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Friday, August 29, 2025
Vol. 85, No. 35
Superintendent outlines summer project bond work
GRAND OPENING
BY RIKKI MASSAND
Hempstead Town Clerk Kate Murray attended the grand opening of KMF Fitness Club, located on Hempstead Turnpike in Levittown. Also attending were Nassau County Legislator Tom McKevitt and New York State Senator Steve Rhoads.
Town plans 9/11 ceremony at TOBAY Beach
The Town of Oyster Bay will be holding its Annual September 11th Memorial Ceremony on for Monday, September 8, at 7:00 p.m. at TOBAY Beach. “This year marks the 24th anniversary of the trag-
ic events of September 11th, 2001, and to honor those we have lost we invite all residents to join us at our annual September 11th Memorial Ceremony. This remembrance ceremony features music, religious readings, a
light tribute, and a reading of the names inscribed on the Town’s 9/11 wall,” said Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino. “We will also unveil new names inscribed on both the Town’s SepSee page 8
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The summer of 2025 may be remembered as the calm before the storm, with a major wave of Syosset Schools’ capital projects planned for summer 2026. The bulk of improvements—approved in the October 2024 bond referendum to address the district’s aging infrastructure—will begin at the end of the upcoming school year. At the August 25 Syosset CSD Board of Education meeting, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Thomas Rogers presented an update on work completed across the district’s ten school buildings during the past two months. His report included a chart tracking progress and completion of ongoing and upcoming projects, offering the community and board members a clear view of what’s ahead. “Last fall the public voted for facilities improvements, both to deal with some of the problems with our aging facilities and also to accommodate a lot of growth that we’ve experienced and that we anticipate will make Syosset High School a very challenging place in the next several years,” Dr. Rogers explained.
Completed Summer Work
The first Facilities Bond project wrapped up at South Grove Elementary School, where a long-discussed school bus loop was finished. “Until now we had a situation
where both the families in cars and school buses released students for arrival and dismissal in the same location. We had a situation where students were walking from exiting cars in front of the buses to get into the building. Obviously this was a safety risk, so by creating the separate loop we’ll have a place for buses to drop off students and a separate area for cars dropping off/picking up students. It allows our security team to manage that with a lot more safety in mind for students,” the superintendent said. At Walt Whitman Elementary School, an emergency resolution approved in July expedited electrical repairs after the feeder line from the street failed. Repairs were completed by mid-August. “The work has held up over the week and a half since, and we’ve not had any interruptions to power so I am very confident about this repair and that it will be ready for the start of school (September 2nd).” Roofing projects continued at Syosset High School and South Woods Middle School. “With these projects at schools every summer we take sections of the roofs and we chip away trying to get more and more done. That work is not quite done yet at either school, but it will be by next week when school starts. We also had a need for additional reinforceSee page 8
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