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‘Truly one of the good ones’

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t was good news — or so we thought. After much anxious anticipation, the first approved vaccine for Covid-19 in the nation was rolled out late last year. And, in the early weeks of February, the pool of people eligible to receive it had expanded to include roughly 11 million more New Yorkers suffering from diseases such as cancer and chronic illnesses.

Valley Streamer Maribel PadinCanestro, 51, took the news as a victory.

She knew many of her medically vulnerable friends and neighbors were, at last, being given a lifeline against a lethal virus that was rampaging across the United States. Her thoughts turned toward Allen, her elderly neighbor from across the street. According to Padin-Canestro, Allen “was having his own personal health battles.” But when she checked on him, rather than find her neighbor relieved by the news, he was racked by worry.

Despite his best efforts to secure a vaccine appointment, Allen said, the process was a logistical nightmare, and he could not.

From February to March, New York state faced a vaccination shortage as it struggled to secure appointments for those previously eligible, even though it was welcoming millions more to be vaccinated. There was much frustration to go around among residents who complained of the resulting barriers to access – scattershot appointment availability, overloaded government sites and uneven dealings with local pharmacies.

With the odds stacked against him, Allen’s hope for a vaccine was swiftly dashed. But, if there were even a slim chance, Padin-Canestro thought, she would find a way to help her neighbor.

Eventually, she was able to, leading her to assist so many others. For her efforts, the Valley Stream Herald proudly names Maribel Padin-Canestro its 2021 Person of the Year.

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“I didn’t know where to start, to be honest,” Padin-Canestro said of her effort to aid her neighbor. “I made some phone calls and asked the question, ‘How do we

help these people?’ There’s gotta be a better system and a better way.”

Padin-Canestro eventually sought help from the office of State Sen.Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach, and with the office’s reach and influence, secured a vaccine appointment for Allen. While Canestro went the extra mile to help a neighbor in need, she knew there were many others like him with similar medical conditions. They, too, would need an advocate to go the distance for them when no one else would, she said.

Over several weeks, PadinCanestro worked with Kaminsky and his staff as they hosted Covid19 vaccination pop-up drives and worked to secure and schedule vaccine appointments for dozens of other elderly and vulnerable residents in Valley Stream. To spread the word, PadinCanestro tapped into her network, reaching out to any older adult who needed the service. After a slew of phone calls, texts and emails, an informational vaccine appointment network was built from the ground up.

Jason Vera was one of PadinCanestro’s contacts. Vera found himself needing to secure vaccinations for his Spanish-speaking in-laws: Eli Colon, 72, and Juana Colon, 74. Vera, a widow and father of three boys, had assumed his wife’s role as the elderly couple’s primary caretaker. He knew that demand for vaccine appointments was high for older adults, but did not know anything about how to secure an appointment. When Padin-Canestro called,“it was truly a blessing,” Vera said. His in-laws, who “adored Maribel,” were deeply grateful to PadinCanestro, who was able to secure vaccinations for them early, and the process, according to Vera, “was not only local Continued on page 17 Courtesy Maribel Padin-Canestro

Her fondness for the elderly and the soul of her initiative came from her late mother, Ines Padin, 82.

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A family of bus companies is suing 47 school districts across Long Island, including all four in Valley Stream, for contract fees that the companies allege went unpaid during, and in some cases before, the coronavirus pandemic. Baumann & Sons Buses, which includes the Baumann Bus Company and Acme Bus Corporation, is seeking a total of $1.6 million from Valley Stream’s high school and three elementary school districts in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. Baumann went out of business in April after a number of the school districts that it contracted with stopped paying for services when the initial wave of the pandemic closed schools across Long Island.

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Hamburger filed the suit on Baumann’s behalf on Dec. 4.

The suit alleges that the districts had both the means and an obligation to continue paying their contractors during the pandemic, despite the lack of need for busing while schools were closed.

The suit alleges that Baumann was caught in a financial bind when, during the initial weeks of pandemic, it was required to remain at the ready to resume busing services amid uncertainty about when it would be safe for schools to reopen.

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Baumann & Sons Buses is suing Valley Stream’s four school districts for a total of $1.6 million.

Officials condemn appearance of white supremacist propaganda Local officials and residents condemned propaganda fliers from a white supremacist group that appeared at the Valley Stream Long Island Rail Road train station on Jan. 19. By Jan. 21, they had been removed.

The fliers promoted the New Jersey European Heritage Association, which the Anti-Defamation League considers a white supremacist hate group, and featured slogans such as

V.S. parents chronicle schooling during a pandemic Early last fall, with the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic still looming, Valley Streamer Sabrina Carreras elected to have her ninthgrade daughter, Kennedy, attend Memorial Junior High School virtually.

Six months into the school year, however, Kennedy, like many other students, has struggled with the social isolation of virtual learning, and others, who attend school in a hybrid mix of in-person and online classes, have had to contend with disruptions when infection rates rise.

“My daughter Kennedy was always a very actively involved student in music and sports, and being remote has kept her from partici-

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Stickers from a white supremacist group appeared at the train station on Jan. 19.

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pating in that, which has taken a toll on her emotionally,” Carreras said.

Both of Nana Akaeze’s sons, who are in grades 11 and 10, attended Central High School on a hybrid schedule last fall.

Typically, they were in school twice a week and at home three days for virtual classes. Although Akaeze expressed anxiety over the possibility of her boys contracting the coronavirus while at school, she said they enjoyed seeing their classmates in person.

The first 100 doses of coronavirus vaccine arrived at Valley Stream Pharmacy in the first week of February, and 100 more came the second week, according to owner and manager Azzam Elcheikh.

But in the third week, the batch of inoculations — another 100 — that Elcheikh had requested from New York state never came. Severe winter storms across much of the Midwest, he said, snarled deliveries for much of the country, including his small Rockaway Avenue pharmacy and medicalsupplies shop, dealing a setback to the nationwide vaccination effort.

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Nana Akaeze’s sons, attending Central High School on a full learning schedule after infections forced closures at the school.

“Nationalism could have prevented this” and “Free Kyle Rittenhouse,” a reference to the white teenager accused of shooting and killing two protesters and injuring a third at an anti-racism protest in Kenosha, Wis., last summer.

which are contracted by the state and federal governments to distribute vaccines, and began doing so the second week of February, Elcheikh must request doses directly from the state each week.

