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MacArthur’s top two grads

Mia Frattura, Ana Compton are valedictorian, salutatorian

By MICHAeL MALAsZCZYK mmalaszczyk@liherald.com

Graduation is on the horizon for General Douglas MacArthur High School, and at the top of its class of 2023, school officials named Mia Frattura valedictorian and Ana Compton salutatorian.

The weighted grade-point average of the two exceptional students was extremely close — Frattura earned the top spot with a 103.9, while Compton came in second with 103.68.

MacArthur.

Compton said she did not set out to become a high-ranking senior, and instead just focused on her studies.

“I wasn’t really thinking about it at all,” Compton said. “I was just hitting the books, working hard, and they told me, and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s nice.’”

Both Frattura and Compton have strong extracurricular backgrounds in addition to their academic performance.

By MICHAeL MALAsZCZYK mmalaszczyk@liherald.com

Patrick Carey probably thought he could get away with posting false pornographic images of women he knew online, since there are no laws specifically addressing such “deepfake” images.

As it turns out, the 22-yearold Seaford man — who was sentenced for the crime this past week — almost did get away with it. At least according to Nassau County District

“Creating a fake image, even if it is sexually explicit, is not a criminal offense in New York state,” Donnelly said. “It’s a loophole that allows child pornographers to use new technology to circumvent the existing laws and evade prosecutions.”

Between January and September 2021, nearly a dozen women contacted Nassau County police after discovering images of themselves on a pornographic website. These

were not real images, however, but rather ones prosecutors say had been edited by Carey to appear as such. Carey allegedly pulled images of up to 50 women from their social media accounts and made these “deepfakes.” These women had attended General Douglas MacArthur High School in Levittown alongside Carey. In addition to the images, Carey also allegedly included Continued on page 5

“I always wanted to have this achievement,” Frattura said. “I’ve been working towards it since freshman year. But I stayed away from just looking at numerical grades and always thought about what I was learning instead.”

Frattura, who is from Wantagh, went to Gardiner’s Avenue Elementary School and then Jonas E. Salk Middle School. Compton also attended both of those schools before attending

Frattura is MacArthur’s president of the National Honor Society, a co-president of the Science Olympiad team and vice president of the Math Honor Society. She is also a drum major for the marching band, a peer leader and a soccer player. And perhaps her most impressive extracurricular achievement is the research she did during summers in high school.

“In summer of ninth grade, and the 10th grade as well, I

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Michael Malaszczyk/Herald

nAssAu COuntY dIstRICt Attorney Anne Donnelly, left, has proposed a law that would make posting fake sexually explicit images a state crime. This comes after Patrick Carey, of Seaford, nearly got

with

that — until he allegedly posted an image of an underage girl.

Attorney Anne Donnelly.

Donnelly proposes legislation targeting ‘deepfake’ images

I stayed away from just looking at numerical grades and always thought about what I was learning instead.

MIA FRAtuRRA valedictorian

AARP, USPS help take stand against fraud

By KEPHERD DANIEL kdaniel@liherald.com

Being a victim of identity theft is just the beginning. Resolving it can be a stressful and lengthy process, and according to a pair of experts from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, it’s always better to protect in advance against scams and fraud.

Some $8.8 billion was lost to lottery sweepstakes and other scams last year alone, according to the Federal Trade Commission — a 54 percent increase from 2021. Elder fraud cost Americans older than 60 more than $966 million in 2020, according to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center.

In the United States and other countries, these numbers are only growing as criminals increasingly use online scams that target older adults — especially those living alone.

“Even though we talk about this a lot and we give prevention tips, it seems that people are still falling victim to these scams. And that’s why it’s so important to give this information out,” said Donna Harris, a public information representative for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. “Take the information and share with others so that we can get those numbers down and put the fraudsters where they need to be: behind bars.”

Harris was part of a pair of webinars hosted by AARP Long Island and RichnerLive — a sister division to Herald Community Newspapers — addressing these very

AARP voLuNtEERs BEtty Beradford and Mike Peck help load bags of sensitive documents into a shredder at

issues affecting older Americans. She was joined by Michael Del Giudice, a postal inspector and team leader within the same division.

“I hear from so many people that are recent victims,” said Bernard Macias, associate state director for Long Island with AARP New York. “It’s so disruptive. It’s so violating, it’s hurtful. It’s life-changing to be a victim.”

Identity theft has become a big problem in the United States and abroad due to so much information being available on the

internet. Every day, many unwittingly open their digital door to a world of strangers who could be scammers. In many cases, the results can be devastating — especially to older and vulnerable adults.

Even though many of these scammers are miles away, they can virtually enter homes through deceptive offers, designed to steal money and financial information.

“Once they have your information, it’s just like your DNA,” Harris said. “They find out who you are, and they can use it to defraud you. This is why we routinely dis-

If you missed last weekend’s shredding event at Nassau Community College, don’t fret. You still have two more opportunities to do so with AARP Long Island and RichnerLive.

The next shredding event is scheduled for Saturday, May 6 from 9 a.m. to noon at Michael J. Tully Park, 1801 Evergreen Ave., in New Hyde Park. To register, visit bit.ly/ ShredNewHydePark.

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cuss current trends and scams to make aware of what is lurking behind the next pitch or offer that seems too good to be true.”

Also helping is not just throwing away documents with sensitive information like your Social Security number, but shredding it. One such mass shredding event happened this past weekend at Nassau Community College, attended by U.S. Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, and AARP state director Beth Finkel.

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Nassau Community College last weekend, as part of AARP’s drive to help curb fraud of older Americans.

Northside Elementary turns page for PARP

Books were abound at Northside Elementary School in the Levittown Public School District as students went wild for the annual Pick a Reading Partner event. Wildlife and nature were the focus of students’ many literary adventures under the theme of “Wild About Reading,” and several fun activities fueled students’ passion for reading. On different days, students in all grades dressed as wild animals, wore pajamas, donned Northside gear and flaunted green to mimic reptiles. Students were also tasked with completing as many challenges as they could, which included reading fiction or nonfiction books about animals, listening to an audiobook, visiting the public library and much more. For each challenge completed, students were entered to win prizes.

The fun did not stop there, though. Students shopped for new stories at a book fair, and a poster contest yielded dozens of artistic works reflecting the theme of “Wild About Reading.”

Seuss story is debut show for Wantagh

amusical based on the books of noted children’s author Dr. Seuss was the premier production for Wantagh Elementary School’s Musical Theater Club. The cast of 42 students showcased their talents during four performances of “Seussical Kids” on March 28 and 30.

Each date featured a daytime performance for students and an afterschool show for parents. Rehearsals, which took place after school, began in January as cast members learned the lyrics and choreography for more than a dozen musical numbers.

Many of Dr. Seuss’ well-known characters could be found on stage including the Cat in the Hat, Horton the Elephant and JoJo. There were 16 musical numbers beginning with “Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!” and ending with “Green Eggs and Ham.”

Assistant principal Rachel Dender, who served as the director, said that this was the first venture for the school’s new Musical Theater Club. They hope to make it an annual tradition. Dender was supported by musical director Beth Marinis, choreographer

“The students worked very hard in school and at home to learn their roles, including songs, dances and speaking lines,”

superb performances that they put together.”

Courtesy Levittown Schools

Northside school teachers Rachael Hogan and Teresa Neri, at ends, dressed like wild animals alongside students, from left, Christian Benavides, Bonnie Zhu, Samaira Maitra and Sheldon Montero.

Christina Mealey and set designer Eric Rodrigues, along with parent volunteers who helped with costumes, props and more.

Dender said. “Their dedication was shown through the

Courtesy Wantagh Public Schools superiNteNdeNt JohN McNaMara, second from right, congratulated students and directors on a successful performance.

Is this the end of the Wantagh Warriors?

The Board of Regents has officially banned the use of Native American mascots, logos

By MICHAEL MALASZCZYK mmalaszczyk@liherald.com

It’s the end of an era — or the beginning of a new one, depending on who is talking.

Last week, the state Board of Regents unanimously voted to end the use of Native Americans mascots, logos and team names. Schools must comply by the end of the 2024-25 academic year or they could be considered in willful violation of the Dignity for All Students Act and face penalties, such as the removal of school officers and the withholding of state aid.

According to the state education department, the move should not come as a surprise to any school district.

“Since Commissioner (Richard) Mills’ initial directive in 2001, the Board of Regents and department have consistently opposed the use of Native American mascots, and the time is now to move away from these harmful images,” the education department said in a statement. “School districts have had 22 years — since before their students were born — to consider the damaging implications of the use of these mascots and enact positive change. Further, the courts have agreed that such mascots only serve as a barrier to building a safe and nurturing school community for all students.”

The Board of Regents sets education policy for the state, and school districts must abide by the rules and regulations it adopts.

The ruling directly impacts Wantagh because its team name is the Warriors, and its logo depicts a profile of a Native American man. Nearby schools that are affected include the Amityville Warriors, the Massapequa Chiefs and the

Sewanhaka Indians.

The Massapequa Board of Education is vehemently opposing the ruling, vowing to do everything in its power to fight the decision.

Wantagh said it wants to meet the state halfway, pledging to find a new logo but keep the Warriors’ name. Neither Wantagh nor Massapequa districts’ efforts are likely to succeed.

According to a statement given to the Herald — as well as published reports — the Board of Regents has made it clear that schools must say good-bye to any and all imagery and terminology associated with indigenous people by the end of 2024-25.

Newsday reported that certain school districts with the team name Warriors, for example, could retain that — if there was never an attachment to Native

Americans. The upstate Chenango Valley Warriors, for example, have an ancient Greek figure as their mascot, and it can remain that way.

“Our best advice to districts utilizing indigenous team names, logos and/or imagery is to treat this as an opportunity to rebrand,” the state education department said.

Most of those vehemently opposed to the state’s decision declined to speak to the Herald on the record.

But a large group of parents who are outraged with the board’s decision have made their feelings known. Much of the outrage appears to boil down to two things — that this decision would erase both Wantagh’s proud history and Native American history.

“Our country has been trying to erase the Native American from our history, and now the state is demanding our schools do the same,” Frank Libretto, a member of the Facebook group Wantagh Parental Choice, said. “Each side has their opinion. A Warrior logo and name, in my opinion, is nothing but respect to the Native American Indian, whose land, culture, identity and now history was stolen from them.”

Others have suggested that in addition to erasing history, this comes down to an issue of local governance and constitutional rights.

“This fight over the Warrior logo is just another example of government overreach, and it could very well be a violation of free speech,” Marilynne Rich, also a member of the Facebook group, said. “First masks, now mascots and words — what’s next? We need to limit the power of unelected agencies that are usurping local control.”

THE WAnTAgH SCHooL District has expressed a desire to move away from the Native American logo but to maintain the Warriors name.

The school district’s stance

The district has indicated that it intends to do away with its logo, which depicts a Native American man, but hold on to the Warriors’ team name. Its statement can be viewed at tinyurl.com/WantaghStatement.

However, the Shinnecock Indian Nation, a federally recognized tribe of Algonquian-speaking Native Americans, headquartered out east, has put out statements expressing support for the board’s decision.

