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Helping their neighbors, for Pete’s sake By JENNIFER CoRR jcorr@liherald.com

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DElIVERING EAstER BAsKEts to 75 children with For the Love of Pete’s Pantry were, clockwise from top left, Beth Escobar; Claudia, Daniel and Samantha Brunie; and Nicolas Escobar.

Growing up, sisters Jeanne Rodrigues and Beth Escobar remember their father, Pete Haller, praying for the homeless before family dinners in their New Hyde Park home. Last September — 21 years after he died — Rodrigues, who now lives in southern New Jersey, Escobar, who lives in Seaford, and their friend Claudia Brunie, of Levittown, formed For the Love of Pete’s Pantry in Seaford. “Covid-19 was actually one of the reasons we wanted to

get started right away, because we saw such a great need — not just for people who are homeless, but for our neighbors who suddenly lost a job or wound up in a situation where they couldn’t go to work because of Covid,” Escobar said. “We were seeing friends and neighbors who are struggling, and we just felt we had to do something about this. We had to help.” Seven months after it opened, the pantry has gained nonprofit status, which Escobar said, “opened a lot of doors.” “Our hands were tied Continued on page 3

State study: Public water authority is the best option By ANDREW GARCIA and MIKE CoNN agarcia@liherald.com

According to a recent study ordered by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and conducted by the state Department of Public Service, the municipalization of New York American Water’s Long Island infrastructure is not only feasible, but also in residents’ best interests. NYAW provides water to Wantagh and Seaford. “The study determined that such municipalization is both feasible and, under a variety of scenarios, in the public interest,” the DPS report reads, “even

with an upfront investment of nearly $800 million for the purchase of NYAW’s assets (or a pro rata amount for parts of the system), ongoing and near-term infrastructure improvements and transaction costs.” The study was put in motion by Cuomo in early February, and gave the DPS until April 1 to declare its results. Rory Lancman, the department’s special counsel for ratepayer protection, oversaw the study. The DPS recommended that the State Legislature act quickly to remove the “onerous property tax burden” on NYAW’s ratepayers. Lawmakers had pushed legislation in the state budget that

would provide a path for a public takeover, but it has since been removed and will be legislated separately after the budget stalled in the Assembly, according to Sen. John Brooks, a Democrat from Seaford. If NYAW were granted an exemption from a franchise property tax, lawmakers said, more of a tax burden would be put on ratepayers of other utilities, such as National Grid. “In virtually every other area of the state, water is not taxed at all,” Brooks said. “So, the fact that NYAW was being taxed, we were effectively subsidizing much of the Island by having a tax that no one else had to pay.

It’s how you look at it: The glass is half empty or half full.” “But I don’t think we should ever tax a natural resource that’s required to support life,” Brooks said. “There never should have been a tax on water to begin with.” The legislation also would have established a new public authority, likely called the Nas-

sau County Water Authority, as recommended by the DPS. The Water Authority would have the power to purchase all or parts of NYAW’s assets in the county, or obtain them through eminent domain proceedings. If the authority is established, it could choose to operate the infrastructure itself, conContinued on page 3

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Sisters honor late father with food pantry because of a couple situations before, but now we can really expand,” she said. The goal of For the Love of Pete’s Pantry is to become a fixture in the Seaford community, where residents help out when their neighbors are in need of food, toiletries, Christmas or Easter presents, baby supplies and other necessities. “We’ve got a big pantry in the backyard, in the shed, that’s got shelves,” Rodrigues said, referring to Escobar’s Seaford home. “It’s full of non-perishable foods that we can give out to people. So people can conFor the Love of Pete’s tact us directly if they need Pantry was founded and assistance.” Last Thanksgiving, the named in honor of the pantry provided dinner for late Pete Haller, of New 50 local families. For ChristHyde Park. mas, it sent presents to more than 100 children, and for Easter it gave 75 children the chance to wake up and find an Easter basket. “We have a lot of local support, which is nice,” Rodrigues said. “If we say we need something, or if somebody needs something, on our Facebook page, people respond. I always found that people want to help, it’s just that they don’t know what to do. So if you give them some ideas or you tell them what you need or you lead them in the right direction, people want to help. So they do.”

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SiSterS Beth eScoBar, left, and Jeanne Rodrigues joined their friend Claudia Brunie to form the Seaford-based nonprofit For the Love of Pete’s Pantry.

Public water authority is ‘right thing to do’ continued from front page tract operations to established publicwater providers or merge all or parts of NYAW’s assets into existing water providers. The report advised that time is of the essence in establishing a public water authority. The state Public Service Commission is still reviewing NYAW’s proposed sale of its Long Island infrastructure to Liberty Utilities for roughly $608 million. NYAW’s rates are also scheduled to rise as much as 26 percent on May 1. In addition to Wantagh and Seaford, NYAW serves Bellmore, Merrick and other select areas in the Town of Hempstead and Massapequa. It also serves the Sea Cliff Water District, which includes Sea Cliff and Glen Head, as well as parts of Glenwood Landing, Glen Cove, Old Brookville and Roslyn Harbor. “This is a comprehensive report,” NYAW President Lynda DiMenna said. “As always, our number one priority is our customers, and we will be reviewing the details of the report to understand the impact on them. We are gratified to see that the governor’s press release and the report acknowledges what we have been saying for years: that the special franchise tax is overly burdensome for New York American Water customers, and tax refor m is key to providing

history repeats itself In 2016, after more than five years of deliberations and a $90,000 feasibility study, the board of directors of the Water Authority of Southeast Nassau County voted against a local public takeover of New York American Water, effectively dissolving WASENC. The authority was charged in 2010 with investigating whether the towns of Hempstead and Oyster Bay could — and should — assume control of American Water. The body was impaneled by the towns after a number of residents complained that the private company was charging significantly higher rates for the same water that the towns provide to residents in surrounding communities. WASENC retained George E. Sansoucy, P.E., LLC, to study the feasibility of a public acquisition. The draft affordability for our customers.” State Sen. Jim Gaughran, a Democrat from Northport whose district includes Sea Cliff Water District communities, also pushed for the legislation to be

study was completed in November 2013, according to WASENC’s secretary at the time, John Reinhardt, Hempstead’s water commissioner, but the public had yet to see those findings for more than six months, prompting a protest in July 2014. The Sansoucy study found that a takeover of American Water’s assets in local communities by eminent domain could cost as much as $80 million, which would have to be bonded. Reinhardt said the board voted against a public takeover in 2016 because there was no evidence to suggest that it would save ratepayers money, and noted that it would likely cost them $73, or 11.6 percent more per year over the first three decades of the takeover. Previously reported in the Herald

adopted in the budget, along with Brooks. “We haven’t given up on anything,” Brooks said. “I believe the creation of a water authority is the right thing to do.”

Cuomo has maintained that a public water authority should encompass all of Nassau County. A Nassau County Water Authority, Gaughran said, could work similarly to the Suffolk County Water Authority, which he chaired from 2010 until he was elected to the Senate in 2018, in that it might consolidate some of the county’s smaller water districts in the future. This could also be a crucial step toward a Long Island-wide water authority, he added, which could deal more effectively with water-quality issues, an aging infrastructure and the protection of underground aquifers. “It appears that dreams really do come true,” Agatha Nadel, a director of the public advocacy group North Shore Concerned Citizens, said of the study’s findings. “I just can’t think of another issue for this community that could be solved that could be so gratifying and rewarding.” Claudia Borecky, co-director of Merrick-based advocacy group Long Island Clean Air Water and Soil, said the creation of a Nassau County Water Authority would be “ideal.” “T hat would be perfect,” said Borecky, who has been advocating for a public takeover for years. “I’m grateful for the people. If there hadn’t been such a public outcry we wouldn’t have gotten this far.”

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S t a t e S e n . Jo h n Brooks is fighting to alleviate the tax burden felt by his business and home-owning constituents. The Seaford Democrat has recently sponsored and co-sponsored three pieces of property Courtesy office of Sen. John Brooks tax legislation that, if passed into law, would STATE SEN. JoHN Brooks chatted with his staff on the not only ease the tax Senate floor in 2019. burden on small business owners and active York State would alleviate any shortfall. military members, but also address the “Here on Long Island in particular, in school district wealth gap on Long Island. so many districts we’re funding 70 percent The bill that affects small business or more of our education through properowners aims to effectively eliminate the ty taxes,” Brooks said. “Easily, [taxpayers] cap placed on state and local tax, or SALT, are going over the $10,000, and they’re getdeductions for businesses in New York. ting double-taxed on the money that’s in Federal legislation in 2017 capped the excess of the $10,000 — we need to put an amount of state and property taxes that end to that.” individuals can deduct from their federal “All of this will equal $1.1 billion in savincome tax forms at $10,000 — but many ings to working and middle-class homeNew Yorkers, especially on Long Island, owners without raising any taxes,” pay much more in property taxes alone. according to Brooks. Owners of S corporations, partnerAdditionally, the gap in per-pupil ships, and limited liability companies in spending between more and less wealthy New York currently pay their taxes as districts would be reduced, so educational individuals. The bill, S2915, would give opportunities could be much more evenly business owners an option to pay these distributed. taxes through their business entity, which Another bill, which has unanimously is not subject to the SALT cap. passed the state senate, will help active Regarding school funding, Brooks military members. According to a press takes a novel approach to homeowner release from Brooks’ office, the legislation property tax relief, particularly in less- will authorize municipalities to offer a wealthy school districts. Such districts real property tax exemption for property often exist where profitable businesses are owned by active-duty service members in few, or where businesses have payment-in- a combat zone. lieu-of-taxes, or PILOT, agreements. “This bill is meant to provide further A PILOT allows a business to agree stability and support for military famiwith a municipality not to pay its full lies,” Brooks said. Currently, U.S. military property. Lack of business tax income can veterans can claim a property tax exemppass the burden of funding a local school tion under New York state law, but Brooks district to homeowners, whose property said the same exemption should be availtaxes get raised to make up the difference. able for those who are currently serving. However, if Brooks’ legislation, which If the bill is signed into law, active-duty is currently introduced on the senate floor, military members can claim an exemppasses, homeowner property taxes would tion for up to 15 percent of their home’s not be expected to fund more than 50 per- assessed value, but the claim cannot cent of a school district’s budget. New exceed $12,000.

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Community service through expressing themselves By Jennifer corr jcorr@liherald.com

The old, discarded books of the Wantagh Public Library may tell a story, but using those books ripped out pages, Wantagh students on April 9 were able to tell their very own story. Just in time for National Poetry Month, the Wantagh Public Library held a Black Out Poetry, which highlights words on a page by coloring around it to make a poem, for students in grades fifth through 12th. The event was a success, bringing a handful of students to the library on a Friday month to take part in the project. “I knew it was poetry month in April and I wanted to do something, so I figured this was an easy way because they weren’t starting with a blank page,” said young adult librarian Jennifer McHugh. “They were starting with something that was already there and were changing it to

make it their own and then adding the art element where they can design it.” Because the pages they made will go on display at the library, the students were able to earn an hour of community service, something that has been rather difficult during the pandemic. “We can’t have our volunteers come in like they normally do,” said McHugh. “So we do have some things online. They can do a book review with an online Google form or they can do an act of kindness and fill out a Google form and they just send it back and we email them a certificate.” Crafty nights like this have been popular, McHugh said, with participants often being put on wait lists. Only a certain amount of people can come to ensure social distance. To see the Wantagh Public Library’s listing of events, visit www.wantaghlibrary.org.

