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Rowing groups want to use Building H Rowing, said. “We work with five schools, and it’s become a real burden trying to maintain our After years of beaching their equipment, which can be very boats on the shore and exposing expensive, while it’s exposed to them to the elements, Oyster Bay the elements.” Community Rowing is hoping to Kathleen Brown, one of the move them indoors. organization’s The group is peticoaches, added that tioning the Town of the new location Oyster Bay for the would offer student right to use Building athletes many beneH in Theodore Roosfits. In addition to evelt Memorial Park. making it easier to Oyster Bay Comhandle and store the munity Rowing is a shells in a space prononprofit founded tected from weather, by a group of volunit would reduce their teers in 2017. They travel time, particumanage the prolarly those from grams of several OBHS. local school district SAMANTHA “Students will r o w i n g t e a m s , CHARRON easily be able to get including Oyster from class to BuildBay High School and Freshman, OBHS ing H,” Brown said, Friends Academy. In “rather than having previous years, athletes have had to get bused all the way to Centre to use a yard at Beach Park, off Island.” Bayville Avenue on Centre The students are on board Island, to store their shells, the with the plan. “This boathouse is delicate boats used in competi- extremely important to me and tive rowing, but as the organiza- my team,” OBHS freshman tion continues to grow, there’s a rower Samantha Charron said. need to move into a larger facili- “We all need more room to grow, ty. and having an opportunity to “Frankly, we’re outgrowing use the boathouse would be a big our space right now,” Dana part in having more success and Pagliara, a founder and the cur- growth.” rent president of Community CONTINUED ON PAGE 15
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And they’re off! Baskets and bags in-hand, children raced to grab as many eggs as they could at Bailey Arboretum’s annual egg hunt last Sunday. More photos, Page 3.
Danny’s Izakaya is now open
Offering a pub-style traditional Japanese experience By WILL SHEELINE wsheeline@liherald.com
Since the closing of Nikkei of Peru in the darkest days of the pandemic, Oyster Bay has been sorely lacking a Japanese restaurant. Now, thanks to Danny’s Izakaya, that has finally changed. Danny’s Izakaya is a Japanese bar and restaurant at 94 South St. in Oyster Bay that opened on Feb. 23. According to one of its co-owners, Randy Klein, he and partners Danny and David Antin have already been blown away by the response
from the community. “It’s been great — the town has welcomed us beautifully,” Klein said. “Our last Friday was packed. People seem to love the ambience and our menu. It’s just been unreal.” The Antin brothers agreed that the town had rolled out the red carpet for them. “The fact that it feels like everybody knows each other also just makes it feel like such a community here,” David said. This isn’t Klein’s or the Antins’ first venture in CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
his boathouse is extremely important to me and my team.