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Village awarded $13 million grant Infrastructure projects will improve storm resiliency By JILL NOSSA jnossa@liherald.com
More than eight years after Hurricane Sandy damaged areas of Rockville Centre, infrastructure improvement projects will finally get under way. The village, a recipient of more than $13 million in grant money for the Living with the Bay project, w h i c h a i m s t o FRANCIS increase the resiliency of communities MURRAY along the Mill River, Mayor awarded bids for several component projects on Monday night. “This is a huge accomplishment for our village,” Mayor Francis X. Murray said. “We’re going to get parking lots out of this, improvements at Tighe
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Field, things to help us in mitigating flooding, like berms. This is wonderful for Rockville Centre.” The village board approved six proposals for improvements, totaling just over $13.13 million. “After Sandy hit, s o m u ch o f t h e Northeast was flooded — destroyed,” Murray said. The village lobbied in Washington, D.C., X. for relief funding, he said, and New York state won $125 million in aid for Living with the Bay. The project is being financed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block GrantDisaster Recovery funds, admin-
his is wonderful for Rockville Centre.
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MAYOR FRANCIS X. Murray and Bill Marinaccio, commander of Lynbrook American Legion Post 335, tossed a wreath into Mill River during the Pearl Harbor memorial ceremony.
Remembering Pearl Harbor Ceremony held on anniversary of attack By JILL NOSSA jnossa@liherald.com
Veterans and community members gathered Monday morning in Rockville Centre’s Mill River Complex Park to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor and to remember those who died that day. The ceremony is organized each year by American Legion Post 303, and attended by village officials and members of the police and fire depart-
ments. On Dec. 7, 1941, the surprise military strike by the Japanese Navy Air Service at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii, led to the United States’ entry into World War II. Eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged during the attack, and four sank. A total of 2,403 Americans were killed, and 1,178 were wounded. “We are here to remember the start of our country’s involvement in World War II and the over 400,000 members
of our military who died in that war,” Chaplain Joseph Scarola, a past commander of Post 303, said in his opening prayer. “We are here to remember the many sacrifices made for us. May this ceremony today be a worthy acknowledgement of those sacrifices.” In the short but moving ceremony, Mayor Francis X. Murray spoke of the power of the American spirit, and the CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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