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Come to the Wantagh Public Library to relax and have fun playing bingo with fellow patrons for prizes from 10 to 11 a.m. Registration is required to participate. Register online at www.wantaghlibrary.org. For more information, call (516) 221-1200.

Thursday nights are for $5 martini’s (with the purchase of an entree) with live music on the side from 4 to 10 p.m. End the work day with food and fun at Margarita’s Cafe, 753 Wantagh Ave. For more information, call (516) 595-7278.

Country night Listen to country music from Southband at Mulcahy’s Pub & Concert Hall, 3232 Railroad Ave. in Wantagh from 5 to 7 p.m. There will be $4 bottled beer and $4 house drinks. Call (516) 783-7500 to make a reservation.

Friday, April 23 Sounds Like Science Children in grades five and under are invited to join the Seaford Public Library for a show that explores how sounds are made and how people can hear it. Create animal roars with simple materials and create a funky disco show with magnets and more. To register for the Zoom, visit www.seafordlibrary.org. For more information, call (516) 221-1334.

Saturday, April 17 Create a ceramic owl Children in grades one through three are invited to create their own ceramic owl from 10 to 10:45 a.m. in the Community Room at Wantagh Publc Library, 3285 Park Ave. Register by phone at (516) 221-1200, by email at ccucci@wantaghlibrary.org or in-person.

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Wantagh Wellness Project 5K The Wantagh Wellness Project has partnered with Wantagh mom and fitness instructor Jen Martini to create a free 5K that will start and finish at Wantagh Elementary School on April 24 at 8:30 a.m. Bring a vegan item. Signup: runsignup.com/race/ny/Wantagh/JMphasesoffitnessWWP5k.

The 90’s Band Listen to the music of the 1990s at Mulcahy’s Pub & Concert Hall, 3232 Railroad Ave. in Wantagh from 6 to 9 p.m. The 90s Band will be performing for patrons 21 and up. The $39.95 price includes bottled beer and house drinks, an order of sharables or wings. There will also be a full menu available for additional purchases. Call (516) 783-7500 to make a reservation.

Monday, April 19 Playhooray via Zoom From 10 to 10:30 a.m., dance, march and move to the beat of contemporary and pop music with PLayHooray. This is a great event for Seaford’s children six and under, and their caregivers. Register at www.seafordlibrary.org to

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Wed., April 21 ‘America’s First Black Poet’

Tuesday, April 20 Apps for a healthy lifestyle The Seaford Public Library is hosting a presentation by Sharper Training Solutions at 7 p.m. about what apps can help people live a healthier lifestyle. In this lecture class, participants will learn which apps are available to help with improving sleep habits, fitness, healthy eating and mental health. How to search for lifestyle appls, how to download and find reviews for apps will also be discussed. To register, visit www.seafordlibrary.org. For more information, call (516) 221-1334.

April is National Poetry Month. Join Author Stanley Austin Ransom at 1 p.m. as he discusses his book “America’s First Black Poet: Jupiter Hammon of Long Island.” He will talk about Jupiter’s life, poetry, as well as speak about the national celebration of Black Poetry Day on Oct. 17, Jupiter’s birthday. Register for the Zoom session at www.seafordlibrary.org. For more information, call (516) 221-1334.

Go green Children in grades one through three are invited to join the Wantagh Public Library, 3285 Park Ave., from 4:15 to 4:45 p.m. to hear some Earth Day stories. Face coverings and social distance is required. Register at

Musician Ben Goldsmith will be playing live at Mulcahy’s at 6 p.m. The $39.95 per person price can get patrons shareable food items, domestic bottled beer and house drinks. Call (516) 783-7500 to make a reservation.

www.wantaghlibrary.org. For more information, call (516) 221-1200.

Thursday, April 22 Page-turners book club Children in grades four through six are invited to embrace reading by discussing “The Serpent’s Secret” by Sayantani Dasgupta. Read the book or e-book at home and then join the dicussion and activities either in person at the Wantagh Public Library, 3285 Park Ave. or over Zoom. from 4 to 4:45 p.m. “The Serpent’s Secret” tells the story of Kiranmala, who on her 12th birthday considered herself an ordinary sixth grader. But then her parents disappeared and a drooling rakkosh demon shows up in her kitchen. She is soon swept up into another dimension full of magic. To register and get a copy

HAvinG An evenT? Items on the Community Update pages are listed free of charge. The Herald welcomes listings of upcoming events, community meetings and items of public interest. All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number. Submissions can be emailed to jcorr@liherald.com.

The Seaford Makers Market begins May 15 at the Seaford Train Station from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Purchase lawn signs celebrating Seaford HS Class of 2021 from Seaford M.S. & H.S. PTSA. Anchor Down Dockside in Seaford to reopen April 14. A new Chick-fil-A in Wantagh will open July 1. The Wantagh Public Library budget meeting to take place April 19 from 7 to 8 p.m.

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writing and special sections.” The Herald Community Newspapers took home 26 honors in the annual New Special Sections/Niche York Press Association’s Better Newspa- Publication — Newsprint The East Meadow Herald was honored per Contest, which attracted more than 2,400 of entries from 151 newspapers for the Heralds’ K-Kids special section, a across the state this year. The Heralds’ sis- kindergarten yearbook, with photos of ter paper, The Riverdale Press, earned each class from within the East Meadow eight accolades, bringing the total for Rich- School District. Honorees included Karen Bloom, Photo ner Communications Inc. publications to Editor Christina Daly, Rhonda Glickman 34, a record showing. The contest includes both weekly and and Creative Director Jeff Negrin. Judges wrote, “It is visually overwhelmd a i ly n ew s p ap e r s. Aw a rd s we re announced virtually on Zoom Friday. The ing, but given the subject matter, that Heralds earned a variety of awards, seems appropriate.” including both editorial and advertising Best Online Static Ad honors. The Heralds were recognized for an “In a year when trusted local news proved to be more important than ever,” online multiple-ad page called Make Your said Stuart Richner, publisher of Herald House a Home. Jeff Negrin designed the Community Newspapers, “our team once ad, and Sales Director Lori Berger develagain rose to the occasion, providing Long oped the concept. Ju d g e s w r o t e, Island communities “This is one terrific with the information a d — s o m e b o dy they most needed. deserves special recCongratulations to ognition for a great all of our editors, idea extremely well reporters, designers, executed.” account representatives, pressroom staff Spot News and business leadPhotography ers.” The Merrick HerHeralds Executive ald was recognized Editor Scott Brinton for Scott Brinton’s said, “2020 was, no two-pa g e photo doubt, one heck of a spread of the Black difficult year, but the Lives Matter protests Herald team showed in Merrick and Bellincredible grit in putmore last June. ting out top-quality Ju d g e s w r o t e, newspapers, week Brian Stieglitz/Herald “These photos of a after week under the EditOR BRiAN StiEglitz received a Black Lives Matter most difficult of cir- first-place honor for Feature Photo for march capture the cumstances.” this endearing image. determination, ferMichael Bologna, vor and peaceful vice president of operations, added, “When our peers recog- camaraderie of protesters. Unlike many nize excellence in all aspects our organiza- photographers, [Brinton] got into the tion, it really means a lot. I’m proud of our crowds, allowing the faces of participants to tell their story.” entire team.” Here’s a rundown of how the Heralds Best Obituaries did: The Sea Cliff-Glen Head Herald was honored for Associate Editor Mike Conn’s First Place obituaries on teacher Ed Smith and artist Advertising Excellence The Long Beach Herald was recognized Tom Malloy. Judges wrote, “These obituaries immein this very competitive category for a diately transport you to a day in the life of variety of newspapers and special sections a person who has, sadly, died . . . This work that were submitted for the contest. Rhonwas real journalism: interviews, research da Glickman and Karen Bloom coordinate advertising and special sections, respec- and carving out the story with aplomb. tively. Several advertising account execu- Excellent job. “ tives contributed to the win in this category. “Winning first place for Advertising Excellence takes an awesome sales, administration, art and production team,” Rhonda Glickman, the Heralds’ vice president for advertising sales, said. “We won this award together, and I couldn’t be prouder.” Judges wrote, “This publication does a great job of coordinating the advertising with the editorial; the two complemented each other both in layout and design. There are also many unique forms of advertising happening in this publication, including premium placements, advertorials that are designed with strong copy

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The East Meadow Herald was honored for a front-page photo taken by Brian Stieglitz last March of 3-year-old Ropper Thompson dueling with balloon swords with cook Steve LaSala at an East Meadow Kiwanis Club pancake breakfast. Stieglitz was then the East Meadow editor, and is now the editor of the Wantagh and Seaford Heralds. Judges wrote, “Runaway winner for the division. Great moment found at an event. Love the face reaction.”

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HERAldS ExEcutivE EditOR Scott Brinton earned first place for Spot News Photography for his photo essay on the Black Lives Matter protests in Merrick last June.

Second Place Feature Story: Nakeem Grant, Malverne-West Hempstead Herald Best House Ad: Jeff Negrin, Wantagh Herald Best Headlines: Alyssa Seidman, Bellmore Herald

News Story: Mike Smollins, LynbrookEast Rockaway Herald Best Large Space Ad: Mona Waitzman, Sea Cliff/Glen Cove Herald Best Online Static Ad: Craig White, Glen Cove Herald

third Place Sports Action Photo: Brian Ballweg, Glen Cove Herald Best Column: Scott Brinton, Merrick Herald Best Editorials: Scott Brinton, Merrick Herald Spot News Coverage: Scott Brinton, Bridget Downes Andrew Garcia, Ronny Reyes, Alyssa Seidman, Darwin Yanes, Merrick Herald

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Honorable Mention Rookie Reporter of the Year: Jennifer Corr, Glen Cove Herald Sports Feature Photo: Anthony Hughes, Oyster Bay Herald Sports Action Photo: Anthony Hughes, Rockville Centre Herald

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What’s neWs in and out of the classroom

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Peer-to-peer writing support in Seaford Seaford High School English teacher Tania Cintorino recently spoke with students in her Advanced Placement Research class during a peer editing session. Using their laptops, the juniors reviewed sections of each other’s ongoing research projects to offer constructive feedback. Documents were shared through Microsoft Teams and OneDrive. Some of the research topics students are working on this year include deforestation on Long Island, LGBTQ beauty standards, social media and politics and selfdriving cars. Provided by the Seaford School District. Compiled by Brian Stieglitz.

Seaford HigH ScHool English teacher Tania Cintorino recently spoke with students in her Advanced Placement Research class during a peer editing session.

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Students beautify their school To spruce up the courtyard at Seaford Harbor Elementary School, students have been tasked with decorating the small green space surrounded by two hallways, the main office and the art room. Each month, a different grade level is selected to decorate. The project began in February with second graders filling the courtyard with hearts for Valentine’s Day. March had a St. Patrick’s Day theme, with decorations made my kindergartners. Students colored in clovers, leprechaun hats and pots of gold, and also made a rainbow from their handprints. “We thought that our courtyard could use some life,” Principal Tom Burke said, “and who better to help, but the children of the Harbor School.” Provided by the Seaford School District. Compiled by Brian Stieglitz.

Seaford Harbor elementary School kindergartners Michael Strong, left, Rosalia Castaldo and Dylan Patterson helped decorate the school’s courtyard for St. Patrick’s Day in March.

