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Vol. 29 No. 43
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Climate survey on schools gets warm response ing, school environment, school engagement, social awareness, and emotional regulation. Under A districtwide climate survey the school safety/belonging revealed a slight discrepancy results, there were subcategories between students and their par- that included bullying, emotionents about how they felt on vari- al safety, physical safety, and subous topics, but the overall results stance abuse. All of those subcatshow good things egories in the survey are happening in we r e v i e we d a s Lynbrook. favorable and most Laurie Mitchell, f avo r a b l e wh i c h the school district’s meant that the overdirector of guidwhelming majority ance, administered a of students and staff climate survey in feel welcomed in May of last year. At their school. the Lynbrook school However, Mitchell board meeting on wanted to emphaOct. 13, she showed size that this does the results of the not mean that everysurvey. Two differone feels like they ent surveys were lauRiE belong. given out—one by MiTCHEll “ E ve n t h o u g h the Boards of Coopwe’re seeing that Guidance director erative Educational were falling within Services and one by the favorable and the Lynbrook school district— most favorable categories, none with a total of 2,181 responses. of those categories had 100 per“All in all, people were saying cent,” Mitchell said. “So for me that they feel like they belong in looking at this data, it’s weird Lynbrook, they feel that they are that those gray areas, where safe in Lynbrook, and they feel even if we would have a high like good things are going on in response, you still would have a Lynbrook,” Mitchell said. percentage of students and staff The surveys were broken that would have responded that down into different categories they have felt less favorable in such as school safety and belongContinued on page 4
By BEN FiEBERT
bfiebert@liherald.com
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Courtesy Frank Torre
FRaNk ToRRE, pRESidENT of the volunteer-based Historical Society of East Rockaway and Lynbrook, has been named the new historian of the Village of East Rockaway.
Torre named village historian By daNiEl oFFNER doffner@liherald.com
Frank Torre’s passion for history made him Mayor Bruno Romano’s obvious choice to serve as the historian for the Village of East Rockaway. Torre, the interim president of the Historical Society of East Rockaway and Lynbrook, was appointed to the role by Romano on Monday, entrusting him to preserve the community’s rich history. “This was something I’ve been working towards for a long time,” Torre said. “We’ve needed a historian in the village because we haven’t had one in a couple of years. I figured why not step in and try to preserve East Rockaway’s history as best I can.”
Torre signed up to join the historical society during the Huckleberry Frolic at the historic Grist Mill Museum in 2013. The annual summer event is held at Memorial Park to raise money for the historic 1688 landmark. “I’ve always been interested in history since I was a kid,” Torre said. “I joined the board in 2016 and started off by upgrading the reach of the historical society online. I ran the social media for the group for a couple of years, until 2019, when I was voted vice president of the organization under Pat Sympson.” In addition to his role with the historical society, Torre worked as a New York City Court Officer for nearly seven years at the Continued on page 15
ll in all, people were saying that they feel like they belong in Lynbrook.