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Vol. 27 No. 32
AUGUST 6 - 12, 2020
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Lynbrook school revamp on track Melissa Burak and vice principals Mathew Sarosy and Salvatore Brescia, to hear construcIn the four months since offi- tion updates and a projected cials broke ground on Lynbrook completion date. High School’s renovation, much “Work inside the curprogress has been made. The rent building is designed to be project has been in completed by Septhe works for neartember, so we can ly t h re e ye a r s, operate normally beginning with the with the start of community’s the school year,” approval in OctoRainis said. “The ber 2017 of a $28.9 skeleton of the new million bond to building will begin fund it. to take shape and When complete, will continue to be the project will constructed include a two-story t h ro u g h o u t t h e extension from the school year.” front entrance to As of press the fields. A school time, the footings store, three music were poured on the rooms, three art field to begin builddr. MeliSSA rooms and an innoing the extension. vation space will be BUrAk Room 201, known installed on the to students as the first floor. On the Superintendent, Honors/AP Spansecond floor, five Lynbrook Public ish classroom, is new classrooms Schools becoming a hallwill be constructed way, connecting the for family and consecond floor to the sumer science classes, as well as new area of the building. The the career development pro- room is being stripped and the gram. doorways knocked down to Principal Joseph Rainis has expand the width to the size of a attended meetings each month, along with Superintendent Dr. Continued on page 3
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Courtesy Jessica Syros Photography
A night to remember Lynbrook High School students celebrated at a socially distant prom on July 28. Attending were, from left, Arianna Paxinos, Gemma Ida Ortiz, Nicole D’Agostino, Bella Maffei, Kiera Derrig, Casey LaBarbera , Sofia Sacchetti, Annalise Riley and Sara Bahri. Story, more photos, Page 10.
Dolphin trapped on Mill River causes a stir in East Rockaway By Mike SMolliNS msmollins@liherald.com
Children at Rolling River Day Camp in East Rockaway got a rare glimpse of a dolphin last week, after it became trapped nearby on Mill River for several days. “They’ve definitely been really surprised,” Director Marissa Goodman Allaben said of her campers. “We have a popular boating program, so we go out on
the boats a lot and see a lot of marine life and birds, but a dolphin in our river is definitely a first-time occurrence.” Goodman Allaben said one of her campers told her on July 27 that he was kayaking on Mill River over the weekend and spotted the 5-foot-long adult dolphin. After speaking with experts, she later determined the dolphin went under the East Rockaway Long Island Rail Road station bridge into Mill River during
high tide, and was stuck there until the water level rose again. A full moon arrived Monday, so the tides were expected to increase. When camp administrators learned of the dolphin, they kayaked out to assess the situation and called wildlife conservation and rescue organizations, including the New York Marine Rescue Center, which continued to monitor the dolphin. The creature is Continued on page 3
e have gone through many challenges in trying to figure out how we can best support the future of the high school.