics.
Works include sculpture, paintings, photography, music, and ephemera from many noted and influential artists. Opens March 23, on view through July 7. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. (516) 484-9337 or NassauMuseum.org.
The North Shore Symphony Orchestra is joined by Broadway and New York cabaret stars for “Country Jukebox: Kenny, Dolly & Friends,” Saturday, April 6, 8 p.m., on Adelphi’s Performing Arts Center stage. Your toes will be tapping and your hands clapping during this evening of country classics from the 1950s to today’s hottest contemporary hits.
The dynamic performers, with North Shore Symphony, salute ]such greats as Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, George Jones, The Judds, Carrie Underwood and more. Tickets start at $45, with discounts available to seniors, students, Adelphi alumni and employees. Adelphi University Performing Arts Center, 1 South Ave., Garden City. (516) 8774000 or Adelphi.edu/pac.
Nassau Financial Federal Credit Union holds its annual Shred Day, Saturday, April 20, 9:3011:30 a.m. This is a safe and secure way for the community to dispose of sensitive documents. 2575 Hempstead Turnpike, East Meadow. For more, visit NassauFinancial.org.
Converse, collaborate and create at Family Saturdays at Nassau County Museum of Art, Saturday, April 13, noon-3 p.m. Get inspired by the art and objects in the galleries and then join educators at the Manes Center to explore and discover different materials to create your own original artwork.
Kids and adults connect while talking about and making art together. A new project is featured every week. $20 adult, $10 child. For ages 2-14. Registration required. 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. Visit NassauMuseum.org for to register or call (516) 4849337.
East Meadow Fire Department will hold a recruitment event at each of its five firehouses, Saturday, April 13, 10 a.m.1 p.m. Those interested in learning how to volunteer can stop by and learn more about the department. For more, visit EastMeadowFD.com/join/.
Mercy Hospital offers a peer to peer meeting for breastfeeding support and resources, facilitated by a certified breastfeeding counselor, every Thursday, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Bring your baby (from newborn to 1 year) to the informal group setting.
All new moms are welcome. Registration required. Call breastfeeding counselor Gabriella Gennaro at (516) 705-2434 to secure a spot. St. Anne’s Building, 1000 North Village Ave., Rockville Centre. For information visit CHSLI.org/ mercy.
Enjoy Mah Jongg and canasta, Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m., at East Meadow Beth El Jewish Center. $5 contribution. No outside food allowed. Bring your own games and cards. Lessons available. 1400 Prospect Ave. Call (516) 483 4205 for more information.
Items on The Scene page are listed free of charge. The Herald welcomes listings of upcoming events, community meetings and items of public interest. All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number. Submissions can be emailed to thescene@liherald.com.
Sands Point Preserve offers another in its series of Forest Bathing walks, led by certified guide Linda Lombardo, Saturday, April 13, 10 a.m.-noon. Based on the Japanese tradition of Shinrin-Yoku, a wellness practice developed in the 1980s, the walk, on the grounds of the former summer residence of Howard Gould and later Daniel and Florence Guggenheim, inspires mindful connections with the natural elements of the woods for a range of healthful benefits. $40, $35 members. Registration required. Sands Point Preserve, 127 Middle Neck Road. For information, visit SandsPointPreserveConservancy.org or call (516) 571-7901.
Long Island Children’s Museum invites families to celebrate Holi, the Festival of Colors, Sunday, April 14, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Originating in India, this Hindu festival marks the end of winter and the arrival of the colorful spring season. During this joyous celebration, families eat sweets, dance to traditional folk music and throw colorful powder made from flowers.
Crafts, color throwing and dancing will be part of this vibrant event. Welcome spring’s arrival with Holi. Participants are encouraged to wear clothes that they won’t mind getting messy.
Long Island Children’s Museum, Museum Row, Garden City. (516) 224-5800 or LICM.org.
Plaza Theatrical continues its season with “Til Death Do Us Part…You First,” directed by Chazz Palminteri, Sunday, April 14, 2:30 p.m. Peter Fogel wrote and perfroms his hilarious autobiographical tale. An eternal bachelor, Fogel has major commitment issues as the love of his life has just broken up with him on Valentine’s Day. He senses his own mortality and after much soul searching, he decides to revisit the scene of all his romantic disasters.
Fogel’s signature wit, along with riotous relatable characters, takes us on a whirlwind comedic journey of searching for his soul mate and the meaning of a real commitment. See it at Plaza’s stage at the Elmont Library Theatre. $40, $35 seniors. See it at Plaza’s stage at the Elmont Library Theatre. 700 Hempstead Tpke., Elmont. For tickets, call (516) 599-6870 or visit PlazaTheatrical.com.
Participate in the Mary Ruchalski Foundation 5K and Fun Run, Sunday, April 7, in Eisenhower Park. The run raises money for pediatric cancer research to support families impacted by cancer. Check in is 8 a.m.; the race begins promptly at 9 in Field 2 of the park. Register online for the 5K, which costs $30, or the 1-mile fun run, which costs $15. For more, visit Events.EliteFeats.com/24Ruchalski.
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT
COUNTY OF NASSAU, U.S. BANK TRUST
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE OF DWELLING SERIES IV TRUST, Plaintiff, vs. BERNADETTE O’ROURKE
A/K/A BERNADETTE
GONZALEZ, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on November 2, 2018 and an Order Extending Sale Deadline and Other Relief duly entered on February 6, 2024, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the front steps on the north side of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on April 16, 2024 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 218 Belmont Avenue, East Meadow, NY 11554. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 50, Block 251 and Lots 308-310. Approximate amount of judgment is $669,424.95 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #000501/2014. No cash will be accepted. This foreclosure sale will be held on the north side steps of the Courthouse, rain or shine. COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the sale.
Ellen Savino, Esq., Referee Friedman Vartolo LLP, 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Firm File No. 222451-6 145447
LEGAL NOTICE
ASSESSOR’S NOTICE OF COMPLETION OF THE FINAL ASSESSMENT ROLL THE ASSESSOR OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU HEREBY GIVES NOTICE
that he has completed the 2024/2025 final assessment roll, which will be used for the 2025 levy of Town and County Taxes in the Towns of Hempstead, North Hempstead and Oyster Bay, and the City of Glen Cove and the City of Long Beach, and for the 2024/2025 levy of school taxes in such Towns and in the City of Long Beach. A certified electronic copy of the roll was filed with the Department of Assessment on April 1, 2024. The electronic roll may be examined on public terminals located in the offices of:
DEPARTMENT OF ASSESSMENT NASSAU COUNTY OFFICE BUILDING 240 OLD COUNTRY ROAD, FOURTH FLOOR MINEOLA, NY 11501 where the same will remain open for public inspection for fifteen days.
Dated this 1st day of April 2024.
JOSEHA A. ADAMO Chief Deputy Assessor, Nassau County 145927
LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURTCOUNTY OF NASSAU LYONS MORTGAGE SERVICES, INC. Plaintiff, Against
GEORGE C. BERGLEITNER III, MARIANNE BERGLEITNER, ET AL Defendant(s)
Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 05/30/2019, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, on the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court located at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on 5/8/2024 at 2:30PM, premises known as 1486 Cleveland Avenue, East Meadow, New York 11554, And Described As Follows: ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at East Meadow, Town Of Hempstead, County Of Nassau And State Of New York. Section 50 Block 522 Lot 28
The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $463,351.48 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 608897/2017 If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the then Court Appointed Referee will cancel the Foreclosure Auction. This Auction will be held rain or shine.
