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COMMUNITY UPDATE Infections as of June 7
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Infections as of May 31 1,464
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JUNE 10 - 16, 2021
Community rallies after cat is shot larly wanders the neighborhood near their Sherwood Road home. In fact, she’s no typical outdoor A Glen Cove family is coping cat, D.J. said, because she follows with an incident that could have them on the walks they take been a tragedy. On June 1, while with their three children and out roaming the neighborhood, a two dogs. beloved family pet — When the Huna cat named Gracie nicutts adopted Gra— was shot with a cie five years ago, pellet gun, and her D.J. said, they lived back legs were left in an apartment in paralyzed. Police are Sea Cliff and she still searching for was strictly an the shooter. indoor cat. They The cat was “crymoved to Glen Cove ing in pain” when a about three years woman heard her ago, and D.J. bought outside her home on a leash and began Taft Place, according taking Gracie outto Glen Cove police. D.J. HUNNICUTT side. Eventually, The woman saw that Glen Cove they didn’t need the the cat was unable to leash, and trusted walk and contacted her to follow them, her neighbor, veterinarian Dr. or to go out on her own and find Mara DiGrazia-Weigand, who her way home. took Gracie to her practice in But on June 1, she never New Hyde Park. made it home. DiGrazia-Weigand discovered “It’s extremely upsetting,” two gunshot wounds, initially Christina said. “It’s very frightbelieved to be from .22 caliber ening to think this happened in bullets. Gracie has a implanted our neighborhood.” microchip, so authorities were “Thankfully it wasn’t a .22 able to track down her family the caliber bullet, because that likely next day. would have killed her,” D.J. said. According to the cat’s owners, “But because they’re pellets and D.J. and Christina Hunnicutt, Gracie is a friendly cat that reguCONTINUED ON PAGE 20
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Shopping for bargains The annual Sea Cliff village-wide Garage Sale Day returned on Saturday. Beth Fedirko, of 77 Glen St., had a lot of vintage items for sale. More photos, Page 3.
Pandemic tests students’ mental health and sleep habits BY JENNIFER CORR jcorr@liherald.com
As North Shore middle and high school students pass through their hallways, making their way from class to class, staff and administrators may not pick up on whether those students feel a sense of belonging, or if they’re getting enough sleep.
A survey conducted by Stanford University’s Challenge Success, a nonprofit that does research in school districts across the country, focused on how students were feeling about their time at North Shore schools, as well as how much sleep they were getting and how much time they were spending on their homework. The survey was administered
to students in grades six through 12 in March, and 70 to 75 percent of them responded. “The theme you will be hearing over and over again from us this evening is this overlap of engagement and well-being, and that’s really home base for us,” Drew Schrader, the school program manager for Challenge Success, said at a Board of EduCONTINUED ON PAGE 2
e couldn’t have asked for more. It’s been very overwhelming.