“It is highly insulting for humans of any race or creed, their cultural, spiritual, or religious items or traditional ways to be used for mascots, logos, sayings, etc,” Josephine Smith, director of the Shinnecock Nation’s cultural resources department, said. “The use of stereotype costumes, names and cartoonish imagery dehumanize native people and our traditions.

“Mascots of a people or culture is not an honoring,” she added. “Indigenous people are not things to bring good luck, are not fictional characters, are not to be used to represent your town, school, sport team, organization or business. We are a living people with living, evolving traditions. We are not your mascots.”

Additional reporting by Ana Borruto

Michael Malaszczyk/Herald photos

THE WAnTAgH SCHooL District’s logo and team name — the Warriors — is now subject to change, as the New York State Board of Regents has voted that districts with any Native American imagery or terminology must eliminate it by the end of the 2024-25 school year.

New law proposed in wake of Carey sentencing

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personal information on the women, including full names, addresses and telephone numbers.

“The depravity on display by this defendant truly makes my skin crawl,” Donnelly said shortly after his April 18 sentencing. “He acted with hate, and he targeted these girls. He tried to make them fear for their safety and their future. But he underestimated their bravery and their resilience.”

Using three different usernames, Carey allegedly posted more than 1,200 sexually explicit “deepfakes” between August 2019 and September 2021.

ly said, was not creating sexually explicit “deepfake” images of women without their consent. Instead, it was that one of the images he posted included a sexually explicit image of an underage girl.

But Donnelly wants to prevent another Patrick Carey from committing these kinds of crimes. With that, she has asked lawmakers in Albany to introduce the Digital Manipulation Protection Act. This state law is intended to make illegal the creation of deepfake images of real people in this manner, no matter how old the victims are.

w e cannot protect New Yorkers without making these changes.

anne Donnelly Nassau County district attorney

“These are images of these young women — just them being girls,” Melissa Scannell, assistant district attorney, told the Herald in December 2021. “It was images of them at cheerleading. It was them smiling at the beach. They were just living their lives.”

Carey was indicted in November that year, but didn’t plead guilty to four charges until this past December. He was sentenced April 18 to six months in prison and 10 years of probation. He also must register as a sex offender.

What got Carey that sentence, Donnel-

If passed, there could be up to five new criminal charges associated with the kind of things Carey was accused of doing.

“New York state currently lacks the adequate criminal statutes to protect victims of ‘deepfake’ pornography, both adults and children,” Donnelly said. “That is why I am proposing the legislature take up the Digital Manipulation Protection Act, that would close the loopholes in the law that allow sexual predators and child pornographers to create sexually explicit digitally manipulated images and evade prosecution.

“We cannot protect New Yorkers with-

Positive Aspects of Aging

Aging provides its own rewards, which only those who experience it really know, as the following quotes show.

“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!”

— Ingrid Bergman

“Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in turmoil of adventure.” — George Santayana

“The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.”

— Susan B. Anthony

Patrick carey was led out of the Nassau County Courthouse in December 2021 after pleading not guilty to crimes relating to creating sexually explicit ‘deepfake’ images of women. He later pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to six months in jail and 10 years of probation last week.

out making these changes.”

Donnelly has been in contact with other district attorneys’ offices to get the ball rolling on this proposed law, and

hopes to see it passed within a year. But whether that does happen will all depend on how legislators ultimately want to move forward.

“Why not just embrace it, go along with it and welcome it?” — Helen

Mirren

“I believe the second half of one’s life is

meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.” — Frances

Lear

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquility of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”

—W. Somerset Maugham

“There is a fountain of youth; it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”

— Sophia Loren

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spotlight athlete

MacArthur swings for big prize

By aNDReW CoeN sports@liherald.com

On the heels of leading the MacArthur girls soccer team to a Long Island title in the fall in his first season as head coach, Steve Costello is finding more success this spring on the baseball diamond.

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Lynbrook Senior Lacrosse

a tWo-tiMe all-CoUNtY selection headed to Monmouth University, Curley has picked up where she left off last spring and through the first six games netted 23 goals to go along with 10 assists. She’s in her fourth varsity season and in 2022 ranked among Nassau County’s leading scorers with 48 goals and 26 assists. With more than 100 career goals, Curley is “an undeniable force on the field,” coach Vin Tetro said.

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thursday, april 27

Softball: V.S. North at Lynbrook 4:30 p.m.

Baseball: Malverne at V.S. Central 5 p.m.

Baseball: Mepham at MacArthur 5 p.m.

Flag Football: Bellmore-Merrick at Long Beach 5 p.m.

Girls Lacrosse: Mepham at Calhoun 5 p.m.

Boys Lacrosse: Sewanhaka at Clarke 5 p.m.

Girls Lacrosse: Garden City at South Side 5 p.m.

Softball: Hewlett at West Hempstead 5 p.m.

Baseball: Oyster Bay at East Rockaway 5:15 p.m.

Girls Lacrosse: Wantagh at Long Beach 7 p.m.

Friday, april 28

Girls Lacrosse: Freeport at Clarke 4:30 p.m.

Boys Lacrosse: Bethpage at Seaford 5 p.m.

Girls Lacrosse: Baldwin at Kennedy 5 p.m.

Girls Lacrosse: Sewanhaka at V.S. District 5 p.m.

Softball: Calhoun at Kennedy 5 p.m.

Softball: Clarke at Oceanside 5 p.m.

Softball: MacArthur at East Meadow 5 p.m.

Softball: V.S. South at V.S. Central 5 p.m.

Softball: Elmont at Lawrence 5 p.m.

saturday, april 29

Baseball: West Hempstead at V.S. South 11 a.m.

Softball: Lynbrook at South Side 1 p.m.

The Generals entered the week at the top of the Conference A1 standings after marching out to an 8-0-1 start. Costello, who has led MacArthur to two county titles in his 29 previous seasons as head coach, is hoping to celebrate another championship after winning a girls soccer crown in the fall.

“The lineup has been pretty solid and has scored a decent amount of runs,” Costello said. “Everything has been coming along.”

MacArthur has scored 10 runs or more in seven of its wins including back-toback 11-1 and 11-3 victories over Great Neck South last week in the first two victories of a three-game sweep.

The offense has been ignited in large part by the play of senior outfielder James Eden, who entered the week batting .515 with 17 runs scored in the leadoff spot. Eden will continue his baseball career next year on the collegiate level at nearby Adelphi University,

“He’s one of the best offensive players I have ever coached,” Costello said of Zegers, who has committed to play college baseball at Adelphi.

Senior outfielder Ryan Tam, a Farmingdale State commit, has also sparked the lineup with a .500 batting average in his third varsity season and leads the team with 15 RBIs. Catcher Sebastian Loor, another three-year varsity senior, has also shined with a .400 batting average. Fellow senior John Dinkelman adds to the veteran presence in the lineup with a.348 average.

Senior shortstop Evan Paladino and sophomore second baseman Chase Palma have anchored the middle infield while also batting in the .380s . Sophomore third baseman Dylan Tripi is also a force in the lineup who entered the week hitting .360.

“The top of our lineup has been very strong,” Costello said. “Our first five guys

are all seniors.”

The pitching staff is led by junior ace Tyler Bonsignore, who has already committed to play college baseball on the Division I level at James Madison University. The lefty recorded 10 strikeouts with no earned runs allowed over five innings in MacArthur’s 11-1 win against Great Neck South on April 17.

Costello has plenty of options to turn to on the mound including sophomores Alex Darzano, Michael Joyce and Nick Albert.

MacArthur kicked off a three-game series with Mepham Monday after press

time that concludes Thursday in Levittown starting at 5 p.m. The Generals then face Calhoun in another three-game slate starting Monday at home.

“We’re looking at these upcoming six games as a barometer to see where we are and what we need to get better at.” Costello said. “It is going to be a real gauntlet.”

The regular season concludes on May 10 against New Hyde Park a thome before the Generals begin the Class A playoffs in a quest for the program’s first county title since 2015. Last year MacArthur’s postseason run ended when it fell to Clarke in the semifinals.

Donovan Berthoud/Herald photo seNioR CatCheR seBastiaN Loor is a three-year performer for the Generals and off to a hot start (.400 average) with the bat.

Avoiding summer tragedy around the water

By MARK NOLAN mnolan@liherald.com

Record-breaking temperatures this April have signaled an early start to pool season. While water fun is a summer ritual, it can also lead to avoidable calamity when children are left unattended around water.

But the danger could be worse when an adult is casually supervising.

Drowning is the leading cause of death for children between 1 and 4 in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly all of those tragedies — 88 percent — happen with an adult watching, experts say.

“Supervision is the main reason for drowning accidents,” said Jim Spiers, president of Stop Drowning Now. “They’re not actively supervising and paying attention.”

For Jenny Bennett, a founding member of Parents Preventing Childhood Drowning, the issue is personal. Bennett’s son Jackson drowned in the family’s backyard pool when he was just 18 months.

Bennett, an emergency room nurse in Texas, has made it her mission to educate as many parents as possible about the danger. Her organization encourages parents and caregivers to learn CPR and first aid. Install fences with locking gates around pools. And give children swimming lessons by certified teachers.

“Say a child is fishing with grandpa and they fall in a pond or lake,” Bennett said. “Teach a child to roll and float on their back so they are able to breathe and call for help. Children under 4 are not able to tread water, so teach them the swim-float-swim sequence so they can float and breathe.”

New York state law generally requires every pool to have an audible alarm and be enclosed by a fence with locking gates. County, town and even villages often have additional safety requirements.

“While town public pools have well-trained lifeguards keeping people safe, residents must also be wary of the dangers surrounding private, personal pools,” Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin said. “A lot of our pool safety rules translate to personal pools — no running near the pool. No diving in the shallow end. And for children, swimming with adult supervision is an absolute must.”

As a board member of the New York Water Safety Coalition, Spiers advocates for statewide and even nationwide initiatives. Currently, the coalition has four bills up for consideration in Albany. One bill — S.3608 — would require parents of a newborn to watch a video explaining the dangers of drowning for infants and young children before they even leave the maternity ward. The video would be in addition to the required material educating parents about shaken baby syndrome.

The state Senate bill has three co-sponsors, as well as a companion bill in the Assembly.

Another bill being pushed in Albany by the New York Water Safety Coalition would designate state money to provide swimming lessons to children in urban areas. The coalition is working with organizations and municipalities in the Rockaways and throughout New York City, in addition to several other states.

“The most unfortunate statement I hear is parents who say they didn’t think it could happen to them,” Spiers said, “or they just didn’t know.”

What experts want parents and caregivers to remember about water safety is that simply being present while kids are swimming isn’t good enough. An adult must actively watch the water, Bennett said. That means refraining from alcohol and drugs, staying off a cell phone, and not engaging in small talk at gatherings.

“These children are not being neglected in the vast majority of cases,” Bennett said. “There is simply a lapse of supervision. It only takes 30 seconds for a child under

30 pounds to drown. They inhale water, lose consciousness, and in only a couple of minutes, brain death occurs.”

An adult should be designated as the “water watcher” around pools, Spiers said. That person does not take their eyes off the water for any reason. And if a child does go missing, don’t waste time looking in safer places like under the bed or in a closet.

“If you do have a pool and a child is missing in the house, check the pool first,” Bennett said.