George P. Esernio, Esq., Referee. MCCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC, 10 Midland Avenue, Suite 205, Port Chester, NY 10573
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau on December 19, 2023, wherein PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION is the Plaintiff and JOSEPH A. CIALONE, JR., ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction RAIN OR SHINE at the NASSAU COUNTY SUPREME COURT, NORTH SIDE STEPS, 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, MINEOLA, NY 11501, on May 7, 2024 at 2:30PM, premises known as 1905 PROSPECT AVENUE, EAST MEADOW, NY 11554; and the following tax map identification: 50-421-20.
ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No.: 604103/2022. Ronald J. Ferraro, Esq. - Referee. Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES. 145848
2. Proposition 2
- The estimated expenditures for library purposes (library budget) for the ensuing school year 2024-2025 and authorizing the levy and collection of the necessary taxes thereof.
3. Any other questions or propositions as to matters or expenditures or authority to levy taxes that may be presented for a vote under the Education Law.
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that voting upon the estimated expenses for school and library purposes for the school year and the election of members of the Board of Education and Library Board will be held on May 21, 2024, in each of the school election districts heretofore established.
VOTING will be by ballot on voting machines in the schoolhouses designated in each of the separate school election districts heretofore established and the polls will remain open for voting from 7:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m., and as much longer as may be necessary for all voters then present to cast their votes.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER
NOTICE that at said vote and election to be conducted on May 21, 2024, two (2) members are to be elected to the Board of Education and one (1) member is to be elected to the Library Board as follows:
(a) two members of the Board of Education for a full term of three (3) years, commencing July 1, 2024, and expiring on June 30, 2027.
(b) one member of the Library Board for a full term of five (5) years, commencing July 1, 2024 to succeed Janet Barsky, incumbent, whose term of office expires on June 30, 2024.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER
LEGAL NOTICE
ANNUAL MEETING
NOTICE OF ANNUAL SCHOOL AND LIBRARY MEETING AND ELECTION
EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual meeting, budget vote and election of the East Meadow Union Free School District will be held on May 21, 2024, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. in each of the school election districts heretofore established on the following separate matters:
1. Proposition 1 - The estimated expenditures for school purposes (school budget) for the ensuing school year 2024-2025 and authorizing the levy and collection of the necessary taxes thereof.
and shall state the name and residence of the candidate.
Each vacancy to be filled for trustee of the Library Board shall be considered a separate specific office. A separate petition shall be required to nominate a candidate to each separate office. Each petition for candidate for the office of member of the Library Board shall be directed to the Clerk of the School District, care of the Superintendent, shall be signed by at least eighty-five (85) qualified voters of the District, shall state the residence of each signer, shall state the name and residence of the candidate, and shall describe the specific vacancy on the Library Board for which the candidate is nominated, which description shall include at least the length of the term of office and the name of the last incumbent.
Each petition shall be filed in the Office of the Clerk of the District, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. and not later than 5:00 p.m. on April 22, 2024.
SCHOOL ELECTION DISTRICTS
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER
NOTICE that the boundaries of the following School Election Districts shall be as heretofore determined and published by the Board of Education and the place in each election district for registration and voting shall be as follows:
SCHOOL ELECTION
DISTRICT NO. 1
The boundaries of School Election District No. 1 are as follows:
NOTICE that the election shall be held in accordance with the Rules for the Conduct of Meetings and Elections adopted by the Board of Education and applicable law.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER
NOTICE that candidates for the offices of member of the Board of Education and member of the Library Board shall be nominated by petition.
Candidates for member of the Board of Education run at large. Each candidate petition for the office of member of the Board of Education shall be directed to the Clerk of the School District, care of the Superintendent, shall be signed by at least eighty-five (85) qualified voters of the District, said number constituting 2% of the total number of voters who voted at the Annual Meeting of May 16, 2023, shall state the residence of each signer,
Bounded on the North by Hempstead-Bethpage Turnpike; on the East by Wantagh State Parkway; on the South by North Jerusalem Road; on the West by East Meadow Avenue from the intersection of North Jerusalem Road to Lenox Avenue then northeast to Eighth Avenue east to Newbridge Road, then north to Hempstead Turnpike.
The qualified voters of School Election District No. 1 will vote at the Parkway Elementary School located at 465 Bellmore Road in said District.
SCHOOL ELECTION
DISTRICT NO. 2
The boundaries of School Election District No. 2 are as follows:
The qualified voters of School Election District No. 2 will vote at the McVey Elementary School located at 2201 Devon Street in said District.
SCHOOL ELECTION DISTRICT NO. 3
The boundaries of School Election District No. 3 are as follows:
Bounded on the North by Hempstead Turnpike from Meadowbrook Parkway to Merrick Avenue, southerly to the point of intersection of the south side of Front Street easterly to Chestnut Avenue. Bounded on the East by the west side of Merrick Avenue running south from Hempstead Turnpike to Front Street to the south side of Front Street running northeast from Merrick Avenue to the west side of Chestnut Avenue from Front Street to Prospect Avenue to number 1489; then south including Marian Court, Dieman Lane, Flower Lane, Sherwood Drive, Andrea Road, the north ends of Cynthia, Wenwood and Bruce Drives, the west end of Cynron and Meadow Lanes and Midland Drive and the south side of Lenox Avenue proceeding east to East Meadow Avenue; continuing east on the west side of East Meadow Avenue from Lenox Avenue to Irving Place, south from number 604 East Meadow Avenue running south to North Jerusalem Road. Bounded on the South by North Jerusalem Road to the point of intersection of Ennabrock Road, including Ennabrock Road to North Jerusalem Road; west to Meadowbrook Parkway. Bounded on the West by Meadowbrook Parkway from North Jerusalem Road running north to Hempstead Turnpike.
Bounded on the North by the south side of Hempstead Turnpike from the intersection of Merrick Avenue running easterly to the intersection of Newbridge Road. Bounded on the East by the west side of Newbridge Road from the intersection of Hempstead Turnpike running south to the intersection of Eighth Avenue. Bounded on the South by the north side of Eighth Avenue; running southwest to the intersection of Lenox Avenue and East Meadow Avenue; running northwest on East Meadow Avenue to number 604; running westerly to Maitland Street; running south to the north side of Lenox Avenue continuing southwest to the southerly ends of Benito, Patterson, Adelphi, Coakley and Albert Streets and the westerly ends of Sidney Place, Powers Avenue and Kevin Place going west to the east side of Prospect Avenue at number 1530 and running northeast to the intersection of Chestnut Avenue, proceeding northwest on the northwest side of Chestnut Avenue to the intersection of Front Street, then running southwest on the north side of Front Street to the intersection of Merrick Avenue. Bounded on the West by the east side of Merrick Avenue from the intersection of Front Street, running north to the intersection of Hempstead Turnpike.
The qualified voters of School Election District No. 3 will vote at Barnum Woods Elementary School located at 500 May Lane in said District.
SCHOOL ELECTION
DISTRICT NO. 4
The boundaries of School Election District No. 4 are as follows:
Bounded on the North by Old Country Road to the point of intersection of the Wantagh State Parkway. Bounded on the East by the Wantagh State Parkway running south to the Oyster Bay Town Line and then east to Newbridge Road, running south on Newbridge Road to Twig Lane. Bounded on the South by Twig Lane, running west to the Wantagh State Parkway, then running south to the north side of Hearth Lane at Friends Lane proceeding west to the intersection of the west side of Carman Avenue, proceeding south to the north side of Salisbury Park Drive and continuing on the north side of Salisbury Park Drive in a northerly direction from Stewart Avenue to Old Country Road. The qualified voters of School Election District No. 4 will vote at the Bowling Green Elementary School located at 2340 Stewart Avenue, Westbury, NY, in said District.
