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HEwlEtt-woodMERE tEacHERS StEpHEN Krieger, left, and Stephen Capuano led the Nov. 8 faculty association march of members seeking a new contract with the school district.
The line of marchers along Broadway in Hewlett on Nov. 8 was not celebrating Homecoming. The procession comprised Hewlett-Woodmere public school teachers seeking a new union contract to replace the five-year agreement that expired in June. “We feel it’s disrespectful to us when we aren’t treated fairly,” Hewlett High School math teacher Stephen Krieger said. Led by Hewlett-Woodmere Faculty Association President Ric Stark, the teachers organized the Election Day march as a way to showcase their desire for a fair contract. It began outside the high school, on East RockaContinued on page 14
Figuring out the traffic divide on Washington Avenue By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
The volume of traffic across the Five Towns is much like the weather: Everybody talks about it, but nobody seems to be able to do much about it. Washington Avenue, which divides the villages of Cedarhurst and Lawrence, is a microcosm of the problem. At the Nov. 10 Lawrence village board meeting, the issue came to the forefront,
as Michael Hatten spoke on behalf of his fellow residents of Washington Avenue. Hatten, who has lived on the street for 25 years, said that on Nov. 9, at 3:30 p.m., he recorded “something in that neighborhood that happens all the time.” In describing the video, Hatten, a Lawrence School District Board of Education trustee, said that bad traffic on Washington “is commonplace,” with school buses from the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway clogging the roadLYN, RVC, OCE, MER
way and, according to Hatten, turning a two-way street into a dangerous one-way street. “I have personally witnessed ambulances trying to get out of the (LawrenceCedarhurst) firehouse, coming south to Lawrence, that have been stopped completely,” Hatten said. “That’s a safety issue for everyone who lives on my block, Washington Avenue, and everybody who lives in Lawrence. We all know that it’s moments that count in an emergency.”
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In response, Lawrence Village Administrator Ron Goldman said the village had compared a dozen security camera recordings from HAFTR with the one that Hatten provided. “And we have video showing that there has been no traffic on (Washington Avenue) except (the Nov. 9 video),” Goldman aid. “We have reason to believe that neighbors were told to remove their cars from driveways (and) park on the Cedarhurst Continued on page 9