Spiers and Bennett both emphasized that when a child drowns, there is almost never a loud indication to alert adults. If an adult is in the house, “watching” the pool from the kitchen table, they may not realize there is danger.

“It’s not like in the movies,” Spiers said. “Drowning is a silent killer. They can’t speak or call for help.”

More safety tips are available through a number of online resources, including StopDrowningNow.org, ParentsPreventingChildhoodDrowning.com, and PoolSafely.gov.

h2Nos — What to Avoid

■ Don’t just supervise — actively watch without looking away.

■ Keep toys out of the pool when not in use so children don’t have to urge to play.

■ Don’t drink or use drugs while supervising children in the water.

■ Don’t keep patio or lawn furniture near a pool.

■ Don’t assume someone is watching the water.

■ Don’t assume every door and window is locked.

■ Don’t use technology or work from home while supervising children in the water.

■ Don’t rely on personal flotation devices for safety.

Step-up your supervision

■ Install layers of protection, like fences and locked gates.

■ Keep all gates, doors and windows locked.

■ Keep children in the water within arm’s reach.

■ Store pool chemicals in locked containers and out of reach.

■ Learn CPR and rescue breathing.

■ Create an emergency plan in advance.

■ Install a motion alarm on all doors and the pool.

■ Ask a professional for a safety inspection.

Sue Grieco/Herald file RAth PARK POOL in Franklin Square is a local hotspot for families looking to beat the heat. Safety experts insist that adults keep watching their children even in public pools.

Herald file photo

EvEN With PROfESSiONAL lifeguards, parents should keep eyes on their children at all times when in the water at places like Veterans Memorial Park Pool in East Meadow.

with them.

Frattura and Compton lead

MacArthur’s class of 2023

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worked with a professor at Hofstra,” Frattura said. “We researched historical climatology, which takes the humanities into environmental science. We analyzed a 19th century diary written by a railroad conductor who documented his onemonth trip from Philadelphia to California and noted the weather. Our research was published in a peer review journal. I was able to showcase it at the Harvard Club in Manhattan, in a competition called the Journal of Young Explorers Meta.”

Compton is also a member of the National Honor Society and the Math Honor Society, and is MacArthur’s treasurer of Tri-M Music Honor Society. She is also in “MacAppella,” MacArthur’s a capella singing group, and has performed in many plays at the school as well, including “Little Women.”

Compton partook in research at Stony Brook University in the summer of 2022 with a focus on physics. She also participated in the Toshiba Exploravision’s national competition, which implored students to find hypothetical solutions to gun violence using technology they had created.

“I won honorable mention in that,” Compton said. “My project was to reduce gun violence using radio frequency identification technology, which would detect guns when people are walking in and out of doors and set off a silent alarm that would alert police.”

Compton also was a part of Medical Marvels, with a similar angle about reducing gun violence. Both Compton and

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Frattura placed third in the New York State Chemagination competition.

Both students are considered wellrounded scholars, with some of their favorite classes falling in humanities and STEM. Their favorite teachers at the school include David Friedman and Matthew Zausin, who were their science research advisors. They also singled out Eric Tompkins and George Donovan, both of the science department, as among their favorites. In addition, they included among their list of favorites Jill Roddini and Carisa Wellenreuther, who teach English, Lisa Levenberg, who teaches music, and Laura McCue of the history department.

Frattura said she plans to attend UCLA in the fall, majoring in chemistry.

She then intends to go to law school when she finishes her bachelor’s degree, and wants to become a patent attorney.

Compton will attend University of Pittsburgh, where she will study mechanical engineering, adding that she is not sure if she wants to go into the “industry side or the research side.”

School administrators praised the hard work put forth by both Frattura and Compton.

“These two spectacular young ladies have epitomized all the mandatory traits and attributes that are necessary for success throughout their high school years,” Joseph Sheehan, principal of MacArthur, said. “It has truly been an honor and a privilege to have worked with them, and I wish them all the very best of luck as they embark upon their future endeavors.”

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Task force targets graffiti, illegal signage

By JORDAN VALLONE jvallone@liherald.com

Illegal advertisements. Unsightly graffiti. Littered roadways.

“There’s nothing more irritating than, at the end of your day, when you’re driving home and you’re looking forward to going home and relaxing with your family, you are greeted at every (utility) pole with an unsightly sign,” said Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin. “We’ve come up with a concept we are hoping is going to help alleviate some of these concerns.”

That concept includes the creation of a “quality of life” task force. Its motivation is removing illegal ads, graffiti and litter, creating clean communities while preserving the suburban landscape in Hempstead.

One of the more popular signs many neighbors might see, Clavin said, are those advertising they “buy houses, no matter what the cost is.” Yet, the cost for hanging the sign could be a fine, since doing so is against the law. Advertisements for businesses — oftentimes hung on utility poles and street signs — are also included under the umbrella of “illegal signage,” Clavin said, and the town has witnessed an increase in these posters or boards being found all over downtowns.

The town’s code states it is illegal to litter or hang solicitations on “fences, trees, utility poles, or similar supporting devices, or to vacant or unoccupied structures.”

“These men and women (on the task force) are going to go out throughout the

town every single day,” Clavin said. “They’re going to target different areas.”

Councilman Chris Carini — who represents a district that encompasses South Shore communities like Bellmore, Merrick, Wantagh and Seaford — has worked hard over the last few years to help neighborhoods remove graffiti from Long Island Rail Road station trestles and other miscellaneous, public use structures, and helped spearhead the quality of life initiative. He says the issue of graffiti and illegal signage has been a regular nuisance to town

residents for some time.

“Going back to my years as a civic leader, these illegal signs and graffiti have been a major complaint in our neighborhoods,” Carini told reporters during a Merrick news conference last week. “We’ve seen an increase in graffiti. We’ve seen an increase in the signs. And we’re going to get out in front of this.”

Some of the town’s strongest partners in the creation of the task force were civic and homeowner associations, Clavin said, as well as various chambers of com -

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merce, which work to keep their communities clean, and a place where people want to live.

Joe Baker, past president of the South Merrick Community Civic Association, has been a proponent of the task force. In just three days, Baker said he worked with the Merrick-based group to pull down illegal signs in the area.

“Over the years, we’ve collected hundreds of these,” Baker said. “The quality of life — we want to keep it good. Our motto has always been, ‘Look good, feel good.’ If the community looks good, we feel good.”

Clavin said the task force is just one step to tackling the problem at hand — Carini and other town board members are actively looking at legislation and seeing where adjustments can be made.

Utility companies have offered their support, becoming “very, very willing partners,” Clavin said.

“They understand the concerns. They understand it’s unsightly, and we’ll be changing those laws to strengthen them and fine people for not caring about other people, and where other people live.”

Anyone who wants to report illegal signs, litter or graffiti, can call (516) 4895000, and ask for their specific council person. They also can post areas of concerns on social media.

“The Town of Hempstead is a great place to live. We want to keep it clean and pristine,” Clavin said. “That’s what this squad is all about.

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Sands formally introduces itself to L.I. businesses

By MALLORY WILSON mwilson@liherald.com

One of the biggest mistakes a large company can do when coming into a community for the first time is start big and stay big.

But when Las Vegas Sands Corp., came to town looking to spend millions on redevelopment, it didn’t go big. It went hyperlocal.

“They started off right,” said Frank Camarano Jr., president of the Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce. “They understood. They didn’t have to wait for the Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce to say, ‘Hey guys, you have to start at the grassroots level.’ It was the exact opposite — they reached out to us.”

Camarano shared the remarks during last week’s Procurement Academy hosted by the council of chambers as well as Sands’ New York division at Nassau Community College. The academy was designed as a way for businesses to get acquainted with the Sands, and possibly seek out avenues where Sands and the businesses could work together.

The $49 billion luxury casino and resort company announced earlier this year it would bid for the Uniondale land surrounding the Nassau Coliseum. The proposal is for a multi-billion-dollar resort that would include hotels, community centers, a performance venue, convention spaces, restaurants and a casino. And although developers say the gaming space

would be less than 10 percent of the overall plan, the casino is exactly what a number of people and organizations have focused on — both positively and negatively.

Still, Sands claims the new luxury resort would provide more than 12,000 construction jobs, and then employ 5,000 people once it opened.

“Long Island, we really, really, really want to be here,” said Norbert Riezler, senior vice president and chief procurement officer for Sands. “We are really excited.”

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The Sands is currently waiting on a gaming license from the state before it can go any further.

Afterward, Sands broke the 300 or so attendees into smaller groups, discussing everything from food and beverage, tech-

nology, professional services and design and construction.

Julie Marchesella, the owner of clothing boutique Queen of Hearts in Merrick, said she participated primarily to see if she could advertise inside the Sands once it opens.

“They have intentions of catering to weddings, and I felt that this would be a perfect opportunity to advertise … and maybe have a kiosk with a mannequin wearing a beautiful gown,” Marchesella said. “Since Queen of Hearts is on Merrick Avenue — just a very short taxi ride or Uber ride — they might see something there that they love and want to come in and try it on.”

Not everyone is keen about welcoming Sands. A number of people and groups have protested the casino, saying it will increase crime and poverty in and around Uniondale. Nearby Hofstra University is against the development, even filing a lawsuit earlier this month against the Nassau County Planning Commission, claiming it violated state open meetings laws when considering the $4 billion Sands project.

Frank Borrelli, owner of Borrelli’s Italian Restaurant in East Meadow, believes this project is the best option presented so far.

“I think it’s a homer for the community,” he said. “The taxes it’s going to generate for the county will be insane, not only from (the resort), but just branding off and bringing people to the areas. And tourism in general.”

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NORBeRt RIezLeR, the senior vice president and chief procurement officer for Las Vegas Sands Corp., hosts a procurement academy with the Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce last week. The academy offered insight and answers for Long Island small businesses to the potential Sands resort project at the Nassau Coliseum, and how they could be involved.

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Will their bond stand the test of time? Find out how it all unfolds in Jack Heifner’s ‘Vanities,’ the latest production from Adelphi University’s Department of Theatre. This bittersweet comedy is an astute, snapshot-sharp chronicle of the lives of three Texas women and how their friendship evolves. The story begins as Joanne, Kathy and Mary are high school cheerleaders in 1963. Five years later in their college sorority house, they are confronting their futures with nervous jauntiness. In 1974, they reunite briefly in New York. Their lives have diverged and their friendship is strained and ambiguous. Their attempts at honest conversation only show they can no longer afford to have very much in common. The show is directed by Emily Shain with assistant direction by Lauren Buscemi.

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Arbor Day is celebrated at Planting Fields

By Karen Bloom

pring fully surrounds our senses now. As Mother Nature displays some of the grandeur of the season, “Earth Month” culminates with plenty of hoopla at Planting Fields Aboretum in Oyster Bay.

The more than 4,000 trees in the state park are a fitting backdrop to activities honoring the park’s remarkable verdure this weekend, April 29-30.

Thursday and Friday May 4-5, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, May 6, 2 and 7:30 p.m; Sunday, May 7, 2 p.m.. $25, with discounts available to seniors, students, Adelphi alumni and employees. Performing Arts Center, Black Box Theatre, 1 South Ave., Garden City. Adelphi.edu/pac or (516) 877-4000.