SCHOOL ELECTION
DISTRICT NO. 5
The boundaries of School Election District No. 5 are as follows:
Bounded on the North from the south side of Hearth Lane at Carman Avenue easterly to Wantagh Parkway; north to the Oyster Bay Town Line; easterly to the south side of Levittown Parkway to the intersection of Newbridge Road. Bounded on the East by the west side of Newbridge Road running south to Wantagh Parkway; continuing south on Wantagh Parkway to the intersection of Hempstead Turnpike.
Bounded on the South by Hempstead Turnpike from the intersection of Wantagh Parkway running west to the intersection of Bly Road.
Bounded on the West by Bly Road running north and east to Ava Drive; running north and east to Erma Drive; running south to Nottingham Road; running east (including Florence and Jane Courts) to the east side of Carman Avenue running north to the intersection of Hearth Lane.
The qualified voters of School Election District No. 5 will vote at the Meadowbrook Elementary School located at 241 Old Westbury Road in said District.
PERSONAL REGISTRATION OF
NOTICE that all qualified voters of the School District must be registered in the School District Registration Books and/or in the Official List of Registered and Enrolled Voters for the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, issued by the Nassau County Board of Elections, in order to vote at the meeting and election on May 21, 2024.
The following persons shall be eligible to vote:
All persons who shall have presented themselves personally for registration in accordance with section two thousand fourteen of the Education Law and all persons who shall have been previously registered hereunder for any annual or special meeting or election and who shall have voted at any annual or special meeting or election held or conducted during the four calendar years prior to 2024 (i.e., 2020-2023).
In addition, all persons who are registered to vote pursuant to the provisions of section three hundred fifty-two of the Election Law of the State of New York shall be eligible to vote.
Registration of voters not previously registered and eligible to vote shall take place from April 25 through May 13, 2024 inclusive, on the days when school is in session, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. in the office of the District Clerk at the Salisbury School, 718 The Plain Road, Westbury, New York. Evening registration will be held on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in the main corridor of the Salisbury School between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
Registration of voters not previously registered and eligible to vote shall also take place on May 6, 2023, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., at each of the 5 election districts, locations as listed previously.
The Board of Registration shall meet to prepare the Register of the School District on the dates and times above specified and any person shall be entitled to have their name placed upon such Register provided that at such meeting of the Board of Registration, they are then or thereafter entitled to vote at the school meeting or election for which such register is prepared
aforesaid shall be filed in the Office of the Clerk of the District upon its completion where it shall be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., on each of the five days prior and including the day set for the election except Sunday, and on Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., by appointment only. Please contact Judy Kandel at 516-478-5735 if you wish to make an appointment.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER
NOTICE that the Official Budget Presentation on the adopted school budget will take place on May 8, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. at The Salisbury School, 718 The Plain Road, Westbury, NY. There will be a Public Hearing on the proposed Library Budget on May 13, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER
NOTICE that the proposed 2024/2025 school budget is available upon request to district residents commencing May 7, 2024, at the office of the District Clerk at the Salisbury School, 718 The Plain Road, Westbury, N.Y. The proposed 2024/2025 library budget is available upon request by any resident commencing May 7, 2024, on the library website.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER
NOTICE that copies of the proposed 2024/2025 school budget and of the proposed 2024/2025 library budget may be obtained by any resident of the district, upon request, at each of the offices of the schoolhouses in the District, at the school district offices, listed below, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., on each day other than Saturday, Sunday or holidays during the 14-day period preceding the annual meeting and election. The proposed 2024/2025 school budget will also be available on the school district website.
Barnum Woods Elementary School
500 May Lane
East Meadow, N.Y. 11554
Bowling Green Elementary School 2340 Stewart Avenue
Westbury, N.Y. 11590
McVey Elementary School
2201 Devon Street
East Meadow, N.Y. 11554
Meadowbrook Elementary School
241 Old Westbury Road
East Meadow, N.Y. 11554
Parkway Elementary School
465 Bellmore Road
East Meadow, N.Y. 11554
Woodland Middle School
690 Wenwood Drive
East Meadow, N.Y. 11554
W. Tresper Clarke Middle School
740 Edgewood Drive
Westbury, N.Y. 11590
W. Tresper Clarke High School
740 Edgewood Drive
Westbury, N.Y. 11590
East Meadow High School
101 Carman Avenue
East Meadow, N.Y. 11554
Salisbury School
718 The Plain Road Westbury, N.Y. 11590
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, pursuant to Real Property Tax Section 495, an exemption report detailing exemptions from real property taxation shall be available and appended to any tentative, preliminary or final budget.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that copies of the proposed 2024/2025 school budget and of the proposed 2024/2025 library budget may be obtained by any resident at the East Meadow Public Library located at 1886 Front Street, East Meadow, N.Y., on each day other than Sunday or holidays between the hours of 10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. during the 14-day period preceding the annual meeting and election. The proposed 2024/2025 library budget will also be available on the East Meadow Public Library website.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that an application for an absentee or early mail ballot may be made at the Office of the District Clerk, Salisbury School, 718 The Plain Road, Westbury, NY 11590 no earlier than thirty (30) days before the vote. Completed applications must be received by the District Clerk at least seven (7) days before the election if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter and one (1) day before the election if the ballot is to be personally delivered to the voter or his/her designated agent. Upon receiving a timely request for an absentee or early mail ballot, the District Clerk will mail the ballot to the address set forth in the application by no later than six (6) days before the vote. Absentee and early mail ballots must be received by the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 21, 2024. A list of all persons to whom absentee and early mail ballots shall have been issued will be available in said Office of the Clerk on each of the five days prior to the day of the election between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., on each of the five days prior and including the day set for the election except Sunday, and on Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., by appointment only. Please contact Judy Kandel at 516-478-5735 if you wish to make an appointment.
FURTHER
PLEASE TAKE
NOTICE that military voters who are not currently registered may apply to register as a qualified voter of the school district.
2024 BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD COUNTY OF NASSAU, NEW YORK
Judy E. Kandel District Clerk 145968
La VOTACIÓN será mediante boleta electoral en máquinas de votación en las sedes escolares designadas en cada uno de los distritos electorales escolares independientes hasta ahora establecidos, y las urnas estarán habilitadas para votar de 7:00 a.m. a 9:00 p.m. y durante el tiempo que sea necesario para que los votantes presentes puedan emitir su voto.
ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que, en esta votación y elección a realizarse el 21 de mayo de 2024, se elegirán dos (2) miembros para la Junta de Educación y un (1) miembro para la Junta de la Biblioteca como se indica a continuación:
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that any proposition or questions to be placed upon the voting machines shall be submitted in writing by petition subscribed by at least five hundred (500) qualified voters of the District and filed in the office of the District Clerk at least thirty (30) days prior to the annual meeting, except for petitions relating to a proposition which must be included in the notice of the annual meeting. Petitions relating to a proposition which must be included in the notice of the annual meeting must be submitted sixty (60) days in advance of the annual meeting. Any proposition may be rejected by the Trustees or Board of Education if the purpose of the proposition is not within the power of the voters, or where the expenditure of monies is required by the proposition, if the proposition fails to include the necessary specific appropriation.
QUALIFICATIONS FOR VOTING:
1. A person shall be a citizen of the United States.
2. Eighteen or more years of age.
3. A resident of the District for a period of thirty days or more next preceding the election at which he or she offers to vote.
4. Must be registered to vote.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER
NOTICE that this Board shall convene a special meeting thereof within twenty-four hours after the filing with the District Clerk of a written report of the results of the ballot for the purpose of examining and tabulating said reports of the results of the ballot and declaring the result of the ballot. The Board hereby designates itself to be a set of poll clerks to cast and canvass ballots pursuant to Education Law Section 2019-a, subdivision 2b at said special meeting of the Board.