He has so far asked for 100 doses a week, which he said was about what he believed would match demand and the shop’s capacity to inoculate. Any unused doses must be reported to the state after seven days, he said.

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Valley Stream Pharmacy owner and manager Azzam Elcheikh said his shop has received around 100 coronavirus vaccines a week.

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substance, six counts of seconddegree forgery, two counts of firstdegree reckless endangerment, two counts of second-degree reckless endangerment and 22 counts of fourth-degree criminal diversion of prescription medications that he was previously charged within November 2019.

He pleaded not guilty to the new charges at the Nassau County Courthouse in Mineola last Thursday. Officials with the district attorney’s office said they believe this was the first time that a doctor was charged in New York with murder in the second degree under the theory of depraved indifference to human life.

Blatti had voluntarily surrendered his medical license to state authorities in June 2019. If convicted, he could face 25 years to life in prison.

Long Island is a year into the pandemic, and according to local mental health experts, many people are still struggling to adjust to the life changes it has brought. As a result, they said, more people have developed mental health issues, or their preexisting mental illnesses have been exacerbated. With the additional caseload — sometimes triple the normal amount — a handful of mental health counselors in Valley Stream say the pressure has taken a toll on them, as the struggles of their patients weigh on them in a phenomenon known as vicarious traumatization as they strive to help others.

Don Sinksield, a Valley Stream resident and director of administration for New Hope Mental Health Counseling in Valley Stream, said he serves about 10 clients a week, and his organization sees about 700 cli-

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George Blatti, a former doctor who was operating out of an abandoned Radio Shack in Franklin Square, was escorted into the Nassau County Courthouse in Mineola on March 4. He was charged in the deaths of five of his patients.

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Don Sinksield, director of administration for New Hope Mental Health Counseling, has seen new clients double.

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ents a week. With the stresses of the pandemic affecting everyone, Sinksield said that letting his clients know they are not alone helps.

“Self-disclosure is OK in small doses with clients to support them, and so it is helpful to say, ‘I’ve been going through this, too,’” he said.

“We are all experiencing this pandemic together, and we are all figuring out new routines. Like many other counselors, I aim to try to help people through anxiety by guiding them to focus on other things and to do relaxation exercises to cope.”

Sinksield said he has also seen a large increase in the number of new clients.“Our intake of new people coming to counseling has doubled,” he said.

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Geraldine Sabatasso was a smoker with a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who began seeing Franklin Square-based Dr. George Blatti in 2007 for acute pain she suffered as a result of a neck surgery. He started prescribing her opioids in 2010, and by February 2016, Nassau County prosecutors said, she started complaining of dizziness and shortness of breath, but still, they allege, Blatti continued to prescribe Sabatasso, of Baldwin, opioids.

She died on March 22, 2016, at age 50. Among the other four patients to die under Blatti’s watch were residents of Valley Stream, Hempstead and Floral Park, according to prosecutors.

Blatti, 75, originally from Malverne, faces murder and reckless endangerment charges for overprescribing opioids to Sabatasso and the four other victims, who died between 2016 and 2018, Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas announced on March 4.

Blatti was charged with five counts of second-degree murder and 11 counts of reckless endangerment, in addition to the 22 counts of criminal sale of prescriptions for a controlled

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Locals react to likelihood of legalizing marijuana State lawmakers were slated on Tuesday, after the Herald went to press, to pass an expansive bill that would legalize recreational marijuana use in New York — an effort years in the making — while setting regulations for a new industry and its taxation.

Spanning 128 pages, the Marihuana Regulation and Taxation Act addresses everything from enforcement and criminal justice reform to how taxes would be levied against marijuana producers and retailers and how those dollars could be spent.

Reaction to news of the bill’s imminent passage was met largely positively in Valley Stream, with some concerns over how the addi-

tional tax dollars generated from the industry would be spent.

Megan Garcia said she hoped the bill would lead to better enforcement of public smoking and driving-while-high laws. “What people want to do in private doesn’t bother me because it doesn’t affect me,” she said. “But nothing is enforced now . . . People walk around parks and public places smoking now. People at work sit in the parking lot at work and smoke and bring that smell in with them.”

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Most Valley streamers the Herald talked to reacted positively to the potential legalization of recreational marijuana use in New York state.

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Comptroller places village in ‘significant’ fiscal stress category deficit has improved in recent years from $2.6 million in 2019 and $3 million in 2018, Village Treasurer Michael Fox said that the “severe” fiscal stress report was caused by bad timing. For much of the past year, the village delayed issuing bonds to cover the cost of capital improvements because of a volatile market, he said. With Village Hall closed last spring, officials were unable to hold the village’s annual tax lien sale. With both funding sources still unaccounted for, nearly $3.5 million in expected cash flow was left out of the report.

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Valley Stream is one of three villages statewide under “significant fiscal stress,” according to an April 2 report by the state comptroller’s office.

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The office of State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has designated the Village of Valley Stream as a municipality under “significant fiscal stress.”

DiNapoli’s report, released last Friday, is a sign that the village still has much to improve in its financial standing, which has deteriorated in recent years.

With a projected operating deficit of $2.2 million weighing heavily against the village, funds that Valley Stream is to receive before the end of the fiscal year through the issuance of capital bonds and the sale of tax liens were not included in the report, tipping the municipality into the “significant stress” category, the most severe in the system, according to village and state officials.

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VSC edged by stingy Syosset

If not for a shortened spring season, Valley Stream North girls’ volleyball would be well on its way to posting a fifth consecutive double-digit win campaign.

The Spartans have worked their way up the Nassau County ladder since a breakthrough 2017 season and secured their second conference title in five seasons. “We’ve had a nice run and for the past three years it’s been us and Mepham battling for the conference,” North coach Mary Parisi said.

“They’ve been our main rival.”

Mepham won back-to-back conference crowns, but the Spartans took a big step to change the narrative by sweeping the Pirates in the opener.

North, which between 2017 and 2019 won 36 of 40 conference matches, returned a good portion of the roster it fielded in the spring when it finished 7-3. Parisi described fifth-year varsity setter/ hitter Haley Nelson as the program’s catalyst during the success-

Digging a two-goal hole in the first 20 minutes against a Syosset side which allowed just five goals in 14 regular-season matches didn’t bode well for Valley Stream Central in the only Nassau Class AA boys’ soccer outbracket game Oct. 21.

