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O.B. resident founds PWR N NOISE existing issues on the Island. According to ERASE Racism NY, despite an increase of Long After George Floyd, 46, was Island student diversity, school killed by a Minneapolis police segregation is on the rise. More officer on camera, Arianna Chet- Black and Hispanic students ram, 20, knew what attend segregated she needed to do to schools than 12 fight for equality. years ago, the orgaShe founded nization said. PWR N NOISE in “A lot of kids e a rly Ju n e t o start off in school inspire change in and it’s just this small communihuge divide that no ties, including her one really talks hometown of Oysabout; it’s like this ter Bay. The nonelephant in the for-profit organizaroom,” Chetram, tion, which Cheta n O y s t e r B ay ram is the presiHigh School gradudent of, works to ate, said. “I just promote equal thought that it opportunity in eduwould be an opporcation. tunity to talk about “After George this now with Floyd was killed, I everyone listens aw t h i s s h i f t ; ARIANNA ing.” everyone was lis- CHETRAM With an organitening,” Chetram zation that is less Founder said. “I thought than two months now is the chance PWR N NOISE old, Chetram, on while everyone is behalf of PWR N resonating to start something in NOISE, has been attending Long Island.” almost weekly Black Lives MatChetram, a student at Pace ter rallies outside Oyster Bay University, has long volunteered Town Hall with her family. for causes she believes in. She The rallies have been an said she became focused on edu- opportunity for many, including cation when she was researching CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
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PART OF HORSE Hollow Road in Locust Valley was blocked off by a vehicle, a downed tree and power lines.
Isaias leaves many downed trees on North Shore By SCOTT BRINTON and JENNIFER CORR Sbrinton@liherald.com, jcorr@liherald.com
Tropical Storm Isaias, a swift-moving tempest that slammed Nassau County on Tuesday, knocked down more than a thousand trees and some 338 electrical and phone wires, County Executive Laura Curran said at a news briefing Wednesday morning. No fatalities were reported, Curran said.
As Oyster Bay workers and residents clean up after the stor m, Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino said through social media that the town will pick up fallen branches and tree limbs left at the curb, and a full cleanup will take about a week. “There is no need to pay someone to cart [debris] away,” Saladino said. “With much damage town-wide, we ask that you bear with us as
we clear the debris.” And with many residetns still without power throughout the town at press time Thursday, charging stations and cooling centers were open at the Ice Skating Center in Bethpage and Marjorie Post Park in Massapequa. The storm hit businesses hard. Ryan Schlotter, president of the Oyster Bay–East Norwich Chamber of ComCONTINUED ON PAGE 3
nce everyone left and went to college and started actually learning about some things and their culture’s heritage, it helped so much.