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Friday, April 23, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 17
LIVING 50 PLUS
3 INJURED IN OLD NORTHERN COLLISION
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Gerber enters Roslyn school board race
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Will vie against incumbents Levine, Seinfeld, Dubner for three seats BY R O S E WELDON AND ROBERT PELAEZ Three of the four school districts serving the Roslyn area have new faces seeking board of education seats in the elections on Tuesday, May 18. ROSLYN Four candidates, three of them incumbents, will compete for three seats on the Roslyn Board of Education. Incumbent Trustees David Seinfeld, David Dubner and Michael Levine are up for re-election, and resident Ronald Gerber submitted a challenger petition. Seinfeld, one of the board’s longest-serving trustees and a veteran in educational services, was first elected in 2006. Dubner, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, was appointed to the Board of Education in 2013 following the resignation of Dani Kline and was elected to fill the remainder
of her term, and has since been re-elected once. Attorney Levine was elected in 2018 after former Trustee Adam Haber chose not to run for another term. Gerber, a newcomer to the school board race, is the founder and CEO of security software company AngelBeat. The vote will take place at Roslyn High School from 7 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. NORTH SHORE SCHOOLS School board Vice President Timothy Madden and Trustee Lisa Vizza have not filed petitions for re-election, and four candidates are competing to become the newest additions to the North Shore school district’s Board of Education. Lisa Colacioppo, who previously served on the district’s Social-Emotional Learning Action Planning Committee; Maria Mosca, a parent active in the district who has given lessons on weather Continued on Page 38
PHOTO BY ROSE WELDON
Max Miller with his Miller Thyme camper, painted with a Dr. Seuss theme. Miller, of Roslyn, had worked with his father, David, to overhaul the camper in six months, and is scheduled to spend the summer hauling it across the Southwest before reaching Los Angeles for his junior year at Chapman University. See story on page 2.
Chou of Roslyn named National Merit scholar BY R OB E RT PELAEZ
Chou, who is undecided on his career path, was one of five Roslyn seniors to advance Roslyn High School senior to the semifinal round of the Ryan Chou was named a Na- competition. Chou will receive tional Merit Scholarship win- money to use towards collegiate studies from the National ner on Wednesday.
Merit Automatic Data Processing Inc. Henry Taub Memorial Scholarship. Award money can range from annual stipends of $1,000 to $10,000 or single payments from $2,500 to Continued on Page 37
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