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When the pandemic first hit, colleges had to change how they taught — they had to do so remotely or not at all — which resulted in emotional and even physical changes in many current and prospective students. For many Long Islanders already enrolled in local colleges, as time has passed, the changes that were new transitions only a year ago have become the new normal— with many students, faculty and staff having found new and innovative ways to adapt. Many Long Island high-schoolers who are considering college in the near future have been left with unanswered questions about university studies during the pandemic. To shed light on the many questions that they may be pondering, Herald Inside LI held a live Zoom webinar, “Staying Local for College,” on April 8. Panelists from local colleges and universities discussed accommodating students during a pandemic. Many panelists also reflected on what it was like when the pandemic first hit versus now. “When the pandemic first happened, it was harder to have the same type of interactions without in-person meetings, and I think eventually students and staff got sick of virtual meetings,” said Marguerite Lane, assistant vice president of enrollment management at Molloy College. “However, now I can happily say that we are having more personal contact, and the majority of our courses will be in-person in the fall.” Lane, who has worked at Molloy College for 33 years, said the school has adapted to the pandemic by bringing about many new changes to help students. Molloy recently completed renovations to new residence halls. Despite having mostly commuter students, the school does have a certain number of students who live on campus.

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HerAld iNside li held a live Zoom webinar called, “Staying Local for College,” on April 8. “We have had more than double the number of our students taking advantage of mental health counseling than usual, and I think it’s a great opportunity for students to use that campus resource during this pandemic time,” Lane said. St. Francis College has also had to offer more counseling services for students. Robert Oliva, St. Francis’s assistant vice president for enrollment management, said, “A lot of institutions have not been able to invest in mental health services for students during this tough time, but we were able to hire one new full-time counselor and 10 graduate student interns to help.” “The past year has shown us how flexible we can be

and persistent,” said Christine Murphy, vice president for enrollment management at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn. “There was so much uncertainty before, but now we are able to do more advanced virtual events, we will have fall sports for this 2021 year, and we hope to give students more human interaction and experiences in the classroom or on the field or anywhere on campus.” “We have entered into the new normal ... We are not the same institution, and we are all going to see even more flexibility in the coming fall months for students,” said Joseph Posillico, vice president for enrollment management at the New York Institute of Technology. All the college enrollment officials present said their schools do not yet require a Covid-19 vaccine to take classes or take part in activities. The officials said receiving a vaccine will remain optional for students, unless state law changes or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests otherwise. “So many things have changed, but vaccines will remain optional for now,” concluded Stephanie Espina, Adelphi University’s director of undergraduate admissions. Hofstra University shifted its admissions process almost entirely to digital last year. Recruitment has been more personalized, explained Claire Fitzgibbon, director of undergraduate admissions at Hofstra University. By the coming fall, Hofstra aims to be back to in-person instruction exclusively. In coming weeks, clubs will be offering in-person meeting opportunities. “Everything is different, and it’s going to continue to look different,” Fitzgibbon said. “None of us know what the “new normal” will look like, but we’re going to build it together.” To watch the recording of this webinar, visit www. liherald.com/recordings, and to register for future webinars, visit www.liherald.com/insideli.

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HERALD Covid-19 LIBRARIANS JACK LEONE

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WANTAGH Reference Librarian, Wantagh Public Library

e were closed from last March to the beginning of June. We were doing online programs and had an online chat for reference questions. I started different weekly programs over Zoom. I started a history discussion that worked out really well. Each week, several people would tune in and we’d discuss different times in history like the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. During one session, I told the true story of Braveheart. We still have that going on. A lot of people were reluctant to come in person, but more and more are coming back now. We have four book discussions each month at the reference desk. When we first reopened, it was by appointment only and we were very strict about scheduling. But shortly after, we ended that and it’s been business as usual ever since. We haven’t been that affected by the

MERRICK Adult Programming Director, Merrick Library pandemic since the summer. We have our regular programs like yoga classes and defensive driving, and those are going great. The children’s programs are great, and my kids have been attending. You can’t play with the toys at the library, but you can browse the books. We have students coming in to use the computers and take their college classes remotely. We’ve had people coming from other towns where their library is closed. We try to get the word out there that we’ve been open this whole time, and everybody’s been very grateful about it. It looks like things are moving forward now, and we may have more programs coming in. We take all the safety precautions and enforce wearing masks and social distancing. It’s all been working out fine. To me, it feels like we never closed.

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've been the adult program director at The Merrick Library since 2006. The Covid-19 pandemic closures changed my job completely. Our programs were meant to bring people into the library. Now we needed activities they could join without entering the building. Creating virtual programs was a learnon-the-spot kind of thing. We had to devise engaging activities to do online. Advertising fliers at the front desk got replaced with email newsblasts, social media posts and notifications to our event calendar at merricklibrary.org. Our patrons use Zoom, YouTube and Facebook Live to participate from home in programs like Jeanne McElwain’s popular yoga classes. For our craft lovers, I designed Take-and-

Make. I assemble craft kits with the necessary materials, create a YouTube tutorial and email the link to registrants. Patrons can pick up the kits curbside or come inside to our front desk. They make the craft at home by viewing the tutorial. Along the same lines is Take-and-Bake, where registrants pick up a kit containing the recipe’s nonperishable items, a recipe card, and the corresponding YouTube link. It’s well attended. In fact, all our events fill up ten minutes after we post them to our calendar. Our older patrons have gotten computersavvy. Many seniors are among the 40 to 50 participants in Carol Ann Tack’s Zoom book discussions. Like all our patrons, seniors can order books online to pick up curbside, or ask for home delivery.

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NORTH BELLMORE Children's Librarian, North Bellmore Public Library

NORTH BELLMORE Head Custodian, North Bellmore Public Library a virtual storytime series running for the young ones. At the height of Covid, I’d make templates for at-home crafts and email them to registered parents. Now, when parents register for storytime, they have the option to pick up a craft bag at the library that matches each storytime session. I enjoy making connections with parents and the kids. I love when they come back to me and tell me, or write to me, especially now, about how much they enjoy storytime and doing crafts. I love watching them grow up, too. That’s the best thing for me.

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'm one of the custodians at the North Bellmore Library, and I've been here about 16 years. Before that, I was a New York City fireman. I'm in charge of much of the sanitizing and cleaning of the library. When we closed, we were still finishing contracts and things like that, so things were still being taken care of here — and when people had to be here, I was there. Because the building was somewhat newly built, there were still contractors and issues that had to be finished. If we ever found something wrong, people would have to get in and take care of it, and we would have to be there for them. Basically, my partner and I were there every day from Monday to Saturday, making sure

that everything was taken care of. It's a part-time job for me, Monday to Friday from 8 to 12. As for my routine, even though we have cleaning crews come in, I spray the bathrooms, make sure the hand sanitizing dispensers are full and spray and wipe down the counters and tables so that we can start the day off. You go down each aisle spraying and spraying — your finger gets tired holding the button! Books that come in even have to sit for three to four day before we put them back on the shelves. You have to be more cautious at times. I empty the outside dropbox every morning. Patrons place orders over the phone, and the books will be waiting in the front lobby.

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have been a children’s librarian at North Bellmore Library for almost nine years. With the pandemic, it’s quite a different landscape now. We opened back up physically last July, but the children’s programs are still virtual. We offer virtual programs for 3- to 5-yearolds and kids in grades K-3. We also offer takeand-make craft bags every week for parents and children to do at home. We closed the library on March 14, 2020. I was so worried about the little ones, my storytime friends, that came to the library regularly. I knew that being told they couldn’t come to the library was going to be an issue, especially when they were hit with so many changes. I wanted them to have a familiar face and what they were used to. So, by March 24, I had

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ast March, we thought we were only going to shut down for two weeks. When we realized it was going to last longer, we had to rush to figure out how we were going to reach the community. We didn’t know anything about Zoom or other virtual platforms, so there was a big learning curve. We put digital resources on our website, and those were really popular. We have something called LIBBY, which you can use to rent audiobooks, e-books and digital magazines. We have Canopy, which you can use to stream movies and documentaries online. We also introduced a digital library card so people could apply for one and access all of our online resources. That was all new. We still did our summer reading program for adults, teens and children. All of that was online.

When we opened again in July, we had a graband-go service so guests could order their books and pick them up in the lobby. That was very popular. I also added a chat box on our website so people could submit any questions they had. Guests are permitted to come in for an hour. We have everyone using PPE, and installed Plexiglas dividers on all the desks. We still do all of our programs virtually and have cooking classes, yoga, children’s activities, and lately we’ve had a lot of author meet-and-greets. We’ve done that before, but we’re doing a lot more because we can invite authors from all over the world. We just had someone from Australia speak to our guests. We’re hoping, by September, to have in-person programs again. As more and more people are vaccinated, we’re getting closer and closer to getting out of this.

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Fate of swim meets this summer to be decided By Jennifer Corr jcorr@liherald.com

More than 1,500 people have signed a petition on Change.org calling on Nassau County and the Towns of Hempstead and North Hempstead to host swim meets this summer at their outdoor pools. Wantagh resident Duckie McClellan created the petition, titled “Let Them Swim! In the Nassau Municipal Swim Conference Summer 2021,” last week in response to the news that the municipalities would operate their public pools with the same limited scheduling and capacity as last summer. The Nassau Municipal Swim Conference, the Levittown Swimming Association and other local municipal and village teams have been an integral part of children’s lives for over 50 years, McClellan said. Bridget Egan Diano, a Wantagh resident, shared the petition in the “Wantagh Neighbors” Facebook group and encouraged her fellow residents to sign it if they’d like to see their children use the Wantagh Park Pool, which is run by Nassau County, and Forest City Pool, a Town of Hempstead facility, as summer swim team members. “My son has participated in the swim teams at both Wantagh Park and Forest City since he was 8, and it got him started in the sport,” Egan Diano said. “He’s now a junior at Wantagh High School, holds two all-time school records and is pursuing swimming at the college level.” She explained that her son wouldn’t have gotten this far without his experience with local swim teams. “Last year, the swimming community was very disappointed that the league was cancelled, but due to the uncertainty at the time, the decision made sense,” McClellan wrote in the petition. But she added that it is unrealistic to maintain those restrictions when so much has

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Parents are ConCerned that their children won’t be able to participate in the Nassau Municipal Swim Conference this summer at outdoor facilities like the Wantagh Park Pool. improved since last year, and more and more residents are being vaccinated. According to New York state’s Reopening New York Sports and Recreation Guidelines, swimming is considered a moderate-risk sport. As of Feb. 1, individual or distanced group training activities, organized no- or low-contact group training, and competitive team practices, games, meets, matches and tournaments are allowed. But as of now, the Town of Hempstead is not issuing pool permits that swim teams typically need to hold practices and meets, because the state has not yet provided guidance on what will be allowed this summer, according to a statement from the town. “We are following suit with all of the other municipalities on Long Island,” the statement read. “Over the course of the pandemic, the

Town of Hempstead has painstakingly worked to safely operate government and continue as many recreational activities as possible while complying with state guidance,” town Spokesman Greg Blower said. “Pools and most other programs must conform with all of the rules set forth by New York State. At the current time, the town has not canceled any swimming-related activities, and continues limited operations under state decrees. Should the state regulations change, the town will review the guidance and attempt to restore as many athletic programs as possible to pre-Covid levels.” “The decision is especially surprising since area public high schools were able to have a successful boys season and the girls are currently practicing and competing,” McClellan wrote in the petition.

