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Village Hall visits inspire a photo project share. The idea for the photographic project grew organically Karen Zang, a lifelong Valley soon after Zang began working Stream resident and part-time in the building. While performVillage Hall employee, has cre- ing her duties in the clerk’s ated a distinctive photographic office, she regularly saw people she knew coming project that capthrough the doors tured the everyday for various routine faces of local people tasks — whether conducting their p ay i n g p r o p e r t y v i l l a g e bu s i n e s s taxes, applying for throughout 2025. permits or obtainAfter retiring in ing parking per2020 following an m i t s. O f t e n , s h e 18-year career as would photograph executive assistant them and share the to the provost at shots with her husAdelphi University, band, Mike Stanko, Zang took a parta well-known local time position at Valartist and commuley Stream’s Village nity figure. Hall in 2022, a role “I would say to that reconnected Michael, ‘Guess her with the comwho I saw?’” Zang munity she has said. “Or somebody known all her life. KAREN ZANG would come in and Z a n g ’s f a m i l y Employee, I’d say, ‘Let me take has lived in Valley Village Hall your picture so I Stream for 100 can tell Michael years, making her ties to the village deeply rooted. that I ran into you.’ And every Villa g e Hall itself, which day, I come home for lunch, and opened nearly 70 years ago, Michael’s like, ‘Who do you see today?’ So it kind of started coincides with the year of Zang’s birth, symbolizing the like that.” Zang first assembled a similongstanding relationship her family and the community Continued on page 10
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John Fasulo and his son, Johnny, after a deer harvest during the state hunting season. John taught his son how to hunt, emphasizing safety and conservation practices.
North student donates deer harvest to upstate community By ANGELINA ZINGARIELLO azingariello@liherald.com
Johnny Fasulo — a Valley Stream North High School sophomore with deep family ties to the outdoors — marked New York’s recent hunting season not only with a successful harvest, but also with an act of kindness that extended beyond Long Island. Fasulo harvested two deer during the most recent hunting season. One was donated to the upstate town of Gilboa, where it was processed and distributed to help provide food to residents in need during the winter months. The donation was coordinated through Samuel Nash, owner of the Colonial Motel in Grand Gorge, a longtime family friend who helped butcher and distribute the meat throughout the community.
Fasulo’s connection to hunting began early in life. He spent time in the woods with his father, John, from a very young age, accompanying him long before he was old enough to hunt on his own. By the time he was around age 7, he was regularly observing hunts and learning about wildlife and outdoor practices. He officially began hunting at age 12, when the state’s youth hunting season allows young hunters to participate under specific regulations. “I just fell in love with the woods from when I was first able to go into them,” Fasulo said. “Even before hunting, I just loved the woods. I loved being out there and watching the animals and stuff. That’s what made me fall in love with hunting.” Since that time, Fasulo has consistently hunted within the state’s guidelines and conContinued on page 8
he irony is that most people don’t think that going into a government office is going to be fun, and that’s the whole point of this.