Caution on first day of school
Children from LVSD mark 9/11
Taking a tour of Mill Neck Creek
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Sloop Christeen is honored with historic marker have played not only an important role in history, but also an important role in the developThe Christeen, an oyster ment of trade and commerce sloop — a single-masted sailboat throughout the state of New with a fore-and-aft mainsail and York and throughout this new a jib — was built in land.” Glenwood Landing For centuries, in 1883 to harvest Saladino said, Oysoysters in Oyster ter Bay served as a Bay and Cold Spring primary source of Harbor, and has had oysters and clams. quite a journey. “In fact, one such Having a New example of history York state historical of oyster farming marker dedicated to here in the town is the vessel is just the docked right here latest highlight behind us and the chapter of its long reason we are here life. The sloop has today,” he said. “Her been a National Hisname is Christeen, t o r i c L a n d m a rk and she’s a beauty.” since 1992. The vessel is the State Sen. Jim oldest oyster sloop Gaughra also recent- JOSEPH in the U.S., but makly honored the ing it to 2020 was Christeen with a SALADINO certainly not an easy proclamation in the Supervisor of voyage. National Historic Oyster Bay Over the decades Registry. it has survived no “Since the Town feweer than 16 major of Oyster Bay was founded in h u r r i c a n e s , n u m e r o u s 1653,” Town Supervisor Joseph nor’easters, two sinkings and Saladino said at a news confer- years of neglect. It was fully ence on Wednesday, when the restored and relaunched in 1999, new historical marker was and now serves as a floating unveiled, “Oyster Bay hamlet and the harbor surrounding it CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
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AT OYSTER BAY’S Sept. 11 commemoration last Friday, there was a display of photographs of residents from the hamlet who died.
Oyster Bay marks 19th year of honoring Sept. 11 victims By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
Marta Waisman’s daughter, Gabriela, had volunteered to work in an office at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Marta could not remember much about the type of work her daughter was doing or what floor she was on that day. The details,
she said, don’t really matter anymore. The pain from the loss of her 33-year-old daughter is what consumes her, as it has for the past 19 years. “For me it is like yesterday,” Marta said, her eyes filling with tears. “The sadness gets worse and worse every year. Gabriela was a very sweet girl.” Usually Marta, who lives
in Oyster Bay, attends the remembrance ceremony in Lower Manhattan, but the coronavirus pandemic led to its cancellation this year. It helped her to come to her hometown’s ceremony, she said. And it made her feel good to see that people still remember the victims of 9/11. Former State Sen. Carl CONTINUED ON PAGE 16
he hull [was] rotting, the sails were torn, it was in disrepair. People looked at it and it didn’t spark joy or pride.