STEPPING OUT

Creative advocacy

Planting Fields has commemorated national Arbor Day since 1987 with fun-filled educational activities and entertainment. This year brings back the festival in all of its natural glory, following a slimmed down pandemic version last spring. That means there’s plenty to interest all ages: tree climbing for the kids, plant clinics, tree plantings with Smokey Bear, a Bonsai exhibit, plant sale, and so much more — along with self-guided tours of that grand old estate, Coe Hall.

Yes, the focus is on having fun, but the festival is about more than simply a good time. With climate change and the continued pressures on the environment at the forefront of our daily lives, park staffers recognize the need to keep this vital park in the public eye.

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“We celebrate conservation while drawing attention to the importance of our green spaces,” says Katie Walsh, Planting Fields’ community engagement manager. “I encounter so many people who are visiting us for the first time. Many people think we’re a private estate.”

Not so. Planting Fields — the name references the fertility of the land and its rich agricultural value originally recognized by the native American Matinecocks, and later Dutch and English colonists — is a former Gold Coast estate with more than 400 acres of rolling lawns, gardens, woodlands, and nature walks deeded to New York state in 1949 to become a state park.

with that festival staple Peat Moss & the Fertilizers. A self-guided tree scavenger hunt, courtesy Wonderland Tree Care and Landscapes. A children’s nature craft, involving tree “slices.” The all-important tree planting ceremony. And, new this year, a visit from “NYC Tree” (aka actor Joe Whelski). He’ll wander about telling jokes and regaling everyone with tree facts.

“It’s so important to connect kids to nature at a young age,” Walsh says. “Kids are overwhelmed with their tech. We need to get them involved outdoors with nature and our green spaces.”

Smokey Bear joins in to do just that. The “park icon,” as Walsh refers to him, is the focus of attention when it’s time for the annual tree planting. Two trees will be planted each day.

“It’s a big deal, almost like a ceremony,” Walsh says. “Everyone gathers around and parades to the planting location.”

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Educational and environmental organizations also participate, including the aforementioned Wonderland Tree Care and Landscapes, Cornell Master Gardeners, the state’s agriculture department, Long Island Native Plant Initiative, and North Shore Land Alliance, among others.

Befriend a tree. Planting Fields is surely the place to do just that.

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• Emily Lowe Hall Gallery, South Campus, Hempstead. For information and to RSVP, call (516) 463-5672, or visit Hofstra.edu/museum

• For information, visit PlantingFields.org, or call (516) 922-8600

“When We All Stand,” Hofstra University Museum of Art’s new exhibition, examines the collective power of the arts in society.

Since then, the park has thrived as dynamic and vibrant site that’s known for its numerous historic structures, Olmsted Brothers-designed landscapes, and world-class art and horticultural collections.

Curated by Alexandra Giordano — the museum’s assistant director of exhibition and collection — the exhibit underscores artists’ civic responsibility and influence.

Courtesy Planting Fields Arboretum

Top: Smokey Bear always attracts an enthusiastic following at the festival.

The reigning virtuoso of the violin makes his long-awaited return, appearing on the Tilles Center stage. Experience his impeccable musicianship as never before. The intimate performance gives Perlman fans a deeply personal glimpse into his boyhood in Tel Aviv and New York, and the earliest years of his long and celebrated career. Enjoy an afternoon of music and storytelling as Perlman presents rarely seen archival photos and videos and shares memories, stories, and musical selections that you won’t hear anywhere else. On stage performing with Perlman for this unforgettable afternoon is his longtime collaborator, pianist Rohan DeSilva. The duo has appeared many times together, but this performance transcends a traditional recital to deliver a warm, humorous, personal look back over a legendary life and career.

The annual Arbor Day festivities are a time when the park is at its best. There’s always something for everyone at this family festival — concerts

“It highlights the vital role that artists have in activating democratic values that promise equality and freedom, encouraging civic engagement, and cultivating unity,” Giordano says. “Artists often lead the charge and expose truths that may otherwise be ignored. The artists in this exhibition take a stand and call out injustices through their art and activism on issues such as immigration, gender, reproductive rights, mass incarceration, voting rights, racial bias, gun violence, and promises unfulfilled. They all combine the making

Bottom: Kids can get a bird’s eye view of their surroundings as they celebrate the importance of trees and the preservation of the environment.

Sunday, May 7, 4 p.m. $150, $100, $75. LIU Post campus, 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville. TillesCenter.org or (516) 299-3100.

It’s a question that’s been at the focus of our collective culture for centuries. Now as society navigates the complexities of modern life, art as a path for social change is at the forefront of artistic expression.

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Broadway powerhouse Caissie Levy visits the Landmark stage, Friday, her for a night of song, stories and laughter before she embarks across the pond to star in “Next to Normal” in the West End. Fresh off her powerful role in this season’s must-see production of “Leopoldstadt,” this is a rare opportunity to spend an evening with Levy singing some of her favorite tunes. The versatile actress of Broadway, off-Broadway and West End fame, Levy also finds time for many concert appearances — she’s backed up Rod Stewart in his Las Vegas residency, headlined Carnegie Halll, and continues to delight audiences with solo appearances. $61, $51, $41. Jeanne Rimsky Theater at Landmark on Main Street, 232 Main St., Port Washington. (516) 767-6444 or LandmarkOnMainStreet.org.

Nassau County Museum of Art’s new exhibition, “Eye And Mind: The Shin Collection,” highlights the extraordinary collection masterworks assembled by 31-year-old connoisseur Hong Gyu Shin, an internationally recognized figure in the global art world. He shares his treasures, including works by Whistler, Lautrec, Boucher, Daumier, Delacroix, Klimt, Schiele, Balthus, Warhol, de Kooning, Gorky and many other important names from art history provocatively juxtaposed with the painting and sculpture of our own time from both Asia and the West. On view through July . Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. (516) 484-9337 or NassauMuseum.org.

The JULIETS are back playing Mah Jongg and cards at Congregation Beth Tikvah, at 3710 Woodbine Ave., in Wantagh, every Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Masks are optional, but proof of Covid-19 vaccination is required for newcomers, as well as a contribution of $5 per person. For more information email mahjonggCBT@yahoo.com or call (516) 785-2445.

In concert

Rhett Miller, Old 97 frontman performs, Friday, May 5, at My Father’s Place supper club. The alt country-pop power pop singer-songwriter is acclaimed for his compelling melodic tunes Doors open at 6 p.m., concert is at 8 p.m. The Metropolitan, 3 Pratt Blvd., Glen Cove. For tickets/information, visit MyFathersPlace.com or call (516) 580-0887.

Breastfeeding Support Group

Mercy Hospital offers a peer to peer meeting for breastfeeding support and resources, facilitated by a certified breastfeeding counselor, every Thursday, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Bring your baby (from newborn to 1 year) to the informal group setting. All new moms are welcome, regardless of delivering hospital. Registration required. Call breastfeeding counselor, Gabriella Gennaro, at (516) 705-2434 to secure you and your baby’s spot. Mercy Hospital, St. Anne’s Building, 1000 North Village Ave., Rockville Centre. For information visit CHSLI.org.

Mobile office hours with Steve Rhoads

State Sen. Steve Rhoads will host mobile office hours at East Meadow Library, Saturday, April 29, 11-1 p.m. Visit EMPL at 1886 Front St., in East Meadow. Call (516) 882-0630 for additional info.

Local Election Day

Wantagh and Seaford School

Districts vote for Board of Education trustees and the 202324 school budget, Tuesday, May 16. The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Seaford Harbor and Seaford Manor Elementary Schools, Wantagh Elementary School, Forest Lake Elementary School, and Mandalay Elementary School.

May 23

Art talk

Join Nassau County Museum Director Charles A. Riley II, for a Director’s Seminar, Tuesday, May 23, 4 p.m. He’ll discuss ‘Balthus and Neo-Classicism,” in a session that is keyed to Balthus, along with Derain and such figures as Nijinsky and Prokofiev, who were experimenting with the reinvention of classical forms and motifs, notably those of the Renaissance. A decadent in the manner of Wilde, an Old Master painter among the Cubists (Picasso considered him a great talent), Balthus also became associated with the fiction of Nabokov, a literary connection that will also be considered. Participation is limited; registration required. $40, $20 members. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. Visit NassauMuseum.org or call (516) 484-9337.

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Join a supermarket bingo fundraiser for Last Hope Animal Shelter in Wantagh, Friday, May 5, 7 to 9:30 p.m., at Levittown Hall. $25 admission includes four games of bingo, dessert, and coffee or tea. 201 Levittown Parkway, Hicksville.. For more information call (631) 332-6606.

May 5-6

Spring Book and Bake Sale

Seaford Public Library hosts a two-day sale of books, magazines, DVDs, CDs, and baked goods, Friday and Saturday, May 5-6. It’s held in the Valentine Meehan Community Meeting Room, 2234 Jackson Ave. Volunteers are needed to help set up on May 4. For more information call the Seaford Library at (516) 221-1334.

Items on The Scene page 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 thescene@liherald.com.

Sons & Daughters of Italy Fashion Show

The Sons & Daughter of Italy in America’s Giovanni Caboto Lodge, servicing Seaford, Wantagh, and Bellmore, host a fashion show, Wednesday, May 17, at Verdi’s in Westbury. $680 Old Country Road. $65 admission, includes raffles, a full dinner, drinks, and DJ. For more information call (516) 655-7474.

School Budget Vote

Wantagh and Seaford School Districts vote on the 2023-24 school budget and Board of Education trustees, Tuesday, May 16. The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Storybook Stroll

Bring the kids to Old Westbury Gardens for a storybook adventure, Saturday, May 6, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Stroll the gardens and listen to Jory John’s “The Bad Seed.” Later create a unique take home craft. For ages 3-5. Old Westbury Gardens, 71 Old Westbury Rd., Old Westbury. For information visit OldWestburyGardens.org or contact (516) 333-0048.

Dancing into spring

Adelphi Department of Dance students present their semi-annual dance showcase on Adelphi University Performing Arts Center stage, Thursday and Friday, April 27-28, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 29, 2 and 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, April 30, 2 p.m. Dancers are working with guest artist Alberto “Tito” del Saz, artistic director of The Nikolais/ Louis Foundation for Dance, to present “Four Brubeck Pieces,” featuring music from Dave Brubeck’s classic album “Time Out.” The performance also features choreography by dance faculty members Frank Augustyn, Orion Duckstein, Adelheid B. Strelick, and adjunct faculty Bivi Kimura. The show will be also livestreamed during the Saturday matinee and evening performances. Tickets are $30, with discounts available to seniors, students, Adelphi alumni and employees. Livestream access is $20. Adelphi University Performing Arts Center, 1 South Ave., Garden City. (516) 877-4000 or Adelphi.edu/pac.

April 26-27

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Wantagh Union Free

West Hempstead Union Free School District

The District will receive sealed bids on, or prior to 10:00 AM on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 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, following the advertised District approved calendar, between the hours of 8 AM and 3 PM.

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 with bid name and number.

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.

