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Friday, September 20, 2024
Vol. 84, No. 38
SERVING PLAINVIEW, HICKSVILLE, AND LEVITTOWN
OYSTER FESTIVAL TO RETURN
The East Coast’s largest waterfront festival will return this fall to the streets of Oyster Bay. Supervisor Joseph Saladino, his colleagues on the Town Board and organizers and sponsors of the 41st Oyster Festival announced the return of the iconic seaside festival this October 19th and 20th. Supervisor Saladino, together with Councilwoman Michele Johnson, Councilwoman Vicki Walsh, Town Clerk Rich LaMarca and Receiver Jeff Pravato; Oyster Festival partner the Oyster Bay-East Norwich Chamber of Commerce President Ryan Schlotter and Las Vegas Sands Senior Vice President Tracey Edwards made the announcement along the waterfront at Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park.
A piece of Hicksville history returns home More than 60 years after Hicksville Volunteer Fire Department’s fire engine was decommissioned, the vintage truck has returned home. In August, the Hicksville Fire Department was made aware of the once in a lifetime opportunity to bring the antique apparatus back to Hicksville. This unit that once proudly served the Hicksville community was thought to be lost to the salvage yard, but it has now been resurrected. The fire truck, a 1948 Seagrave Pumper, recently returned home thanks to Cross Island Towing, and the members of Emergency Company 5 are working on a plan to restore it. Company Historian and former Chief Karl Schweitzer, was excited at the prospect that the department can restore this historical apparatus. According to Schweitzer, this truck responded at a critical point in the growth of the Hicksville Community. In December of 1947, the Hicksville Fire Department approved the construcSee page 11
Rain Garden volunteers needed
The Town of Oyster Bay is seeking volunteers to help plant and maintain the Town of Oyster Bay’s Rain Gardens, which are a critical element of the Town’s pollution prevention strategy. During the Rain Garden Work Party scheduled for Saturday,
September 28, volunteers are needed to assist with weeding, raking, pruning, mulching, and transplanting existing rain gardens, while learning about the environmental benefits these structures offer. The event will be held from 9am to 12pm at the
Western Waterfront in Oyster Bay. “A rain garden is a collection of native plants placed in a small depression to temporarily hold rain water runoff from roofs, driveways, patios, or See page 10
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The 1948 Seagrove Pumper has returned home more than 60 years after it was decommissioned.
Levittown goes red, white and blue PAGE 8 Gregory Museum's Old Time Social PAGE 12