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Trustees pan H-W classroom renovations By PARKER SCHUG pschug@liherald.com
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Fun in the Five Towns with classic rides Greg Cioffi, owner of this 1953 Buick Special Riviera, took part in the ninth annual Cedarhurst Car Show. Story, Page 10.
Hewlett High School students honor six murdered Israeli hostages By MELISSA BERMAN mberman@liherald.com
The Chabad of the Five Towns — along with members of its Hewlett High School teen program — held a memorial on Sept. 4 for the six Israeli hostages who were held captive by Hamas and recently found murdered. The hostages — Master Sgt. Ori Danino, Carmel Gat, Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi and Eden Yerushalmi — were found dead on Sept. 1. Hamas captured them during the Oct. 7 surprise attack at the Nova music festival in southern Israel. Hamas killed 1,200 people that day, and seized
250 civilians. As of Sept. 1, officials said, 101 hostages were still being held in Gaza. Hewlett High School students who are involved in the Chabad CTeen program contacted Hadassah Geisinsky, director of the CTeen program, offering to honor the lives of the six hostages. Chabad CTeen is a program from the Chabad of the Five Towns and has innovative programs that help nurture Jewish identity and helps teens stand above societal pressures, according to Chabad of Five Towns. Geisinsky then assembled a memorial, which was attended by CTeen students and their famiContinued on page 5
The Hewlett-Woodmere Board of Education held a special meeting last week, after walk-throughs of the construction that is under way in 10 Hewlett High School science classrooms revealed what the trustees described as surprising and disappointing results. The board members met with district Superintendent Ralph Marino Jr.; Hewlett High Principal Alexandra Greenberg; Science Department Chair Brian Terry; Kim Parahus, director of school facilities and operations; and Joe Grillo, of JAG Architects, at the Woodmere Education Center on Sept. 4, the day after students returned to school, to discuss renovation plans that the trustees said went awry. About 20 community members also attended. “The object of this is to see how we can get to where we want to get,” Board President Debra Sheinin told Grillo, Parahus and the administrators as the meeting began. “We’re not talking about personnel, and we’re not here to point fingers. We want to fix what we can and have these
great, state-of-the-art science rooms that the community and the board thought that you were promoting.” The renovations were first discussed in August 2022, and later approved as part of an $18.3 million capital project that also encompassed science classroom renovations at Woodmere Middle School, a redesign of the Hewlett High School auditorium and the installation of new artificial turf on the high school football field. The high school science classrooms were last renovated in 2004, Parahus said at a meeting in January 2023, when the project was introduced to the community. School board Trustee Judy Menashe said at last week’s meeting that $5.2 million had been earmarked for those specific renovations, and Sheinin noted that $3 million had been spent so far. The initial renderings had included state-of-the-art technology and a futuristic design, with large interactive flatscreen monitors, metal collaborative lab tables and mobile options for classroom resources, Sheinin and other board members said. But when they Continued on page 12