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Friday, March 24, 2017
Vol. 66, No. 12
HOME, LAWN AND GARDEN
E.W. ED BOARD BACKS COUNTY DEMS ROSLYN RD. LIGHT BLAST TRUMPCARE
PAGES 35-46
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W.P. trustees raise age to buy tobacco
LOOKING FOR LEPRECHAUNS
Join Town of North Hempstead in prohibiting sale to those under 21 BY N O A H M A N S K A R Teens now have to wait as long to legally smoke as they do to drink in Williston Park. The village Board of Trustees unanimously voted Monday to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco to 21 from 19, making it the ďŹ rst Nassau County village to implement such a measure. “It’s advantageous for all of us to try and contain smoking at a young age,â€? village Trustee Teresa Thomann said. The village’s law is “very similarâ€? to the Town of North Hempstead’s ordinance raising the tobacco purchase age in its unincorporated areas, which took eect March 1, village Attorney James Bradley said. It prohibits vendors within the village limits from selling tobacco and electronic cigarettes, which produce a vapor that sometimes contains nicotine, to anyone younger than 21, Bradley said. The law will take eect once
it’s ďŹ led with the state Secretary of State’s oďŹƒce, which should happen within the next two weeks, Bradley said. A village code enforcement oďŹƒcer can issue violations to any shops caught selling to younger customers, Bradley said. They’d then be hit with a civil penalty in the village Justice Court under the state’s Public Health Law. The health law allows for ďŹ nes up to $1,000 for the ďŹ rst violation and up to $1,500 for each subsequent violation. The village statute also has references to the health risks smoking poses to young people, Bradley said. Municipalities have recently approved so-called “Tobacco 21â€? laws to make it harder for minors to get cigarettes. Suolk County and New York City have them in place, but the smoking age in other parts of Nassau County is 19. North Hempstead oďŹƒcials have cited research from the Public Health
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PHOTO COURTESY OF MS. CASTELLO ON TWITTER
Pre-kindergarten students at the Mineola school district’s Meadow Drive School in Albertson build “leprechaun traps� on St. Patrick’s Day.
Carr’s election do-over succeeds in Williston Park and he’s going to make it oďŹƒcial as soon as possible. Carr went to confer with his fellow trustees at the vilBilly Carr won his unopposed bid Tuesday to ďŹ nish his lage’s reorganization meeting last April while other oďŹƒcials term as a Village of Williston signed the village oath book to Park trustee with 82 votes — accept their positions, he said.
BY N O A H MANSKAR
But Carr forgot to sign the book later, he said, meaning he technically lost his seat after 30 days. Mayor Paul Ehrbar then appointed him to serve until Tuesday’s election. Continued on Page 64
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