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A history of community service empower historic communities and support businesses that maintain the cultural and archiThe Oyster Bay Main Street tectural heritage of places like Association has been in opera- Oyster Bay. tion for over two decades, helpThe Lambs gathered numering to invigorate the economy ous friends and community while preserving the integrity of members, including John Specthe historic hamce, who is now let. Although it’s president of the known for its curOyster Bay Railrent efforts, the road Museum. Aforganization has a ter roughly a year history of supportof discussing ing local businessefforts to revitalize es. the hamlet’s econoThe association m y, S p e c c e r e w a s fo r m e d i n called, the group 2000, and its origicreated the Main nal six-person Street Association. board met at the “David Lamb Bookmark Café, a was the person space now occuwho brought this p i e d b y W i l d JOAN MAHON whole concept of Honey. Its memMain Street to Oysbers were brought Former executive ter Bay,” Specce together by David director, Main Street said. “We used to Lamb, a landscape Association meet at the Bookarchitect with fammark Café, which ily roots in Oyster David and Daria Bay, and his wife, Daria. owned, where I was invited to Lamb had spent time in join the board, and I was very Washington, D.C., in the late honored.” 1990s with George O’Neil, a vilThe association’s goal was to lage trustee, learning about the engage the public and private National Main Street Center pro- sectors to increase investment in gram. Developed in 1977, its pur- and support for small businesses pose was to economically CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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Off to a fresh start Parker Charon and Penelope Cesare had everything they needed for the first day of school at Bayville Intermediate. More photos, Page 15.
Ukrainian woman puts love of cats to good use in her new home By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
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atalia Homcharenko, of Ukraine, misses her six cats terribly. When she left her three-room flat in Kyiv to board a flight to New York on Feb. 4, she thought she would be back in a month. She wasn’t worried about Burshtyn, July, Kari, Luchik, Murysia or Rysia, because she had made arrangements for her longtime friend Vera to stop by each day to take care of them. Homcharenko, 68, a retired librarian, left Kyiv
because her son, Nick Naymushin, worried that the situation there was becoming too dangerous for his mother. Naymushin, a Locust Valley resident, has lived in the U.S. for eight years and became a citizen, making him eligible for the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program, which sends American citizens who are traveling or living abroad the latest security updates from U.S. embassies. Those in Ukraine were being told to leave. “The tone of the messages became more and more urgent,” Naymushin said. “Mom had visited us last fall and had fun. I told her to think of the CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
e wanted to help the Main Street tenants with the economic development of the hamlet.