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Fire destroys headquarters of NOSH by the fire, but extremely glad that no one was there and no lives were lost at the time of the A fire that broke out at Veter- fire,” Rice said. “We are deterans of Foreign Wars Post 347 in mined to come back stronger Glen Cove on Tuesday morning than ever, and are in the process will ultimately affect some 600 of finding a new location so we needy families not only in the can continue our mission to all city, but in Bayville, Glen Head, of the families we have been Locust Valley, Oysserving. Any help ter Bay and Sea from the communiCliff as well. ty is more than No one was welcome.” hurt in the blaze, NOSH, which but the headquarbegan operating in ters of NOSH, a March 2020, during program that the coronavirus joined the North lockdown, was creShore Soup Kitchated to help the en in the spring, food insecure on CHRISTINE RICE w a s d e s t roye d . the North Shore. Twenty-three re- Chairwoman, NOSH/ Many people lost frig erators and North Shore Soup their jobs due to free zers full of the closure of nonKitchen meat and produce essential businessand a few thoues, and were inelisand pounds of dry goods — gible for unemployment benefits enough to feed those families for because they are independent two months — were lost. As of contractors and freelancers — press time, the cause of the blaze nannies, house cleaners, artists was undetermined. and other “gig” workers. The According to Christine Rice, number of hungry people skychairwoman of NOSH and the rocketed. soup kitchen, 200 deliveries were Courtney Callahan, a longsupposed to go out on Tuesday, time Locust Valley resident, constarting at 10:30 a.m. She was tacted a group of women includnotified about the fire at 7:20 a.m. “We are obviously devastated CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
BY LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
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Getting in on the act Steve Petra & PetraPuppets thrilled children at the Oyster Bay Library this month. Emily Petrello helped Petra with a few tricks. More photos, Page 3.
In LVCSD, decision on masking students will be left to parents BY ANNEMARIE DURKIN adurkin@liherald.com
The Locust Valley Board of Education approved a reopening plan for the upcoming school year at its Aug. 17 meeting, and its Covid-19 guidelines included optional mask wearing and sanitizing protocols. In the plan, proposed by Superintendent Dr. Kenneth Gra-
ham, the district’s tentative Covid regulations for the fall were laid out in detail. Most notable was the decision to allow parents to decide whether their children would wear masks to school, instead of mandating them, as surrounding districts have. “We’re encouraging parents to have their kids wear masks to school,” school board President
Brian Nolan said, “but ultimately we decided to listen to the public and leave the decision up to the parents.” In is deliberations, the board considered community input, extensive email communications from parents and guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the State Education Department and the Nassau CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
e are determined to come back stronger than ever.