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Middle school welcomes new asst. principal school to high school can be difficult,” Kuehn said. “Therefore it’s important that we make the Howard T. Herbert Middle best efforts to make that transiSchool is welcoming a new tion a positive and easy one. “When we’re successful in a member to the Mules family, as Joseph Kuehn becomes the positive transition,” he added, school’s new assistant principal. “students are able to thrive and “I would like to hit the ground runhelp continue to fosning.” ter the environment B u t Ku e h n’s of academic excele x p e r i e n c e i s n’ t lence that already limited to sixth exists,” Kuehn said. graders — his work “Par t of that is ranges from elehelping with the mentary school to transition to sixth high school. His grade, and also addundergraduate and ing to an already master’s degrees, great school culfrom SUNY Oneonture.” ta and Touro UniKuehn has more versity, respectively, than 15 years of are in teaching both educational experi- JosEph KuEhN math and literacy to ence in four school new assistant grades 1 through 12, districts — Ocean- principal, as well as educas i d e, Ly n b r o o k , Howard T. Herbert tional leadership. East Williston and Middle School Between his eduJericho. He has cation, his past two taught everything years spent as the from the humanities to math principal of the Jericho sumand science in his nine years at mer program, and his past year Jericho Elementary School. His balancing his teaching with an extensive experience with sixth- administrative internship at graders has given him an appre- Jericho High School, Kuehn ciation of how important the has the range and perspective middle school transition is. that makes him the best choice “The transition from middle Continued on pAge 19
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A 20-foot-deep sinkhole in Lido Beach caused major traffic delays while it was being fixed.
A sinking feeling in Nassau about infrastructure repairs By sEaN KENNEDY Intern
The Nassau County Legislature voted this week to authorize $15 million to replenish a capital budget that was used for repairs on two disruptive sinkholes — one in Baldwin and one in Lido Beach. And then a third sinkhole opened on Sunday in Oceanside — on Foxhurst Road, between Oceanside Road and Locust Avenue — when an underground water pipe burst. Malverne Mayor Tim Sullivan said he and the village board have been working with utility companies to repair and upgrade the village’s infrastructure.
“We have been aggressively targeting the upgrade of our infrastructure by continuing our street replacement program, obtaining commitments from Liberty Water for water main replacements, working with National Grid on gas line and meter upgrades and PSEG on more reliable regional power distribution,” Sullivan told the Herald. “Additionally, we have been putting pressure on PSEG and communication providers to maintain their overhead wiring infrastructure, which, in my own view, is a visual pollution that needs to be minimized and an area of concern that all of us need to pay more attention to before we face another Continued on pAge 19
would like to help continue to foster the environment of academic excellence that already exists.