“In addition, the Nassau County Aquatic Center, an indoor facility run by the Nassau County, has hosted both the girls and boys [Nassau Suffolk Catholic High School Athletic Association] championship swim meets, Section 8 boys championship meet, master swim team practices, lifeguard certifications, swim clinics and open swims.” Egan Diano argued that the same protocols that varsity school swim teams implemented at indoor pools could be used over the summer, such as having participants swim separately and submit their times. “There are ways around this if people are concerned about crowding in the pool,” she said. “Not to mention that the summer leagues typically only hold the meets on Saturday mornings, before the pool opens. So, the only people there are the swim team members and parents. There’s no mixing with the regular patrons.” All practices and competitions for the teams in the Nassau Municipal Swim Conference are outdoors, McClellan added. “Why can’t the same safety measures that were implemented at the Aquatic Center and at practice pools for high school teams this past spring also be implemented at the municipal pools this summer so our kids can swim?” she asked. “This decision is a great disservice to the many kids who look forward to swimming on these teams every summer.” Team participation not only improves swimmers’ skills, McClellan said, but also provides them with camaraderie as well as lessons about teamwork, respect and how to win and lose gracefully. “These municipal swim teams really bring the community together,” she added, “and are an integral part in the training of our future swimmers.”

Gates is a National Merit Scholarship Finalist The Wantagh High School administration recently announced that senior Margaret Gates was named one of the nation’s 15,000 National Merit Scholarship Program Finalists in the 66th annual National Merit Scholarship Program competition. As a finalist, Gates received a Certificate of Merit and will soon learn whether she has been chosen as a Merit Scholar designee. Gates entered the competition by taking the 2019 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). The nationwide pool of semifinalists like Gates represents one percent of U.S. high school seniors and includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state. To become one of 7,600 scholarship winners, Gates will be judged on her academic record, information about the high school’s curriculum and grading system, her PSAT/NMSQT Selection

index core, an official recommendation and information about her contributions and leadership in school and the community and a finalist essay. Provided by the Wantagh School District. Compiled by Brian Stieglitz.

Wantagh high sChool senior Margaret Gates has been designated as a National Merit Scholarship Program Finalist.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Board of Education, Levittown Public Schools, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, in accordance with Section l03 of Article 5-A of the General Municipal Law, hereby invites the submission of sealed bids for the BID of following services: BID # LPS-21-001: ROLL OFF DUMPSTER SERVICES COOPERATIVE BID. Participating school districts shall include: 1.Baldwin Union Free School District 2.Bellmore Union Free School District 3.Bellmore-Merrick Union Free School District 4.Bethpage Union Free School District 5.Carle Place Union Free School District 6.East Meadow Union Free School District 7.East Rockaway Union Free School District 8.East Williston Union Free School District 9.Elmont Union Free School District 10.Floral Park/Bellrose Union Free School District 11.Freeport City Public Schools 12.Garden City Public Schools 13.Glen Cove City School District 14.Great Neck Union Free School District 15.Herricks Union Free School District 16.Hewlett-Woodmere Union Free School District 17.Hicksville Union Free School District 18.Island Trees Union Free School District 19.Jericho Union Free School District 20.Lawrence Union Free School District 21.Levittown Public Schools 22.Locust Valley Central School District 23.Long Beach Union Free School District 24.Lynbrook Union Free School District 25.Manhasset Union Free School District 26.Massapequa Union Free School District 27.Merrick Union Free School District 28.Mineola Unin Free School District 29.North Bellmore Union Free School District 30.North Merrick Union Free School District 31.North Shore Central School District 32.Oceanside Union Free School District 33.Plainedge Union Free School District 34.Plainview Old Bethpage Central School District 35.Port Washington Union Free School District 36.Rockville Centre Union Free School District 37.Seaford Union Free School District 38.Syosset Central School District 39.Uniondale Union Free School District 40.Valley Stream # 13 School District 41.Valley Stream # 30 School District 42.Valley Stream Central HS District

43.Wantagh Union Free School District 44.Westbury Union Free School District The District will receive sealed bids on, or prior to 10:00 AM on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, two hours prior to the actual bid opening, at the Office of the Purchasing Department, Levittown Memorial Education Center, 150 Abbey Lane, Attn: Bonnie Pampinella, Room 316, Levittown, New York, 11756, Monday through Friday between the hours of 8 AM and 3 PM. Bids cannot be hand delivered nor accepted in person at Levittown Public Schools at this time due to COVID-19. Bidders are strongly advised against using any other delivery method other than United States Postal Service or other major shipping carrier that can ensure tracking and receipt of delivery. The District will not be responsible for any delays of handling in delivery of such mail. Bids must be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked on the outside: BID # LPS-21-001: ROLL OFF DUMPSTER SERVICES - COOPERATIVE BID The bid opening shall take place Tuesday, April 27, 2021 @ 12:00 PM at which time all bids received will be opened and read aloud. Bid opening will be streamed LIVE via Zoom to the public by virtual video conferencing. Please access the following link to view the bid opening: Zoom Meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/935412 73188?pwd=NEFockw1Q S9nbklzaHN6eWc3cm0xU T09 April 27, 2021 12:00 PM Eastern Time Meeting ID: 935 4127 3188 Password: D46cV3 General conditions, specifications and bid forms may be obtained by contacting the same office. Bid prices will be firm for 45 days from date of opening. The Board of Education reserves the right to waive any informalities in the bids, to reject any or all bids, or to accept any bid which in the opinion of the Levittown Board of Education will be in the best interest of the participating school districts. For further information call Bonnie Pampinella, Purchasing Agent at (516) 434-7014. By order of the Levittown Board of Education on behalf of the above listed participating districts. 125508

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING, ELECTION AND PERSONAL REGISTRATION, LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Annual Meeting of the School District, the vote on the School District budget and election of candidates for the School Board of Levittown Union Free School District, Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, and the vote on the Public Library budget and election of a candidate for the Board of Trustees for the Levittown Public Library, will be held in the several election districts of the School District at the voting places designated below on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 between the hours of 7:00 AM and 8:00 PM, to vote by ballot on voting machines on the proposition or propositions set forth below, as well as any other propositions which may properly come before the electorate, and to elect members of the Board of Education and to elect a member of the Library Board of Trustees. Shall the following resolutions be adopted: PROPOSITION NO. 1 SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET BE IT RESOLVED, that the School District budget for the school year 2021-2022 proposed by the Board of Education and filed with the District Clerk in accordance with Section 1716 of the Education Law shall be approved and the necessary taxes be levied therefore on the taxable real property of the district. PROPOSITION NO. 2 LIBRARY BUDGET RESOLVED, that the Public Library Budget for the fiscal year 2021-2022 proposed by the Library Board of Trustees of the Levittown Public Library heretofore filed pursuant to law shall be approved and the necessary taxes be levied therefore on the taxable real property of the district. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that petitions nominating candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education and for the office of member of the Library Board of Trustees must be filed with the District Clerk between the hours of 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM but no later than 5:00 PM on April 19, 2021. Forms of the petitions may be obtained from the District Clerk. The following vacancies are to be filled on the Board of Education: Two (2) members for the term of three (3) years, commencing July 1, 2021 and expiring June 30, 2024. A separate petition is required to nominate a candidate for member of the Board of Education. The two candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected. Each petition

must be directed to the District Clerk, must be signed by at least twentyfive (25) qualified voters of the District, or 2% of the voters who voted in the 2019 election, whichever is greater, and shall state the residence of each person who signed, must state the name and residence of the candidate and the length of the term of office. This year all nominating petitions must include 39 signatures. The following vacancies are to be filled on the Library Board of Trustees: One (1) member for the term of five (5) years, commencing July 1, 2021 and ending June 30, 2026. A separate petition is required to nominate a candidate for member of the Library Board of Trustees. Each petition must be directed to the District Clerk, must be signed by at least twentyfive (25) qualified voters of the District, or 2% of the voters who voted in the 2019 election for members of the Library Board of Trustees, whichever is greater, and shall state the residence of each person who signed, must state the name and residence of the candidate and the length of the term of office. This year all nominating petitions must include 39 signatures. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that a statement of estimated expenses for the 2021-2022 school year will be presented at a Public Hearing on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, at 7:30 PM in the Board Meeting Room of the Levittown Memorial Education Center and copies of such statement, as well as the statement of the amount of money required for the 2021-2022 fiscal year of the Public Library, will be made available on the District’s website and at each schoolhouse and library in the District during the hours of 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM on each day other than a Saturday, Sunday or holiday during the fourteen (14) calendar days immediately preceding the election together with the text of any resolution which will be presented to the voters. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that pursuant to Section 2014 of the Education Law, personal registration of voters is required and only those persons whose names appear on the register of the said school district, or who are registered pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law, shall be entitled to vote at said meeting and election. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that all qualified voters who have previously registered for any annual or special

meeting or election and have voted at any annual or special election held or conducted at any time within four (4) calendar years prior to this year are not required to register with the Board of Registration for this meeting. All other persons who wish to vote must register. A voter may register at the office of the District Clerk of the Levittown UFSD between the hours of 8:00 AM. and 1:00 PM on school days provided that such registration is effected no later than May 13, 2021. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that said register will be filed in the office of the District Clerk and will be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District on each of the five (5) days prior to the day of the election, except Sunday, between the hours of 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM, on Monday through Friday and between the hours of 11:00 AM and 12 noon on Saturday ( May 15, 2021), in the office of the District Clerk and at each voting place on the day of the election. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that absentee ballots for those eligible pursuant to the provision of Section 2018a of the Education Law are available, and that applications for absentee ballots may be applied for at the office of the the District Clerk. A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots have been issued will be available in the office of the Clerk on each of the five (5) calendar days prior to the day of election except Sunday, between the hours of 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM on Monday through Friday and between the hours of 11:00 AM and 12 noon on Saturday ( May 15, 2021), in the office of the District Clerk. Such application must be received by the District Clerk at least seven (7) calendar days before the election if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter or by the day before the election if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter. No absentee voter’s ballot will be canvassed unless it has been received in the office of the District Clerk not later than 5:00 PM on the day of the election. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that during the voting hours on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, between the hours of 7:00 AM and 8:00 PM, in the various election districts, the Board of Registration will meet to receive registrations for subsequent elections. During the hours of 7:00 AM and 8:00 PM on voting days, the District Clerk shall be in her office at the Levittown Memorial Education Center.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that a Real Property Tax Exemption Report prepared in accordance with Section 495 of the Real Property Tax Law will be annexed to any tentative/preliminary budget as well as the final adopted budget of which it will form a part; and shall be posted on District bulletin board(s) maintained for public notices, as well as on the District’s website. FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Education Law §2018-d, Military Voters who are not currently registered may apply to register as a qualified voter of the District by submitting a Military Voter Registration Application to the District Clerk, no later than 5:00 p.m. on April 22, 2021. A copy of the Military Voter Registration Application is available both by contacting the District Clerk by email at EAppelbaum@levittownsc hools.com and online at the District’s website located at http://www.levittownscho ols.com/. Military voters who are qualified voters of the District may submit an application for a military ballot. A Military Voter is entitled to designate a preference to receive a Military Voter Registration Application, Military Ballot Application or Military Ballot by mail, facsimile or electronic mail. Such designation will remain in effect until revoked or changed by the voter. If no preference is designated, the District will transmit the Military Voter Registration Application, Military Ballot Application or Military Ballot by mail. Military Voter Ballot Application forms must be received by the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on April 22, 2021. Military Ballots will not be canvassed unless it is received by the District Clerk on or before 5:00 p.m. on May 18, 2021. SCHOOL ELECTION DISTRICTS: The boundaries of the school election districts and the place of each election district for voting and registration shall be as follows: ELECTION DISTRICT #1 GARDINERS AVENUE SCHOOL Beginning at Wantagh Parkway and Chase Lane; east on Chase Lane to Center Lane, thence south to Prairie Lane; thence east to Gardiners Avenue; thence south to Slate Lane; then east and north to Swan Lane; then east and north to Grey Lane; continuing east to Wantagh Avenue; thence south on Wantagh Avenue to Jerusalem Avenue; thence west to Oakfield Avenue; continuing north to Old Jerusalem Road; thence east on Old Jerusalem