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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 2023/2024, the election of members of the Board of Education and Library Board of Trustees, Proposition No. 1 (School Budget 2023/2024), Proposition No. 2 (School District Capital Reserve Fund Expenditure), Proposition No. 3 (School District Repair Reserve Fund Expenditure) and Proposition No. 4 (Public Library Budget 2023/2024), as follows, will be held on May 16, 2023 in each of the school election districts heretofore established:

PROPOSITION NO. 1

SCHOOL BUDGET 2023/2024

RESOLVED, that the proposed 2023/2024 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, 2023, 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

SCHOOL DISTRICT CAPITAL RESERVE FUND

EXPENDITURE

RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the Seaford Union Free School District be authorized to expend $1,500,000 from the Capital Reserve Fund established on May 15, 2018, for the purpose of performing the following projects: Construction of Handicapped Accessible Outdoor Comfort Stations at Seaford High School; all of the foregoing to include all labor, materials, equipment, apparatus and incidental costs related thereto.

PROPOSITION NO. 3

SCHOOL DISTRICT REPAIR RESERVE FUND

EXPENDITURE

RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the Seaford Union Free School District be authorized to expend $500,000 from the Repair Reserve Fund established on May 16, 2006 for the purpose of making certain repairs to asphalt walkways, stairwells, curbing identified in the District’s Building Condition Survey at the Seaford High School and in and around the newly constructed multi-purpose turf field; all of the foregoing to include all labor, materials, equipment, apparatus and incidental costs related thereto.

PROPOSITION NO. 4

PUBLIC LIBRARY BUDGET

2023/2024

RESOLVED, that the library budget in the amount of $2,458,752 for the year 2023-2024 proposed by the Board of Trustees of the Seaford Public Library and the levy of a tax therefor in the amount of $2,282,777 in accordance with the Education Law shall be approved.

VOTING will be by ballot on voting machines in the schoolhouses 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.

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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: Two (2) members of the Board of Education each for a full term of three (3) years, commencing July 1, 2023.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the election for one member 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, 2023 to June 30, 2028 (incumbent Peter J. Ruffner).

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 thirty-eight (38) 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 thirty-eight (38) qualified voters of the School District. Vacancies on the Board of Trustees are not considered separate specific offices; candidates run at large. Nominating petitions shall not describe any specific vacancy upon the Board for which the candidate is nominated. 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 17, 2023.

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 16, 2023. 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 2023 (i.e., 2019-2022).

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 9, 2023, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 3:30 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.

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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 3:30 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 Tuesday, May 2, 2023 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 expenditure of funds and the budgeting thereof for the Seaford Public Library for the fiscal year 2023-2024. Said hearing will be held on Monday, May 8, 2023, at 7:00 P.M. in the Seaford Public Library, Valentine Meehan Meeting Room, 2234 Jackson Avenue, Seaford, New York.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that copies of the proposed 2023/2024 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 5:00 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.

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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 20, 2023. 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.

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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: MARCH 30, 2023

By Order of the Board of Education

Seaford Union Free School District Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York Carmen T. Ouellette District Clerk Seaford UFSD & Public Library Budget Vote & Trustee Election Legal Notice Publication Dates: March 30, 2023, April 13, 2023, April 27, 2023, and May 11, 2023 138344

LEGAL NOTICE

ANNUAL MEETING RESOLUTION FOR MARCH 22 BOE MEETING RECOMMENDED MOTION: “RESOLVED, that the annual School District election of Levittown Union Free School District, Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, shall be held in the various election districts of said school district on Tuesday, May 16, 2023, at 7:00 A.M., for the purposes set forth in the annexed notice of meeting, the form of which is hereby approved, and that the polls will be open between 7:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M., in each election district; and it is further RESOLVED, that the following notice be published once a week in four (4) of the seven (7) weeks preceding the date of the meeting in the Nassau Observer, Long Island Herald and Noticia newspapers having general circulation in the district; and it is further RESOLVED, that Inspectors of Election be appointed in accordance with previous procedure.

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

Public Notices

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 16, 2023 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 2023-2024 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

EXPENDITURE OF THE 2013, 2017 AND 2021 CAPITAL RESERVE FUNDS FOR SCHOOL BUILDING IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS

BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the Levittown Union Free School District is hereby authorized to expend the remaining balance of the District Reserve Funds listed below in the amount of $48,202,292.00 plus accrued interest:

“ 2013 Capital Reserve in the original authorized amount of $82,841.00 plus accrued interest

“ 2017 Capital Reserve in the original authorized amount of $23,125,451.00 plus accrued interest

“ 2021 Capital Reserve in the original authorized amount of $25,000,000.00 plus accrued interest.

In addition the Board of Education is hereby authorized to expend up to the sum of $7,791,708.00 in unassigned fund balance, so that the total expenditure in an amount not to exceed $56,000,000.00 is hereby approved for purposes of performing school building improvement projects, including replacement of public address systems Districtwide; replacement of fire alarm systems Districtwide; District-wide safety system upgrades, including lock-down systems and other related security system installations; District-wide electrical system upgrades; District-wide roof reconditioning and

replacement; Districtwide interior and exterior masonry restoration; locker room renovations at MacArthur High School and Wisdom Middle School; District-wide playground upgrades; District-wide asbestos abatement projects; District-wide athletic field and tennis court lighting; Districtwide roadway reconstruction and site improvements; Districtwide bathroom reconstruction; Districtwide instructional space renovations, and for any similar projects as contained in the District’s five year Capital Facilities Plan adopted by the Board of Education on March 22, 2023.

Expenditures from these Capital Reserves will not increase the tax levy.

PROPOSITION NO. 3

CREATION OF THE 2023 CAPITAL RESERVE FUND FOR SCHOOL BUILDING IMPROVEMENT

PROJECTS

BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the Levittown Union Free School District is hereby authorized, pursuant to Section 3651(1) of the Education Law, to establish the 2023 Capital Reserve Fund for the purpose of financing District-wide capital improvements including District-wide building improvements and renovations; District-wide site work; athletic field and facility improvements; and for any other projects as contained in the District’s five year Capital Facilities Plan adopted by the Board of Education on March 22, 2023; this Capital Reserve Fund shall be established in an amount not to exceed $30,000,000.00 and the Reserve will have a probable lifespan of ten years; the Reserve will be funded by the Board of Education with surplus monies that may be available at the end of each fiscal year, and can be in accordance with existing law; and the establishment of this Reserve will not increase the tax levy; any monies that are deposited into this reserve can only be expended on specific projects approved by the voters in a future Capital Reserve Expenditure Proposition.

PROPOSITION NO. 4

LIBRARY BUDGET

RESOLVED, that the Public Library Budget for the fiscal year 2023-2024 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 17, 2023. Forms of the petitions may be obtained from the District Clerk.

The following vacancies are to be filled on the Board of Education: Three (3) members for the term of three (3) years, commencing July 1, 2023 and expiring June 30, 2026.

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 fortythree (43) qualified voters of the District, or 2% of the voters who voted in the 2022 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 43 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, 2023 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 fortythree (43) qualified voters of the District, or 2% of the voters who voted in the 2022 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 43 signatures.

NOTICE IS FURTHER

GIVEN, that a statement of estimated expenses for the 2023-2024 school year will be presented at a Public Hearing on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 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 2023-2024 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 11, 2023.

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 13, 2023), 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 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 13, 2023), 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 16, 2023, 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 Section 495 of the Real Property Tax Law requires the District to attach to its proposed budget an Exemption Report. Said exemption report, which will also become part of the final budget, will show how the total assessed value of the final assessment roll used in the budgetary process is exempt from taxation, list every type of exemption granted by statutory authority, and show the cumulative impact of each type of exemption, the cumulative amount expected to be received as payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT) and the cumulative impact of all exemptions granted. In addition, said exemption report shall be posted on any bulletin board maintained by the District for public notices and 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 21, 2023. A copy of the Military Voter Registration Application is available both by contacting the District Clerk by email at smallozzi@levittownscho ols.com <mailto:smallozzi@levitto wnschools.com> and online at the District’s website located at <http://www.levittownsc hools.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 21, 2023.

Military Ballots will not be canvassed unless it is received by the District Clerk on or before 5:00 p.m. on May 16, 2023.

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 #1GARDINERS 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 #2EAST 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 #3LEVITTOWN 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 #4DIVISION 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 2023

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION

LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK 138250

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 2023/2024, la elección de los miembros de la Junta de Educación y de la Junta de Fideicomisarios de la Biblioteca, la propuesta N.º 1 (presupuesto escolar 2023/2024), la propuesta N.º 2 (gastos del fondo de reserva de capitales del Distrito Escolar), la propuesta N.º 3 (gastos del fondo de reserva para reparaciones del Distrito Escolar) y la propuesta N.º 4 (presupuesto de la Biblioteca Pública 2023/2024), como se indica a continuación, se llevarán a cabo el 16 de mayo de 2023 en cada uno de los distritos electorales escolares hasta ahora establecidos:

PROPUESTA N.º 1

PRESUPUESTO ESCOLAR 2023/2024

SE RESUELVE que el presupuesto 2023/2024 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 2023, 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

GASTOS DEL FONDO DE RESERVA DE CAPITALES DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR SE RESUELVE que, por la presente, se autoriza a la Junta de Educación del Distrito Escolar Seaford Union Free a gastar $1,500,000 del fondo de reserva de capitales establecido el 15 de mayo de 2018 con el propósito de realizar el siguiente proyecto: construcción de estaciones cómodas externas con acceso para personas discapacitadas en Seaford High School, lo que incluye toda la mano de obra, los materiales, el equipo, los aparatos y los costos incidentales relacionados. PROPUESTA N.º 3 GASTOS DEL FONDO DE RESERVA PARA REPARACIONES DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR SE RESUELVE que, por la presente, se autoriza a la Junta de Educación del Distrito Escolar Seaford Union Free a gastar $500,000 del fondo de reserva para reparaciones establecido el 16 de mayo de 2006 con el fin de llevar a cabo determinadas reparaciones en senderos asfaltados, huecos de escaleras, bordillos identificados en la Encuesta sobre el estado de los edificios del distrito en Seaford High School y en el nuevo campo de césped de usos múltiples y sus alrededores; todo lo anterior incluye toda la mano de obra, los materiales, el equipo, los aparatos y los costos incidentales relacionados. PROPUESTA N.º 4 PRESUPUESTO DE LA BIBLIOTECA PÚBLICA 2023/2024 SE RESUELVE que se aprobará el presupuesto de la biblioteca por un monto de $2,458,752 para el año 2023-2024 propuesto por la Junta de Fideicomisarios de la Biblioteca Pública de Seaford y el gravamen de un impuesto consecuente a un monto de $2,282,777, 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 independientes hasta ahora establecidos, y las urnas estarán habilitadas 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.

ASIMISMO, 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

Public Notices

solicitudes de nominación no describan ninguna vacante específica de la Junta de Educación para la cual se nomina al candidato.

ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que la elección de los miembros de la Junta de Educación deberá ser de la siguiente manera: dos (2) miembros de la Junta de Educación, cada uno para un mandato completo de tres (3) años, desde el 1 de julio de 2023.

ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que la elección de un miembro de la Junta de Fideicomisarios de la Biblioteca Pública de Seaford será de la siguiente manera: un miembro para un período de cinco (5) años a partir del 1 de julio de 2023 hasta el 30 de junio de 2028 (titular Peter J. Ruffner).

