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Vol. 85 No. 35
AUGUST 27 - SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
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District preps for reopening Principals outline daily routine for Freeport Public Schools together. School will begin and end at the same time as before the panTo prepare for the start of the demic. school year, the Freeport School Before leaving for school, stuDistrict held a series of bilingual dents and parents are encourpresentations and aged to follow a selfpublic meetings last h e a l t h ch e ck t o week, outlining avoid coming to what parents and school with Covid-19 students can expect symptoms. when schools reopen Students must on Sept. 4. wear facemasks. When the district Once students rolls out its hybridar rive at school, learning model — they will enter which will have half through one of sevthe students in every eral points, where school attend in-pertheir temperatures son classes on alterwill be checked. nating days while The students will the other half engaghead to their classJoSEPh MIllE es in remote, online rooms, which have learning — all stu- Principal, been spaced out, and dents will attend the Freeport High they must remain in first day of school, a School those rooms, except Friday, remotely. wh e n t h e y h ave F ree por t High music, art or other School Principal Joseph Mille specials. Most classrooms will explained that students were only fit around 15 students. split into one of two groups, “We want to limit students’ which can be found on a stu- movements, so they will stay in dent’s schedule. The district the assigned classrooms, and it’ll divided students by their last be the teachers who will rotate names, with A-L comprising rooms,” said Johane Ligonde, Cohort/Team 1, and L-Z, Cohort/ principal of J.W. Dodd Middle Team 2. In this way, siblings will attend school and take the bus Continued on page 3
By RoNNY REYES rreyes@liherald.com
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Cleaning up our village More than a dozen volunteers took part in the South Shore Child Guidance Center’s annual “Summer Clean Up” event at Cow Meadow Park on Aug. 6.
Exercising at a distance Local gyms begin reopening By RoNNY REYES rreyes@liherald.com
Freeport gym operators were excited to be back in business, a week after Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that gyms in the state could begin reopening on Monday. Facilities were allowed to reopen at 33 percent of capacity, with face coverings required at all times and ventilation that meets state guidelines.
Devon Church, manager of Freeport’s Retro Fitness, on Sunrise Highway, which reopened on Wednesday, said he was glad gyms could finally do so, even if at limited capacity. Retro Fitness has spaced out its equipment and workout stations to accommodate the new regulations and help customers socially distance. Church said he had hoped the coronavirus shutdown wouldn’t last long, but given how quickly the virus spread, he accepted
Retro Fitness’s prolonged closure. “It would’ve been easy for it to spread in a place where everyone’s working up a sweat, so I understand why we had to stay shut for as long as we did,” he said. “But we’re back now, and the need is greater than ever for people to work out and start exercising again.” He added that while it may not be ideal to work out with a Continued on page 4
will not compromise or jeopardize the health and safety of our students and staff.