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Vol. 20 No. 32
AUGUST 6 - 12, 2020
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EMCC to host reopening fest Aug. 15 event to include business showcase, drive-in movie and Jim Skinner, owner of A&C Pest Management, are co-chairing the committee, which also As East Meadow enters the includes Skinner’s son James, sixth month of the coronavirus also of A&C, and Richie Krug Jr. pandemic, many businesses are and Tom and Lyndsey Gallagher, reopening or offering their ser- all of Century 21 American vices in new ways to Homes. a b i d e b y G o v. The committee’s Andrew Cuomo’s goal is to help busisocial-distancing nesses reopen or guidelines. offer their services To celebrate that in any possible way, progress, the East and generate exciteMeadow Chamber ment among East of Commerce is Meadow residents offering residents about patronizing and business owners such businesses. a chance to mingle To encourage resat a “reopening festi- TEd RoSENThAl idents to do so, the val” on Aug. 15 at the Co-chair, organization will East Meadow basealso give out $5,000 East Meadow ball fields on Merin cash rewards. Chamber of rick Avenue. Anyone who patron“It’s time for us to Commerce Reopening izes member busiget out of our dol- Committee nesses will receive drums and into what five points for every is the new normal,” $20 they spend, and said Ted Rosenthal, co-chair of a points can be redeemed for a chamber committee dedicated to chance to win up to $600. post-pandemic efforts. “Everyone on the committee is “We keep saying what we can’t working vigorously and selflessly do because of the pandemic,” to help guide our businesses,” Rosenthal said. “But the reality is Rosenthal said. “It’s truly an that we have to find a way to do honor to be a part of the chamber what we can.” and all that they do.” Rosenthal, founder of the law firm Rosenthal, Curry & Kranz, Continued on page 3
By BRIAN STIEGlITZ bstieglitz@liherald.com
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Courtesy Steve Tsivikas
In the wake of Isaias East Meadow saw the effects of Tropical Storm Isaias as it slammed into the East Coast starting Tuesday, uprooting a number of trees in its wake and leaving many residents without power. Above, a tree was torn from the sidewalk on Clearmeadow Drive.
Inmate slashes officer at N.C. jail Union president, sheriff at odds over altercation By BRIAN STIEGlITZ bstieglitz@liherald.com
An officer at the Nassau County Correctional Center sustained a several-inch-long gash in his neck during an altercation with an inmate, according to officials at the East Meadow jail. T he inmate, who is an alleged member of the Bloods gang, was being held in the jail’s mental housing unit. He was in
a common area when he became “disruptive,” and an officer responded to escort him back to his cell, Sheriff James Dzurenda said. When they got back to his cell, the inmate pulled the officer inside and began attacking him. Three other inmates joined in, punching and kicking the officer and another officer who responded to the violence. The inmate who started the fray then slashed the first offi-
cer’s neck with what appeared to be the metal nametag from his uniform, according to Brian Sullivan, president of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association. After the incident, Dzurenda said, staff “fully secured” the housing area and searched the inmates and cells for weapons or other contraband and found none. The four inmates involved Continued on page 3
t’s time for us to get out of our doldrums and into what is the new normal.