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HERALD All the News of the Five Towns
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Vol. 97 No. 36
SEPTEMBER 3 - 9, 2020
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Candidates? We’ve got ’em 10 Lawrence residents running for mayor, trustee, village justice Village Court adjudicates traffic tickets issued in the village by the Nassau County Police Energized perhaps by the Department as well as summonscoronavirus pandemic, or sim- es for village code violations. ply by an old-fashioned burst of Edelman heads the Unity civic involvement, the Lawrence Party ticket, which includes Kutvillage election on Sept. 15 will ner, Mandel and Popack. The boast a field of 10 People’s Par ty candidates for slate, led by Goldmayor, tr ustee stein, comprises Voting takes place and village justice Backman, PremTuesday, Sept. 15, — a record-breakinger and Rokosz. from 7 a.m. to 9 ing slate, accordKaufman is runp.m., at the ing to village ning under the lawrence Yacht & records. Harmony Party Country Club, Incumbent banner, and Lawat 101 Causeway Mayor Alex Edelrence is the Taxin lawrence. man is being chalpayer’s Party canlenged by Village didate. Trustee Daniel Goldstein for the two-year term, Edelman versus Goldstein and there are a half dozen peoRunning for his third twople running for two trustee seats. year term, Edelman, 71, said he Trustee Syma Diamond is step- still has items remaining on his ping down, and Uri Kaufman is to-do list, including roadwork running for re-election. Also on and sidewalk projects, and sellthe ballot for two-year terms are ing the decommissioned sewage Bruce A. Backman, Eli Kutner, J. treatment plant land on Rock Kolodny Lawrence, Joel M. Hall Road and using the money Preminger and Paris Popack. to build an aquatic center with a Village Justice Gary Mandel gym and yoga room at the Lawis running for his first four-year rence Yacht & Country Club. “I ter m. He was appointed to still have many more things to replace Donald Buchalter, who do for the benefit of the village,” retired in 2018. Mandel is being Edelman said. challenged by Shrage Rokosz. Continued on page 22
By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
Jeffrey Bessen/Herald
looking for a good read Books and school supplies were available as the Freeport-based Book Fairies held a free book fair outside the Lawrence School District’s Broadway campus on Aug. 26.
obituary
Donald Buchalter, village justice for nearly 40 years, dies at 83
Starting in ’68, he served Lawrence for five decades By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
Donald Buchalter had a role in nearly every case adjudicated in the Lawrence Village Hall courtroom, from its establishment in 1968 until his retirement in 2018. Buchalter died on Aug.
26. He was 83. He was appointed the village’s first prosecutor 52 years ago by then Mayor Jay Gordon — who became his brother-in-law. (The two men’s wives, Barbara Gordon and Judith Buchalter, are sisters.) Buchalter became village jus-
tice in 1980 succeeding Cal Polivey, the original village justice. The village courtroom was named in Buchalter’s honor on Nov. 19, 2018 — Judge Donald J. Buchalter Day in Lawrence. He also practiced labor relations law. “I liked to treat everyContinued on page 22