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HERALD Class of 2022 Graduation Inside $1.00
Vol. 33 No. 26
Vision l.I. honors V.S. project
Man dies in expressway crash
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JUNE 23 - 29, 2022
District says goodbye to Scott Stueber his athletes described as a contagious, fiery passion. “As a defensive football coach, His career in Valley Stream kids loved to play for him athletics and physical education because they saw his passion, ” spans nearly three decades. He’s said Valley Stream South varsity worn many hats during that football coach Joe Guastafeste. time — from a rip“They knew it roaring football wasn’t an act, so coach on the field, or they loved playing in his more recent for him.” years as a forwardBryant Amitrano, thinking district athwho graduated from letics director. South High School Scott Stueber has in 2006, had Stueber been nothing short as a “hands-on” of a gamechanger junior varsity coach. for Valley Stream “During football sports and fitness. practice, he would But this year, his stoget in your face and ried run in the display football against trict comes to an end you with no pads,” as he moves to a new SCoTT STUEBEr Amitrano said. “He athletic director role Director, would run drills full with the Syosset speed, with no pads, Central School Dis- Valley Stream t o i m p r o ve o u r trict at the end of athletics defense and make the month. everyone better.” Stueber began his Stueber was career as a junior varsity foot- fiercely dedicated to his coachball assistant coach at Valley ing role while juggling an even Stream South in 1995. He quickly more-important responsibility: became an integral member of father of then two young boys. the coaching and health educa“He was always there for us,” tion teaching staff, mentoring Amitrano said. “He’d spend late dozens of young athletes in foot- nights reviewing the filmed football, wrestling, and volleyball — ball plays and practice with us all with what his colleagues and Continued on page 9
By JUAN lASSo jlasso@liherald.com
Tim Baker/Herald
ThE prICE of gas from station to station can — and often does — vary as gas prices remain volatile in a highly competitive market.
Drivers cope with sticker shock at the fuel pumps By JUAN lASSo jlasso@liherald.com
People are itching to drive off and get away this summer after two years of coronavirus pandemic restrictions, but record-high gas prices are throwing a wrench into those seasonal road trips as well as other travel plans. Gas prices nationwide are receding a bit, according to the latest numbers from AAA — but not by much. Prices across the country are flirting with $5 per gallon for regular unleaded, with Nassau County already above that mark in many places.
Drivers are rethinking their commuting habits and scaling back car use in an effort to spare their bank accounts and avoid unnecessary fill-ups at the pump. Choosing when and where to ride “is definitely more of consideration now,” said one resident, Andrew Riggio. “I used to go out on the island to do stuff with my friends, and now I have to think about how often I do that because that’s a quarter tank of gas,” he said. “That’s a big chunk of change.” Patrick De Haan, a petroleum analyst at the GasBuddy website, says prices have
climbed due to the imbalance between supply and demand caused “by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and corresponding sanctions, which attempted to cut off Russia’s flow of oil.” “In addition,” De Haan said, “over the last couple of years, we have seen a drop in U.S. refining capacity,” so the country’s refineries are struggling to catch up with demand. According to the Energy Information Administration, the U.S. will use about 95 percent of its refining capacity this month. Continued on page 28
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wouldn’t be the person that I am today without the opportunity that Valley Stream has given me.