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Customers worry about Stop & Shop have not confir med which stores will close, or when cuswsheeline@liherald.com tomers will know, but according to the company’s initial S t o p & S h o p o f f i c i a l s statement the last underperannounced that they would be forming stores will close by e v a l u a t i n g s u p e r m a rk e t s 2028. Jennifer Barr, director of across the Northeast, planning on closing underperforming external communications and locations. While the supermar- community relations for the company, wrote in ket chain has not a follow up statemade any definitive announcements ment that although about which stores Stop & Shop is in a will close and strong position curwhen, the impact rently, the purpose o f m u l t i p l e cl o of this decision is sures could negato ensure that the tively impact cuscompany does not tomers across Long overextend and can Island, particularly continue to provide on the North Shore. the highest quality With roughly 100 goods and services l o c at i o n s a c ro s s TATIANA for its customers. New York state, and BIANCHINO “We’ve completnearly half of them Resident, ed more than 190 o n L o n g I s l a n d Sea Cliff remodels to date, alone, Stop & Shop which continue to is nearly ubiquiperform well, and tous with supermarkets in the we’re committed to continuing area. Their North Shore loca- to invest in our stores — as well tions in Glen Cove and Oyster in our prices —to deliver a Bay serve as the main grocery great in-store experience and markets for residents there and great values for our customin the surrounding communi- ers,” Barr wrote. “Stop & Shop ties, with a collected population will make some difficult deciof over 60,000. sions to close select underperStop & Shop representatives CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
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Fighting fires for decades Dozens of firefighters and family members gathered to honor Raymond Hornosky, a 75-year member of the Atlantic Steamer Fire Company. Story, more photos, Page 8.
Oyster Bay High valedictorian is passionate about science By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
Ania Kelly describes herself as a “science person,” and she hopes to focus on research when she starts classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall. But Oyster Bay High School’s 2004 valedictorian added that she doesn’t plan to remain behind a microscope in the future. “I want a people-facing career,” the lifelong Oyster Bay resident said, “either in medicine or dental school.” Most would agree that Kelly’s unweighted grade point average of 99.66, and her weighted average of 114.46, is evidence that she has the
smarts to pursue either career. Having taken 12 Advanced Placement courses at OBHS, including biology — which Kelly, 18, said led her to want to make it her college major — and done research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, she seems destined to thrive in science. Kelly took part in Partners for the Future at the lab, spending 10 hours a week there from last June until March. She combined chemistry and biology to produce proteins that CSHL will use for other experiments. Often the only high school student at the lab, she worked alongside post-doctoral students. “It really pushed me, and made me a better CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
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don’t know where I’m going to go, because I’m going to have to drive very far.