Dated: MARCH 20,
Military voters who are qualified voters of the school district may submit an application for a military ballot. Military voters may designate a preference to receive a military voter registration, military ballot application or military ballot by mail, facsimile transmission or electronic mail in their request for such registration, ballot application or ballot. Military voter registration and military ballot application forms must be received in the Office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on April 26, 2024. No military ballot will be canvassed unless it is returned by mail or in person and received by the office of the District Clerk by no later than 5:00 p.m. on election day.
LEGAL NOTICE REUNIÓN ANUAL AVISO DE ELECCIÓN Y REUNIÓN ANUAL DE LA ESCUELA Y LA BIBLIOTECA DISTRITO ESCOLAR EAST MEADOW UNION FREE CIUDAD DE HEMPSTEAD, CONDADO DE NASSAU, NUEVA YORK
POR EL PRESENTE, SE NOTIFICA que la reunión anual, la votación del presupuesto y la elección del Distrito Escolar East Meadow Union Free se realizarán el 21 de mayo de 2024 entre las 7:00 a.m. y las 9:00 p.m. en cada uno de los distritos electorales escolares hasta ahora establecidos sobre los siguientes asuntos independientes:
1. Proposición 1 - Los gastos estimados para propósitos escolares (presupuesto escolar) para el siguiente año escolar, 2024-2025, y la autorización del gravamen y la recaudación de los impuestos necesarios de este gravamen.
2. Proposición 2 - Los gastos estimados para los propósitos de la biblioteca (presupuesto de la biblioteca) para el siguiente año escolar, 2024-2025, y la autorización del gravamen y la recaudación de los impuestos necesarios de este gravamen.
3. Cualquier otra cuestión o propuesta relacionada con los asuntos, los gastos o la autoridad para recaudar impuestos que se pueda presentar para una votación según la Ley de Educación.
POR EL PRESENTE, SE NOTIFICA que la votación sobre los gastos estimados para los propósitos de la escuela y la biblioteca para el año escolar, y la elección de los miembros de la Junta de Educación y la Junta de la Biblioteca se llevarán a cabo el 21 de mayo de 2024 en cada uno de los distritos electorales escolares hasta ahora establecidos.
firmante, el nombre y la residencia del candidato, e indicará la vacante específica en la Junta de la Biblioteca para la que el candidato está nominado. Esta descripción incluirá, por lo menos, la duración del mandato en el cargo y el nombre del último titular. Cada solicitud se presentará en la oficina de la secretaría del Distrito entre las 9:00 a. m. y las 4:30 p. m., y antes de las 5:00 p. m. del 22 de abril de 2024.
(a) Tres miembros de la Junta de Educación para un período completo de tres (3) años, desde el 1 de julio de 2024 hasta el 30 de junio de 2027. (b) Un miembro de la Junta de la Biblioteca para un período completo de cinco (5) años, desde el 1 de julio de 2024 hasta el 30 de junio de 2029, para reemplazar a Janet Barsky, titular del último mandato.
ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA
también que la elección se llevará a cabo de acuerdo con las Normas para la Organización de Reuniones y Elecciones adoptadas por la Junta de Educación y la ley vigente. NOMINACIONES DE CANDIDATOS
ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que los candidatos para los cargos de miembros de la Junta de Educación y de la Junta de la Biblioteca se nominarán mediante solicitud. Los candidatos a miembro en la Junta de Educación se presentan en general. Cada solicitud de candidato para el cargo de miembro de la Junta de Educación se enviará a la secretaría del Distrito Escolar, a la atención del superintendente, y deberá estar firmada por al menos ochenta y cinco (85) votantes calificados del Distrito. Este número representa el 2% del número total de personas que votaron en la reunión anual del 16 de mayo de 2023. Incluirá la residencia de cada firmante, y también el nombre y la residencia del candidato. Cada vacante para ser fideicomisario de la Junta de la Biblioteca se debe considerar una vacante específica e independiente. Se necesita una solicitud por separado para nominar a un candidato para cada cargo en particular. Cada solicitud de candidato para el cargo de miembro de la Junta de la Biblioteca se enviará a la secretaría del Distrito Escolar, a la atención del superintendente, y deberá estar firmada por al menos ochenta y cinco (85) votantes calificados del Distrito. Incluirá la residencia de cada
DISTRITOS ELECTORALES ESCOLARES ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que la Junta de Educación determinará y publicará, como hasta aquí se establece, los límites de los siguientes distritos electorales escolares, y el lugar de cada distrito electoral para el registro y la votación será el siguiente:
DISTRITO ELECTORAL ESCOLAR N.º 1
Los límites del Distrito Electoral Escolar n.º 1 son los siguientes: Limita al norte con Hempstead-Bethpage Turnpike, al este con Wantagh State Parkway, al sur con North Jerusalem Road, al oeste con East Meadow Avenue desde la intersección de North Jerusalem Road hasta Lenox Avenue, al noreste hasta Eighth Avenue, al este hasta Newbridge Road, al norte hasta Hempstead Turnpike. Los votantes calificados del Distrito Electoral Escolar n.º 1 votarán en Parkway Elementary School ubicada en 465 Bellmore Road, en este Distrito.
DISTRITO ELECTORAL ESCOLAR N.º 2
Los límites del Distrito Electoral Escolar n.º 2 son los siguientes: Limita al norte con el lado sur de Hempstead Turnpike desde la intersección de Merrick Avenue hacia el este hasta la intersección de Newbridge Road. Limita al este con el lado oeste de Newbridge Road desde la intersección de Hempstead Turnpike, y continúa hacia el sur hasta la intersección de Eighth Avenue. Limita al sur con el lado norte de Eighth Avenue; continúa hacia el sudoeste hasta la intersección de Lenox Avenue y East Meadow Avenue; sigue hacia el noroeste en East Meadow Avenue hasta la numeración 604; prosigue hacia el oeste hasta Maitland Street; continúa hacia el sur hasta el lado norte de Lenox Avenue y hacia el sudoeste hasta el final sur de Benito, Patterson, Adelphi, Coakley y Albert Streets, y hasta el final oeste de Sidney Place, Powers Avenue y Kevin Place. Sigue al oeste hasta el lado este de Prospect Avenue, numeración 1530, y continúa hacia el noreste hasta la intersección de Chestnut
Avenue; prosigue hacia el noroeste en el lado noroeste de Chestnut Avenue hasta la intersección de Front Street. Luego, sigue hacia el suroeste en el lado norte de Front Street hasta la intersección de Merrick Avenue. Limita al oeste con el lado este de Merrick Avenue desde la intersección de Front Street, y continúa hacia el norte hasta la intersección de Hempstead Turnpike. Los votantes calificados del Distrito Electoral Escolar n.º 2 votarán en McVey Elementary School ubicada en 2201 Devon Street, en este Distrito.
DISTRITO ELECTORAL
ESCOLAR N.º 3
Los límites del Distrito Electoral Escolar n.º 3 son los siguientes: Limita al norte con Hempstead Turnpike desde Meadowbrook Parkway hasta Merrick Avenue, al sur hasta el punto de intersección del lado sur de Front Street y hacia el este hasta Chestnut Avenue. Limita al este con el lado oeste de Merrick Avenue. Sigue hacia el sur desde Hempstead Turnpike a Front Street hasta el lado sur de Front Street. Continúa hacia el noreste desde Merrick Avenue hasta el lado oeste de Chestnut Avenue, desde Front Street hasta Prospect Avenue, numeración 1489. Luego, en el sur incluye Marian Court, Dieman Lane, Flower Lane, Sherwood Drive, Andrea Road, el final norte de Cynthia, Wenwood y Bruce Drives, el final oeste de Cynron y Meadow Lanes y Midland Drive, y el lado sur de Lenox Avenue. Sigue por el este hasta East Meadow Avenue; continúa por el este en el lado oeste de East Meadow Avenue desde Lenox Avenue hasta Irving Place, al sur desde East Meadow Avenue, numeración 604, sigue hacia el sur hasta North Jerusalem Road. Limita al sur con North Jerusalem Road hasta el punto de intersección de Ennabrock Road, incluida Ennabrock Road hasta North Jerusalem Road; al oeste hasta Meadowbrook Parkway. Limita al oeste con Meadowbrook Parkway desde North Jerusalem Road hacia el norte hasta Hempstead Turnpike.
