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Friday, January 19, 2024
Vol. 73, No. 3
HOME & DESIGN
TRUMP JUDGE SWATTED AT GREAT NECK HOME
PILIP OFFERS OWN 10-POINT PLAN
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Star of Mineola soccer dies Dolores Jose shined on, off field BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing and learning to do.” Those are the words of Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known by his nickname, Pelé, the late Brazilian national soccer team winger who won three world cups. They are also written at the end of the obituary for Dolores Jose, a lifetime Mineola resident and active member of the Mineola Athletic Association for over 40 years, who died earlier this month at the age of 73 due to an undisclosed illness. To say soccer was a big part of Jose and her family’s life would be an understatement. “Sundays at the Jose household was everybody running in 15 different directions to different soccer games,” Jose’s daughter, Ann Maria Bria, said in an interview with Blank Slate Media. “It was probably our top priority. We missed baptisms, birthday parties and sometimes weddings if we had soccer games.” Jose was born on March 5, 1950, to Portuguese immigrants Irene and John Pereira–a founding member of the Mineola Portuguese Soccer Club and a Long Island Soccer Football League Hall of Fame member. Continued on Page 39
PHOTOS COURTESY OF MINEOLA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Mineola High School students Samantha Stewart, left, and Luigi Sartori, right, were named were named semifinalists in the 2024 Regeneron Science Talent Search.
4 Herricks, 2 Mineola students in semis Among 24 N. Shore students to make cut for Regeneron talent search BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y Two dozen high school seniors across North Shore public school districts were named semifinalists in the 2024 Regeneron Science Talent Search–the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors.
Leading the way was William A. Shine Great Neck South High School with seven students and Paul D. Schreiber High School in Port Washington with five students. Long Island in total has 50 semifinalists, the most of any region in the country. From the crop of 300 semifinalists, 40 students will be se-
lected as finalists, who are scheduled to be announced Jan. 24. Finalists will show their work to the public, meet with prestigious leaders in the science community in Washington, D.C., and compete for a variety of awards headlined by the $250,000 top prize in March. The competition, formerly spon-
sored by Westinghouse and then Intel before its current sponsor, pharmaceutical company Regeneron, is run each year by the Society for Science and the Public, with the goal of finding solutions to the world’s challenges from budding young scientists. Continued on Page 38
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