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Lynbrook says ‘Prost!’ to Oktoberfest Trustee Laura Ryder helped her immensely. DeFrank said she hoped the The Lynbrook community will event would be “bigger and betgather for a cause on Saturday as ter” than the 2019 outing, and to Oktoberfest returns to the village help realize that goal, she is planafter being canceled last year ning a Bavarian chocolate pie-eatbecause of the coronavirus pan- ing contest. Local businesses are demic. sponsoring the competition, and About 3,000 people attended the judges will be Hempstead the inaugural event Town Councilman in 2019 — many Anthony D’Esposito, decked in the tradiMayor Alan Beach, tional German lederDe puty Mayor hosen — to enjoy Michael Hawxhurst, German delicacies, Ly n b ro o k Po l i c e beer and other beverChief Brian Paladino ages, as well as the and resident Cathy Johnny Sinatra Ryder-Bien. Thirty Band. contestants will vie This year, several for $100; all entrants vendors will have will win prizes. booths around the ALAN BEACH Beach and the vilpark’s perimeter, and Mayor lage board created there will be fun for the inaugural event the whole family, as because the mayor, well as beer, brats and bands. who is German-American, has an Event proceeds will go to the Lyn- Oktoberfest at his home around brook Community Chest, which his birthday each October. Addiprovides financial help to village tionally, he said, he thought it residents who have fallen on hard would be a fun event and a good times. way to raise money for the Com“The Lynbrook Community munity Chest. Lynbrook CoumChest is a charity very near and munity Chest Chairman Brian dear to so many in the communi- Curran, a former assemblyman, ty,” said Lynbrook Chamber of said he was grateful for the event, Commerce Vice President Nazia DeFrank, who added that Village CONTINUED ON PAGE 16
By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com
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Supporting veterans The Run for Heroes event took place on Sunday, and part of the proceeds went toward Lynbrook’s Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion posts and other vets, as seen above. Story, more photos, Page 12.
LHS gets a major upgrade
Herald tours the building’s new extension
By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com
After passage of a $28.9 million bond in 2017, Lynbrook High School’s new wing was recently completed after a year and a half of construction. “It has been a collective effort to complete this project and expand the opportunities of Lynbrook High School’s students,” Superintendent of Schools Dr. Melissa Burak said in a state-
ment. “It was our dream and our vision to get to where we are today. With the setbacks due to Covid and the delays in materials, it was truly a climb, but we are excited to welcome our students to the new spaces.” The two-story, 33,274-squarefoot extension stretches from the front of the high school, where the security vestibule is, to the fields. A ribbon cutting for the new wing took place Sept. 1, and later this month, a ceremony
will be held to dedicate it to late longtime Board of Education Trustee Alicemarie Bresnihan, who died on May 11, 2020, after 45 years of service on the school board. The total cost of the 20-year bond that voters approved in 2017 was $33.9 million, $5 million of which was covered by reserve funds. Approval of the bond raised property taxes by $168 per CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
’m very excited that we’re able to pull this off again