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 Secretaría del Distrito Escolar (la “Secretaría del Distrito”) en Seaford Manor School, Washington Avenue, Seaford, Nueva York, deberá estar firmada por al menos treinta y ocho (38) votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar, y deberá incluir la residencia de cada firmante y también la residencia del candidato. Para nominar a un candidato a la Junta de la Biblioteca Pública, la solicitud debe estar firmada por al menos treinta y ocho (38) votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar. Los puestos vacantes de la Junta de Fideicomisarios no se consideran cargos específicos ni independientes; los candidatos se presentan en general. Las solicitudes de nominación no deberán estipular ningún puesto vacante específico en la Junta para la cual esté nominado el candidato.

Cada solicitud se presentará en la oficina de la Secretaría del Distrito entre las 9:00 a. m. y las 5:00 p. m., y antes del 17 de abril de 2023 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 16 de mayo de 2023, 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 2023 (es decir, entre 2019 y 2022).

También serán elegibles para votar 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.

El registro de votantes que no se hayan registrado previamente y que sean elegibles para votar continuará disponible hasta el 9 de mayo de 2023, entre las 9:00 a. m. y las 3:30 p. m. en la oficina de la Secretaría del Distrito.

La Secretaría 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.

ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que la Secretaría 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.

ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que el registro de votantes preparado según lo mencionado anteriormente se presentará en la oficina de la Secretaría 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 3:30 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.

ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que el martes 2 de mayo de 2023 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.

ASIMISMO, 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 2023-2024 de la Biblioteca Pública de Seaford. Dicha audiencia se celebrará el lunes 8 de mayo de 2023, a las 7:00 p. m. en la sala de reuniones “Valentine Meehan” de la Biblioteca Pública de Seaford, 2234 Jackson Avenue, Seaford, Nueva York.

ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que las copias del presupuesto 2023/2024 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 5:00 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. ASIMISMO, 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. ASIMISMO, 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 Secretaría del Distrito de lunes a viernes, excepto los feriados, entre las 9:00 a. m. y las 4:00 p. m. La Secretaría del Distrito deberá recibir las solicitudes de boletas electorales por ausencia no antes de los treinta (30) días previos a la elección. Además, la Secretaría 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 Secretaría 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 Secretaría 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 Secretaría 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. Estos votantes pueden indicar su preferencia de recibir un registro de votante militar, una solicitud de boleta electoral militar o una boleta electoral militar por correo postal, fax o correo electrónico en su pedido del registro, de la solicitud de boleta electoral o la boleta electoral. Los formularios de registro de votantes

militares y los formularios de solicitud de boleta electoral militar se deben recibir en la oficina de la Secretaría del Distrito antes de las 5:00 p. m. del 20 de abril de 2023. Las boletas electorales militares no serán escrutadas, a menos que (1) la oficina de la Secretaría 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.

ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que la Junta de Educación convocará a una reunión extraordinaria en un plazo de 24 horas después de la presentación ante la Secretaría 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: 30 DE MARZO DE 2023

Por orden de la Junta de Educación Distrito Escolar Seaford Union Free Pueblo de Hempstead, condado de Nassau, Nueva York Carmen T. Ouellette Secretaría del Distrito Fechas de publicación del aviso legal sobre la votación del presupuesto de la Biblioteca Pública y la elección de fideicomisarios de Seaford UFSD: 30 de marzo de 2023, 13 de abril de 2023, 27 de abril de 2023 y 11 de mayo de 2023

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LEGAL NOTICE

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKCOUNTY OF NASSAU U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR MORGAN STANLEY MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2007-13, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-13, V. JANICE HERCHINGER, ET AL.

NOTICE OF SALE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated December 23, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau, wherein U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR MORGAN STANLEY MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST

2007-13, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES

2007-13 is the Plaintiff and JANICE HERCHINGER, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction RAIN OR SHINE at the NASSAU COUNTY SUPREME COURT, NORTH SIDE STEPS, 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, MINEOLA, NY 11501, on May 16, 2023 at 2:30PM, premises known as 2572 RIVERSIDE AVE, SEAFORD, NY 11783: Section 65, Block 72, Lot 328, 1329, 1330: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU AND STATE OF NEW YORK

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 014663/2012. Lisa Segal Poczik, Esq. - Referee. Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES.

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LEGAL NOTICE

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION, Plaintiff AGAINST JAMES DILLON, ET AL., Defendant(s)

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered November 30, 2017, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on May 15, 2023 at 2:00PM, premises known as 3549 WADENA STREET, SEAFORD, NY 11783. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Seaford, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 63., Block 20, Lot 694. Approximate amount of judgment

$399,728.60 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #007076/2015. The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the NASSAU County COVID-19 mitigation protocols and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the court appointed referee will cancel the foreclosure auction. Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine”. Malachy Lyons Jr., Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle Drive Williamsville, NY 14221 18-001721 75222

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LEGAL NOTICE

REFEREE’S NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE SUPREME COURTCOUNTY OF NASSAU ROCKET MORTGAGE, LLC, Plaintiff - againstSTEVEN KALISCHER A/K/A STEVE KALISCHER, et al

Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on February 23, 2023. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court located at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, N.Y. 11501 “Rain or Shine” on the 23rd day of May, 2023 at 3:00 PM. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being on the northerly side of Wanser Avenue, at Seaford, Nassau County, New York.

Premises known as 3885 Wansers a/k/a Wanzers Lane, Seaford, (Town of Hempstead) NY 11783.

(SBL#: 65-A-41)

Approximate amount of lien $456,228.59 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale.

Index No. 615845/2019.

Peter L. Kramer Esq., Referee. (516-510-4020) Davidson Fink LLP

Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 400 Meridian Centre Blvd, Ste 200 Rochester, NY 14618

Tel. 585/760-8218

For sale information, please visit Auction.com at www.Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832

Dated: March 8, 2023

During the COVID-19 health emergency, bidders are required to comply with all governmental health requirements in effect at the time of sale including but not limited to, wearing face coverings and maintaining social distancing (at least 6-feet

apart) during the auction, while tendering deposit and at any subsequent closing. Bidders are also required to comply with the Foreclosure Auction Rules and COVID-19 Health Emergency Rules issued by the Supreme Court of this County in addition to the conditions set forth in the Terms of Sale.

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LEGAL NOTICE

SOUTHEAST NASSAU TRANSPORTATION COOPERATIVE

Island Trees, UFSD

Levittown UFSD

Plainedge UFSD

Plainview-Old Bethpage CSD Seaford UFSD

Wantagh UFSD Hicksville UFSD

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NOTICE TO BIDDERS

In accordance with the provision of Section 103 of the General Municipal Law, the Boards of Education of the Southeast Nassau Transportation Co-Operative, consisting of Island Trees UFSD, Levittown UFSD, Plainedge UFSD, Hicksville UFSD, Wantagh UFSD and Plainview-OldBethpage CSD, Seaford UFSD, hereby invites the submission of sealed bids for:

School Year 2023-2024

Summer and School Year Transportation

On behalf of the Southeast Nassau Transportation CoOperative, Seaford School District hereby gives public notice that SEALED BIDS will be received until 1:00 PM prevailing time on Thursday, May 18, 2023 at the Seaford Public Schools Administrative Building, located at 1600 Washington Avenue, Seaford 11783 at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud in-person.

Sealed bids are to be addressed to the attention of Carmen Ouellette, District Clerk, Seaford Public Schools 1600 Washington Avenue, Seaford NY 11783.

Bid Specifications and all applicable terms and conditions forms can be obtained by emailing couellette@seaford.k12.n y.us or by calling (516) 592-4016.

The Boards of Education reserve the right to waive any informality in or to reject in whole or in part all bids or to accept any bid, which in its judgment is in the best interest of the school district. All proposals received after the time stated in the Notice to Bidders will not be considered and will be returned unopened to the bidder. The bidder assumes the risk of any delay in the mail or in the handling of the mail by employees of the School District. Whether sent by mail or by means of personal

Crime watCh

Larceny

■ Target, on Hempstead Turnpike in Levittown, reported that two unknown suspects stole assorted items from their store on April 12.

■ A man reported, on April 13, that unknown suspects stole various items from his car while parked on Remson Avenue in Merrick.

■ A woman reported that her catalytic converter was stolen while parked on Virginia Avenue in Plainview on April 14.

■ Moe’s Southwest Grill, located on Hempstead Turnpike in East Meadow, reported that a scooter was stolen from them on April 14.

■ CVS, on Seaman’s Neck Road in Seaford, reported that an unknown male stole various items from their store on April 14.

■ Rite Aid, located on Sunrise Highway in Bellmore, reported that an unknown male stole various items from their store on April 14.

■ On Nassau Avenue in Plainview, a man reported that his catalytic converter was stolen on April 15.

■ A man reported that unknown suspects stole various items from his car while it was parked on Lincoln Avenue in Massapequa on April 16.

■ A Massapequa man reported that one heat shield was stolen from his car while parked on Camp Road on April 17.

■ In North Merrick, a woman reported that her handicap parking pass was stolen from her car while parked on Third Avenue on April 19.

Arrests

■ Marquis Pearsall, 20, from Copiague, was arrested for allegedly shoplifting at Burlington Coat Factory on Sunrise Highway in Massapequa on April 8.

■ Tamika McGuire, 36, from Inwood, was arrested for allegedly shoplifting from Target on Hempstead Turnpike in Levittown on April 14.

■ Steven Carroll, 25, of Seaford, was arrested for alleged DWI on Merrick Road in Massapequa on April 15.

■ Manfredo Valdez, 43, of New York City, was arrested for alleged criminal mischief at Town & Country Motors, located on Hempstead Turnpike in Levittown, on April 17.

■ Mikel D. Gardner, 25, from Hempstead, was arrested for allegedly shoplifting from Walmart on Hempstead Turnpike in East Meadow on April 16.

■ Keiora Pooler, 24, of Hempstead, and Clarence C. Darden, 55, of Queens Village, were both arrested for allegedly shoplifting from Rite Aid on Hempstead Turnpike in East Meadow on April 16.

■ James Dillon, 60, of Seaford, was arrested for alleged DWI on Wadena Street in Seaford on April 18.

■ George A. Parsekian, 32, of East Meadow, was arrested for alleged DWI at R.C. Dugan’s Craft Beer & Wing House on Hempstead Turnpike in East Meadow on April 18.

Criminal Mischief

■ On North Richmond Avenue in North Massapequa, a man reported that an unknown suspect damaged his window with a beer bottle on April 15.

People named in Crime Watch items as having been arrested and charged with violations or crimes are only suspected of committing those acts of which they are accused. They are all presumed to be innocent of those charges until and unless found guilty in a court of law.

Public Notices

delivery, the bidder assumes responsibility for having his bid deposited on time at the place specified.

Bids must be in a SEALED ENVELOPE clearly marked on the outside, “SENTCO - 2023-2024 SUMMER AND SCHOOL YEAR BID, and the envelope must bear on the outside, the complete name & address of the bidder.

Each Bidder shall agree to hold his/her bid price for forty-five (45) days after the formal bid opening.

By order:

Boards of Education

Island Trees U.F.S.D.

Levittown U.F.S.D.

Hicksville U.F.S.D.

