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Library event goes beyond Earth Day and Lynbrook residents. “We get about a hundred people each time we host this With Earth Day approach- event,” Thorpe said. ing, the East Rockaway Public The East Rockaway library Library is making efforts to contracted with a company that preserve the environment. brings a shredding truck to the Earth Day, on Saturday, will site, and people are encouraged bring together the to bring their docuLynbrook and East ments and any old Rockaway public files and papers to libraries for an onbe shredded. site shredding “Usually the event, encouraging truck brings a big community memgarbage bin and bers to recycle as e ve r yo n e d u m p s well as to protect their stuff in there,” personal infor maThorpe explained. tion. In addition, “A n d t h e y c a n the East Rockaway watch the stuff be library is growing a MARY tHoRPe lifted up to the variety of plants director truck and shredand vegetables in ded.” East Rockaway Memorial Park. According to “ W e ’ v e b e e n Public Library Thorpe, some of the doing this on-site people who attended shredding event for at least five previous events were retired years now,” Mary Thorpe, the doctors and accountants. “They library’s director, said. “And it’s have to destroy their files evenvery popular.” tually, after so many years,” she The Town of Hempstead said. “And it saves them quite a hosts its own shredding event, bit of money to be able to come but Thorpe saw the need for a here and do it at the library.” more local event. She joined The library doesn’t limit its forces with the Lynbrook Pub- environmentally friendly activlic Library to host it, in the ities to shredding, hosting interest of making it more other events that incorporate accessible for East Rockaway Continued on page 9
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JoINING ReP. ANtHoNY D’Esposito, far right, were Reps. Nick LaLota and Andrew Garbarino, as well as Franklin Square resident Ellen Andrasick, to introduce the SALT Deductibility Act of 2023.
New bill in Congress would ease property tax burden By MICHAeL MALASZCZYK mmalaszczyk@liherald.com
Three of Long Island’s four Congressmen are pressing for legislation to eliminate the SALT cap — which would allow homeowners to deduct a greater portion of their state and local property taxes. Rep. Andrew Garbarino and his colleagues, Reps. Anthony D’Esposito and Nick LaLota, are introducing a bill that would repeal the $10,000 cap, bringing some relief to their constituents. Though Republicans hold a slim majority in the House of Representatives, they said they believe that the SALT Deductibility Act of 2023 would receive bipartisan support. LON, LYN, NAS
Garbarino, whose district is mostly in Suffolk County but covers a portion of Nassau County, is a co-chair of the House’s SALT Caucus, a committee created to provide SALT relief to constituents. The caucus comprises 32 representatives, with a delegate from Washington, D.C.’s at-large district as its 33rd member. Including the District of Columbia delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, the caucus counts 23 Democrats and 10 Republicans, two of whom are D’Esposito and LaLota. “This topic is especially timely with tax day next week, marking another year that Long Islanders are getting the short end of the stick,” Garbarino said during an April 14 news Continued on page 7
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