Los votantes calificados del Distrito Electoral Escolar n.º 3 votarán en Barnum Woods Elementary School ubicada en 500 May Lane, en este Distrito. DISTRITO ELECTORAL ESCOLAR N.º 4
Los límites del Distrito Electoral Escolar n.º 4 son los siguientes: Limita al norte con Old Country Road hasta el punto de intersección de Wantagh State Parkway. Limita al este con Wantagh State Parkway y continúa hacia el sur
hasta Oyster Bay Town Line, y luego al este hasta Newbridge Road. Continúa hacia el sur por Newbridge Road hasta Twig Lane. Limita al sur con Twig Lane; continúa al oeste hasta Wantagh State Parkway; luego, sigue hacia el sur hasta el lado norte de Hearth Lane en Friends Lane. Continúa hacia el oeste hasta la intersección del lado oeste de Carman Avenue; sigue hacia el sur hasta el lado norte de Salisbury Park Drive, y prosigue por el lado norte de Salisbury Park Drive en dirección norte desde Stewart Avenue hasta Old Country Road. Los votantes calificados del Distrito Electoral Escolar n.º 4 votarán en Bowling Green Elementary School ubicada en 2340 Stewart Avenue, Westbury, Nueva York, en este Distrito.
DISTRITO ELECTORAL ESCOLAR N.º 5
Los límites del Distrito Electoral Escolar n.º 5 son los siguientes:
Limita al norte desde el lado sur de Hearth Lane hasta Carman Avenue, al este hasta Wantagh Parkway, al norte hasta Oyster Bay Town Line, al este hasta el lado sur de Levittown Parkway hasta la intersección de Newbridge Road. Limita al este con el lado oeste de Newbridge Road, y sigue hacia el sur hasta Wantagh Parkway; continúa hacia el sur por Wantagh Parkway hasta la intersección de Hempstead Turnpike. Limita al sur con Hempstead Turnpike desde la intersección de Wantagh Parkway hacia el oeste hasta la intersección de Bly Road. Limita al oeste con Bly Road, y continúa hacia el norte y el este hasta Ava Drive; sigue hacia el norte y el este hasta Erma Drive, hacia el sur hasta Nottingham Road, hacia el este (incluso los tribunales en Florence y Jane) hasta el lado este de Carman Avenue; continúa hacia el norte hasta la intersección de Hearth Lane. Los votantes calificados del Distrito Electoral Escolar n.º 5 votarán en Meadowbrook Elementary School ubicada en 241 Old Westbury Road, en este Distrito.
REGISTRO PERSONAL DE VOTANTES ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que, para votar en la reunión y la elección del 21 de mayo de 2024, todos los votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar deben estar registrados en los libros de registro del Distrito Escolar o en la lista oficial de votantes registrados e inscritos para la ciudad de Hempstead, condado de Nassau, emitido por la Junta Electoral del condado de Nassau. Las siguientes personas serán elegibles para votar: todas las personas
que se hayan presentado personalmente para registrarse según la sección 2014 de la Ley de Educación, y todas las personas que se hayan registrado previamente en virtud del presente para cualquier reunión o elección anual o extraordinaria y que hayan votado en cualquier reunión o elección anual o extraordinaria organizada o realizada durante los cuatro años calendario previos al 2024 (es decir, 2020-2023). Además, todas las personas que estén registradas para votar de conformidad con las disposiciones de la sección 352 de la Ley de Elecciones del estado de Nueva York serán elegibles para votar.
El registro de votantes que no se hayan registrado previamente y que sean elegibles para votar se hará desde el 25 de abril hasta el 13 de mayo de 2024 inclusive, los días en los que la escuela esté abierta, entre las 9:00 a. m. y las 4:00 p. m. en la oficina de la secretaría del Distrito en el Salisbury School, 718 The Plain Road, Westbury, Nueva York. El registro vespertino se realizará el miércoles 8 de mayo de 2024, en el vestíbulo principal del Salisbury School entre las 7:00 p. m. y las 8:00 p. m.
El registro de votantes que no se hayan registrado previamente y que sean elegibles para votar también se hará el 6 de mayo de 2024, entre las 8:30 a. m. y las 12:30 p. m. en cada uno de los cinco distritos electorales, en los lugares indicados anteriormente.
La Junta de Registro se reunirá para preparar el registro del Distrito Escolar durante los horarios y las fechas que se especifican arriba, y cualquier persona tendrá derecho a que su nombre se incluya en este registro, siempre y cuando, en esa reunión de la Junta de Registro, tenga derecho a votar, en ese momento o en lo sucesivo, en la reunión o elección escolar para la cual se prepara ese registro.
ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que la Junta de Registro también se reunirá durante la elección anual distrital en cada sede escolar donde se realizará la votación con el fin de preparar un registro para las elecciones distritales que se hagan con posterioridad.
ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que el registro de votantes preparado según lo mencionado anteriormente se presentará en la oficina de la secretaría del Distrito una vez finalizado. Allí, estará disponible para la inspección de cualquier votante calificado del Distrito, entre las 9:00 a. m. y las 4:00 p. m., durante los cinco días
anteriores a la fecha establecida para la elección, e incluso durante este día, a excepción del domingo, y también estará disponible para su inspección el sábado solo de 9:00 a. m. a 11:00 a. m., solo por cita. Llame al 516-478-5735 para programar una cita.
ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que la presentación oficial del presupuesto sobre el presupuesto escolar adoptado se realizará el 8 de mayo de 2024 a las 7:00 p. m. en el Salisbury School, 718 The Plain Road, Westbury, Nueva York. El 13 de mayo de 2024 a las 8:00 p. m., se realizará una audiencia pública de forma remota sobre el presupuesto propuesto para la biblioteca.
ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que el presupuesto escolar propuesto para 2024/2025 se encuentra disponible para los residentes del Distrito, si lo solicitan, a partir del 7 de may de 2024 en la oficina de la secretaría del Distrito en el Salisbury School, 718 The Plain Road, Westbury, Nueva York. El presupuesto para la biblioteca propuesto para 2024/2025 se encuentra disponible para cualquier residente, si lo solicita, a partir del 7 de mayo de 2024 en el sitio web de la biblioteca. ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que cualquier residente del distrito puede conseguir las copias del presupuesto escolar propuesto para 2024/2025 y el presupuesto para la biblioteca propuesto para 2024/2025, si los solicita, en cada una de las oficinas de las sedes escolares del Distrito, en las oficinas del distrito escolar, mencionadas a continuación, entre las 9:00 a. m. y las 4:00 p. m., todos los días salvo los sábados, domingos o feriados, durante los 14 días previos a la elección y reunión anual. El presupuesto escolar propuesto para 2024/2025 también estará disponible en el sitio web del Distrito Escolar.