Road to Wantagh Parkway Line; north along Line to the point of beginning. ELECTION DISTRICT #2 EAST BROADWAY SCHOOL Beginning at north side of Southern State Parkway and east side of Wantagh Avenue; north on Wantagh to Miller Place; thence east to Exit Lane; thence south to Elm Drive; thence west to Elbow Lane; thence southwest to End Lane; south to End Lane and Elm Drive East to Pope Street; thence east to District Line; thence south to Regent Lane; thence east to Red Maple Drive; thence northeast, and south to Regal Lane; east on Regal Lane and Cordwood Lane to Arlington Drive; thence southeast to Town Line; thence south to Southern State Parkway; west along Parkway to point of beginning. Beginning at south side of Southern State Parkway and west side of Town Line; south on Town Line to Jerusalem Avenue; thence west to Wantagh Avenue; thence north to Southern State Parkway; thence east to point of beginning. ELECTION DISTRICT #3 LEVITTOWN MEMORIAL EDUCATION CENTER Beginning at east side of Wantagh Parkway and south side of Hempstead Turnpike; east on Hempstead Turnpike to Silver Lane; thence south to Forge Lane; thence east to Cotton Lane; thence southeasterly to Wantagh Avenue; then south to Grey Lane; thence west to Swan Lane; then southwesterly to Slate Lane; then south to Gardiners Avenue, thence north to Prairie Lane; thence west to Center Lane; thence north to Chase Lane; thence west to Wantagh Parkway Line; north along Line to point of beginning. ELECTION DISTRICT #4 DIVISION AVENUE HIGH SCHOOL Beginning at north side of Hempstead Turnpike and west side of Jerusalem Avenue; west on Hempstead Turnpike to District Boundary Line at Wantagh State Parkway; thence northeast to northerly border of School District; east on Boundary Line (Flamingo Rd., Magpie Lane, Blacksmith Rd) to Jerusalem Avenue; thence south to point of beginning. Dated:Levittown, New York March 2021 BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK 125177 PUBLIC & LEGAL NOTICES To place a notice here call us us at 516-569-4000 x232 or send an email to: legalnotices@liherald.com

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ANNUAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AND LIBRARY ELECTION SEAFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND SEAFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that voting upon the estimated expenses for school and library purposes for the Seaford Union Free School District (the “School District”) and the Seaford Public Library (the “Public Library”), for the school year 2021/2022, the election of members of the Board of Education and Library Board of Trustees , Proposition No. 1 (School Budget 2021/2022) and Proposition No. 2 (Public Library Budget 2021/22), as follows, will be held on May 18, 2021 in each of the school election districts heretofore established: PROPOSITION NO. 1 SCHOOL BUDGET 2021/2022 Shall the following resolution be adopted to wit: RESOLVED, that the proposed 2021/2022 Budget providing for the appropriation of the necessary funds to meet the estimated expenditures of the School District for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, as presented by the Board of Education of the Seaford Union Free School District at Seaford, Nassau County, New York, at the Public Hearing, be approved and the Board of Education be authorized to levy the necessary tax therefor. PROPOSITION NO. 2 PUBLIC LIBRARY BUDGET 2021/2022 RESOLVED, that the library budget for the year 2021-2022 proposed by the Board of Trustees of the Seaford Public Library and the levy of a tax therefor in accordance with Education Law shall be approved. VOTING will be by ballot on voting machines in the school houses designated in each of the separate school election districts heretofore established and the polls will remain open from 7:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m., and as much longer as may be necessary for all voters then present to cast their votes. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the electors have previously adopted a proposition providing that vacancies upon the Board of Education shall not be considered separate specific offices and that the nominating petitions shall not describe any specific vacancy upon the Board of Education for which the candidate is nominated. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the election of members of the Board of Education shall be as follows: One (1) member

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of the Board of Education for a full term of three (3) years, commencing July 1, 2021. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the election for one members of the Board of Trustees of the Seaford Public Library shall be as follows: One member for a five (5) year term commencing July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2026 (incumbent Margaret D. Grub). NOMINATIONS OF CANDIDATES: Candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education shall be nominated by petition. Each petition for candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education shall be directed to the Clerk of the School District (“the District Clerk”), in the Seaford Manor School, Washington Avenue, Seaford, New York, shall be signed by at least twenty-eight (28) qualified voters of the School District, shall state the residence of each signer, and shall state the residence of the candidate. To nominate a candidate for the Public Library Board, the petition must be signed by at least twenty-five (25) qualified voters of the School District, shall state the residence of each signer and the name and residence of the candidate, and shall describe the specific vacancy for which a candidate is nominated, including at least the length of the term of office and the name of the last incumbent, if any. Each petition shall be filed in the District Clerk’s Office between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., and by not later than 5:00 p.m. on April 19, 2021. SCHOOL ELECTION DISTRICTS: The boundaries of the following School Election District shall be as heretofore determined and published by the Board of Education and the place in each election district for registration and voting shall be as follows: a)FIRST SCHOOL ELECTION DISTRICT Registration and voting at the Seaford Manor School, Washington Avenue, Seaford, New York. Community members who reside within the geographic boundaries of the Manor Elementary School shall be required to cast their ballots at the Manor Elementary School. b)SECOND SCHOOL ELECTION DISTRICT Voting at the Seaford Harbor School, Bayview Street, Seaford, New York. Community members who reside within the geographic boundaries of the Harbor Elementary School shall be required to cast their ballots at the Harbor Elementary School. The geographic boundaries for these

attendance zones is set forth on the transportation map contained within the office of the Assistant Superintendent for Business and may be reviewed upon request. PERSONAL REGISTRATION OF VOTERS All qualified voters of the School District must be registered in the School Registration books in order to vote at such election on May 18, 2021. The following persons shall be eligible to vote: All persons who shall have presented themselves personally for registration in accordance herewith and all persons who shall have previously registered hereunder for any annual or special meeting or election and who shall have voted at any annual or special meeting or election held or conducted during the four calendar years prior to 2021 (i.e., 2017-2020). In addition, all persons who are registered to vote pursuant to the provisions of section three hundred fifty-two of the Election Law of the State of New York shall be eligible to vote. Registration of voters not previously registered and eligible to vote shall continue to take place until May 11, 2021, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. in the District Clerk’s office. The District Clerk shall prepare the Register of the School District on the dates and times above specified, and any person shall be entitled to have his/her name placed upon such Register provided that at that time, he/she is then or thereafter entitled to vote at the school meeting or election for which such register is prepared. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that the District Clerk shall also be present during the annual School District and Public Library election at each schoolhouse where voting shall take place for the purpose of preparing a register for School District and Public Library elections held subsequent thereto. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Register of Voters so prepared as aforesaid shall be filed in the District Clerk’s Office upon its completion where it shall be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the School District, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. and on each of the five days prior to the date set for the election except for Sunday, and it shall also be open for inspection on Saturday, by appointment. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that there will be a Public Hearing on the proposed School District budget on May 5, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. in the Seaford

High School Auditorium, 1575 Seamans Neck Road, Seaford, New York. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that a public hearing will be held by the Board of Trustees of the Library, for the purpose of discussion of the expenditures of funds and the budgeting thereof for the Seaford Public Library for the fiscal year 2021-2022. Said hearing will be held on Monday, May 10, 2021, at 7:00 P.M. at a location to be determined or via GoToMeeting, if legally permissible. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that copies of the proposed 2021/2022 School District budget, as prepared by the Board of Education and the Public Library budget, will be available on request to the taxpayers and be obtained at any school house in the School District between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on each day other than a Saturday or Sunday or holiday and at the Seaford Public Library, Jackson Avenue, Seaford, New York, between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 1:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. on Wednesdays, and 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on Saturdays, on each day other than a Sunday or holiday, during the fourteen (14) day period preceding the annual meeting and election. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that a Real Property Tax Exemption Report prepared in accordance with Section 495 of the Real Property Tax Law will be annexed to any tentative/preliminary Budget as well as the final adopted budget of which it will form a part; and shall be posted on District bulletin board(s) maintained for public notices; as well as on the District’s website. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Board of Education has, pursuant to Education Law, adopted a resolution to provide for absentee ballots for the election of members of the Board of Education, the adoption of the School District budget and referenda in accordance with Education Law Section 2018-a, which shall also apply to the Public Library election. Application for absentee ballots may be made at the District Clerk’s office on Mondays through Fridays, excluding holidays, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Applications for absentee ballots must be received by the District Clerk no earlier than thirty (30) days before the election. Furthermore, such application must be received by the District Clerk at least seven days before the election if the ballot is to be mailed to

the voter, or the day before the election if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter or his/her designated agent. Upon receiving a timely request for a mailed absentee ballot, the District Clerk will mail the ballot to the address set forth in the application by no later than six (6) days before the vote. No absentee voter’s ballot will be canvassed unless it has been received in the office of the District Clerk not later than 5:00 P.M. (prevailing time) on the day of the election. A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots shall have been issued will be available in the District Clerk’s office on Mondays through Fridays, excluding holidays between 9:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., until the day of election. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE military voters who are not currently registered may apply to register as a qualified voter of the school district. Military voters who are qualified voters of the school district may submit an application for a military ballot. Military voters may designate a preference to receive a military voter registration, military ballot application or military ballot by mail, facsimile transmission or electronic mail in their request for such registration, ballot application or ballot. Military voter registration forms and military ballot application forms must be received in the Office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on April 22, 2021. No military ballot will be canvassed unless it is (1) received in the Office of the District Clerk before the close of the polls on election day and showing a cancellation mark of the United States postal service or a foreign country’s postal service, or showing a dated endorsement of receipt by another agency of the United States government; or (2) received by the Office of the District Clerk by no later than 5:00 p.m. on election day and signed and dated by the military voter and one witness thereto, with a date which is associated to be not later than the day before the election. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Board of Education shall convene a special meeting thereof within twenty-four hours after the filing with the District Clerk of a written report of the results of the ballot for the purpose of examining and tabulating said reports of the results of the ballot and declaring the result of the ballot. The Board of Education hereby designates itself to be a set of poll clerks to cast and canvass ballots pursuant to Education Law, Section 2019-a

subdivision 2(b) at said special meeting of the Board. Dated:April 1, 2021 By Order of the Board of Education Seaford Union Free School District Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York Carmen T. Ouellette District Clerk 125180 PUBLIC AND LEGAL NOTICES… Printed in this publication can be found online. To search by publication name, go to: www.newyorkpublicnotices.com TO PLACE AN AD CALL 516-569-4000 x 232

