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MAY 27 - JUNE 2, 2021
Villages OK a return to outdoor dining By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com
Wi t h s u m m e r w e a t h e r approaching and business returning to normal as the coronavirus pandemic wanes, Lynbrook and East Rockaway officials have given the green light to bringing back outdoor dining. Bryant Postell, the owner of Prime 39 in Lynbrook, said he was “so excited” to welcome patrons back outside. “We plan to participate in outdoor dining, and it would absolutely help us,” he said. “With the weather war ming up and the ability to BRYANT dine outdoors, I POSTELL believe we will see Owner, an uptick in the number of guests Prime 39 who are willing to dine because they can do so outdoors.” At the May 17 village board meeting, Lynbrook Mayor Alan Beach and trustees announced they would again close Atlantic Avenue to allow outdoor dining
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Giving a pint for the cause Members of the Lynbrook High School Key Club collected 82 pints of blood during their recent blood drive. Senior Key Club member Victoria Medina was one of the donors.
Her career was one for the books Lynbrook librarian retires after 64 years of service By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com
Whether it was working through the aftermath of a fire that destroyed part of the Lynbrook Public Library, becoming the first employee to have a computer at the facility or creating a tradition of displaying a dollhouse each Christmas, Dorothy Perrich experienced plenty during her more than six decades of service.
Perrich retired May 10, after 64 years at the library. “She’s very sweet,” library Director Robyn Gilloon said. “Very lovable, very dedicated and interesting to talk to with all the history she knows about Lynbrook and the library. She saw many things, and was my go-to person as far as Lynbrook or library history.” Perrich grew up in Brooklyn and got her start working in the Brooklyn Public Library. When
her family moved to Lynbrook, she eventually got a job at the Lynbrook facility when George Xydias, a family friend who also moved to Lynbrook from Brooklyn and joined the village board of trustees, told her about an opening. She began working at the library on April 1, 1957. When she came to Lynbrook, Perrich started in a clerical position in the library’s temporary CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
for restaurant patrons from 6 to 10 p.m. on weekends. East Rockaway businesses will also be permitted to offer outside dining. Postell said he was eager to do so, especially because Prime 39, at 39 Atlantic Av e . , o v e r c a m e many obstacles to open. In November 2018, Postell signed a lease for the property, which was previously a retail store called Popcorn Buddha. He had to acquire the necessary per mits and approvals to build out, operate and conver t the kitchen from electric to gas. Around that time, however, National Grid instituted a gas moratorium after it reached an impasse with the state Department of Environmental Conservation and New York and New Jersey elected officials over a $1 billion, 24-mile gas supply pipeline. At the time, some 2,400 applications for new gas hookups were denied on Long Island,
believe we will see an uptick in the number of guests who are willing to dine because they can do so outdoors.
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