Barnum Woods Elementary School
500 May Lane
East Meadow, N.Y. 11554
Bowling Green Elementary School
2340 Stewart Avenue
Westbury, N.Y. 11590
McVey Elementary School
2201 Devon Street
East Meadow, N.Y. 11554
Meadowbrook Elementary School
241 Old Westbury Road
East Meadow, N.Y. 11554
Parkway Elementary School
465 Bellmore Road
East Meadow, N.Y. 11554
Woodland Middle School
690 Wenwood Drive
East Meadow, N.Y. 11554
W. Tresper Clarke Middle School
740 Edgewood Drive
Westbury, N.Y. 11590
W. Tresper Clarke High
School 740 Edgewood Drive Westbury, N.Y. 11590
East Meadow High School
101 Carman Avenue East Meadow, N.Y. 11554
Leon J. Campo Salisbury Center 718 The Plain Road Westbury, N.Y. 11590
ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que, de acuerdo con la Sección 495 de la Ley de Impuestos sobre los Bienes Inmuebles, un informe de exención en el que se detallen las exenciones del impuesto sobre los bienes inmuebles estará disponible y se adjuntará a cualquier presupuesto provisional, preliminar o definitivo.
ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que, previa solicitud, cualquier residente puede conseguir las copias del presupuesto escolar propuesto para 2024/2025 y el presupuesto para la biblioteca propuesto para 2023/2024 en una oficina de la biblioteca pública de East Meadow ubicada a 1886 Front St, East Meadow, NY, todos los días, salvo los domingos o feriados entre las 10:30 a. m. y las 4:00 p. m., durante los 14 días previos a la elección y reunión anual. El presupuesto para la biblioteca propuesto para 2024/2025 también estará disponible en el sitio web de la biblioteca pública de East Meadow.
ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que la solicitud para una boleta electoral por ausencia o por el correo temprano se puede realizar en la oficina de la secretaría del Distrito, Salisbury School, 718 The Plain Road, Westbury, Nueva York 11590, a partir de los treinta (30) días previos a la votación. La secretaría del Distrito debe recibir las solicitudes completas por lo menos siete (7) días antes de la elección si la boleta electoral debe enviarse al votante por correo y un (1) día antes de la elección si la boleta electoral debe entregarse en persona al votante o a la persona designada por este. Al recibir una solicitud oportuna para una boleta electoral por ausencia o por el correo temprano, la secretaría del Distrito enviará por correo esta boleta a la dirección indicada en la solicitud a más tardar seis (6) días antes de la votación. La secretaría del Distrito debe recibir las boletas electorales por ausencia o por el correo temprano antes de las 5:00 p. m. del 21 de mayo de 2024. Habrá una lista disponible de las personas para las que se emitieron las boletas electorales por ausencia o por el correo temprano en la oficina de la secretaría del Distrito durante los cinco días previos al día de la elección, excepto el domingo, entre las 9:00 a. m. y las 4:00 p. m., y los sábados entre las 9:00
a. m. y las 11:00 a. m. solo por cita. Llame al 516-478-5735 para hacer una cita.
ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que los votantes militares que no estén registrados actualmente pueden solicitar registrarse como votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar. Los votantes militares que sean votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar podrán solicitar una boleta electoral militar. Los votantes militares pueden indicar su preferencia de recibir una solicitud de registro de votantes militares, una solicitud de boleta electoral militar o una boleta electoral militar por correo postal, fax o correo electrónico en dicho pedido de solicitud de registro, solicitud de boleta o boleta. Los formularios de registro de votantes militares y los formularios de solicitud de boleta electoral militar deben recibirse en la oficina de la secretaría del Distrito antes de las 5:00 p. m. del 26 de abril de 2024. No se escrutarán las boletas electorales militares a menos que se entreguen nuevamente por correo postal o en persona en la oficina de la secretaría del Distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 p. m. el día de la elección.
ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que cualquier propuesta o consulta a colocarse en las máquinas de votación se presentará por escrito mediante solicitud firmada por al menos quinientos (500) votantes calificados del Distrito en la oficina de la secretaría del Distrito a más tardar treinta (30) días antes de la reunión anual, con excepción de las solicitudes relacionadas con una propuesta que se deba incluir en el aviso de la reunión anual. Las solicitudes relacionadas con una propuesta que se debe incluir en el aviso de la reunión anual se deben entregar sesenta (60) días antes de esta reunión.
Los fideicomisarios o la Junta de Educación pueden rechazar cualquier propuesta si su propósito no se encuentra dentro de las competencias de los votantes, o si se requieren gastos para la propuesta, en caso de que esta no incluya la asignación específica necesaria.
REQUISITOS PARA VOTAR:
1. Ser ciudadano de los Estados Unidos.
2. Tener 18 años o más.
3. Ser residente del Distrito durante un período de 30 días o más inmediatamente antes de la elección en la que desea votar.
4. Estar registrado para votar.
ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que esta Junta convocará a una reunión especial en un plazo de 24 horas después de la
A bridge on the Wantagh Parkway was renamed last month, in honor of three state troopers who made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.
State Sen. Steve Rhoads joined Troop L of the New York State Police for a memorial bridge ceremony to honor troopers Theodore Dobbs, John Lane and James Gohery, who all now have bridges dedicated in their memory.
Rhoads the legislation authorizing the Jerusalem Avenue overpass on the
presentación ante la secretaría del Distrito de un informe por escrito de los resultados de la votación con el fin de analizar y tabular estos informes de los resultados de la votación y declarar dicho resultado. Por el presente, y de acuerdo con la sección 2019-a, subdivisión 2b de la Ley de Educación, la Junta se designa a sí misma como un grupo de
de mesa
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Rhoads was joined by 47 members of the Gohery family, ranging from his daughter who was six days shy of her 1st birthday when her dad was killed in the line of duty in 1943 to his great, great, great granddaughter.
Rhoads said he remains committed to making sure that no one will forget the ultimate sacrifice of local heroes.
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Q. We are changing a commercial building space for new tenants, and they want us to remove columns. We have an architect, but he suggested hiring a structural engineer for the structural changes. We interviewed three engineers at the building. Their proposals for what they would do to remove columns varied greatly. The cost did, too, and we are concerned that the cheapest way to go is using single cables to support some of the beams from side to side, so that the beams with no columns would only be supported by a single cable running side to side underneath. Since we’ve never seen this before, we’re wondering if you have, and whether we can trust this solution. The savings would be great, costing only one-third of the most expensive refitting with new, much bigger beams. What do you think?
A. It sounds like a creative solution. Suspending cables sideways across the space to remove columns means having a complete understanding of the weakest points of the installation. Cables are actually very strong and lightweight. The Brooklyn Bridge is a cable structure, and the design was the focus of a lot of scrutiny and concern before it was even chosen to get people across from Brooklyn to Manhattan over a century ago.
With any structure, there needs to be a safety factor in the equations. Bridges are designed, generally, with a safety factor approaching 100 times the minimum requirement, which should make even the most skeptical person feel a little more confident making the crossing. But it isn’t the cables or beams that are of greatest concern when designing a structure. It’s the connections.
The next time you’re sitting in traffic, note the number and the size of the bolts connecting all the components of the bridge. Those bolts are analogous to a centipede’s legs. If the centipede lost a few of its many legs, it could still move from place to place. Structure should perform like the redundancy of a centipede. Each part spreads the load a given distance to the next component, just like the rafters in your home’s roof, as another example. If bridges had fewer bolts, they would need to be much larger, and there would be less safety.
So I’m asking you to question whether the single cable has enough safety factor calculated into the connectors. Remember, your building is only as good as the last hands that touched the installation. Missing bolts just caused a furor in the aircraft construction industry, so it isn’t wrong to double back and ask for confirmation about the single-cable design.
The Hyatt Regency Hotel overhead walkway collapse in Kansas City in July 1981 is an example of how a change in cable design can cause tragedy. Transferring the load from one cable to another with a faulty connection design killed 114 people and injured 216 more. Confirm the safety factor, and ask questions. Good luck!
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All I had to do was pick up a package that had been left at the wrong door.
