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Students head back to class School buildings in Rockville Centre reopened on Tuesday By JILL NOSSA jnossa@liherald.com
Courtesy Odette Peralta/RVC Schools
STUDENTS HAVE THEIR temperatures checked when they enter school buildings.
After nearly six months away, students in the Rockville Centre School District began returning to school in person this week. The doors opened at all seven school buildings on Tuesday, with teachers and principals eager to welcome students back. “We’re finally coming back, and we’re excited,” Darren Raymar, principal at Covert Elementary School, said. Things are very different this year, however, from the
classroom setup to the teaching format. District parents have the option of keeping their children at home to lear n remotely. To ensure that all students are getting the same level of instruction, teachers are prepared to teach all of them at the same time, with a teaching assistant or monitor in the room to help remote learners. This first week back is considered orientation week for elementary students, giving the staff a chance to familiarize them with the new protocols and helping students acclimate CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
A Q&A with trustee candidates Howard and Scalere By BRIANA BONFIGLIO bbonfiglio@liherald.com
Michael Scalere, a small business owner, is challenging incumbent Trustee Nancy Howard for a seat on the Village of Rockville Centre board of trustees in next week’s election. The Herald sent the candidates five questions about their qualifications for the role and goals for the village, and they provided their answers, below, via email. Their responses have been lightly edited. Voting will take place on Sept. 15, from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., at the John A. Anderson Recreation Center. Residents can also
request an absentee ballot by Sept. 14.
Nancy Howard
Trustee Nancy Howard, 60, was previously elected twice, in 2011 and again in 2015. She served as deputy mayor from 2011 to June 2017, when she stepped down to move to Florida, where her husband, Dave, was working. They returned to Rockville Centre in January 2019. They have lived in the village for more than 25 years, and have raised their four children here. Howard was a human resources recruitment and management-training executive at RH Macy’s and Solomon Broth-
ers. She left work to take care of her children. She has held leadership roles in the PTA, the South Side High School Booster Club, the Rockville Centre Education Foundation and the Community Fund. In Florida she consulted on the campaign of a mayoral candidate in Fort Lauderdale, and was asked to serve on a civic advisory group on infrastructure and smart growth.
Michael Scalere
Scalere, 47, is a lifelong resident of Rockville Centre and a co-owner and executive producer at Soul Kitchen Creative, a television production company. He
graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1995, and worked at HBO and then A&E Television Networks, where he spent 12 years in the marketing department as the History Channel’s senior creative director. Scalere’s parents, Thomas and Florence Scalere, owned and operated Long Island Bed &
Brass, in Rockville Centre, for nearly 20 years. Michael’s wife, Catherine, is a toy designer and has worked for Mattel, Entertainment One and Hasbro. The Scaleres have three children, all graduates of Riverside Elementary School now enrolled in South Side middle and high schools. The Scaleres are memCONTINUED ON PAGE 4