Plainedge U.F.S.D.

Plainview-Old Bethpage

U.F.S.D Seaford U.F.S.D.

Wantagh U.F.S.D.

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Liberty Conducting Annual Spring Flushing of Water

Liberty is commencing its annual spring flushing program as part of its routine distribution system maintenance to help ensure quality water service to Liberty customers. Starting May 8, annual flushing will begin in Lakeview, Levittown, North Seaford, North Wantagh, South Hempstead and West Hempstead. To learn more about when flushing is scheduled to occur in a specific neighborhood, visit tinyurl.com/LibertyFlushing and click ‘Spring Flushing Schedule’ in News and Events.

“Water main flushing is an important part of our operations and maintenance programs to remove harmless mineral and sediment buildup that can cause water to become discolored,” said Liberty Director of Operations, Brenda Wall. “Our flushing program positively impacts water quality while also ensuring all fire hydrants are operating properly, with the adequate flow needed in the event of an emergency.”

Water mains are flushed by opening fire hydrants in specific locations throughout each community to increase water flow to the area. While crews are performing flushing operations, residents may experience a temporary drop in water pressure and/or discolored water. If you experience discolored water, please allow the water to run in your faucet until it is once again clear, which shouldn’t be more than a minute or two.

In order for residents to better prepare for flushing in their neighborhood, Liberty asks that they consider the following tips and steps:

■ Make note on your calendar of your community’s scheduled flushing times.

■ Prior to using the washing machine

and dishwasher, check for discolored water.

■ If discolored water stains your laundry, do not put it in the dryer. Rewash clothes right away with a heavy-duty detergent and add a rust remover.

■ Draw water needed for cooking ahead of scheduled flushing time and set aside a large bottle of water in the refrigerator for drinking or future use.

■ If water pressure or volume appears low after the flushing has finished, inspect the faucet screens for any trapped particles.

News brief

Congressmen want to keep FAA jobs on L.I.

LEGAL NOTICE

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS FOR FEDERAL CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS

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 providing the services to operate the Breakfast and Lunch Child Nutrition Programs for the District. The District will receive sealed bids at the Office of the Purchasing Department, Levittown Memorial Education Center, 150 Abbey Lane, Room 316, Levittown, New York, 11756, Monday through Friday, following the advertised District approved

calendar, between the hours of 8 AM and 3 PM, or prior to 1:00 PM on Friday, May 19, 2023, at which time all bids will be opened and read aloud. The District will not be responsible for any delays of handling in delivery of such mail. 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 school district.

It is strongly suggested that all prospective

bidders attend a pre-bid conference and site visitations to be held on Tuesday, May 9, 2023, at 10:00 AM in the district’s administrative offices at Levittown Memorial Education Center, 150 Abbey Lane, Levittown, NY 11756. Please contact hmbigley@hmbconsultants.com to coordinate your attendance.

By: Michael Fabiano Assistant Superintendent for

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Congressmen Anthony D’Esposito and Nick LaLota visited the Federal Aviation Administration’s New York Terminal Radar Approach Control facility in Westbury recently to meet with staff concerned about the FAA’s plan to relocate dozens of employees from Long Island to Pennsylvania.

The relocation plan proposed by the FAA would mandate certain facility employees work from the Philadelphia Air Traffic Control Tower location for up to two years, a timeline seen as unacceptable by many impacted staffers.

“It seems entirely unnecessary for the FAA to force hardworking public servants from New York TRACON to uproot their entire lives for a ‘temporary’ placement in another state that could last multiple years,” said D’Esposito in a release. “This shifting of staff from the N90 facility also has the potential to present serious obsta-

cles for regional flight tracking teams.”

The FAA staffers at the Westbury facility, also known as N90, provide critical approach services for airports throughout the New York metropolitan area including John F. Kennedy International Airport, LaGuardia Airport, and Newark Liberty International Airport. TRACON is responsible for serving several smaller airfields as well, including Long Island MacArthur Airport and Westchester County Airport.

“As a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Aviation, I have made it abundantly clear to my congressional colleagues that keeping good union jobs at the TRACON facility here on Long Island remains at the top of my priority list as our subcommittee works through the 2023 FAA reauthorization process,” D’Esposito said in a release.

Courtesy Liberty New York Water Starting May 8, Liberty will be conducting its annual spring flushing to improve water quality in various towns and hamlets on Long Island.

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Fixing things up downstairs

Q. Our basement is unfinished, and we plan to put in walls and a finished ceiling. We know we need an escape window, but what are your suggestions on other things, like the kind of ceiling? I’m thinking about just sheetrock, but what kind of access do you recommend for the pipes and wires I’ll need to get to?

A. There are many items to include in your thought process for finishing your basement. Mistakes are made, first, by ever assuming that the people doing the work know the laws.

Results t hat Move You

The biggest problem I see is that the ceiling is just a little too low, that someone dropped the entire ceiling level just because of one pipe. The minimum ceiling height in the current code is 6 feet 8 inches clearance, with 6 feet 4 inches under the center beams, air ducts or soffits anywhere in the basement. Always leave access for shutoff valves, wiring connections, cleanouts and other controls.

If you need to move pipes that were installed without any care for your future use of the basement, move them. Piping should go around the perimeter of the basement, no matter what excuse you hear. Because of poor planning and even worse execution, pipes are the No. 1 problem, because someone thoughtlessly put them in a place that was good for them and not for you.

The ceiling finish can be sheetrock in the larger areas with perimeter “hung” track ceilings outfitted with removable ceiling tiles. Again, even those lowered perimeter and under-beam soffits need to be no less than 6 feet 4 inches above the floor. Tall firefighters need to avoid hitting their heads when they’re running though your smoke-filled basement to rescue you or your loved ones.

Although you know you need an escape well window or exterior door entry, placement of the well in some side or front yards can cause a code violation if it’s closer than allowed to a property line. Verify your setback requirements for your zone, and even confirm that with an official at your local building department.

Many jurisdictions require a permit with plans and inspections, so don’t forget these important requirements. There are so many people who are frustrated that their contractor didn’t tell them that they needed a permit, and even worse, that they now have a violation that requires reconstruction to pass inspections. Don’t be one of those people.

Other important issues include what to do with enclosing your heating equipment, putting laundry sinks and washing machines too close to the main electrical service panel, using the wrong kind of wall studs for perimeter walls, not insulating correctly and forgetting to put handrails on the access stairs, inside and out. Heating equipment, to the code, must follow the manufacturer’s specifications. Installers rarely leave a manual. Sometimes the internet helps. There must be 5/8-inch type X gypsum board on the ceiling extending at least 1 foot in each direction around the boiler. Best of luck!

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Municipalizing LIPA would be a big mistake

Converting the Long Island Power Authority to a public power utility from a privatepublic partnership is being considered by the State Legislature through a commission. This switch, in a process known as municipalization, would be a massive mistake.

Just ask residents of Boulder and Pueblo, Colorado, who overwhelmingly rejected ballot issues to municipalize. In fact, only a handful of communities nationwide have voted in favor of a municipal takeover of electricity in over a decade.

It’s usually a costly folly that rarely achieves the benefits proponents claim. What happens in reality should dissuade the Legislature from altering the LIPA public-private partnership. Creating a municipal utility doesn’t necessarily:

■ Bring lower electricity costs. In San Marcos and Palm Springs, California,

for example, consultants’ cost savings estimates turned out to be wrong, to the detriment of consumers. Plus, while municipal utilities tend to charge residential customers less and businesses more, residents end up paying more anyway. Further, a study by a consulting firm found the costs passed on to ratepayers by municipal utilities often went up.

■ Improve grid security. Municipal utilities are under cyber siege as their staffing shrinks, cybersecurity spending lags and their legacy systems are often outdated. In 2021, a cyberattack against the Oldsmar, Florida, water treatment facility nearly poisoned the water supply of almost 2 million people.

■ Guarantee accountability to consumers or taxpayers. Investor-owned utilities are regulated by a state utility commission. When a blackout or brownout or other crisis occurs, such oversight is vital in order to determine what went wrong and how to fix it. Accountability of a municipal utility often proves less

strict, and more subject to politics.

■ Improve operations. Municipal officials and appointees frequently don’t have the expertise that investor-owned utilities possess, which can reduce reliability in areas where major storms and other weather-related events occur. For instance, when Winter Park, Florida, switched to a public utility, it wasn’t prepared operationally, and had to build that knowledge from the ground up.

■ Offer the shared risk for ratepayers that investor-owned utilities do, with shareholders who shoulder risks with ratepayers.

Municipalization triggers other major problems. It costs a lot, is contentious, and takes a long time to happen, if it happens at all. In Corona, California, the direct buyout cost of its utility will exceed $300 million. Long Beach, California, rejected municipalization because of its $500 million price. The city of Pueblo, according to one estimate, would have lost nearly $8.5 million in taxes and franchise fees if it had

municipalized its utility.

Failure took 13 years for a plan in Las Cruces, New Mexico, felled after dozens of lawsuits and many untold costs arose.

As well, only one in six attempted municipal utility takeovers succeeds, according to a report that studied 60 of them. Two later sold the utility back to the investor-owned utility. Investorowned utilities cannot afford bloated budgets, but public utilities need not have the same capital discipline with taxpayer dollars.

LIPA customers should also be outraged by the poor job the legislative commission has done. Despite spending $2 million in taxpayer dollars to collect community input, the commission held none of three public hearings called for before the end of last September. It held no meetings during its first five months of existence, and didn’t produce a draft report by year-end 2022. It was expected this month.

The track record of municipalization is clear, and Long Island residents should not be fooled by the current attempts to municipalize the LIPA.

Mothering our way through the pandemic

Aglobal pandemic was never part of the job description in my Mothers Handbook, circa 1971, but so be it. This is our time.

people who identify in nontraditional ways, who mother their children selflessly and lovingly. Friends also can mother one another, even when children aren’t involved.

As we approach Mother’s Day, I honor all the people, from older teens to adults to grandparents, who find themselves in the role of raising children, and find within themselves the resources to “mother” them.

RANDI KREISS

A small distinction: A man fathers a child, and the work he does after that is called “parenting.” A woman gives birth to a child, and the work she does after that is often called “mothering.” That word implies the unique devotion needed to shepherd children safely through their early years. The dictionary says the word embraces “kindness” and “protection.”

No one says, “Joe is so good at fathering.” But we often hear praise for someone’s mothering. I don’t think it’s sexist; I see the word as gender neutral. Joe may be good at mothering as well.

Mothering requires tending, nurturing, cherishing and teaching children. The term connotes warmth and support and advocacy.

Although, traditionally, mothering has been linked to the mother-child bond, there are millions of men and

Parenting seems more like a job description to me. Mothering is a mission and a half. In the age of Covid-19, in the wake of lockdowns and isolation, mothering has been a gift to our kids and grandkids. Parents pressed for time and money, parents nearly paralyzed by anxiety by the epidemic, somehow rallied and did their best for their little ones.

In my world, I observed nieces and nephews (who might now feel embarrassed by the notion) display true courage in finding a path for their babies and toddlers. Their daily creativity and devotion kept the kiddies safe, while allowing them to learn and grow in a time of restrictions and fear and social isolation. Those were long years to be alone in your home with a 2-year-old.

