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COMMUNITY UPDATE Infections as of May 7
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Infections as of May 3 1,449
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Residents on both sides of school budget addresses pandemic-related variables, maintains class sizes, continues the implementation of the Across Glen Head, signs of 2018-23 Strategic Plan and presupport for, or opposition to, the serves all educational programs, North Shore School District bud- athletics, art and extracurricuget were posted lar activities. throughout the Voters will also downtown area weigh in on Propa n d n e i g h b o rosition 2, which hoods. would establish a Inside the Capital Reserve North Shore High Fund not to School library in exceed $8.3 milGlen Head, dislion for infratrict officials and structure projects residents met for including field three-and-a-halflighting at the hour Board of high school, the Education meetinstallation of ing on May 6 at artificial-turf which the budget fields at schools was just one of throughout the many topics of district, wellness discussion. centers for the The $111.6 milhigh school and lion spending Jennifer Corr/Herald middle school and plan, Proposition A SIGN IN Glen Head the replacement 1, will be put to a opposing the budget. of a track surface, vote next Tuesday. among others. It is 1.2 percent Toward the end larger than the current budget, of the meeting, attendees had and includes a 1.43 percent the chance to address the board. increase in the tax levy, the max- “North Shore Schools system imum allowed under the state spends a huge amount of money tax cap. per capita for their students,” The spending plan, according to a mailer sent to voters, CONTINUED ON PAGE 18
BY JENNIFER CORR jcorr@liherald.com
Courtesy Lester L. Wolff
FORMER U.S. REP. Lester Wolff, who died on Tuesday, first met John F. Kennedy when Kennedy was a candidate for president, on NBC’s “Between the Lines,” which Wolff hosted.
Former U.S. Representative Lester Wolff dies at 102
NS environmental ‘hero’ stopped the bridge BY LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
Lester L. Wolff, who was elected to the House of Representatives in 1964 and served in Congress for 16 years, died on Tuesday at age 102. He had lived for the past 21 years in East Norwich, where he remained active until his death. Wolff ’s wife, Blanche, died in 2000. In his later years, he spent as much time as he
could with his remaining family, including his son Bruce and daughter Diane, which he said was impossible to do while serving in Congress. Locally, residents remember the Democratic congressman for leading the charge in the 1960s to nix the building of a bridge planned by then Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and developer Robert Moses. They wanted to continue the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway
in Syosset north to connect with Route 106 through Muttontown, Upper Brookville and Oyster Bay. The path to the bridge was to run parallel to West Shore Road through Mill Neck, by way of a viaduct above Mill Neck Creek ending in Bayville. The bridge’s location was never definite, but it was to run across the Sound. Wo l f f c o n t a c t e d t h e Department of the Interior to CONTINUED ON PAGE 7