I knocked. My neighbor let me in. Nothing felt out of the ordinary. But then it happened. It was like raindrops hitting a tin roof, but it wasn’t raining, and we weren’t under a tin roof.
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I followed the sound, and set my sights on something that hasn’t been in front of my eyes for at least a couple decades. It was a typewriter. An electric one, to be exact. An Olympia Compact S — one of the last typewriter models offered by a storied German manufacturer that lost the battle with computers and word processors.
Finding a typewriter nowadays requires a trip to a museum. But there are still many out in circulation — you just have to know where to look.
So it wasn’t necessarily the typewriter that surprised me, but who was using
it: my neighbor’s teenaged daughter.
“Oh, don’t mind her,” my neighbor said. “She’s always on that typewriter.”
“But … but, why?” I asked.
“The sounds it makes are relaxing. And it reminds her of her grandfather.”
The young woman was composing a poem using paper from the printer. The ink of each letter was quite uneven, showing not only the antiquity of the machine in front of her, but also how spoiled we’ve become with laser printers and high-resolution screens.
Fcreates a sense of permanence a computer or smartphone can’t. And it can’t be hacked.
Typewriters, of course, aren’t the only things making a comeback. Vinyl records and Polaroid cameras have already made returns. So have flip phones. And, believe it or not, even pocket pagers.
ixated on our devices, we’ll find ourselves longing for time away from all that.
I thought my neighbor’s daughter was unique in this love for typewriters, but apparently that’s not the case. Young people — especially in the so-called Gen Z — are rediscovering a number of relics from the past like typewriters, enjoying their simplicity, with maybe even a hint of nostalgia for a previous life, perhaps.
Exploring this new fondness for typewriters online has helped me discover some interesting feedback. There are no ads or messages popping up on the paper while you type, meaning you can focus on what you’re creating. It also
NAll of these treasures should have been lost to time, but they weren’t. Yes, they had been replaced by something better and faster — but all of these artifacts were more than just tools. They helped define us in some way.
And that gives me real hope for other aspects of society that some might try to write off, like something near and dear to my own heart: newspapers. A few weeks back, a popular social media content creator named Kelsey Russell visited our newsroom. She has made a name for herself on TikTok by championing newspapers to her generation. Can you pull up news on your phone or computer? Sure. But once you swipe it away, it’s gone. Newspapers, however, can’t be swiped away. And they won’t be.
As we become more and more fixated on our electronic devices, we’re going to find ourselves longing for time away from all that. Without the distractions.
Without the noise created by the intrusion of others. Without the glowing screen.
Books. Cameras using actual photographic paper. Phones that don’t do much more than call someone. Typewriters. And, yes, newspapers.
All of these will maintain places in our society, and that’s good. But please don’t call them antique. Many of us have indeed made many trips around the sun, but we don’t need the reminder.
And finally, you might think finding my young neighbor clickety-clacking away on a typewriter might inspire me to write these words on something similar. It certainly would be poetic in its own right.
But my MacBook Air is doing perfectly fine. I already lived through the times when typewriters were a necessary tool, not a novelty. Give me another decade or two before I’m ready to relive that, thank you very much.
Michael Hinman is executive editor of Herald Community Newspapers. Comments? execeditor@liherald.com.
ew York is experiencing an affordability crisis, but it doesn’t stop at groceries, gas and rent. It’s a more varied problem than many would think.
The lack of affordable and accessible child care is hitting Long Island families hard. Its cost is a major expense that is unsustainable. This crisis not only strains household budgets, but also poses significant barriers to workforce participation and economic mobility for parents striving to secure a better future for their families. Even households with solid incomes — Long Island’s median household income was $120,124 in 2021, according to census data — may be burdened by this substantial monthly expense.
In today’s world, child care is not a simple choice, and it’s far from a luxury — it’s essential. That’s why I have a plan to help give families options and support as they work and care for their children.
The average cost of full-time child care on Long Island can range from $12,000 a year for a preschooler to $20,000 a year for an infant. Not surpris-
ingly, nearly half of all parents say their child care situation is unworkable. To confront this issue, I held a news conference with my Republican Assembly colleagues in Albany last month to address the lack of high-quality, affordable child care across the state.
We unveiled “A Blueprint for Childcare (ABC) Plan,” a comprehensive proposal to provide muchneeded relief for high child care costs and better access through increased tax incentives for families and day cares, expansion of access to early-childhood education and more provider options. We estimate that these proposals would save an average family more than $2,300 annually.
C■ Creating a new child care facility capital improvement tax credit to help child care providers enhance and update facilities; and
■ Doubling the existing child care creation and expansion tax credit from $25 million per year to $50 million.
hild care isn’t a simple choice, and it’s far from a luxury — it’s essential.
The first prong of the ABC Plan aims to provide increased tax incentives to both providers and families. When funding is made directly available to families and businesses, the child poverty rate drops significantly and quality child care programs become more readily available, which is why I’m proposing the following to boost child tax credits:
■ Increasing the state earned-income tax credit from 30 to 45 percent;
■ Increasing the Empire State child tax credit to 45 percent of the federal child tax credit;
The second prong of the plan aims to expand access to early-childhood education. The ABC Plan calls for a universal pre-K aid increase and program improvements, including:
■ Increasing the state reimbursement rate to school districts for pre-K students, and expanding collaboration between school districts and child care agencies;
■ Ensuring that school districts and child care agencies follow the same regulations that govern staffing ratios and class sizes; and
■ Calling on the commissioner of education to streamline the hiring process for qualified pre-K teachers and minimize the cost of new and existing programs.
The third prong of the plan focuses on supporting child care statewide — fairly. The proposals in this part of the
plan include changing rules and regulations, creating new ways for families to access child care that cut the red tape of traditional child care models, and looking into how regional costs and state barriers impact the availability and affordability of child care.
Long Island is traditionally ranked one of the most expensive places to live in the country, let alone in New York state. It’s time to break this tradition, and I’m backing a proposal that would ensure more public support for areas with the highest cost of living, like ours.
The rising child poverty rate reflects a failure to provide adequate support and opportunities for our most vulnerable population. As things stand, even families earning decent incomes are struggling to afford quality child care. We have the power to change this trend through targeted investments in child care. The proposed solutions exemplify my commitment to laying a strong foundation for educational success.
To build a better future for our New York families, we need to ensure that our kids get the opportunities they deserve to succeed. As we advance in shaping our state budget, I am optimistic that these critical initiatives can garner the bipartisan support they merit.
Ed Ra represents the 19th Assembly District, and is the ranking Republican member of the Assembly Ways and Means Committee.
arth Day is April 22, just two and a half weeks away.
It’s a day that’s been around since 1970, yet it seems the condition of our planet since then has gotten worse rather than better.
Climate change has caused global temperatures to rise, resulting in more severe storms, wildfires and megadroughts. Places that are typically cold are becoming warmer, and places that are usually warm are becoming hotter.
What can regular people like us do to turn back the rising tide of global climate change? Becoming better caretakers of whatever small patch of the world we inhabit is a start.
Earth Day is just one day, but its significance should carry over into every day. And it’s all about sustainability and stewardship — which requires daily commitment, vigilance and action.
We can start by remembering the three R’s — reduce, reuse and recycle. That means buying products with minimal packaging, reusing items like bags to carry our groceries, and recycling everything from paper and plastic to glass and metal.
We can reduce energy consumption by turning off lights and appliances when we’re not using them, and when we are, ensuring that they’re energyefficient. We can conserve water by fixing leaks, taking shorter showers, and
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watering our lawns only in the early morning or the evening to reduce evaporation.
And, of course, we can find more efficient ways to get around. Do we continue using the same old practice of fueling vehicles with fossil fuels, or do we dive into diverse technologies? And do we really need to take a car when we can hop on a bus or train, or even ride a bike or walk?
