Lynbrook/East Rockaway
CoMMuNity uPDAtE infections as of Dec. 10, 2020
1,277
infections as of Dec. 4, 2020 1,056
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Vol. 27 No. 51
County seeks federal funds for Bay Park creating an economic output of more than $400 million. The County Legislature voted County officials and labor unanimously on Nov. 25 to leaders have requested a $503 approve a design-build contract million federal infrastructure between the state’s Department stimulus package of Environmental to help fund the Conservation and completion of the Western Bays ConBay Park Conveystructors for the ance Project and 11 $439 million conother infrastrucveyance project. ture projects across The plan is to the county. restore the West“I’m calling on ern Bays ecosysour federal repretem by sending sentatives to treated wastewater approve this infrafrom the Bay Park structure stimulus Sewage Treatment package to help us Plant to the Cedar build back a county Creek Water Polluthat is stronger tion Control Plant’s than ever,” County ocean outfall pipe Executive Laura t h ro u g h u n d e rCurran said in a g round tunnels statement. “Infra- lAuRA CuRRAN and a more than structure investNassau County executive 100-year-old aquements are the founduct under neath dation of our ecoSunrise Highway. nomic recovery — and essential The project will prevent wasteto getting thousands of people water — and the nitrogen it conback to work.” tains — from entering the WestCurran said the county esti- ern Bays, which environmentalmates that more than 3,300 full- ists and elected leaders have said time construction jobs would be will improve the bays’ water created in Nassau if the stimu- quality. lus were approved and all the projects were to move forward, Continued on page 9
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A ho-ho-holly jolly visit Santa Claus arrived in the Village of Lynbrook in style — if a bit early — last Saturday, with the help of the Lynbrook Fire Department. Above, the big guy with Lynbrook Mayor Alan Beach atop an LFD fire truck. Story, more photos, Page 11.
Director comes home for TV shoot CBS drama ‘Bull’ films at Lynbrook rec. center By MikE SMolliNS msmollins@liherald.com
Though Mike Smith has directed more than 70 TV episodes throughout his career, he said it was special to be at the helm for an episode of “Bull” that filmed last Friday in his native Lynbrook. The Recreation Center at Greis Park was converted into an FBI headquarters set as Smith sat in the director’s chair
for the legal drama, which airs on CBS on Mondays at 10 p.m. It follows Dr. Jason Bull, played by “NCIS” alumnus Michael Weatherly. Smith, 49, who now lives in New Jersey, said that directing in the village where he grew up was a dream realized. The episode is scheduled to air on Jan. 25. “As soon as we showed up, I started pointing things out to the producers,” Smith said as some of the 110-member crew buzzed
outside the recreation center, unloading trucks and prepping the set. “I said, ‘Guys, I grew up here. I played Little League at Greis Park, I graduated from there, I went to that Dunkin’ Donuts.’” Smith was born in East Rockaway, to Beth and Bruce Smith, who moved to Lynbrook when he was 3. He attended Marion Street Elementary School, where his mother taught for many years, Continued on page 3
nfrastructure investments are the foundation of our economic recovery — and essential to getting thousands of people back to work