However, the Eagles stayed within striking distance thanks to junior goalkeeper Jonas Mata and pressed to get the equalizer late but ultimately suffered a season-ending 2-1 defeat. Spencer Lieberman scored both goals for the eighth-seeded Braves.

“I told our guys at halftime we all had Jonas to thank for only being down 2-0, because he made two incredible diving saves,” VSC coach Billy Miller said.

“He kept us close enough and gave us a chance for the comeback.

Everyone kept their spirits up and we played so much better in the second half. I felt like we had another goal coming after we got the first, but Syosset hung on.”

The Eagles (4-4-7), one of only five

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ful stretch. While Nelson and senior Karen Ye (60 assists) steer the offense, senior libero Alessandra Llubit set the defensive tone.

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Senior libero Alessandra Llubit set the defensive tone for the Spartans.

VSN rallies for playoff berth Valley Stream North’s football team secured a position in the Nassau Conference III playoffs, after escaping the final regularseason game Oct. 30 with a nailbiting 28-21 victory over Lynbrook.

After the game, Spartans head coach Mike Paolillo was thrilled with the way his team dealt with the adversity and stakes the winand-in, lose-and-out game presented.

“This was a win-and-in game for both teams,” Paolillo said. “We went down early, and in years and games past I don’t know if we make the comeback that we did.”

After conceding relatively seamless touchdowns on Lynbrook’s two initial possessions, the Spartans’ defensive unit revived itself and began assembling stops. Defensive lineman Angelo Morales had his fingerprints all over this game, as he had 13 tackles and two sacks. Senior defensive back Aldean Sarmiento also registered a sack of his own.

“Our defense definitely led the way,” Paolillo said.

While the defensive resurgence was impressive, the offense did it through the air and on the ground, as the Spartans had two touchdowns passing and two rushing.

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Valley Stream Central’s Frankie Gonzalez, left, jostled with Syosset’s Dylan Provenz during a Nassau Class AA elimination game on Oct. 21.

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Quarterback Brian Farrell overcame a so-so first quarter and finished the day with 186 yards passing on 13 attempts and two touchdowns.

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Senior Brian Farrell had two touchdown passes as Valley Stream North rallied to defeat Lynbrook, 28-21, to clinch a playoff spot.

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State approves $4.9M grant for Western Nassau water utility New York state officials announced early last month that $48.9 million in grant, interest-free and low-cost loan funds had been approved to help water authorities defray the costs of maintaining clean drinking water, including a $4.9 million grant earmarked for the Water Authority of Western Nassau County, which covers Elmont, North Valley Stream and Floral Park.

The New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation board of directors approved the funding after a review of various water infrastructure grant proposals, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on April 8. The Western Nassau Water Authority had applied for an emerging contaminants grant to help it combat the potentially dan-

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gerous perfluorooctanoic, or PFOA, and perfluorooctanesulfonic, or PFOS, acids at one of its water treatment facilities.

The grant is intended to pay for installation of a new granular activated carbon, or GAC, filtration system to remove the two contaminants from the water supply at the authority’s Station 44.

Installation of the filters at the facility was completed at the end of last summer, according to Water Authority Superintendent Mike Tierney.

With a 10-mile stretch of road referred to as “Blood Alley,” between Exit 17 in Malverne and Exit 32 in Farmingdale, the Southern State Parkway is known as one of the most dangerous thoroughfares in Nassau County. Recently, though, state legislators proposed a bill aimed at increasing safety measures and helping reduce crashes, and deaths, on the road that many Valley Streamers know all too well.

The legislation, dubbed the S.O.S. Safety on the Southern State bill, was introduced by State Sen. John Brooks, a Democrat from Seaford, and Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages, a Democrat from Elmont. The legislation seeks to designate a portion of

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The grant approved would reimburse the utility for the installation of carbon filters at its facility.

the parkway as a “highway safety corridor.” The lawmakers are looking to add signage, increase law enforcement presence and double traffic violation fines to curtail unsafe driving.

The lawmakers are exploring the possibility of introducing technologies that could be used along the most dangerous parts of the road.

They are looking to collaborate with the Department of Transportation and law enforcement to make the infrastructure changes and identify the specific types of technology that can be used to reduce accidents.

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Sen. John Brooks and Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages spoke about the legislation.

Home prices soar in V.S. in seller’s market Low interest rates, proximity to New York City and good school districts have made Valley Stream a prime location in the post-pandemic real estate market, according to local real estate brokers and agents. With houses in high demand, however, the supply isn’t keeping up, leading to dozens of bids on every home and properties selling at well above the original asking prices.

“I think it’s like the perfect storm,” Helena Veloso, an associate broker with Douglas Elliman and senior executive manager of sales for the Franklin Square office, said of the Valley Stream seller’s market. “Between people trying to get away from city life and more in the suburb area, and the interest rates being low and a shortage of

inventory . . . it all kind of really gave for the perfect storm in getting these prices way above asking.”

Veloso, who has worked in real estate for 30 years, said she has seen many homes sell above their asking prices during her career, but has never experienced a market quite like this one. In addition to millennials with families bidding on the highly soughtafter homes, Veloso said, she has noticed that many investors are taking advantage of the market’s climate.

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Buyers are flocking to purchase homes in Valley Stream because of its proximity to New York City, good school districts and more space.

Village paves way for new buildings

The Village of Valley Stream may soon see a number of new building projects under way in the near future after the board of trustees voted unanimously June 21 to pass a resolution amending local law to allow family townhouses, apartments, condos and cooperatives in parking districts, known as “P” districts, in addition to “floating multiple dwelling” districts,

called “C-A” districts.

A second resolution was passed during the meeting, changing a parcel of land in a multiple-family residential and commercial district, called a “C-1” district, to a “C-A” district.

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Plans are in the works for senior housing development adjacent to Monica Village in Lot 26.

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that she was heading to a friend’s for a little while. She never returned.

Roughly 24 hours later, she was found dead in a neighbor’s basement.