LEGAL NOTICE AVISO SOBRE LA ELECCIÓN ANUAL DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR Y DE LA BIBLIOTECA DISTRITO ESCOLAR SEAFORD UNION FREE Y BIBLIOTECA PÚBLICA DE SEAFORD, PUEBLO DE HEMPSTEAD POR EL PRESENTE SE NOTIFICA que la votación sobre los gastos estimados para los fines escolares y de la biblioteca del Distrito Escolar Seaford Union Free (el “Distrito Escolar”) y de la Biblioteca Pública de Seaford (la “Biblioteca Pública”) para el año escolar 2021/2022, la elección de los miembros de la Junta de Educación y de la Junta de Fideicomisarios de la Biblioteca, la propuesta N.º 1 (el presupuesto escolar 2021/2022) y la propuesta N.º 2 (el presupuesto de la Biblioteca Pública 2021/2022), como se indica a continuación, se llevarán a cabo el 18 de mayo de 2021 en cada uno de los distritos electorales escolares hasta ahora establecidos: PROPUESTA N.º 1 PRESUPUESTO ESCOLAR 2021/2022 Que se adopte la siguiente resolución, a saber: SE RESUELVE que el presupuesto 2021/2022 sugerido, que contempla la asignación de los fondos necesarios para cumplir con los gastos estimados del Distrito Escolar correspondiente al año fiscal que comienza el 1 de julio de 2021, de acuerdo con lo presentado por la Junta de Educación del Distrito Escolar Seaford Union Free en Seaford, condado de Nassau, Nueva York, en la audiencia pública, sea aprobado y que la Junta de Educación esté autorizada a gravar los impuestos necesarios al respecto. PROPUESTA N.º 2 PRESUPUESTO DE LA BIBLIOTECA PÚBLICA 2021/2022 SE RESUELVE que se aprobará el presupuesto de la biblioteca para el período 2021-2022 propuesto por la Junta de Fideicomisarios de la

Biblioteca Pública de Seaford y el gravamen de un impuesto consecuente de conformidad con la Ley de Educación. LA VOTACIÓN será mediante boleta electoral en máquinas de votación en las sedes escolares designadas en cada uno de los distritos electorales escolares separados hasta ahora establecidos, y las urnas estarán habilitadas para votar de 7:00 a. m. a 9:00 p. m. y durante el tiempo que sea necesario para que los votantes presentes puedan emitir sus votos. TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que los votantes ya han adoptado una propuesta que establece que las vacantes de la Junta de Educación no se consideren cargos específicos independientes y que las solicitudes de nominación no describan ninguna vacante específica de la Junta de Educación para la cual se nomina al candidato. TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que la elección de los miembros de la Junta de Educación deberá ser de la siguiente manera: Un (1) miembro de la Junta de Educación para un mandato completo de tres (3) años, desde el 1 de julio de 2021. TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que la elección de los miembros de la Junta de Fideicomisarios de la Biblioteca Pública de Seaford deberá ser de la siguiente manera: Un miembro para un mandato de cinco (5)años, desde el 1 de julio de 2021 hasta el 30 de junio de 2026 (último titular: Margaret D. Grub). NOMINACIONES DE CANDIDATOS: Los candidatos para el cargo de miembro de la Junta de Educación se nominarán mediante solicitud. Cada solicitud de candidatos para el cargo de miembro de la Junta de Educación será dirigida a la secretaria del Distrito Escolar (la “Secretaria del Distrito”) en Seaford Manor School, Washington Avenue, Seaford, Nueva York, deberá estar firmada por al menos veintiocho (28) votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar, deberá incluir la residencia de cada firmante y también la residencia del candidato. Para nominar a un candidato para la Junta de la Biblioteca Pública, la solicitud debe estar firmada por al menos veinticinco (25) votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar, indicar la residencia de cada firmante, así como también el nombre y la residencia del candidato, y deberá describir la vacante específica para la que se nomina al candidato, e incluir, al menos, la duración del cargo y el nombre del último titular, si hubiera. Cada solicitud se presentará en la oficina

de la Secretaria del Distrito entre las 9:00 a. m. y las 5:00 p. m., y antes del 19 de abril de 2021 a las 5:00 p. m. DISTRITOS ELECTORALES ESCOLARES: Los límites del siguiente Distrito Electoral Escolar serán determinados y publicados, como hasta ahora, por la Junta de Educación, y el lugar de cada distrito electoral para el registro y la votación será el siguiente: a)PRIMER DISTRITO ELECTORAL ESCOLAR: registro y votación en Seaford Manor School, Washington Avenue, Seaford, Nueva York. Los miembros de la comunidad que residan dentro de los límites geográficos de Manor Elementary School deberán emitir sus votos en dicha escuela. b)SEGUNDO DISTRITO ELECTORAL ESCOLAR: votación en Seaford Harbor School, Bayview Street, Seaford, Nueva York. Los miembros de la comunidad que residan dentro de los límites geográficos de Harbor Elementary School deberán emitir sus votos en dicha escuela. Los límites geográficos de estas zonas de asistencia se establecen en el mapa de transporte que se encuentra en la oficina del superintendente auxiliar de actividades y se pueden revisar previa solicitud. REGISTRO PERSONAL DE VOTANTES Para votar en la elección del 18 de mayo de 2021, todos los votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar deben estar registrados en los libros de registro escolar. Las siguientes personas serán elegibles para votar: Todas las personas que se hayan presentado personalmente para registrarse de conformidad con el presente, y todas las personas que se hayan registrado previamente en virtud del presente para cualquier reunión o elección anual o extraordinaria y que hayan votado en cualquier reunión o elección anual o extraordinaria organizada o realizada durante los cuatro años calendario previos al 2021 (es decir, entre 2017 y 2020). Además, todas las personas que estén registradas para votar de conformidad con las disposiciones de la Sección 352 de la Ley de Elecciones del estado de Nueva York serán elegibles para votar. El registro de votantes que no se hayan registrado previamente y que sean elegibles para votar continuará disponible hasta el 11 de mayo de 2021, entre las 9:00 a. m. y las 4:00 p. m. en la oficina de la Secretaria del Distrito. La Secretaria del Distrito preparará el registro del Distrito Escolar durante

los horarios y las fechas que se especifican arriba, y cualquier persona tendrá derecho a que su nombre se incluya en el registro, siempre y cuando, en ese momento o en adelante, tenga derecho a votar en la reunión o elección escolar para la cual se prepara dicho registro. TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que la Secretaria del Distrito a su vez estará presente durante la elección anual del Distrito Escolar y de la Biblioteca Pública en cada sede escolar donde se realice la votación con el fin de preparar un registro para las elecciones del Distrito Escolar y de la Biblioteca Pública que se realicen con posterioridad. TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que el registro de votantes preparado según lo mencionado anteriormente se presentará en la oficina de la Secretaria del Distrito una vez finalizado, donde estará disponible para la inspección de cualquier votante calificado del Distrito Escolar, entre las 9:00 a. m. y las 3:00 p. m., y cada uno de los cinco días anteriores a la fecha establecida para la elección, a excepción del domingo, y también estará disponible para su inspección el sábado con cita previa. TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que el 5 de mayo de 2021 a las 8:00 p. m. se realizará una audiencia pública sobre el presupuesto sugerido para el Distrito Escolar en el auditorio de Seaford High School, 1575 Seamans Neck Road, Seaford, Nueva York. TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que la Junta de Fideicomisarios de la Biblioteca llevará a cabo una audiencia pública con el objetivo de analizar los gastos de los fondos y el presupuesto del año fiscal 2021-2022 de la Biblioteca Pública de Seaford. Dicha audiencia se llevará a cabo el lunes 10 de mayo de 2021 a las 7:00 p. m. en un lugar a determinar o a través de GoToMeeting, si estuviera permitido legalmente. TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que las copias del presupuesto 2021/2022 sugerido para el Distrito Escolar, según lo preparado por la Junta de Educación y el presupuesto de la Biblioteca Pública, estarán disponibles para los contribuyentes, previa solicitud, y se podrán obtener en cualquier sede escolar del Distrito Escolar entre las 8:00 a. m. y las 4:00 p. m. todos los días, excepto los sábados, domingos y feriados, y en la Biblioteca Pública de Seaford, Jackson Avenue, Seaford, Nueva York, entre las 10:00 a. m. y las 6:00 p. m. los lunes, martes, jueves y viernes, entre la 1:00 p. m. y las 6:00 p. m. los miércoles, y

entre las 10:00 a. m. y las 2:00 p. m. los sábados, todos los días excepto los domingos y feriados, durante el período de catorce (14) días antes de la elección y reunión anual. TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que el informe de Exenciones del impuesto sobre bienes inmuebles preparado de conformidad con la Sección 495 de la Ley de Impuestos sobre Bienes Inmuebles se anexará a cualquier presupuesto provisional/preliminar, así como al presupuesto final adoptado del que formará parte, y se publicará en los tableros de anuncios del distrito designados para avisos públicos y en el sitio web del distrito. TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que, de conformidad con la Ley de Educación, la Junta de Educación ha adoptado una resolución para contemplar las boletas electorales por ausencia para la elección de miembros de la Junta de Educación, la adopción del presupuesto y el referéndum del Distrito Escolar conforme a la Sección 2018-a de la Ley de Educación, que también se deberá aplicar a la elección de la Biblioteca Pública. Las solicitudes de boletas electorales por ausencia se pueden presentar en la oficina de la Secretaria del Distrito de lunes a viernes, excepto los feriados, entre las 9:00 a. m. y las 4:00 p. m. La Secretaria del Distrito deberá recibir las solicitudes de boletas electorales por ausencia no antes de los treinta (30) días previos a la elección. Además, la Secretaria del Distrito debe recibir esta solicitud al menos siete días antes de la elección si la boleta electoral se enviará por correo al votante, o el día antes de la elección si la boleta electoral se entregará personalmente al votante o a su representante designado. Al recibir una solicitud oportuna para enviar por correo una boleta electoral de voto por ausencia, la Secretaria del Distrito enviará por correo dicha boleta a la dirección indicada en la solicitud a más tardar seis (6) días antes de la votación. Los votos por ausencia no serán escrutados, a menos que se hayan recibido en la oficina de la Secretaria del Distrito antes de las 5:00 p. m. (hora en vigor) del día de la elección. Habrá una lista de todas las personas para las que se emitieron boletas electorales por ausencia disponible en la oficina de la Secretaria del Distrito, de lunes a viernes, excepto los feriados, entre las 9:00 a. m. y las 3:30 p. m., hasta el día de la elección. ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que los votantes militares que no estén registrados actualmente pueden

solicitar registrarse como votantes calificados del distrito escolar. Los votantes militares que sean votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar podrán enviar una solicitud de boleta electoral militar. Los votantes militares pueden indicar su preferencia de recibir una solicitud de registro de votantes militares, una solicitud de boleta electoral militar o una boleta electoral militar por correo postal, fax o correo electrónico en dicho pedido de solicitud de registro, solicitud de boleta o boleta. Los formularios de registro de votantes militares y los formularios de solicitud de boleta electoral militar deben recibirse en la oficina de la Secretaria del Distrito antes de las 5:00 p. m. del 22 de abril de 2021. Las boletas electorales militares no serán escrutadas, a menos que (1) la oficina de la Secretaria del Distrito las reciba antes del cierre de la votación el día de la elección y tengan una marca de cancelación del servicio postal de los Estados Unidos o del servicio postal de un país extranjero, o un endoso fechado de recepción por parte de otro organismo del gobierno de los Estados Unidos, o bien (2) la oficina de la Secretaria del Distrito las reciba antes de las 5:00 p. m. del día de la elección, y estén firmadas y fechadas por el votante militar y un testigo de ello, con una fecha asociada que no sea posterior al día previo a la elección. TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que la Junta de Educación convocará a una reunión extraordinaria en un plazo de 24 horas después de la presentación ante la Secretaria del Distrito de un informe por escrito de los resultados de los votos con el fin de analizar y clasificar dichos informes de los resultados y declarar el resultado de la votación. Por el presente, y de acuerdo con la Sección 2019-a, subdivisión 2(b) de la Ley de Educación, la Junta de Educación se designa a sí misma como un grupo de presidentes de mesa para emitir y escrutar los votos durante dicha reunión extraordinaria de la Junta. Fecha:1 de abril de 2021 Por orden de la Junta de Educación Distrito Escolar Seaford Union Free Pueblo de Hempstead, condado de Nassau, Nueva York Carmen T. Ouellette Secretaria del Distrito 125182

