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COMMUNITY UPDATE Infections as of July 20
3,345
Infections as of July 13 3,312
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HERALD Also serving Bay Park
ERFD christens new vehicle
Heralds honor businesswomen
Mayor’s Golf Outing set for Aug. 2
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$439M Bay Park project progressing inserted are under construction in Bay Park, East Rockaway, Rockville Centre and Wantagh, A $439 million conveyance while the two in Ocean-side are project to redirect partially treat- slated for an August start, and ed sewage from its current out- another Rockville Centre shaft is flow in Reynolds scheduled for SepChannel, just south tember. Island Park and The state and Oceanside, to a locacounty already comtion in the Atlantic pleted an environOcean three miles mental review, pubsouth of Wantagh, is lic outreach and progressing, accordmaterials procureing New York State ment between FebDepartment of Enviruary 2020 to April ronmental Conser2021. vation officials. At a July 14 Long The project, a I s l a n d Re g i o n a l joint effort between Planning Council the DEC and Nassau meeting, DEC offiCounty, will send cials discussed how effluent from the this and other projSouth Shore Water ects will improve Reclamation Faciliwater quality in t y i n B ay P a rk Nassau’s Western through 7.3 miles of Bays, which have newly installed pipe been degraded for that will be inserted TODD KAMINSKY decades by excesinto an old aqueduct State senator sive nitrogen from that runs underthe Bay Park sewneath Sunrise Highage treatment plant. way. From there, it will be sent to The conveyance project’s prithe Cedar Creek Wastewater mary goal is to reduce nitrogen Treatment Plant in Wantagh and in the bays, which accelerates then into the Ocean. the growth of seaweed to unnatConstruction of new shafts through which the piping will be CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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Organ donor activist dies The East Rockaway community is mourning the loss of Taylor Rose Clarke, who died at 24 on July 9, more than five years after a life-saving heart transplant. Obituary, Page 11.
Developers eye November for Cornerstone complex opening By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com
The Cornerstone at Yorkshire apartment complex, which began leasing to future renters July 5, should be open by November, its developers say. The four-story, 80-unit, $24 million apartment building will replace the Capri Lynbrook Motor Inn, which was razed in June 2020 after several battles between village officials and the
motel’s owners over alleged crime and prostitution at the site. “We couldn’t be more excited about it,” said Anthony Bartone, managing partner for Terwilliger & Bartone Properties, “and hopefully it leads to other opportunities in Lynbrook. We hope that we can demonstrate to the village how lovely these buildings can be. Putting this in place of an old motel is certainly a step up.”
Bartone said Terwilliger was offering a special incentive: the first month’s rent free for anyone who rents before construction is complete. He added that he believed the project would meet the planned completion date, despite supply-chain disruptions during the coronavirus pandemic. Bartone said there is a community manager on site full-time CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
his gamechanging solution will lead to a resurgence of this vital waterway, resulting in a better economy and a more resilient Long Island.