Within a month, police arrested 21-year-old bodybuilder Robert Golub after a bloody handprint was discovered on the basement doorway. After a nearly yearlong trial, Golub was convicted of seconddegree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. He remains incarcerated, despite multiple parole hearings.

At a special meeting June 29, the Valley Stream Central High School District Board of Education voted to suspend Superintendent Dr. William Heidenreich for up to 90 days with pay, followed by a suspension without pay for the indefinite future.

The board also appointed Dr. Wayne Loper as acting superintendent from July 1 to June 30, 2022, and named Emmanuel Glasu acting assistant superintendent for finance and operations starting Aug. 1.

Last Dec. 9, the school board voted in a split decision to grant Heidenreich a medical leave of absence. Four days

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Family, friends and community leaders gathered at Nassau County’s Grant Park last Saturday for the unveiling of a memorial to Kelly Tinyes.

before that decision, the New York Post had published an article detailing how Heidenreich, in a series of texts and voice messages sent to Orange Fitness Theory in Merrick, where he lives, threatened to infect gym-goers and staff members with the coronavirus after receiving notifications that the gym would soon unfreeze his membership. At the time, Heidenreich was self-isolating after he had come in contact with someone who had tested positive for Covid-19, but he subsequently tested negative.

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Family members, friends and elected officials gathered in Nassau County’s Grant Park in Hewlett last Saturday to unveil a memorial plaque and bricks in memory of Kelly Tinyes, a 13-year-old Woodmere Middle School student from Valley Stream who was murdered by Robert Golub in 1989.

Childhood friends of Tinyes began the Forever Young Kelly Brick Campaign last year as a positive way to remember their friend. The memorial has an area of concrete near the park’s entrance with engraved bricks, benches and recreational tables.

On March 3, 1989, Tinyes was babysitting her younger brother, Richard, at their Valley Stream home when she got a phone call from a man who said his name was John. Kelly told Richard

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Cuomo resigns amid harassment allegations Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation Tuesday around noon, catching New Yorkers off guard, particularly after he began his roughly 20-minute speech with a seemingly defiant tone, calling himself a fighter.

The Democratic governor, 63, who has been in the office since 2011, came under mounting political pressure to resign over the past week, with members of the State Assembly overwhelmingly saying they would move forward with impeachment hearings if he did not step aside.

The resignation came seven days after State Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, had issued a scathing report detailing alleged sexual

misconduct by the governor. James’s report included testimony by 179 witnesses and 74,000 pieces of evidence.

Cuomo was apologetic toward the 11 women who had accused him of sexual harassment, but he denied any wrongdoing, saying it was in his nature to touch and hug those around him, including employees under him. He engaged in friendly gestures, not sexual advances, he insisted.

First Black woman takes reins at Buck Johanne Gaddy was named principal at William L. Buck Elementary School earlier this month, becoming the first female African-American to hold the position in the school’s 66-year history. Gaddy will succeed Susan Leggett, who recently retired.

As a seasoned educator, Gaddy will bring two decades of educational experience to her administrative role. She previously served as a classroom teacher at West End Elementary School in Lynbrook for five years, and has held various other positions, including learning specialist, coach and principal’s assistant in suburban

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Eleven women accused Gov. Andrew Cuomo of a range of inappropriate behavior; nine of them are current or former state employees.

Apartment complex now in the pipeline A proposal for construction of a new apartment complex on West Merrick Road is slated for final site development plan review by the village’s Zoning Board of Appeals. The resolution passed by the board of trustees Aug. 16 amended the zoning map, turning a parcel of land in a previously residential and commercial district, known as a C-2 district, into a C-A district, or floating zone.

If the plan is approved, and no further modifications are made to it by either the zoning board or the Nassau County Planning Commission, village residents may soon see a new multifamily apartment complex spring up at 360A and 362 West Merrick Road.

The sleek, five-story apartment building, named the Promenade 360,

and urban settings. Gaddy has an undergraduate degree in psychology from SUNY Stony Brook and a master’s in education and educational leadership from LIU C.W. Post.

Gaddy’s hiring is an important move by the district, signaling a big first step in trying to push for a more diverse and inclusive body of qualified school officials. Last year, William L. Buck saw the creation of the Diversity, Inclusion, Equity Committee, which ultimately helped to seat the school’s first professional woman of color at the head of the administrative table.

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would have 36 units, with four studios and a mix of one-bedroom and twobedroom apartments.

The project developer, Kay Development LLC, also provided a community benefit of $150,000 in the form of “in-kind work on specific village projects” as part of its agreement, as confirmed by Thomas McAleer, director of the Economic Development Committee in Valley Stream.

“That money is going to be used for specific village projects,” McAleer said.

Last Saturday, religious leaders, a school superintendent, public officials and village residents gathered at the 9/11 memorial in Arthur J.Hendrickson Park to remember the nearly 3,000 people who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Dozens stood solemnly under a brilliant blue sky, much like the one on that morning in Lower Manhattan when the twin towers were struck by two hijacked jets, and ultimately reduced to rubble.

The ceremony began with the presentation of colors by members of American Legion Post 854, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1790 and the Valley Stream Boy and Girl Scouts. Nassau County Court Judge Robert G. Bogle,

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Proposed plans for the new apartment will go to final planning and review in the near future.

the master of ceremonies, offered welcoming remarks, and Samantha Wright sang the national anthem. The Rev. Steven Milazzo, of Bethlehem Assembly of God, delivered the invocation.

Memorial wreaths were placed around the 15-foot-long piece of steel base from the ruins of the World Trade Center by the fire chiefs of the Valley Stream Fire Department,Valley Stream Boy and Girl Scouts, and the New York Naval Cadet Corps, as well as Trustees John Tufarelli and Sean Wright and Deputy Mayor Dermond Thomas.

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Valley Stream firefighter Matthew Roth helped his daughter Janah, 6.

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Residents have plenty to say about cannabis

The village covered an average of 6,700 feet of road per year from 2015 to 2020, with 9,445 feet covered last year with new reconstruction methods. Additionally, village officials’ approach to deciding when and where to redo roads has changed. In 2016, Accarino, in partnership with Cornell University, conducted a road management study that surveyed all the roads and rated their condition from best to worst based on various criteria,

The agenda portion of the regular Village of Valley Stream meeting on Monday was over in minutes, with agenda items detailing unglamorous village business read aloud and voted on with assemblylike efficiency. Then, for nearly an hour during the publiccomment period, attendees spoke at length about an issue far removed from the agenda — the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act. Specifically, the question on people’s minds was whether village trustees should vote to opt out of licensed cannabis dispensaries and on-site consumption lounges in the village.