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LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE OF NASSAU COUNTY TREASURER’S SALE OF TAX LIENS ON REAL ESTATE Notice is hereby given that commencing on May 5, 2021, will sell at public on-line auction the tax liens on certain real estate, unless the owner, mortgagee, occupant of or any other party in interest in such real estate shall have paid to the County Treasurer by May 3rd , 2021 the total amount of such unpaid taxes or assessments with the interest, penalties and other expenses and charges against the property. Such tax liens will be sold at the lowest rate of interest, not exceeding 10 percent per six-month period, for which any person or persons shall offer to take the total amount of such unpaid taxes as defined in Section 5-37.0 of the Nassau County Administrative Code. Effective with the February 2019 lien sale Ordinance No. 175-2015 requires a $175.00 per day registration fee for each person who intends to bid at the tax lien sale. Ordinance No. 175-2015 also requires that upon the issuance of the Lien Certificate there is due from the lien buyer a Tax Certificate Issue Fee of $20.00 per lien purchased. Pursuant to the provisions of the Nassau County Administrative Code at the discretion of the Nassau County Treasurer the auction will be conducted online. Further information concerning the procedures for the auction is available at the website of the Nassau County Treasurer at: https://www.nassaucount y n y. g o v / 5 2 6 / C o u n t y Treasurer Should the Treasurer determine that an inperson auction shall be held, same will commence on the 5th day of May 2021 at the Office of The County Treasurer 1 West Street, Mineola or at some other location to be determined by the Treasurer. A list of all real estate in Nassau County on which tax liens are to be sold is available at the website of the Nassau County Treasurer at: http://www.nassaucounty ny.gov/DocumentCenter/ View/32293 A list of local properties upon which tax liens are to be sold will be advertised in this publication on or before April 22, 2021. Nassau County does not discriminate on the basis of disability in admission to or access to, or treatment or employment in, its services, programs, or activities. Upon request, accommodations such as those required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) will

be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to participate in all services, programs, activities and public hearings and events conducted by the Treasurer’s Office. Upon request, information can be made available in Braille, large print, audiotape or other alternative formats. For additional information, please call (516) 571-2090 ext. 1-3715. Dated: March 26,2021 THE NASSAU COUNTY TREASURER Mineola, York ___________________ TERMS OF SALE Such tax liens shall be sold subject to any and all superior tax liens of sovereignties and other municipalities and to all claims of record which the County may have thereon and subject to the provisions of the Federal and State Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Acts. However, such tax liens shall have priority over the County’s Differential Interest Lien, representing the excess, if any, of the interest and penalty borne at the maximum rate over the interest and penalty borne at the rate at which the lien is purchased. The Purchaser acknowledges that the tax lien(s) sold pursuant to these Terms of Sale may be subject to pending bankruptcy proceedings and/or may become subject to such proceedings which may be commenced during the period in which a tax lien is held by a successful bidder or the assignee of same, which may modify a Purchaser’s rights with respect to the lien(s) and the property securing same. Such bankruptcy proceedings shall not affect the validity of the tax lien. In addition to being subject to pending bankruptcy proceedings and/or the Federal and State Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Acts, said purchaser’s right of foreclosure may be affected by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act(FIRREA),12 U.S.C. ss 1811 et.seq., with regard to real property under Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation(FDIC) receivership. The County Treasurer reserves the right, without further notice and at any time, to withdraw from sale any of the parcels of land or premises herein listed. The Nassau County Treasurer reserves the right to intervene in any bankruptcy case/litigation where the property affected by the tax liens sold by the Treasurer is part of the bankruptcy estate. However, it is the sole responsibility of all tax lien purchasers to protect their legal

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interests in any bankruptcy case affecting their purchased tax lien, including but not limited to the filing of a proof of claim on their behalf, covering their investment in said tax lien. The Nassau County Treasurer and Nassau County and its agencies, assumes no responsibility for any legal representation of any tax lien purchaser in any legal proceeding including but not limited to a bankruptcy case where the purchased tax lien is at risk. The rate of interest and penalty at which any person purchases the tax lien shall be established by his bid. Each purchaser, immediately after the sale thereof, shall pay to the County Treasurer ten per cent of the amount for which the tax liens have been sold and the remaining ninety per cent within thirty days after such sale. If the purchaser at the tax sale shall fail to pay the remaining ninety per cent within ten days after he has been notified by the

County Treasurer that the certificates of sale are ready for delivery, then all amounts deposited with the County Treasurer including but not limited to the ten per cent theretofore paid by him shall, without further notice or demand, be irrevocably forfeited by the purchaser and shall be retained by the County Treasurer as liquidated damages and the agreement to purchase shall be of no further effect. Time is of the essence in this sale. This sale is held pursuant to the Nassau County Administrative Code and interested parties are referred to such Code for additional information as to terms of the sale, rights of purchasers, maximum rates of interest and other legal incidents of the sale. Furthermore, as to the bidding, 1. The bidder(s) agree that they will not work with any other bidder(s) to increase, maintain or stabilize interest rates or collaborate with any

other bidder(s) to gain an unfair competitive advantage in the random number generator in the event of a tie bid(s) on a tax certificate. Bidder(s) further agree not to employ any bidding strategy designed to create an unfair competitive advantage in the tiebreaking process in the upcoming tax sale nor work with any other bidder(s) to engage in any bidding strategy that will result in a rotational award of tax certificates. 2. The tax certificate(s) the Bidder will bid upon, and the interest rate(s) bid, will be arrived at independently and without direct or indirect consultation, communication or agreement with any other bidder and that the tax certificate(s) the Bidder will bid upon, and the interest rate(s) to be bid, have not been disclosed, directly or indirectly, to any other bidder, and will not be disclosed, directly or indirectly, to any other bidder prior to the close of bidding. No attempt

has been made or will be made to, directly or indirectly, induce any other bidder to refrain from bidding on any tax certificate, to submit complementary bids, or to submit bids at specific interest rates. 3. The bids to be placed by the Bidder will be made in good faith and not pursuant to any direct or indirect, agreement or discussion with, or inducement from, any other bidder to submit a complementary or other noncompetitive bid. 4. If it is determined that the bidder(s) have violated any of these bid requirements then their bid shall be voided and if they were the successful bidder the lien and any deposits made in connection with said bid shall be forfeited. Dated: March 26, 2021 THE NASSAU COUNTY TREASURER Mineola, New York 125379

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resident Biden’s proposed $2 trillion infrastructure plan is remarkable for its ambition and breadth and for taking significant steps to address historic racial inequities. The president deserves great credit for recognizing, confronting and trying to tackle those inequities. As the plan evolves, it should focus further on how it will reduce racial segregation, the foundation of the inequities, and not just fix up the segregated communities that are so prominent in our nation’s landscape. ELAINE The Biden plan includes $20 billion GRoSS for a new program to reconnect neighborhoods cut off by historic transportation investment inequities. That will rightly undo past harm. The plan recognizes that people of color and low-income people are more likely to live in areas most vulnerable to flooding and other climate-change-related weather events, and it targets investments to support infrastructure there. It invests $100 billion to upgrade and build new public schools, noting that “we can’t close the opportunity gap if low-income kids go to school in buildings that undermine health and safety.” In both cases, assisting people living in

segregated communities is a worthy priority, and much should be done in the short term. But the core problem that requires addressing is the historic and structural discrimination and segregation that fuel inequity. Should these populations have to remain in the flood areas? Shouldn’t they have access to other communities, too? In some instances, fixing up segregated schools is long overdue. But what else is happening to encourage integrated schools? New school buildings can provide important incentives to encourage crossing of neighborhood borders. The infrastructure plan highlights the severe shortage of affordable housing in America, and invests $213 billion to produce, preserve and retrofit more than two million affordable and sustainable places to live. It pairs this investment with an innovative new approach to eliminate state and local exclusionary zoning laws, which play a vital role in housing discrimination and thus residential and school segregation. “For decades,” the plan states, “exclusionary zoning laws — like minimum lot sizes, mandatory parking requirements and prohibitions on multifamily housing — have inflated housing and construction costs and locked families out of areas with more opportunities. President Biden is calling on Congress to enact an innovative, new

competitive grant program that awards flexible and attractive funding to jurisdictions that take concrete steps to eliminate such needless barriers to producing affordable housing.” Exclusionary zoning often seems superficially innocuous. “It’s about density, not racism,” goes the argument. But its impact is to reduce options for more affordable housing and, therefore, a more diverse population. In some cases, it is specifically designed to give preference to those who already live in largely white communities. Two examples in New York highlight the problem. In 2014, the federal government sued the Town of Oyster Bay over two housing programs created to develop below-market-rate housing for first-time homeowners and older adults. The programs discriminated against African-Americans, because the initiatives gave preference to residents of the predominantly white town. Very few African-Americans (3 percent of residents) lived in the town at the time, and fewer than 1 percent of Black families living there were eligible for the program. Income-eligible Black residents nearby were blocked from participating. That is exclusionary zoning — and it is, in effect, racist. In a separate case in Westchester County, a False Claims Act lawsuit by the Anti-Dis-

he $2 trillion plan recognizes historic inequities in transportation.

crimination Center targeted exclusionary zoning. It resulted in Westchester settling the case and entering into a 2009 consent decree. As the center describes the outcome, “Westchester was prohibited from ignoring either the residential racial segregation that continues to plague it, or the municipal resistance to affordable housing development that stymies the possibility of changing those patterns.” The impact of exclusionary zoning is amplified by the fact that it does not exist in a vacuum. It is one aspect of a broader pattern of local control that derives from home rule — specific powers delegated by states to local municipalities. Those powers transfer to localities control of land use, public services and community benefits. In the context of predominantly white communities, local control provides the power to exclude. I have explored that further in a separate essay on “Housing Discrimination and Local Control.” Biden is right to address racial inequities with his infrastructure plan. He deserves praise for taking an innovative approach to tackling exclusionary zoning. What is needed now is a closer look at whether the plan overall does enough to dismantle racial segregation and the disparities it produces. It is a difficult balance. Keep what we have and make it better, or implement real transformation. Elaine Gross is president of ERASE Racism, the Long Island-based regional civil rights organization.

