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Nassau Herald 01-26-2023

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Vol. 100 No. 5

JANUARY 26 - FEBRUARY 1, 2023

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Rallying in support of the 5TCC By HERNESTo GAlDAMEZ hgaldamez@liherald.com

Hernesto Galdamez/Herald

WoRKERS, VolUNTEERS AND neighbors gathered last Friday to urge Nassau County to re-sign the Five Towns Community Center’s lease, which expires in July 2024.

In response to a request for proposal sent out by Nassau County on Jan. 2, Five Towns Community Center, workers, volunteers and community members joined forces last Friday in support of the 115-yearold community resource and to pressure the county to renew the center’s lease, which expires next year. “We’re not going anywhere,” Executive Director K. Brent Hill told the hundreds of protesters who gathered outside the center. “We are going to fight until the Continued on page 10

Planning for Hewlett-Woodmere school district’s future By HERNESTo GAlDAMEZ hgaldamez@liherald.com

The Hewlett-Woodmere school district unveiled an $18.3 million capital project on Jan. 17, with the aim of renovating Hewlett High School and Woodmere Middle School. “We’re at the point where we’ve developed the scope of the project,” Superintendent Ralph Marino said at a presentation at the Hewlett firehouse. “We’re look-

ing for community feedback.” The school district is planning to upgrade the science rooms in both schools, redesign the high school auditorium and replace the artificial-turf field at the high school. A public vote, which is required to approve the project, has been scheduled for May 16. “Several of the science rooms at Woodmere Middle School received partial renovations and upgrades in summer 2012,” Kim Parahus, the district’s director of January 26, 2023

facilities and operations, wrote in an email. “Hewlett High School’s science labs were last renovated in 2004.” The redesign of the high school auditorium is expected to include a new lobby entrance as well as balcony seating and new flooring, doors and paint. The facility has not undergone any major renovations since new seating was installed 19 years ago, Parahus said, although the sound system was replaced several years ago. In addition to the new turf field, a new

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walkway leading to the field will be built, and the tennis courts will be resurfaced. “We’re getting to that point where the ... field is reaching its life expectancy” of eight to 10 years, Marino said. The grass field was converted to synthetic turf in 2003, which was last upgraded in July 2011. Building aid from the state will help fund the project. Districts are assigned a building aid ratio based on their property Continued on page 16


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