It’s hard to believe we can make a difference on our own, but we can. Especially if we aren’t alone in making conservation a way of life. And we can make an even bigger difference by backing more environmentally friendly ways to produce energy, like wind turbines — whether on land or out in the ocean.
One example is the South Fork Wind project, some 35 miles off Montauk, which is expected to generate about 130 megawatts of renewable energy — enough to power an estimated 70,000 Long Island homes. Officials believe that it could eliminate up to 6 million tons of carbon emissions over the 25-year life of the project — the equivalent of taking 60,000 cars off the road.
It’s a start. But we have a ways to go to get all of the homes on Long Island — more than 1 million of them — powered this way.
To continue the march to a cleaner, greener planet, we need individual and
I think most of us wish the two leading candidates for president weren’t so old. You have to be at least 35 to serve as president, but there’s no restriction on the other end. You could be 117 and still be eligible to hear “Hail to the Chief” every time you walk into a public gathering.
I’m 86, and damn well know someone my age is too old to be in the Oval Office unless they’re just visiting. How about a constitutional amendment that sets down a series of challenges that must be met by anyone over 70 seeking to be commander in chief?
First there would be a dime test. A dime would be dropped on the floor at a busy deli, and the candidate would have to pick it up on the first try. The retrieval would have to be accomplished by bending over. Anyone getting down on their knees to get the dime would be automatically disqualified.
Then there would be a memory test. An examiner chosen by an independent panel would meet with each hopeful candidate, and early in the conversation three famous political quotes would be used: “I am not a crook,” “Read my lips: no new taxes,” and “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”
collective efforts on the local, national and global levels to continue expanding. If they don’t, we could see significant ocean rise in our lifetimes — literally bringing the sea into our backyards as early as the 2040s. The planet is getting warmer, polar ice is melting, and all that water has to go somewhere.
Since the first Earth Day 54 years ago, millions of people in nearly 200 countries have taken part in activities whose aim is to enhance the planet’s environment. The annual event has helped push legislation in many countries — including the United States — intended to reduce the human race’s collective carbon footprint, and help us find ways to live more sustainable lives.
But the work is far from finished. Our schools need to teach environmental literacy. The media — from newspapers and television to the hottest social media platforms — must circulate necessary, accurate information.
In April, as trees bud, flowers sprout and temperatures warm, it’s time to get outside and enjoy the greenery and sunshine. But as we take a hike or pedal along our local bike paths, or walk along our waterways or the shore, our thoughts should turn to advocacy and activism on behalf of the planet we inhabit. Because we shouldn’t fight to protect the Earth just on Earth Day, but every day.
we’ve all heard the saying “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” It’s basically a warning against banking everything on a single choice, rather than diversifying and leaving yourself options.
Unfortunately, the radical politicians controlling both chambers of the State Legislature are ignoring that lesson when it comes to energy policy. They’re putting us in peril by working to make electricity the only energy people can use to drive their cars, heat their homes and cook their food. The Senate majority recently passed the New york Heat Act, a nicesounding measure that in reality would make it impossible for Long Islanders to access safe, clean and affordable natural gas, propane and other fossil fuels. It would eliminate residential customers’ legal entitlement to gas service, and ban new expansions of gas infrastructure after Dec. 31. It would also eliminate the “100-foot rule,” which connects residen-
tial customers to gas mains free of charge, and create a 6 percent cap on income-based energy costs, forcing residents and businesses to submit proof of income to the bureaucrats at the Public Service Commission in order to qualify.
The bill would turn over all public powers “material and necessary” to implement the state’s scoping plan under the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, which would force state residents and businesses to achieve net-zero carbon emissions.
electricity can’t be the only energy we use to drive, cook and heat our homes.
To borrow a phrase from former vice President Al Gore, the Senate’s plan ignores several inconvenient truths. Transitioning all residential and commercial buildings and vehicles solely to electricity would cost hundreds of billions of dollars. residents, businesses and all taxpayers would bear the brunt of the cost — the same people who are already fleeing the state due to high taxes, the high cost of living, more restrictions on our freedom and, according to Forbes, the second-worst business climate in the country.
on top of that, our existing electricity grid is already overstressed, and can barely handle high-load days without
At the end of this session, which would last a minimum of one hour, the candidate would be asked to recall the quotes. He or she would have to remember at least two of them to be eligible to run.
And third, the new constitutional amendment would require a cursive test. The candidate, in a room alone, would be required to write, in cursive, an essay of at least 700 words, explaining why he or she thought he or she would be a swell leader of America. The content of the essays would not be judged or graded. A judge appointed by the two major political parties would simply check to make sure the essays were indeed written in cursive. If you don’t know cursive, you belong in Hell, and not in the White House.
Think about all this, please. It’s time for a change.
LArry McCoy Rockville CentreTo the Editor:
This is directed to elected Democrats in New york: So how are your bail reform and your progressive agenda going? open your eyes: It isn’t work-
emergency measures. Imagine what would happen if we added this massive new demand. Power outages would be more than an inconvenience — they’d be public safety emergencies, because there would be no other way to heat your home in the winter, cool it in the summer, cook your dinner or charge your electric vehicle (which you will be forced to purchase).
And while New york state is cutting off supplies of natural gas, it is relying on dirty technology from other states, like Pennsylvania coal, to generate the “clean” electricity the Senate plan requires. All of this to eliminate New york’s carbon footprint, which is only 0.4 percent of the world’s output.
As if this isn’t enough, Albany’s leaders last year approved a new mandate requiring all new school buses sold in New york state to be zero-emission by 2027 — just three years away — and all buses on the road to be zero-emission by 2035. Electric school buses cost three times as much as regular buses. The cost of converting all 50,000 school buses in the state will exceed $20 billion, plus several billion more to build the infrastructure to charge and service them —
a burden that will ultimately be borne by taxpayers.
And cost isn’t the only concern. The lithium-ion batteries that power electric buses are in the news regularly for causing fires, and data shows they lack the range necessary to operate in all weather conditions, because cold weather limits battery life. Barreling forward, full speed ahead, without addressing these very real concerns and taking appropriate time to plan is a recipe for disaster.
Addressing climate change and reducing emissions are laudable and important goals, and we need to take steps to make progress toward accomplishing them. The key to effective reform, however, should be to diversify our energy sources, not to eliminate all but one source. We should take the time to invest in clean and renewable energy technology to make it safer, more sustainable and more affordable for New yorkers, and first build the infrastructure to handle it, rather than ramming unrealistic, costly and dangerous change down our throats by the force of government.
Safety, affordability and reliability — not politics — need to be the basis of New york’s energy policy. That’s the truth that Albany needs to listen to.
Steve Rhoads represents the 5th Senate District.
ing. Criminals are walking our streets because Democrats don’t want to lock up people who commit crimes.
Why do Democrats think it’s oK for someone to walk into any store and steal everything off the shelves, or assault someone on the street? People walk our streets and continue to commit crimes, and thanks to the Democrats, are free to commit more crimes. Most if not all of those who are arrested are back on the street before a police officer can complete the paperwork.
Arresting and incarcerating criminals is not being racist. People today are generally afraid. A police officer is killed by a convicted felon with a gun who had 21 arrests but wasn’t in jail. Another subject, also carrying a gun, was arrested last year on gun charges, but thanks to Democrats’ bail reform was out on the street. Between them they had a total of more than 40 arrests, including violent felonies.
It surely seems that Democrats favor criminals over private citizens. We need new leadership in Albany to stop this. Albany Democrats have failed us, made us less safe, and people have died.
STEvE GroGAN LynbrookSteve Grogan is a retired federal agent and former Lynbrook village trustee.
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