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North Shore schools prep for reopening ered to make decisions about what in-person learning will look like, how much remote School districts in Nassau learning will be offered and how and Suffolk counto implement safeties, along with ty protocols. rest of the state, Masks will be will be allowed to mandated, and stureopen for in-perdents will be son instruction, required to have G o v. A n d r e w one with them at Cuomo announced all times. on Aug. 7. He said “We are giving he based his deciflexibility to the sion on low Covidschool districts,” 19 infection rates Cuomo said. Simirecorded in every lar to the state’s region. phased-in econom“Everywhere in ic reopening, he the state, every added, “There was region is below the no one-size-fits-all” threshold that we approach then, nor established,” is there now. Cuomo said durNorth Shore ing a conference School District call with reporters. Superintendent Dr. “If there’s a spike Dr. PeTer Peter Giar rizzo in the infection GiArrizzo said that the disrate, if there’s a trict is prepared to Superintendent, North matter of concern work with three in the infection Shore School District different models: rate, we can revisall remote, all init.” person or a hybrid of the two. The State Education Depart- The district’s plan as of now, ment is leaving the specifics of however, is to have all kinderhow to reopen New York’s 749 gartners through eighth-graders school districts to the districts themselves. They are empowContinued on page 4
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Masks can’t hide smiles at Sea Cliff Market Denise McCarthy brightened up her day with a purchase of sunflowers from the Sea Cliff Market, now operating on Garvies Point Road in Glen Cove. Story, page 10.
North Shore residents, officials decry PSEG storm response By Mike CoNN mconn@liherald.com
Thousands of homes and businesses across the North Shore lost power as Tropical Storm Isaias’s strong winds downed trees Aug. 4. The outages were inevitable, a number of residents said, but some expressed frustration with how PSEG Long Island responded, citing its lack
of communication with residents and government officials. Utility officials held a news conference Aug. 8 to address the outages. “We’ll continue to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week until the last customer is back,” said Daniel Eichhorn, PSEG Long Island’s president and chief operating officer. “We continue to meet with our mutual assistant groups, [and] we have
opened a request for additional line workers to come into our territory. We’ve received about an additional 150 line workers, and we have about the same amount coming in tomorrow, and we have about 700 off-island, out-of-state tree trimmers that are coming in to assist with the restoration efforts.” Sea Cliff Mayor Edward Continued on page 3
hat will guide every decision as we move forward is ensuring health, wellness, creativity [and] exciting, joyful learning that we’ve kind of lost, so we have to get back to that.