For the last four meetings, the opt-out question has dominated attendees’

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Valley Green Drive, with undulations, ruts and cracks, is a deteriorated stretches of road.

comments, as the end-of-year deadline to decide whether to opt out is fast approaching.

Trustee Dermond Thomas wondered whether marijuana dispensaries might overrun other businesses, including cafés. “What we care about is the overall face of the village,” he said. “We want the village to be the most diverse, interesting, entertaining, exciting place for everyone. If we create an atmosphere where one business becomes the business, then obviously we lose that.”

No date for an opt-out vote has yet been scheduled.

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The Village of Valley Stream will vote on whether to opt out of on-site cannabis dispensaries.

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With fall in full swing, people are bracing for the frigid temperatures, snow and ice that come with winter, all of which wreak havoc on asphalt roads, causing cracks and potholes.

After years of ceaseless decline, many roads are due for a complete overhaul.

That is the job of Joe Accarino and the personnel at the Village of Valley Stream Engineering Department.

Accarino, the village engineer, and his team must steadily reconstruct the village’s 80.6 miles of road — the distance from Valley Stream to East Hampton on Sunrise Highway. On average, the village redoes two miles of road per year, at a cost of $1 million per road, paid for with local and state funds. It takes roughly 40 years to redo all the village’s roads.

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As midnight approached on election night, Republicans in Nassau County-wide races were inching toward a GOP sweep.

As the Herald went to press, Bruce Blakeman, the Republican Town of Hempstead councilman, had surged past incumbent Democrat Laura Curran in the race for county executive, with 92 percent of precincts reporting. At press time, an official winner had not been declared, but Blakeman had 52 percent of the vote to Curran’s 47 percent. Close to 20,000 absentee ballots remained to be counted, however.

What was certain: Republican Anne Donnelly, a 32-year career prosecutor in the Nassau district

attorney’s office, was declared the winner in the contest for D.A. Donnelly defeated State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach, garnering 60 percent of the vote.

Republican Elaine Phillips, a former state senator, was declared the winner in the race for county comptroller, besting Democrat Ryan Cronin. And Republican Maureen O’Connell appeared headed to victory over Democrat Justin Brown in the voting for county clerk.

District 24 parents push for dual-language program Four parents have joined forces to push for a dual-language program in District 24. The stories of Nathalie Cheng, Alejandro Sosa, Meaghan Fleming and Lindsay Fletcher strike a similar chord. All of them lament—despite the well-meaning efforts of school and family—not becoming proficient bilingual speakers.

Now, as adults with children of their own, they wish a different story for their young children and other children like them.

In the vast, often complex menu of language-learning programs and methods, a dual-language program stands apart for its immersive learning experience. Most language programs aren’t designed for dual-language

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Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman was leading Democratic County Executive Laura Curran.

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mastery, but to teach English to nonnative English language learners by introducing English to them in modest increments—eventually weaning students off of their reliance on their mother tongue.

But dual-language learning programs defy both the conventional premise and piecemeal approach of language learning. The program aims for mastery of the two target languages (such as Spanish and English) by giving instruction and learning of all other subjects such as science, math or social studies in the target languages.

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Valley Stream native elected president of Nassau PBA Valley Stream native Tommy Shevlin will take the reins from James McDermott as the new acting president of the Nassau County Police Benevolent Association Jan. 1.

Shevlin, 45, a state-certified counselor, is fighting the stigma of mental health and the culture of silence surrounding trauma and mental illness among his fellow officers.

Shevlin is a counselor at the Nassau County Police Department’s Employee Assistance Office, which provides counseling and other mental health services to officers. Years back, when Shevlin was a patrolman, he found himself at the office as a client for alcohol addiction recovery.

Now, as the PBA president, he must help pull his fellow officers out of an altogether different kind of crisis. Shevlin will inherit a divided police union, whose disagreements spilled out publicly over contract negotiations last December. Dean Losquadro, second vice president under McDermott, led the opposition and shot down passage of a new PBA contract negotiated by McDermott and County Executive Laura Curran.

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Tommy Shevlin, 45, will assume the PBA presidency on Jan. 1.

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Dr. Judith LaRocca will become Valley Stream School District 13’s acting schools superintendent Jan 15.

The outgoing superintendent, Dr. Constance Evelyn, will step down after a six-year tenure Jan. 14.

LaRocca, now the district’s assistant superintendent for instruction, will oversee the learning experience of roughly 2,000 children across the district’s four elementary schools in a year vexed by constant change, uncertainty and hardship brought by a global coronavirus pandemic—with no end in sight.

LaRocca got her start in education as a middle school math teacher for the Massapequa School District in

1996. In 2003, she took on her first administrative role as a staff developer and shared data expert for the Eastern Suffolk Board of Cooperative Educational Services, during which time she earned her degree in school district administration from Stony Brook University. In 2007, she was brought on as director of curriculum, instruction and technology for the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Union Free School District, where she oversaw curriculum, testing, professional development, data management and technology infrastructure.

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Dr. Judith LaRocca.

Maribel Canestro helps seniors get vaccinated but so simple and flawless.”

Padin-Canestro said her fluency in Spanish and her familiarity with members of the Hispanic community proved useful in reaching out to members of underserved populations who needed the service. “Many of them don’t have the internet, and there wasn’t a lot of literature in their language explaining how to navigate the system on their computer,” Padin-Canestro said.

She eventually cast a wider OF net throughout Valley Stream.

Using her capacity as former PTA president of Wheeler Avenue School and member of the Valley Stream Latino Society, she enlisted the help of teachers and principals to spread the word. Soon, she became a de facto facilitator and liaison between the public and Kaminsky’s office.

“I reached out to our social worker at our school in Wheeler Ave School,” Padin-Canestro said. “She helped in facilitating information. I had her put her contacts in communication with my contacts, so it was pretty much a group effort. It’s just sharing the information.

That’s how I took care of the people I knew in the community.”