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y husband’s father was 14 and living in New York during the pandemic of 1918, sometimes known as the Spanish flu. He must have had memories of the time; surely he knew people who died in Brooklyn, where he lived. Yet according to my husband, his parents never mentioned the epidemic, which killed upward of 60 million people worldwide. My grandparents never talked about it, either. In 1918 they were in their 20s, and also lived in Brooklyn. On a personal level and in the RANDI press, there was a KREISS kind of collective amnesia about the pandemic, some say because the horror was overwhelming. In 2005, when I read “Wickett’s Remedy,” a novel about the pandemic by Myla Goldberg, I was amazed that a catastrophic epidemic had swept through this country so recently. Goldberg’s historical fiction told the tale not in the cold numbers of the body count, but in the arresting details of a community under siege — a study of how people behave in the grip of unyielding suffering. It

seems especially relevant now. The Spanish flu was a novel virus, like Covid-19. No one had immunity, and it surged through the city tenements, wiping out entire families. Hospitals had to set up tents outdoors, because they were filled beyond capacity. Bodies piled up on the streets of Philadelphia. There was no known cause and no cure. The virus traveled around the world on troop ships carrying soldiers to World War I battlegrounds. Like today, there was plenty of fake news about miracle cures and remedies. In Brooklyn, a group of chiropractors took out an ad in the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper, touting spinal adjustments as a cure for the disease. Their ad read in part, “If you catch cold easily and throw it off slowly, it indicates a lowered nervous vigor that must be corrected. … The cause lies in the derangement of that sensitive part of the anatomy, the spine. Spinal adjustments by a chiropractor, trained and skillful, will correct this condition.” Hydroxychloroquine, anyone? The same paper reported on Oct. 4, 1918, that 135 men appeared in court after being caught spitting in the street. The magistrate “imposed a fine of $1 on each of the defen-

dants and told them that with an influenza epidemic on hand they ought to be more careful.” On Oct. 15, the Eagle reported that there had been some 500,000 cases of Spanish flu in New York City. Low-cost meals were being prepared and distributed from an empty storefront in downtown Brooklyn. Then, as now, reckless behavior sometimes led to a spike in cases. In Eastport, Long Island, folks thought the worst was over, so they planned a celebration. The paper reported, “Flu was at party, epidemic follows.” Apparently there were only 15 glasses for more than 500 guests at the shindig, and it became a “superspreader” event. Eventually, even without a vaccine, without the medical interventions we have now, the cases of flu just started to drop, and the disease disappeared, with very little press coverage. It has been suggested that one reason people buried the memories with the bodies was that an even bigger tragedy was strutting on the world stage and grabbing the headlines: World War I. President Woodrow Wilson never made a public comment about the pandemic. There was no federal

he ‘deadliest event in all of human history’ brought about a collective amnesia.

response to the disease, no Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So it played out quietly in towns and cities across the country. Yet “The 1918 influenza pandemic was the deadliest event in all of human history,” David M. Morens, an epidemiologist at the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in 2006. “It killed more people than any war, any pandemic, the Black Death, AIDS, you can pick your terrible event.” The 1918 flu killed some 675,000 Americans, according to the CDC. It is estimated that one-third of the world’s population became infected with the virus. I want to know more about how people got through the worst of it. How did they cope with the loss of life on such an epic scale? The Covid-19 death toll in America stands at 560,000 and counting, gaining on the 1918 death toll. Now we are the witnesses. Our duty is to keep the records of this time, the data and the eyewitness accounts, our personal stories. Contemporaneous newspaper accounts, the first drafts of history, along with the remarkable scientific advances we have seen, will help us prepare for the next pandemic when it strikes. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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t the turn of the 20th century, environmental protection meant preserving wilderness so future generations might know nature as the great environmentalists Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir knew it — bountiful and largely pristine. Some 120 years later, saving wild tracts of land remains a central focus of the burgeoning environmental movement, but there’s an added mission: preparing for the eventuality of climate change, the slow heating of the earth over time. New York state took a major step forward recently when Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature included a $3 billion proposal, called the Restore Mother Nature Bond Act, in the state budget. Bravo to State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach, and Assemblyman Steve Englebright, a Democrat from Setauket, for working to push through this measure as chairmen of the Environmental Conservation committees in their respective chambers. State residents will vote on the bond act in the November general election. We’re throwing our hat in the ring early on this one: We encourage people to approve this measure. In addition to protecting forested lands, particularly those that help preserve our drinking water supply, the bond act would allocate at least $1 billion for projects to help protect Long Island and New York City from future flooding caused by global warming. More than half-century’s worth of scientific data, accumulated by federal agen-

cies like the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA, point to a disturbing, and increasingly undeniable, trend: The earth is heating up, causing massive ice shelves in the Antarctic and Greenland to melt into the oceans, raising sea levels across the world. That spells potential disaster for Long Island. We are, after all, an island surrounded by oceanic waters. We might be able to cope with a one-foot rise in sea level. If the oceans were to rise three or more feet — as many leading scientists predict — that could put whole swaths of our shoreline underwater, if we don’t act now to bolster our shoreline defenses. We can’t afford to stick our heads in the sand of our pristine white beaches and hope for the best. Those beaches may not exist in the future if we do. Beyond undertaking flood-mitigation projects, the bond act would allot up to $700 million for green-energy projects intended to slow the rate of global warming. Traditional power plants that burn coal, oil and natural gas emit massive amounts of carbon dioxide — the main driver of climate change — into the atmosphere. Green-energy sources — wind, solar and geothermal — emit nothing. That is, they are carbon-free. Green energy represents our future. Now, not later, is the time to begin transitioning to a carbon-free energy grid. There are sound reasons beyond fighting climate change to do so. Coal and oil were once plentiful resources in the United States, but not anymore. They may not have dried up yet, but every day that we

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letters The joke was on my clients — and staff To the Editor: Re Randi Kreiss’s April Fools column “Dogs on Long Island get a leg up on Covid” (April 1-7): Obviously, Randi is a very persuasive and skilled writer. Also obviously, some people don’t read her columns to the end — or even very carefully. I’ve been practicing veterinary medicine for 27 years. Two Mondays ago — my regular day off — two of my staff members texted me, all upset. Two pet owners had called our office, insisting that they be able to pick up the new Covid vaccine for their dogs. My two young staff members were totally caught off guard by this demand, and told the owners that they had not heard of such a vaccine. The clients were irate, and yelled at them! They “deserved” and demanded the vaccine! The girls told them that they’d have to look into it, and in a panic, they looked it up on the internet — and found Randi’s column, which they didn’t read carefully or to the end, either. They forwarded it to me:

burn through our supply of fossil fuels brings us one day closer to the point of no return, when they will be used up for good. If we’re extracting an oil called bitumen from open-pit tar-sand mines in Canada — an extraordinarily labor-intensive, costly and environmentally damaging process — then we know we’re reaching the end of the fossil-fuel-as-king era. Our only alternative path, for now at least, is green energy. Finally, the bond act would allocate $550 million to improve drinking-water quality across the state. For decades, Long Island has struggled to maintain the quality of its drinking water. Our water is piped up from aquifers, pockets of fresh water hundreds of feet below ground. Most chemicals that we apply to or dump into the ground eventually make their way into the aquifers, from industrial degreasers and lawn herbicides to gasoline that spills from filling stations. Water is our most precious resource, yet so often in the past we have treated it as if it mattered not at all. In recent years, however, we have begun to focus on protecting our water resources, and the bond act would only further efforts to preserve our aquifers. We can look around the world and see example after example of environmental disaster. We know this: Once we have made a mess of the natural world, it’s really hard to clean it up. Working proactively to preserve the environment is always best, and the Restore Mother Nature Bond Act, if passed, would do exactly that.

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assau County recently announced that it finished 2020 with a surplus of $75 million (subject to some adjustment, but it’s a reasonable number to work with). Sounds like good news, right? Not so fast. Let’s look behind this news. The surplus came about because $99 million of a $103 million federal grant to the county was used for salaries instead of increased Covid19 testing, aid to schools affected and other such pandemic-related expenses, for HowarD which the money was intended. kopeL How many people might have been saved had that been done? The county administration recently forced, with the help of the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, a refinancing of Nassau’s debt, claiming, against evidence, that the county would soon be insolvent without such action, with a projected year-end deficit of $385 million. The administration and NIFA insisted as late as last November that the refinancing and additional borrowing were critical, because sales taxes were

projected to decline 20 percent for the year. I pointed out at the time that such a decline was virtually impossible, given that, up until then, we had experienced a decline of about 8 percent, the economy was improving, and a virtual collapse of the entire economy would be required for us to drop 20 percent. I was right, and even conservative. The final number was about 5 percent. Besides the $75 million 2020 surplus, 2019 finished with a $112 million unrestricted/available surplus. However, NIFA said that unless the Legislature agreed to a refinance, it would reject our budget and initiate draconian service cuts. But wait, there’s more! The resulting refinance provides about $435 million in cash for the county. Understand that this isn’t a savings, but rather represents new borrowing and deferment of some payments into the future. In fact, in a record-low-interest environment, we actually borrowed at a higher rate than the original borrowed-money portion of the financing. That was irresponsible on the part of the administration, not to mention on the part of NIFA, which, ironically, was created to force financial

he county will soon be swimming in money, at least in the short term.

Letters “Read this!” Panic! So I read it — and I laughed. “Project Woof Speed” — Ha! Free trip to Buffalo — Ha! And so many other funny things as well! I screen-shot the last paragraph, used an app to circle it in red and texted it back to my girls. They felt so silly! What was worse was that they regretted not knowing about the column first so they could have been weaponized against those crazy calls and getting yelled at for not knowing anything about this vaccine that was the clients’ “right” to have! How they would’ve loved to calmly respond, “Please read the article to the end.” As the kids say, “SMH. Shaking My Head.” Randi’s a funny lady. DR. KAReN LISS Merrick

Brinton uses familiar talking points on guns To the editor: Re Scott Brinton’s April 1-7 column, “Dear politicians: Get your act together on gun control”: Brinton repeats

responsibility on the county. Finally, the federal government recently passed a new coronavirus pandemic relief bill, scheduled to provide Nassau County with an additional $397 million. I, and others in the Legislature’s Republican majority, pointed to the likelihood of this relief to NIFA at the time, but NIFA officials refused to account for this possibility, insisting on the refinance. The bottom line of all of this is that the county will soon, at least in the short term, be virtually swimming in new money available to spend — more than $1 billion, by my calculations. I will insist that this spending be done responsibly, and not simply be used to support the administration’s re-election campaign this fall. But what would “responsibly” look like? I don’t have to point out to anyone living or working in Nassau County that real estate taxes are out of control, and in fact are the highest in the country for equivalently valued properties. The recent reassessment conducted by the administration has resulted in tax increases for about 65 percent of homeowners, which will keep growing over the next few years as they are phased in. Finally, Nassau County has a huge over-

hang of refund payments due to homeowners and business property owners — full disclosure, this includes me and other family members, along with many thousands of others — going back many years, resulting from previous overassessments. These cannot be put off indefinitely. They are obligations of the county, bear much higher interest than county bonds and must eventually be paid, with interest. I propose that we use a major portion of the newly available money to finally clear the decks, to the extent possible, of refunds to property owners. This would have several tremendous benefits. First, during a period of depressed business and lower earnings because of Covid-19, it would provide a welcome source of funds for many people and small businesses that desperately need it. At the same time, it would use the newly borrowed, relatively cheap, funds to clear up other high-interest-bearing obligations of the county, and improve its finances going forward. That would result in lower costs in the future and, we would hope, help to slow or stop the growth of real estate taxes that are increasingly a burden that many cannot afford. Howard J. Kopel, a Republican from Lawrence who represents Nassau County’s 7th Legislative District, is deputy presiding officer of the Legislature.

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the threadbare rhetoric of the Democratic Party in its efforts to disarm honest American citizens. Telling the big lie over and over again doesn’t make it a fact. In 2017, according to FBI statistics, more homicides were committed with hammers and blunt instruments than rifles. That would be all kinds of rifles. Brinton did not mention this. I also wonder if Brinton consulted the National Rifle Association or the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association before writing his piece. Perhaps he would have gotten a more balanced view. I fear that he did not. JAMeS G. CoLLINS Floral Park Collins is Long Island director of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association. In 2017, homicides by blunt instruments exceeded homicides by rifle in the United States, 467 to 403, according to the FBI. That same year, homicides by all forms of gun (handguns, rifles, shotguns and other firearms) numbered 10,982. A full accounting can be found on the FBI’s website at bit. ly/3taPkkC.

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