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Students with Covid-19 can learn remotely “While we are happy that things are returning to normal. we also live with the constant As the debate over masking fear that we may get Covid and students in schools rages on, have to miss up to five days of Lynbrook officials recently rein- school,” Sophie said. “We agree stated the remote lear ning that going back to online learnoption for those who must quar- ing would be extremely upsetantine, at the urging ting, and that is not of Lynbrook High what we’re proposSchool seniors and ing. Simply stated, some parents. what we are proposAt the Jan. 12 ing is for students Board of Education who have Covid, and meeting, Lynbrook who have a doctor’s High School student note and proof of a Vi c e P r e s i d e n t positive test, to be Emma Ward and her able to lear n via sister, Secretary Webex while they Sophie Ward, both are at home.” seniors, presented a Webex enables statement on behalf students to access of the Student Govcameras in the classer nment Associa- Lynbrook Student room from home to tion, asking that the Government follow lessons while district reinstate Association they are out from remote learning for school. Sophie added students who must one student told the miss classes because SGA that she had to of exposure to Covid-19 or ill- miss three school days before the ness. Emma and Sophie, who are holiday break because she tested also co-presidents of the LHS positive for Covid, and she was Key Club and co-presidents and still behind in classes nearly a co-founders of school’s Scope month later. Additionally, anothClub, presented a petition to the er student said it was stressful to board with 231 students’ signa- try and teach herself nine classtures, requesting the remote option. CONTINUED ON PAGE 19
By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com
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LYNBROOK MAYOR ALAN Beach, third from left, and Terwilliger & Bartone Managing Partner Fran Terwilliger, center, cut the ribbon on the Cornerstone at Yorkshire apartment complex on Jan. 20. Also taking part were, from left, Hempstead Town Councilman Anthony D’Esposito, Deputy Mayor Michael Hawxhurst, Trustees Robert Boccio and Laura Ryder, developer Anthony Bartone and Trustee Ann Marie Reardon.
A new community cornerstone An apartment complex replaces Capri motel By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com
Standing at a lectern in the courtyard of the Cornerstone at Yorkshire building at the former site of the muchmaligned Capri Lynbrook Motor Inn, Mayor Alan Beach prepared to cut the ribbon on the new complex, while reflecting back on the decades of battles that several administrations had with the former motel. At the Jan. 20 ribbon-cut-
ting, surrounded by village trustees, developers, Chamber of Commerce representatives, elected officials, Town of Hempstead Industrial Development Agency members and tenants of the new building, Beach discussed the sordid history of the Capri and how the Cornerstone represented a new beginning. He also noted how the Guggenheim Museum, built by Frank Lloyd Wright, opened in New York City on Oct. 21, 1959, and that around the same time, 17
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miles to the east, the Lynbrook Building Department received a submission for a new motel to be built at 5 Freer St. “Weren’t we lucky?” Beach said with a laugh. “It’s kind of funny, but sad. While the museum quickly became New York City’s biggest tourist attraction with its discounted admission rates, the Capri became Lynbrook’s. Discounted short stays, hourly rates and a $10 upgrade for a CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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issing 50 periods of school is certainly detrimental to a student’s education.