Padin-Canestro has long taken care of people. Her fondness for the elderly and the soul

of her initiative came from her late mother, Ines Padin, 82. “My mother was ill for many, many years,” said Canestro, who assumed her medical expenses and took care of her until the end of her life.

Padin-Canestro was a community-oriented woman. She would visit sick neighbors at the hospital and bring them steaming bowls of soup to help raise their spirits.

Padin-Canestro acquainted herself with many older adults in the community through her mother, who lived in a senior THE building. “She was the one that taught me about helping neighbors, advocacy and helping others,” Padin-Canestro said.

Padin-Canestro was honored July 12 by Kaminsky. “Vaccines save lives, and [they] also gave people their lives back,” the senator said, noting the significance of Padin-Canestro’s work. “People need to be commended. Trying times really show who people are, and [PadinCanestro] showed herself to be someone with a great heart who’s really a doer.”

Padin-Canestro is one of those “super-duper community moms,” Vera said. “She’s truly one of the good ones.”

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Courtesy Maribel Padin-Canestro

Padin-Canestro worked with State Sen. Todd Kaminsky and his staff to host vaccination pop-up drives and secured inoculation appointments.

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V.S. votes to opt out of retail cannabis sales The Village of Valley Stream voted on Monday to opt out of permitting adult-use cannabis dispensaries and on-site consumption lounges within the village’s jurisdiction.

During the public hearing, trustees were faced with one of two options about the referendum process that residents could use to overturn the decision: a mandatory or a permissive referendum.

In a mandatory referendum, the village would assume the cost of carrying out an election on whether to override the cannabis opt-out decision.

In a permissive referendum, residents would need to submit a petition signed by 20 percent of registered voters in the last village election

within 30 days of passage of the local law to override the board’s opt-out decision, according to state officials.

There were 26,267 registered voters as of the last village election in 2020, according to village officials, meaning that more than 5,000 signatures would need to be collected on the petition.

In the end, the opt-out vote with the permissive referendum won out in a 5-1 vote. Trustee Vincent Grasso, the lone board member who supports cannabis sales in the village, cast the dissenting.

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More than fifty residents attended the public hearing to voice their views on the cannabis optout resolution.

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There are additional cases in different hamlets, towns and villages on the Board of Appeals calendar.

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LEGAL NOTICE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF VALLEY STREAM OFFICE OF THE VILLAGE CLERK/ADMINISTRATOR 123 South Central Avenue Valley Stream New York 11580 (516) 592-5105 LEGAL NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution and the provisions of the Village Law and the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York, as amended, a Public Hearing was held on Monday the 20th day of December, 2021 at 7:00 o’clock p.m. in person and on ZOOM in the Village Hall Auditorium, 123 So. Central Avenue, Valley Stream, New York, at which time the following Local Law was adopted.

INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF VALLEY STREAM COUNTY OF NASSAU LOCAL LAW 10 -2021 A LOCAL LAW ADOPTED PURSUANT TO CANNABIS LAW §131 OPTING OUT OF LICENSING AND ESTABLISHING RETAIL CANNABIS DISPENSARIES AND ON-SITE CANNABIS CONSUMPTION ESTABLISHMENTS WITHIN THE VILLAGE OF VALLEY STREAM Section 1. Legislative Intent It is the intent of this local law to opt the Village of Valley Stream out of hosting retail cannabis dispensaries and on-site cannabis consumption establishments within its boundaries.

Section 2. Authority This local law is adopted pursuant to Cannabis Law §131, which expressly authorizes cities and villages to opt-out of allowing retail cannabis

dispensaries and on-site cannabis consumption establishments to locate and operate within their boundaries.

Section 3. Local Cannabis Retain Dispensary and On-Site Consumption Opt-Out The Board of Trustees of the Village of Valley Stream, County of Nassau, hereby opts-out of allowing retail cannabis dispensaries and on-site cannabis consumption establishments from locating and operating within the boundaries of the Village of Valley Stream.

Section 4. Severability If a court determines that any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, or part of this local law or the application thereof to any person, firm or corporation, or circumstance is invalid or unconstitutional, the court’s order or judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this local law, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, or part of this local law or in its application to the person, individual, firm or corporation or circumstance, directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment or order shall be rendered.

Section 5. Effective date This local law shall take effect immediately upon filing with the Secretary of State. Pursuant to Cannabis Law §131, this local law is subject to a permissive referendum and thus may not be filed with the Secretary of State until the applicable time period has elapsed to file a petition or a referendum has been conducted approving this local law.

The local law is on file in the Office of the Village Clerk, in the Village Hall of said Village of Valley Stream, where it may be inspected on regular business days between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

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By Order of the Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of Valley Stream JAMES J. HUNTER Village Clerk/Administrator 129003

LEGAL NOTICE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF VALLEY STREAM OFFICE OF THE VILLAGE CLERK/ADMINISTRATOR 123 South Central Avenue Valley Stream New York 11580 (516) 592-5105 LEGAL NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution and the provisions of the Village Law and the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York, as amended, a Public Hearing was held on Monday the 20th day of December, 2021 at 7:00 o’clock p.m. in person and on ZOOM in the Village Hall Auditorium, 123 So. Central Avenue, Valley Stream, New York, at which time the following Local Law was adopted: LOCAL LAW 9 - 2021 - A LOCAL LAW AMENDING THE CODE OF THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF VALLEY STREAM ENTITLED “ZONING” BY AMENDING § 99-2008 ENTITLED “SPECIAL USE PERMITS” The local law is on file in the Office of the Village Clerk, in the Village Hall of said Village of Valley Stream, where it may be inspected on regular business days between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

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Q. I just rented a retail space, and I’m planning changes with my architect. The architect says I have to “upgrade” the restroom to handicapped-accessible, which will cost at least $8,000 and maybe more, depending on whether the old pipes can be reused where they are. I don’t understand why other stores around me have original restrooms but I have to change mine. We were only moving a couple of walls and installing a new ceiling. Can you tell me if the architect is right about the change?

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A. You would think the answer is an easy one, that it would be either yes or no. Unfortunately, the answer is that the decision in these matters is discretionary, left to the plans examiner, who either strictly interprets the code and the federal and state laws based on the Americans with Disabilities Act (which was signed into law by onte eeper President George H.W. Bush in 1990), or determines that the physical upgrade of the restroom isn’t necessary. The law states that businesses with 15 or more employees must comply, but is overridden by the fact that establishments cannot discriminate against people with disabilities, patrons or employees.

