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Pre-K students explore space, planets Lido Elementary pre-K students recently hosted a Museum of Learning Activities as a culminating showcase of their museum unit. The space exhibit gave the students the opportunity to explore planets and stars, and say why they would be like to be an astronaut.
By JAMES BERNSTEIN jbernstn@liherald.com
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Frederick K. Brewington, one of Long Island’s most prominent civil rights attorneys, called this week for a civilian complaint review board after two civil suits were filed against Long Beach police for allegedly beating suspects they were attempting to arrest. One case, involving a 42-yearold mother of two, was resolved earlier this month when the woman agreed to a $65,000 settlement after filing a $1 million suit against the Police Department and several officers. The other
case, in which Brewington is re presenting the plaintif f against the police, is pending in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. The incidents involving the woman, Julia Lopez Motherway, of Long Beach, who is Latino, and another city resident, Ricky Joshua Benny, who is AfricanAmerican and Latino, occurred in 2018 in Long Beach. No charges were initially filed against the officers in either case. “The cases prove the police cannot police themselves,” Brewington said. “There’s no accountability to anybody but themselves.” Continued on page 4
Council to decide whether city manager must live in town By JAMES BERNSTEIN jbernstein@liherald.com
Back in the days when Charles Theofan was city manager of Long Beach — the early and mid 2000s — he lived in Freeport, and earned the nickname “Freeport Charlie.” Perhaps Long Beach no longer wants to allow such an arrangement for its city manager. A replacement for former City Manager Donna Gayden, who resigned in January after almost three years in the job, has yet to be chosen. Gayden was a city resident.
miles of Long Beach or the Earlier this month, the City County of Nassau, or to move Council hired a search firm to to the area within 90 days of help it find a new city managbeing hired. er. It contracted with PracaGayden, a Midwesterner, demic Partners LLC, of Livomoved to Long Beach when nia, “for an initial 30 days at a she was hired. Several acting cost not to exceed $5,000.” Ron city managers, however, have Walsh, Long Beach’s police not lived in Long Beach. Jack commissioner, has been acting Schnirman, who held the job city manager since Gayden HARVEy from 2012 to 2018, rented an left. He lives in Freeport. WEISENBERg apartment in the city before On Tuesday night, the coun- resident buying a home. He was elected cil voted to hold a public hearing in the next few weeks on whether to Nassau County comptroller in 2017, was require the new executive to live within 15 involved in a payment scandal with Long
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Beach employees, and decided not to seek re-election in 2012. He has since left town. Theofan was city manager twice, in 2004-05 and again from 2008 to 2011. He went on to become a deputy Nassau County executive, and died in 2014, at age 61. In 2012, the City Council voted to require Long Beach began the city manager to live in the city. All city employees are required to live within 50 miles of Long Beach. The new regulation for the city manager, if approved, would be less restrictive. Council members — and residents — Continued on page 17