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Students get their first library cards
Jones Beach air show back this May
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MARCH 18 - 24, 2021
Vol. 69 No. 12
Pothole season is here again Residents concerned about road conditions in Seaford, Wantagh the surface foundation of roads and freezes, pushing the pavement upward. When the temperThe signs of the end of win- ature rises, the ice melts, creatter and the beginning of spring ing a hollow space between the are unmistakable: war mer pavement and the sub-base. The weather, later sunsets, birds empty space weakens the pavechir ping and, of ment, making it course, potholes. more likely that a Seaford and pothole will form. Wantagh residents The areas that say that the potholes residents noted are are a danger to chilof particular condren riding bikes, cer n include the commuters on their Wanta gh Avenue way to work and entrance to the even dog owners, Southern State Parkwhose pets have way, in Wantagh; been known to try to Seamans Neck Road, take pieces of in Seaford; the asphalt with them. beginning of EdgerBilly RAHNeR As he walked his t o n Ave nu e, o f f Resident dog on March 10, Wantagh Avenue, in Wantagh resident Wantagh; Park AveBilly Rahner noticed a pile of nue, in Seaford; Wantagh Oaks asphalt beside the sidewalk, Gate; and the corner of Campalong with shallow cracks and bell Road and Anita Lane, in holes, at the corner of North- Wantagh. view and Centerview Avenue. “The streets have cracks, and “Any time I go to leave to go because of the way they plow out out to Jerusalem Avenue and I here, they plow all the snow to have to make a left, I have to the corners, and now that all the avoid two huge potholes,” said snow melted, that’s what every Rahner, who has lived in Want- corner looks like,” Rahner said. agh since 2004. “It’s like going “These huge chunks of asphalt through an obstacle course.” are on the corners, and now, as Most potholes form in the winter, when water seeps inside Continued on page 3
By JeNNifeR CoRR jcorr@liherald.com
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The beat of their own drum Seaford Manor School students spent their gym class drumming on exercise balls in a cardiobased fitness program called DrumFit.
Seafordites react to law that restricts vape sales in Hempstead By MeliSSA KoeNig and JeNNifeR CoRR mkoenig@liherald.com, jcorr@liherald.com
Hempstead Town Supervisor Donald Clavin announced on March 8 that the Town Board would enact legislation restricting where electronic cigarette stores could operate. The legislation would prohibit the sale of e-cigarette or vaping products within 1,000 feet of a school, playground or park,
and would change the town’s zoning laws to restrict those businesses to light manufacturing or industrial zones. Donna Jebaily, a Seaford parent, said she supported the legislation. “I feel being too close to the school is just a little too close for comfort,” she said. “It’s just easier advertisement for the kids if it’s that easily available.” The legislation was inspired by Tiffany Capers, who stopped in at the town’s tax office a year
and a half ago, when Clavin, then the receiver of taxes, had just been elected town supervisor, to show him how vape shops were targeting teenagers with their advertisements and to express her concern about a shop that had opened across the street from Elmont Memorial High School. Clavin’s staff spent over a year collaborating with Capers Continued on page 3
shouldn’t have to worry about cracking my ankle in the street when I walk my dog.