I once had a meeting at which the attorney for my client was challenging my advice to our mutual client that an upgrade — a renovation — would be necessary. The attorney appropriately pointed out exactly the same argument that you’re making, that nobody else has had to upgrade, and therefore you shouldn’t have to, either. My guess is that your neighbors may have been in that location for many years, and as long as nobody brings their location up to an official, we leave well enough alone, or that the official interpreted that the upgrade wouldn’t be necessary. I’m willing to bet that your neighbors, for the most part, moved in without anyone filing anything formally, with plans and permits, so the proprietors think they have no issue to deal with.

You, on the other hand, operating honestly and legitimately, probably feel that even though you can’t discriminate against a person with a disability, you’re being unfairly discriminated against.

Although I agree that you are being unfairly judged differently than your neighbors, your architect and any licensed professional, including the attorney, swore to uphold the laws of the state they practice in. If officials choose not to investigate every location, that is the governing bodies’ choice.

Your architect is only trying to do what is right under the law.

Coincidentally, that very morning, when the attorney was making the case that others were not in compliance, there was an incident in lower Manhattan in which an attorney had his heels slashed by a homeless man on a subway platform, and was instantly debilitated. I pointed out to the attorney that that poor guy was now disabled, and that we humans are all vulnerable, by age or accident, and need to be considered. He answered, “You should have been an attorney.”

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The masthead The box at the far left side of the page is called the masthead. It contains the newspaper’s flag, or nameplate. The masthead offers important information about the paper, including the names of the staff members who are responsible for producing it each week.

Publisher Stuart Richner guides the business and news operations of the 18 newspapers in the Herald Community Newspapers group, including the Nassau Herald, which serves the Five Towns, and Heralds for Baldwin, Bellmore, East Meadow, Franklin Square-Elmont, Freeport, Glen Cove, Long Beach, Lynbrook-East Rockaway, Malverne-West Hempstead, Merrick, Oceanside-Island Park, Oyster Bay, Rockville Centre, Sea Cliff-Glen Head, Valley Stream, Wantagh and Seaford.

Each paper’s editor is responsible for the assignment, selection and placement of stories, most of which the editors and reporters write. The executive editor oversees news operations for all 18 papers in the group.

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We take this responsibility seriously. Editorial staff members sit down with candidates to question them about their views on major issues before offering the paper’s opinions about which candidates would best represent our readers.

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he Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa., set off a cascade of worldwide catastrophes over the subsequent two decades — the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and many other terrorist attacks, in multiple countries. September 2001 seems like a lifetime ago, but for those old enough to remember that terrible year, it remains a haunting memory, a fever dream that we try to lock in the backs of our brains but is ever-present.

For those of us in Nassau County that day, we could only watch in horror as grayblack smoke plumes spiraled out of the twisted, crumbled remains of the twin towers upward into an otherwise perfect azure sky. The plumes were visible from points across the county.

Shortly after the attacks, people started to gather on the beach in Lido and at the Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick — the highest point on the South Shore — to watch the billowing smoke, staring silently in stunned disbelief.

The United States homeland was under attack for the first time since World War II, and at that moment, we had no idea who the invader was, or the future suffering in distant lands that the attacks would bring.

It was all incomprehensibly terrifying.

In a front-page story in the Heralds’ Sept. 13-19 issue, “Terror at the Towers,” reported by Scott Brinton, Carrie James, Laura Lane, Jeff Lipton, Larry Maier and Cindy Roth, this is how we described the scene: “A wave of fear and despair raced across [Nassau County] Tuesday morning

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’m really scared. It’s so scary if we have something of a World War III. I’m really, really scared. roLLen CaJoLes after terrorists slammed two hijacked jetliners into the World Trade Center, sending the Twin Towers crumbling into Lower Manhattan.

“In the afternoon, surviving victims of the attack filtered into Nassau by Long Island Rail Road, like refugees from a war zone. Many, who were still shaking dusty, white debris from their clothes, were not from the area but had taken the first train they could out of the city and gotten off at the first possible stop.”

We sent our reporters to the train stations to meet the survivors of the attacks.

Sylvia Melendez, who worked in Lower Manhattan, described the chaos after the towers crashed to the ground. “The rush of clouds of debris forced everyone out into the streets,” she said. “Everyone was running away.”

Here in Nassau, people were glued to their TVs and radios, watching and listening, hoping for the best but fearing the worst. “I’ve been listening all morning,” Luisa DeGirolamo, who worked at La Margherita Pastry Shop in Bellmore Village, said. “I’m devasted. I can’t get over it.”

Rollen Cagoles, of East Meadow, said, “I’m really scared. It’s so scary if we have something of a World War III. I’m really,

really scared.”

Many parents rushed to their children’s schools to pick them up and take them home, fearful of further attacks. “A lot of people came and pulled their kids out because they didn’t want them to be in a place with a large group of people,” said Pat Brace, PTA president of Bowling Green Elementary School in East Meadow.

“They thought they would be a target.”

Nassau police doubled patrols around municipal buildings, schools, houses of worship and transportation lines. Police also diverted westbound traffic away from New York City. Motorists who had to travel major throughfares were advised to stay home.

The military closed down the airspace over Long Island, with unlighted F-16 fighter jets streaking overhead above John F. Kennedy International Airport into the night of Sept. 11 to 12.

Nearly 500 Long Islanders died in the attacks at the World Trade Center or later succumbed to 9/11-related illnesses. Each one was a life extinguished too soon. We must remember all of them — their essential goodness, their essential humanity.

In the coming days, there will be solemn ceremonies in remembrance of the dead.

Consider attending one to show your support for the victims, or stop and pause for a moment at 8:46 and 9:04 a.m. on Saturday and reflect on or say a prayer for the victims. In this way, you will help to keep their memories alive for generations to come. “Never forget” should never become a trite slogan. It should be a motto by which we live.

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The challenges on Long Island are many. Our aging infrastructure needs serious attention. As the nation’s first suburb, we are living with an antiquated system that requires an upgrade. Our increasingly overburdened roadways, bridges and tunnels are dismal.

