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Second petition calls for repairs vard, between Whiteside and Tulip avenues, replace the maintenance building’s eaves and Anyone who enters Averill repair the maintenance parking Boulevard Park at its main lot, where water stagnates, leadentrance in Franklin Square has ing to mosquito infestations. to negotiate a heaving, broken The area has become an eyesidewalk or an sore for neighunevenly paved bors, Randazzo street to get to a said, and Averill depression framBoulevard has ing a manhole not been repaved cover. Then, once for 15 to 20 years. inside the town T he town has park, a visitor done spot repairs can’t help noticing with asphalt seva maintenance eral times, she building that said, but the hasn’t been restreet keeps sinkpaired since it was ing and cracking. built more than 55 “Part of the years ago, its eaves ROsEaNN road surface d r o o p i n g e v e r RaNDazzO looks like somesince Superstorm one just took a Franklin Square Sandy devastated bucket of paving Long Island in m at e r i a l s a n d 2012. dumped them randomly everyThese conditions prompted where on the road,” Randazzo Roseann Randazzo, who lives wrote in the petition, which was across the street on Averill Bou- signed by 16 Averill Boulevard levard, to create a petition in residents last year. “We are askAugust 2019, calling for Town of ing the town [to] prioritize our Hempstead officials to repair the tax dollars to budget for the road park and its surroundings. The and park improvements.” petition asked the town to repave In response, a representative the entirety of Averill BouleContinued on page 7
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MyRiaM MORalEsVEGa, 67, of Uniondale, arrived at the Elmont Memorial Library a few minutes before 9 a.m. last Saturday, and had almost reached the front of the line five hours later. After three hours, she said, her back started to hurt.
Early voting comes to Elmont Many wait several hours to cast their ballots By MElissa KOENiG mkoenig@liherald.com
Hundreds of Nassau County residents stood in a line snaking through the parking lot on the west side of the Elmont Memorial Library for up to five hours last Saturday, waiting for their chance to vote in the 2020 election. “I think it’s a good showing,” Elmont resident Leslie Pierre said of the turnout on the first day of early voting.
“People are taking it as serious as it is.” Some even arrived before the library opened and voting began at 9 a.m., forming the line by the library sign, on Hempstead Turnpike. “It was very well-organized and self-managed,” said Ann Butera, of Elmont, adding that everyone was trying to be respectful of one another, but it would have been helpful if Nassau County police officers had been on-site to manage
the crowds. Members of the library staff had to direct cars coming into the parking lot, according to library Director Jean Simpson, which limited the number who were available to sanitize the facility. The building opened for patrons at 11 a.m., Simpson. But there were only three voting machines for the hundreds of people who wanted to vote, which resulted in the Continued on page 3
e are asking the town [to] prioritize our tax dollars to budget for the road and park improvements.