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More students set to return District prepares to welcome back second- and fifth-graders ing for students and staff, and we believe that this next step will help our students’ development,” Almost a month has passed Kuncham said. since the Freeport School DisAs the district was preparing trict reopened, and its schools to reopen in early September, he are now preparing to welcome explained, it appeared that only more students back, with the a fraction of students would opt Covid-19 infection for the remote-only rate remaining low learning model — in the village and about 1,200 stuNassau County. dents district-wide. Initially, only But by Sept. 25, students in kinderthat number had g a r t e n t h ro u g h shot up to 2,800, first grade, as well about 41 percent of as special-needs all district stuand English as a dents. Second Language Wi t h s u c h a s t u d e n t s, c o u l d large portion of the attend in-person student body electclasses four days a ing for the remoteweek. All other stuonly model, there dents were split was available space into two groups in the schools to and had to alterwelcome more stunate the days they KiShoRE dents who chose could attend the hybrid model school, with Fri- KuNChaM for in-person classdays serving as Superintendent es. remote lear ning District officials days for all. said that secondSuperintendent Kishore Kun- graders were given priority to cham said last week that stu- join the four-day, in-person dents in second and fifth grades school week, because they were could go to school four days a the youngest. Fifth-graders were week starting Oct. 13. “We’ve had a smooth reopenContinued on page 11
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Courtesy Daniel Burgess
DaNiEl BuRGESS, lEFT, was joined by fellow USTA Long Island Region board members Sunny Fishking, Craig Fligstein and Mike Pavlides when Burgess received the Fran Osei Community Service Award in 2018.
‘A once-in-a-lifetime coach’
Freeport tennis guru Daniel Burgess dies at 67 By RoNNY REYES rreyes@liherald.com
Renowned tennis coach Daniel Burgess, of Freeport, died on Sept. 28. He was 67. He was the husband of Agnes Ford-Burgess, a nurse at the Leo F. Giblyn Elementary School; the father of Shawn Conyers, Daniel Burgess Jr. and Kevin Burgess; and the grandfather of six. Burgess was Freeport’s own tennis guru, devoting decades of his life to teaching
the sport at the Daniel Burgess Indoor Tennis Academy, Freeport Indoor Tennis, the Hempstead Lake Indoor Tennis Center, the Carefree Racquet Club in North Merrick, the Point Set Racquet Club in Oceanside, and the Learning Institute of Tennis, Life Skills and Sportsmanship, a nonprofit that he founded. “He always committed to teaching tennis and helping his community,” said Jacki Binder, a friend of almost 20 years. “It’s a terrible loss, as
he touched the lives of so many people.” Burgess fell in love with tennis when he was 12, learning from a community volunteer in his native Rainbow City, Panama. He became an accomplished player, ear ning a scholarship to Long Island University in Brooklyn when he was 18. He practiced at the New York Health and Racquet Club, near the Staten Island Continued on page 16
e’ve had a smooth reopening for students and staff, and we believe that this next step will help our students’ development.