The environmental infrastructure is failing.

Drinking water has challenges, including the quality and quantity. Surface water contamination is rampant from nitrogen and other pollutants entering our creeks, bays, harbors and the Long Island Sound. Our air is polluted with toxins too small to see with the naked eye. We are vulnerable to sea level rise, climate change and the inevitable next big storm. The fact is, we aren’t ready.

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Among our regular contributors are the Heralds’ executive editor, Scott Brinton, and the Nassau Herald’s former executive editor, Randi Kreiss, both of whom have won numerous awards for their opinion writing. We also feature columns by prominent political figures, including former State Assemblyman Jerry Kremer, who is now a consultant. And we regularly invite guest columnists to offer their views.

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hen talking with my grandkids about returning to school this fall — to the building, with other kids, not the dining room table — I was reminded of a school day of my own years ago.

“Bobby.” I heard my name called on the second-floor landing of A. B. Davis High School in Mount Vernon, N.Y. The caller was Mr. Leone, Joseph Leone, my biology teacher and college adviser. “Why haven’t you signed up for ALAn the SATs?” he asked. sinGer Neither of my parents had attended college, my mother had died eight years earlier, and my father, a vacuum cleaner salesman, had his hands full with two active kids. When I think about the controversies surrounding school openings this fall, I think, too, of the critical role of teachers in the lives of their students.

That certainly was the case for me.

Mr. Leone wasn’t alone in affecting my life for the better. I was going to drop out of college after my first year not only because of the cost, but also because I

questioned why I was there. I entered to be a minister, but had become disillusioned with organized religion. My college adviser, Mildred Martin, helped me sort through the financial and philosophical questions and urged me to appeal my financial aid award, and I continued as her student.

Other teachers stand out as well. Miss Calabrese and Miss King, in elementary school, “Pop” Phillips in high school, Mark Ebersole in college, and Kay Moore and Robin Williams in graduate school.

The past year of living and learning with Covid in our path and in our shadows revealed the inequalities of access to teachers like the ones I’ve known. When teachers are diverted from their main responsibilities, teaching and advising, they can’t fulfill their roles to the fullest. It is especially difficult for them to be effective when students lack access to broadband and Wi-Fi, a quiet place to study, and supportive adults to help them with difficult assignments.

A distinguished psychologist once said that we human beings are the “teaching species.” All species must learn enough to leave the nest, but humans turned teaching into a “calling,” a vocation dedicated to preparing the next generation

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was going to drop out of college after my first year. I questioned why I was there.

Letters looming issues need real solutions, not lip service. We need to address the Island’s solid-waste crisis, illegal dumping and the associated increases in disposal costs.

Hochul hasn’t been handed the reins of the state at our finest hour. New Yorkers suffer with an unsustainable tax burden that’s accelerating the exodus of high-net-worth people, employers and job creators. The growing disparity in income and wealth, an increasing immigrant population and the associated educational and health care challenges are monumental. And our young workforce and empty-nesters are leaving because of a lack of affordable housing.

Leaders in the past have forsaken us in favor of book deals, their own selfish agendas and their next election. Indeed, some are in prison for their bad behavior, but the reality is, the good people of New York have been sold out, and that’s why we require Hochul’s earnest leadership.

We have hope in her vision, fortitude and ability to make the really tough decisions. We’re counting on her. Most important, please know that we are here for you, governor. Long Island and the state of New York have immense resources, none greater than their residents.

There will be vocal naysayers who attempt to stop Hochul from addressing these vexing challenges. There are people who talk a lot, and there are people who get stuff done. To Hochul, I say this:

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Letters to the editor

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Cuomo should be impeached To the Editor: Re Robert Rosenberg’s column “History repeats itself in Albany — again and again” (Aug. 26-Sept. 1): I agree with Rosenberg’s opinions, and would add that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo would indeed get the last hurrah and make “the State Legislature and state government look like a ship of fools” if it gave him a free pass on the nursing home deaths scandal and his subsequent cooking of the books to make it appear less egregious than he would have had us believe. Interestingly, Gov. Kathy Hochul revealed immediately that these deaths were undercounted by some 12,000.

By ordering nursing homes to accept Covid-19 patients, Cuomo, threatening owners with penalty if they did not comply, exposed many more confined elderly to the virus, potentially causing their deaths. With all due respect, I consider manslaughter to be an even more serious

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to the nation. They believed that education should be public; is critical to democracy because it prepares an informed citizenry, able to ask questions; is important because it prevents aristocracy and promotes meritocracy; should be free from religion and ideology; should be equal and equally available to all citizens; and is a public investment that is worth the cost.

While the ideals of the Founders foundered on the compromises made to create a republic, they nevertheless created within the Constitution the mechanisms for correcting early mistakes and providing the means for continuing the pursuit of a “more perfect union,” which we have shown the ability to do.

As we help our kids and grandkids, or relatives or neighbors’ kids, prepare for a new school year, let us acknowledge the noble profession of teaching, perhaps by remembering our own teachers, and do what we can to fulfill the Founders’ aspirations for true equality of education in America.

Please be the latter. Be bold. We heard you say you’d “fight like hell for New York,” and that’s exactly what Long Island needs.

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with knowledge, skills and values. As a result, teachers have a moral, social, civic and historical responsibility for not only educating each new generation but also, in this way, creating the future.

We must remember the vocation, the calling, of teaching. As the historian Jacques Barzun said, “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

At the beginning of our nation, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson stated that public education was at the heart of democracy.

“The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it,” Adams wrote. “There should not be a district of one mile square without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.”

Jefferson expressed similar sentiments. It is unfortunate, therefore, that some local school boards see teachers simply as employees, instead of as those who inspire discovery and awaken students’ imaginations, as Mark Van Doren and Robert Frost said.

But while the Founders argued that schooling was a local responsibility, they were adamant about the public benefits

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crime than the sexual harassment charges that forced Cuomo’s resignation.

Given the present state of affairs, it is now the State Legislature (and, ultimately, the State Senate) that is on trial, and it remains to be seen whether playing politics will take precedence over what must be done in the name of justice. How can

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anyone trust Cuomo now? He contends that he will not seek future political office, but only impeachment would close the book on that possibility, definitively and conclusively.

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