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Seawall plan creates a tide of concerns Though the seawall is expected to protect the high school campus from a stormswollen Mott’s Creek, which Homeowners in Cedarhurst flooded the building during village, including members of Sandy, corroding electrical the board of trustees, are seekwires and necessitating the ing details about the measures replacement of boilers, village implemented by the Federal board trustees are upset with Emergency Management Agenwhat they said was a lack of cy to facilitate the construction transparency from the school of a seawall at Lawrence High district about the School. project and the The seawall environmental would surround assessment that it the high school conducted. campus on Reilly “While we Road, to safeguard appreciate the the property from efforts to mitigate the impacts of future tidal surges future severe weather events and flooding, there and avoid a repeat are concerns withof the damage the in the community, building sustained especially among FRANCiNE SHARABi the residents of in Hurricane Cedarhurst Sandy in 2012. the Village of The district Cedarhurst,” Ari applied for funding from FEMA Brown, who serves in the dual after Sandy, when then Presiroles of deputy mayor and as dent Barack Obama declared an assemblyman representing parts of the northeast a major a portion of the area, said in a disaster area. The estimated news release. “Lawrence High cost of the seawall project is $75 School sits within a residential million, and the bulk of the zone, and the construction of funding would come from the seawall raises apprehenFEMA, Lawrence Board of sions about potential adverse Education President Murray effects on the neighboring Foreman has said.
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A ball of a time Lawrence Elementary School students were occupied with a handful of events at the Friendship Dance held at the school on Feb. 2. Story, more photos, Page 10.
Palumbo advances to second round of L.I. Science and Engineering Fair By PARKER SCHUG pschug@liherald.com
Atlantic Beach resident Kayla Palumbo has given new meaning to the term Blue Light Special, with an attention-getting science project focusing on the effects of that light on the mobility of flies and their lifespan. Palumbo, a Sacred Heart Academy senior, has advanced to the second round of the Charles Duggan Long Island Science and Engineering Fair. Stephen Sullivan, Sacred Heart’s science research program adviser, has watched the Cornell-bound Palumbo mature as a student and as a burgeoning scientist. “She’s a great young women,” said Sullivan, who has taught Palumbo since she was a sophomore. “I got to watch her grow.” The project stemmed from Palumbo’s interest in the effects of blue light and products that
block it. “Over the pandemic, a lot of friends were wearing them because we were on our computers all day,” she said, referring to blue light blocking glasses, something she never used because she was skeptical of them. Kayla and her father, Mark Palumbo, constructed an “almost laboratory-quality” habitat, Sullivan said, in which she conducted studies on flies to determine the effects of the light on them. According to her findings, certain blue light blocking technologies work only at specific light intensities, Palumbo said. When Sullivan shared the news with her that her project had made it to the second round of the competition, she was surprised. “I think my exact text was, ‘Wait are you serious?’” Palumbo recounted. Round one of the LISEF was held on Jan. 31 at Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury. PalumContinued on page 16
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hen you do something like this, isn’t this supposed to be for the good of the community?
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