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O’side parents frustrated over mask mandates from April 2020 to June 2021; this one was a response to the Omicron surge. The map of the U.S. on the Parents in the Oceanside Centers for Disease Control and School District on both sides Prevention Covid-19 transmis- have been frustrated with the sion map showed a brilliant red back and forth, especially with encompassing the entire coun- very short notice last Monday try, indicating a high rate of evening on whether masks transmission, would be required regardless of how the next morning, region has dealt with since the decision mask mandates. The from Rademaker C D C ’s s i t e a l s o came late in the shows a decrease in night. cases over the last 30 Many parents, days and an increase i n c l u d i n g To n y in deaths during that Greco, said they saw same time. their children come New York, one of home from school as the 11 states with a excited as they had mask mandate, had seen them since the that status chalpandemic started. lenged on Jan. 24, Greco has a son at when Nassau CounOceanside High ToNY GRECo ty Supreme Court School, and said his Judge Thomas Rade- Oceanside parent son beamed with maker ruled that the happiness when he mandate could not came home from school on Moncontinue until it was passed by day after the mask mandate was the State Legislature. not enforced in the Oceanside The following day, however, School District because of the Appellate Division Justice Rob- lack of an appeal from the state ert Miller granted the state’s at that time. request to keep the mask man“I can’t tell you how happy he date in place while Hochul’s was to hear that he didn’t have to administration files an appeal. A similar mandate was in effect Continued on page 12
By ToM CARRozzA tcarrozza@liherald.com
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Storm brings low temps, wide smiles Nolan Scully was excited to be out and about in the snow in Oceanside last Saturday.
Island Park native, Elvis Duran produce Z100 documentary By ToM CARRozzA tcarrozza@liherald.com
When Island Park native David Katz left his job at Don Buchwald & Associates in 2007, it was a huge gamble for the talent agent. After 15 years at the agency whose namesake helped launch Howard Stern’s career, Katz was embarking on his own journey with the then mostly unknown afternoon D.J. Elvis Duran.
Now the CEO and partner at the Elvis Duran Group, Katz is celebrating the successful venture with Duran in the upcoming documentary “Worst to First,” on Z100’s rise, set to release On Demand Feb. 11. Duran and Katz are excited to unveil the documentary commissioned by Scott Shannon, who helped build the New York radio giant Z100 in the early 1980s, as producers of “Worst to First.” “It’s arguably the best radio
story in history because no other station has ever done that in a market like New York,” Katz told the Herald. Forty years after Shannon’s efforts began, the station is still the world leader in radio listenership and boasts the most popular morning show with Duran. The documentary sees the likes of Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Jon Bon Jovi and Joan Jett, Continued on page 13
can’t tell you how happy he was to hear that he didn’t have to wear a mask on Monday.