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BELLS RING FOR CHARITY
BY RIKKI MASSAND
Members of the Mineola - Garden City Rotary Club, along with scouts from Troop 243 collected donations for the Salvation Army at King’s Market on December 3rd. See page 46.
Middle School students give views to school board members BY KASSARA MCELROY The third iteration of a student-led Board of Education Q&A session took place during the board’s December 6th work session, this time featuring a group from the Garden City Middle School. Among the community, students discussed what their transition into the new school
was like, ways to make it easier for future students, their dreams, building safety and more. President Joseph Sileo began by asking the group their “favorite thing about middle school?” The extra movement that comes with changing classes along with more opportunities to join clubs and collaborate were top
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of mind reasoning for many of these students. Others added that they enjoy the freedom of choice that electives introduce, newfound privacy that personal lockers create and attentiveness of their teachers the best. What do students want to see change at school? They’d like an extra minute added See page 54
Plans are now set for Village Hall to have its exterior refresh completed, with change orders approved at the Board of Trustees’ meeting on Thursday December 1. The building work will include cleaning and restoration work. Village Administrator Ralph Suozzi explained to the board that Garden City’s Village Hall will be getting a “fresh look” with stones matching the exterior brick repointing. The original exterior brick repointing project for Garden City’s Village Hall at 351 Stewart Avenue, home to municipal offices as well as police and fire
headquarters, was budgeted and approved as a $1.515 million capital project. The masonry facade restoration work will include a change order, submitted to the village by Cornerstone Restoration Group Corp. of Yonkers, including $18,000 (change order No. 4) to clean decorative stone around Village Hall window exteriors with a chemical-free product. Superintendent Giovanniello said the trees’ spreading debris and leaves, as well as the weather hitting the stones through the years has left some masonry black and grimy so the choice to wash the parts of the building to See page 39
Updates on building projects, traffic, trees BY RIKKI MASSAND At the Village Board of Trustees’ meeting held on December 1, Garden City Superintendent of Building Giuseppe Giovanniello brought up several of the larger construction and development projects going on in the village. Giovanniello began with a note on the anticipated completion date of the apartment complex at 555 Stewart Avenue, Florent,
which should be fully built by July 2023. “They are progressing well as far as finalizing that building. It’s been continuing over a few years and hopefully they are approaching the finish line,” he said. Trustee Lawrence Marciano said the height of 555 Stewart Avenue appears to keep increasing every time he’s driven by it recently. He asked Giovanniello See page 30
Bedtime for the bees at the Cathedral PAGE 3 Teens collect sneakers for the needy PAGE 6