_______________ east meadow ______________
Let’s Rewrite the Story.
HERALD Man found dead in county jail
X REDUCTION PROPERTY TA THE LEADER IN
Apply online at aldnote mptrg.com/her 266 5.1 71 or call 516. Reduction um Property Tax
Maidenba
Page 4
l Hablamos Españo
Group, LLC
Vol. 25 No. 39 SEPT. 25 - oCT. 1, 2025
$1.00 $1.00
P: (516) 222-2242 M: (516) 779-1888
131 129157 0986 7
Overpaying on Taxes?
Board of Ed. kicks off new school year tion from one of our board members at any big event in our district.” The East Meadow Board of The board, Ricco-Simeone Education held its first meeting said, is committed to “continuduring the 2025-26 school year, ous improvement.” highlighting updates on board “We will continue to focus members’ activities, remarks on academic excellence,” she from the superintendent, and a said. “Our goal is to pursue presentation of the district’s meaningful improvements that successes. enhance the learnJe s s i c a R i c c o i n g a n d ove r a l l Simeone, president growth and school of the board of eduexperience for cation, opened the every student. I am meeting encouragexcited about what ing families, staff, we can accomplish and community together.” members to take an DAViD SPiNNATo Each board active role in the member introduced Assistant East Meadow themselves at the superintendent school community meeting and shared — whether by vol- Curriculum, updates from recent unteering, attend- instruction school events or ing events, or sharmeetings they ing ideas and solutions. She attended. added that board members are Kenneth Rosner, the distrying to be more present at t r i c t ’s s u p e r i n t e n d e n t o f school events, particularly in schools, addressed community buildings that may not always concerns he was been made receive frequent visits. aware of. “Each board member has Recently, Rosner said he taken on the responsibility of received calls from community choosing a school to focus on members about the scheduling and update us all on their cal- of district events on Sept. 11. In endar of events,” she said at the past, events have been the Sept. 17 meeting at the planned on Sept. 11, whether it Salisbury School. “We ware be board meetings, PTA meetplanning to have representaContinued on page 16
By JoRDAN VAlloNE
jvallone@liherald.com
Tim Baker/Herald
Closing out the season with a ‘splash’ It’s officially fall, but in Eisenhower Park, dogs — and their owners — got one last chance to soak up the summer sun. The splash pad was open to pups earlier this month, letting Nassau County’s furry friends enjoy one last run through the sprinklers before it closed for the season. More photos, Page 3.
From bank to brew: Starbucks eyed for Newbridge Road lot By JoRDAN VAlloNE jvallone@liherald.com
Plans to open a new Starbucks at the site of a former bank, at 651 Newbridge Road, were unveiled during a meeting of the Council of East Meadow Community Organizations on Sept. 17. Under the proposal, the existing building on an acre-sized lot between Hysler and Poppy streets would be repurposed. The property’s owner, Adam Mann of AJM Real Estate, and Bill Bonesso, a land use attorney with Forchelli Deegan Terrana LLP, outlined the proposal for the community at the meeting, held at the East Meadow Public Library.
Bonesso discussed the site’s layout, proposed changes and variances the Town of Hempstead Board of Zoning Appeals needed to approve. “The project reuses the existing former bank building, which was a bank with a drive-thru, and introduces the Starbucks to it,” Bonesso said, addressing dozens of residents in the library’s auditorium. “We’ve made some modifications to the site, which we feel will be improvements and will make this operate very efficiently.” The property has one curb cut on Poppy Street and two curb cuts on Hysler Street — both of which are residential blocks. The proposal would close the existing curb cuts and restrict Continued on page 10
W
e always educate the whole child.