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Locals react to Blakeman’s mask directive ents and children should be granted the constitutional right to reject mask mandates while in Nassau County Executive the classroom.” Bruce Blakeman signed execuMany parents are calling the tive orders on Jan. 6 that direct- county executive’s decision to ed local boards of education to leave masking up to the parents vote in January on irresponsible, given whether their disthe county’s recent tricts should manrising Covid-19 case date mask use, while and hospitalization also lifting the mask rates among chilm a n d at e fo r a l l dren with the emercounty agencies and gence of the Omithe state’s tempocron variant of the rary mask mandate coronavirus. Chilin public places. dren ages 5 to 11 are The orders read now eligible for in part, “Given the Covid-19 vaccines, historical data on but children under 5 Covid-19 and the are still not eligible. ongoing debate over “By not requiring whether masks are masks in schools, it more harmful than increases the risk of beneficial to chila super-spreader dren and to school event,” Alisha Riggs, environments in of Sea Cliff said. “It general, we should JON LAUTER will get more chilprotect the freedoms dren, more families, Sea Cliff and statutory rights and teachers sick. If of students and parteachers are out sick ents by resting with the parents with Covid, who’s going to teach the decision whether their chil- the children? It is in the best dren should wear masks in interest of the county executive school.” to immediately rescind the execAccording to the orders, utive order.” school boards must vote “to determine whether or not parCONTINUED ON PAGE 8
BY ANNEMARIE DURKIN adurkin@liherald.com
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An icy selfie Participants in the annual Polar Bear Plunge at Sea Cliff Beach on New Year’s Day got lucky this year, relatively speaking. Although the water was frigid, the air was mild. More photos, Page 3.
North Shore School District offers its students Covid tests BY ANNEMARIE DURKIN adurkin@liherald.com
Home test kits were made available to school districts by New York state last week. The North Shore School District handed out at-home test kits to families Jan. 5 and 6, providing one kit per child to district families. They could pick them up at North Shore High School, the middle school, Glenwood Landing School and Glen Head School.
Nassau BOCES received 196,000 test kits from the state on Thursday at its Syosset center. Each Covid-19 antigen at-home kit includes two tests, intended for one person, to be used over two to three days. The rapid diagnostic test provides a result in 10 minutes. The state “wants to get them out to the students first,” Nassau BOCES Superintendent Robert Dillon said. “I’m hoping more will come [for the staff]. We’ll see.”
The district received 2,500 kits, one for each North Shore student, from BOCES Jan. 4, and began distribution to families the next day. “If your child uses one and tests positive, we are advised by our district physician that you should assume that to be accurate,” North Shore Interim Superintendent Thomas Dolan said at the Jan. 6 Board of Education meeting. “You should notify the school, as you’ve been CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
think he’s following his party’s lead in stoking division and creating an enemy to use in riling up his base, putting power before public safety.