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HERALD A trip to the Ashokan
Retailer talks retail crime
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Holy Trinity’s closure jolts parishioners church membership at Holy Trinity dropped to untenable levels leading to its demise. of the Herald “Membership at Holy TriniSince before the turn of this ty, Valley Stream, fell below the century, Amy Schmidlin’s saw threshold to both upkeep its many defining moments of her parish and minister to the life transpire at Holy Trinity wider community,” he said in a statement. “The remaining Episcopal Church. members of Holy Her fellow parishT rinity are now i o n e r s s ay t h e worshiping at nearsame. by congregations. The 100-year-old Though it is always ch u rch bu i l d i n g a difficult decision, has been deconsethroughout the hiscrated — allegedly tory of our diocese, tur ned over to parishes have reguother renters for a larly moved, time — and listed opened, closed, and for sale to the tune merged as we have of $3.95 million. adapted to chang“I got married at ing conditions.” that church. My But Schmidlin parents got marsaid she and other ried at that church. longtime parishioMy sister had her ners were left S w e e t S i x t e e n dEBBiE JACOBS s t u n n e d by t h e there,” Schmidlin Parishoner, news and felt parsaid. “Since I was Holy Trinity Nursery ticularly slighted born, that church by the fact she did has helped to define me and my family’s life, not find out directly from and so many good memories Provenzano or church leaderand milestones are stored in ship, but from Facebook. “I found out about the sale that place.” Bishop Lawrence Provenza- of the church after a member no, head of the Episcopal Dio- in our private Holy Trinity cese of Long Island, reported Continued on page 15
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Snapping snares and pipes come to town The New York City Department of Sanitation Emerald Society Pipes and Drum Band was among the groups that marched in Valley Stream’s 104th annual Memorial Day Parade on Monday. Story, more photos, Page 3.
Sunrise Plaza jeweler bids farewell after half a century By JUAN LASSO jlasso@liherald.com
In the era of online shopping, Andrew Papandrew, a brick-and-mortar businessman who dedicated his life to the craft of jewelry-making and repair, finds himself a dying breed. His store, nestled on Sunrise Plaza, has stood there since he inherited the building from his father, a World War II naval veteran-turnedwatchmaker, who opened the shop in 1967. “I graduated college in May of 1973. I got married in August, and I started working for my father in October,” said Papandrew. “And the
rest, as they say, is history.” But now after roughly 50 years, Papandrew is relentlessly clearing out every glittering stone, necklace, and ring sitting in his display cases and displayed behind his glass walls at “escalated discounts.” With both his sons taking a pass on the business, Papandrew Jewelers Inc. is left without a current and willing heir and is closing. Weeks away from the store’s storied end and from the start of a long-awaited retirement, Papandrew believes small businesses like his, with craftsmen like himself, are vanishing and taking decades of expertise, dozens of local Continued on page 10
e tried to keep control of the church as much as we could, and then, when Covid hit, it kind of destroyed everything.