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Friday, September 14, 2018
Vol. 6, No. 37
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GUIDE TO STREET FAIRS
KROPLICK TO LEAD STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY INVESTIGATING DIOCESES
PAGES 35-62
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Outrage over lot approved 20 years ago
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BACK AND BUSY
Islamic Center plans to construct parking lot on Shelter Rock Road BY R E B ECC A K L A R An application approved by the Town of North Hempstead 20 years ago is causing outrage among residents in the Searingtown area. Residents filled the Town Board room last Thursday to speak out against a parking lot said to fit 77 cars being constructed for an Islamic center set to be built on the corner of Shelter Rock Road and I.U. Willets Road. Supervisor Judi Bosworth said in a statement after the meeting that leaders of the Shelter Rock Islamic Center have made it known that they are in contract to acquire the 2 Shelter Rock Road property. The Islamic center is currently located in Mineola. Officials from the Islamic center did not wish to comment on the potential relocation. Residents questioned why they were never informed about the project and why there was no public hearing on the proposal.
Town officials said there was a public hearing – 20 years ago when it was first approved for the North Hills Synagogue, but never acted upon At the time, it was well attended, according to Michael Levine, the town planning commissioner. The building was once home to the Boy Scouts and later the synagogue. As the 1998 plans have not been changed, the approval stands two decades later. The thin, one-way street will be “strangled with traffic” based on the proposal, Peter Heller, a Roslyn resident, said. “Speaking from myself, it is a disgrace,” Heller said. Heller, along with a handful of other residents who spoke, said he had been living in the area for more than 40 years and never received notice, not even at the time of the 1998 decision. Many who didn’t come up to Continued on Page 81
PHOTO COURTESY OF HERRICKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Searingtown School students begin a new year of learning. See story on page 71.
Patronage, lofty salaries at county election board B Y R E B E C C A K L A R stead town supervisor upon Nassau County Executive LauNearly two months after his shocking loss to a Democrat, and just two days shy of the end of his term, Anthony Santino resigned as Hemp-
his appointment to the Nassau County Board of Elections. Democrat Robert Troiano, a former senior policy adviser to North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth and
ra Curran’s pick for traffic and parking violations commissioner, was appointed to a position at the Board of Elections after it was discovered that he had Continued on Page 80
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