I know of one young dad, working from home, who mothered his restless little ones by creating a thrilling world out of the commonplace routines of keeping the household going. The mail delivery, the Instacart groceries and the laundry all became big events, threaded with anticipation and excitement. The trash pickup was a showstopper. As in the movie “A Beautiful Life,” in which a father reinvents life in a concentration camp for his young son, the dad I know interpreted everyday activities as theater. He didn’t want his children to miss the world.

If you’re a parent trying to mother a teenager in 2023, good luck and God bless. My grandkids are 20, 18, 16 and 14, and this has been a challenging road through the pandemic. The headlines speak to the truth about unprecedented emotional fallout from the Covid-19 years. Teenagers have suffered from the social isolation and anxiety.

Everyone — teens, parents and grandparents — did our best to keep home life safe and sane. When schools were closed for months, the pressure was extraordinary to keep the teenagers engaged and off social media (ha!) and

diligent about schoolwork. The big lessons had nothing to do with the closeddown classrooms and a year’s curricula out the window, and everything to do with how to face danger, and how to be brave in the midst of a spreading pandemic, and how to think about death and hope for life and recovery. Our teens missed a lot of Happy Days, and many of the traditional paths forward to college and work life were altered.

All of you parents of teenagers who mothered your way through the past three years, the singular reward for your efforts will be children who, with support and luck, will grow into responsible adults.

I tried to mother my own kids during the pandemic as they helped their children through this time. Mixed success, at best. I tried to manage my own anxiety for them and for us without making that contagious as well. Mixed success, at best.

Mothering is unbound by time and place. My mother has been gone five years, but, hand to heart, I felt her at my side many times during the worst of the pandemic.

This Mother’s Day, I invite all of us to co-opt the M-word. It would be a happier and healthier world if we all mothered one another.

Copyright 2023 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

I tried to mother my own grown kids during Covid-19, to mixed success, at best.

Wendy Hijos is the New York state director for the Consumer Energy Alliance.

public utilities are often less accountable and more subject to politics.

WENDY HIJoS

This summer, keep our kids from drowning

the video is heart-wrenching. One by one, parents explain how their child drowned, holding their pictures and saying their names.

It’s part of a public service announcement found on the Parents Preventing Childhood Drowning website, and it’s a call to action: grieving parents pleading with us to keep children from drowning. The message is clear: If you are supervising children who are in the water, never allow yourself to be lulled into a false sense of security. Don’t ever look away. Not even for a second. It takes just 30 seconds for a young child to drown — half a minute that can lead to a lifetime of ceaseless grief.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drowning is the leading cause of death for children between ages 1 and 4. Some 4,000 people of all ages across the country drown each year.

For decades, government at all levels has enacted laws intended to help prevent children from drowning. Sadly, these laws have not been enough. More must be done.

There are at least four water safety bills being considered in Albany, including S.3608, which would require parents of a newborn to watch a video explaining the

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Cameras were already a problem five years ago

To the Editor:

I am in full agreement with Fred Gefen’s sentiments regarding red-light and speed-camera ticketing in his letter last week, “Every vehicular mistake, caught on camera.” His are the same sentiments, and arguments, I made in two letters, in the April 12-18 and May 24-30, 2018, issues of the Herald, “Red-light fees are ‘exorbitant’” and “Red-light ticket tyranny.”

I asked, “How does $50 automatically become $150? Ask the magicians of the Nassau County Legislature,” and, “If Nassau can’t balance its books in a fair and honest manner, is it justified in seeking additional revenues by concocting such contrived fees as these to fill the gap?”

It’s encouraging that another Nassau resident was driven to expose the very same tyranny that led me to write five years ago, but it’s equally disheartening that these injustices continue to plague us five years later, with no action having been taken to remedy them. Mr. Gefen’s references to proposed license plate readers and school bus cameras indicate that the problem is growing even worse, as Big Brother continues to invade our daily lives.

Yes, advancing technology does afford benefits to the safety and security of Nas-

dangers of drowning for infants and young children before they leave the maternity ward. State legislators should pass this bill and get it on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk.

And we urge lawmakers to draft legislation providing free pool safety inspections for homeowners and caregivers. Several government agencies already offer free car seat safety inspections. While visiting a home and inspecting a pool is more involved, it certainly is no less critical for protecting children.

At least two water safety experts have agreed that pool safety inspections would help prevent child drownings.

This proposal wouldn’t be another unfunded mandate that drains the resources of local municipalities. Albany has the mechanism to create a pilot program using previously budgeted money from an appropriate department. The pool inspections would be voluntary and conducted by state-licensed pool safety experts.

A pool owner would receive a safety inspection certificate and a degree of peace of mind. Some private companies already offer free pool safety inspections. A government-business partnership would further enhance the reach of this

pilot program.

Water safety experts stress the need for constant surveillance of children while swimming. They also insist on multiple layers of protection — tall fences, selflocking gates and more — to prevent kids from getting into unguarded water. Pool safety inspections would offer one more element of safety.

May is National Water Safety Month. There is no better time for local state senators and Assembly members to draft legislation to provide those inspections.

And as you prepare to open your pool for the summer, make it a priority to visit swimming safety websites and educate yourself about making your pool safer, and what you can do if you see a child in distress in the water.

Remember that water safety includes time on the bays and at the ocean. Follow state and local laws for operating watercraft. Be an active supervisor of children and young adults who are enjoying the water. Don’t assume that a day of fun in the sun can’t turn deadly.

The courage and strength of parents able to talk about their children’s deaths is remarkable — and inspiring. Honor that courage and their grief by taking action to make your pool safer.

sau citizens, but it must be imposed with an awareness of the detrimental and continuing erosion of our rights as citizens.

ROBERT RuBALSKY East Rockaway

Peter King should know we should follow the law

To the Editor: With Peter King’s column, “With Trump’s

indictment, we cross a dangerous line” (April 13-19), it’s a relief to see members of Trump’s party finally coming down on the side of preserving norms, after years of Trumpian normbreaking. But to ask Americans to do it by exempting Trump from accountability is both hypocritical and shortsighted.

Those who supported or enabled this corrupt, duplicitous bully’s rise to the presidency should have known they were bludgeoning our country’s political norms. Our country is now on the path of restoring those norms, and we will walk that path to the end.

Those who leak national intelligence must be punished

the true enormity of the real-life consequences that will result from the leaking of sensitive national security secrets by Air Guardsman Jack Teixeira hit me hard the other day, when I received an email from an old friend who served with distinction in the military, in the intelligence services, as a key staffer on Capitol Hill and in the executive branch of our government.

For starters, we must realize that whatever is leaked to social media is being absorbed, scrutinized and analyzed by our enemies and, yes, our allies. Giving our enemies access to our imagery and code-breaking capabilities puts all Americans at risk. Those who are already at risk on

the battlefield, of course, will be at greater risk. So, too, will our undercover operatives — “spies” — in hostile countries be in greater danger than ever.

Those at most immediate risk are intelligence sources — human beings — in enemy countries who have provided the United States with invaluable intelligence and information. Having served on the House Intelligence Committee for over nine years, I saw firsthand how deeply embedded some of these sources are in enemy governments, supplying us with the most sensitive and vital information to avert attacks against us or our interests. Studying the information contained in the leaked documents, these governments will be able to do a reverse analysis, and determine who our sources are and subject them and

Letters

To King and all those who would shelter Trump from this indictment, not to mention the even more serious ones awaiting him, I say this: If you really care about our country’s norms, the right way to uphold them is, first, to let the rule of law run its course, and, second, to make wiser leadership choices in the future.

ALEx DILLoN Cedarhurst

Dillon is a high school history and civics teacher.

Trump’s indictment is Trump’s fault

To the Editor:

In his April 13-19 column, Peter King seems to be blaming the dawn for the crowing of the rooster. He is bemoaning the fact that a federal grand jury has indicted Donald Trump for breaking federal campaign laws in connection with his Stormy Daniels payoff, rather than addressing the dirty deeds that Trump has committed.

It is true that there are two other pending cases that are far more egregious than the current one: Trump’s incitement to insurrection in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, as well as his effort to fraudulently “find” 11,780 votes in Georgia. But the current case has reached a milestone in that it has ended the notion that a president or former president cannot be indicted for criminal actions.

In other words, it opens the door to a legal path for the extremely serious charges relating to Jan. 6 and to the Geor-

gia vote. I hope that Mr. King is taking a very hard look at those two pending cases.

BoB PRAvER Glen Cove

It’s time to ban assault weapons nationwide

To the Editor:

The number of deaths due to the use of assault-style weapons in mass shootings seems, tragically, to be endless, including most recently in Nashville, Tennessee.

It is now reported that the leading cause of death in children and teens in this country is gun-related violence. According to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun violence, 85 percent of deaths caused by the use of assault rifles occurred in mass shootings. It also found that during the 10-year federal ban on assault weapons that ended in 2004, massshooting deaths were 70 percent less likely to occur.

Despite majority public support for reasonable gun regulation, more protective federal laws, like the renewal of an assault weapons ban, are not politically feasible due to opposition from gun-rights groups and a lack of support from Republican members of Congress.

When can the renewal of a federal assault weapons ban be expected? Perhaps American history can give a clue. There were attempts to enact a federal law against lynching toward the end of the 19th century. According to historian Eric Rauchway, in 1938 a Southern filibuster stood in the way of a proposed federal

their families to brutal torture and death.

This will be a human catastrophe and an intelligence disaster. Not only will we no longer receive valuable intelligence data from those who are tortured and killed, but this could also lead to other sources being disclosed and neutralized. Equally consequential, it will dissuade others from cooperating with the United States. Similarly, our allies will be reluctant to share intelligence with us, fearful that it will be leaked, with serious consequences for their sources and security.

Leaking national security secrets shouldn’t be part of a leftvs.-right debate. It was indefensible and stupid for Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene to say Teixeira was being criticized for being “white, male, Christian, and anti-war,” and wrong for

Donald Trump Jr. to describe Teixeira as a “hero.” Similarly, it is wrong for people on the left, like the writer Glenn Greenwald, to argue that Teixeira performed some sort of public service by making life-or-death information available online for America’s adversaries.

Nor do I have any regard for the argument that Teixeira should get a pass because, at 21, he’s only a kid. A 21-year-old is an adult. Twenty-oneyear-olds fight our wars as soldiers and protect our streets as men and women in blue. Teixeira was trained in the military and took an oath to defend our nation against all enemies foreign and domestic.

A 21-year-old military man who makes life-threatening secrets available to our sworn enemies should not receive the benefit of youthful offender treatment. He must face severe consequences. Justice must be served.

Peter King is a former congressman, and a former chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

Framework by Tim Baker

anti-lynching law. When asked by Jimmy Roosevelt, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s son, when the filibuster would end, Sen. James Byrnes, of South Carolina, told him, “Not until the year 2038, unless the bill is withdrawn before then.”

It took over 100 years for such a law, the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, making

lynching a federal hate crime, to be enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Biden last year. Will another federal assault weapons ban happen by 2104? How many more preventable deaths will happen by then?

We have liftoff! — Hall’s Pond Park, West Hempstead

Jack Teixeira took an oath to defend our nation against all enemies foreign and domestic.