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high school fixes central to herricks plan Cafeteria, stadium and science lab revamp proposed at meet By N o a h M a N s k a r Herricks High School’s cafeteria, football stadium and a science lab would get makeovers in a $29.5 million package of building projects the district is pitching to residents. The plan also includes a brandnew fitness center at the 58-yearold school, along with smaller fixes across the district’s seven buildings, the assistant superintendent for business, Lisa Rutkoske, said at Thursday’s school board meeting. Residents would have to approve a $24.5 million bond in December to fund the plan, pared down from $80 million worth of work identified in a survey of the district’s buildings last year, Rutkoske said. The rest would be covered by $5 million in spending from the district’s capital reserve fund, which voters must also approve, she said. “This is not just a one-time initiative,” Rutkoske said. “It is a journey that I know you guys started last year, and it will continue for
many years to come.” Some 61 percent of the package is “health and safety” upgrades, including new asphalt and sidewalks, new interior doors, renovations to select bathrooms, ventilation improvements, and electrical and plumbing fixes, at Herricks’ seven buildings — the high school, middle school, three elementary schools, Herricks Community Center and the Shelter Rock Academy. The high school would get 51 percent of all the work, with about 39 percent accounting for the “modernization upgrades” there, Rutkoske said. That building needs updates the most because of its age and the fact that all students end up using it, she said. The school’s grass football field would be replaced with a new synthetic turf field on which multiple teams could practice at once, Rutkoske said. New bleachers, bathrooms and lights for the field’s running track would also be built, and electrical infrastructure for Continued on Page 57
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Paralympic rower Jaclyn Smith of williston Park could be racing for a gold medal in rio de Janeiro on Sunday, the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Paralympics thrill mixes with memories of 9/11 By N o a h MaNskar
Just out of the hospital and recovering from a kidney infection, Smith, then 8, watched the Jaclyn Smith watched the tragedy unfold with her father, second plane crash into the World Jim, in their Williston Park home Trade Center just after she woke before he and her mother, Annmarie, then New York City police up on Sept. 11, 2001.
officers, were called in to help, she said. “That was the first time I ever saw my dad cry,” said Jaclyn Smith, now 23. “That was a big thing for me because him being a Continued on Page 57
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