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Left without transportation, seniors isolate taxation and fairness. They pay taxes but have no access to AbleRide.” Nassau County Legislator And when a senior needs to Josh Lafazan held a news confer- hire a home care aide, he or she ence on Monday at must also make sure the Life Enrichment the person can drive, Center of Oyster which Lafazan said Bay to decry the lack is difficult to do. of transportation Without another options available to means of transporsenior citizens living tation, seniors at in the 18th District. Life Enrichment And Lafazan had depend on the censome suggestions on ter’s bus. Beth Spickwhat can be done ler-Lerman, the cenabout it. ter’s social worker, Although the said that before the shared-ride program coronavirus panfunded by the coundemic began, a ty, Able-Ride, is handicapped-accesavailable to resisible 14-seat bus was dents in parts of available to memNassau County, it is bers seven days a not on the North week for rides to and Shore. As a result, ELEANORE from the center. Now seniors living in that the facility has CRONIN Oyster Bay, Bayville, lost some of its bus Locust Valley, Wood- East Norwich drivers, and with bury, Syosset, Woodsome members too bury and East Norwich are frail to travel, it operates only being forced to isolate, Lafazan two days a week, Tuesday and said. Friday, limiting members’ oppor“There are 1.3 million resi- tunities to socialize and enjoy a dents in Nassau County, with hot meal at the center. seniors making up one-fifth, or These limitations don’t exist 18 percent, of the county’s population,” he said. “This is about CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
BY LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
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Will you be my valentine? Melina Vasquez, 4, made chocolate candy at the Oyster Bay-East Norwich Library’s Valentine’s Chocolate Workshop last Saturday. More photos, Page 3.
Coming soon: a new and improved Snouder’s Corner Drug Store BY WILL SHEELINE llane@liherald.com
The construction going on at Snouder’s Corner Drug Store has been a focus of interest and speculation for Oyster Bay residents for some time. The building, on the corner of South and West streets, has sat vacant for over a decade, but that will change soon, thanks to the work
of Tim Lee, president and owner of Lee Construction and Renovations, in Cold Spring Harbor, and Claudia Taglich, owner of the restaurants 2 Spring and Four in Oyster Bay, who bought the drug store in April 2019. Snouder’s, Lee said, will hopefully be reopening this summer. Snouder’s first opened its doors in 1884, and for the next 126 years it was at the center of
life in the hamlet. It boasted the first telephone line in town, installed in 1887. When Theodore Roosevelt vacationed in Oyster Bay as governor and as president, calls from across the country came for him at Snouder’s, and he would ride a horse into town from Sagamore Hill to make calls. In 1889, a soda fountain was CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
f you don’t drive in this area, you’re lost. And if it wasn’t for the people here at the center, I’d be home with no one to speak to.