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Charter school plan stirs up anger By KELSIE RADZISKI kradziski@liherald.com
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Uniondale school district Superintendent Monique Darrisaw-Akil said she opposed the proposal to build a Diamond Charter School in Hempstead by September 2026.
A t h i rd ch a r t e r s ch o o l hopes to open in Hempstead, and community leaders and local residents are not happy with the idea. Residents of Hempstead, Uniondale, Baldwin, Roosevelt, and other nearby communities packed the band box, a large space at Alverta B. Gray Schultz Middle School in Hempstead, on Monday night for a public hearing to voice their opposition to the proposal. “We’re producing remarkable outcomes for children of ContinUeD on pAge 5
Uniondale High grad runs his way to Paris Games By HERNESTO GALDAMEZ hgaldamez@liherald.com
Chris Borzor, 25, of North Baldwin, never sought the awards, the records or the spotlight that came with his success as a track athlete. His sole focus was to “just run.” “I’m just running for fun,” Borzor said last week, before departing for the Olympics in Paris, where he will represent his native Haiti in the 100-meter dash on Saturday. “I don’t really think about that in my head,” he added of the records and awards. “Like, ‘Oh, I got to break this record.’ I just step on the track, run, and have fun
Olympics, I’ve been with it.” calm about it,” he B o r z o r, wh o s e said. “But the closfamily came to the er I get to the date, United States when it’s like, OK, it realhe was six, gained ly is coming true.” prominence for his Borzor’s interest sprinting at Unionin running can be dale High School traced back to the and then at the Unififth grade, when he versity of Cincinna- CHRIS BORZOR watched his older ti and the Universi- Haitian Olympian cousin Jonathan ty of Southern California, ultimately earning the Prevost compete in track at opportunity to represent his Holy Trinity High School in homeland on the world stage as Hicksville. Prevost eventually a member of the Haitian track signed his younger cousin up team competing at the Summer for the sport in a summer league in Baldwin. Games. “I was just running to run,” “The past couple of months, though I knew I was going to the Borzor recalled. “I didn’t really
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’m going to go out there and do my best for my country.
know anything about it. I didn’t really start falling in love with it until I got to high school.” Though he lived in Baldwin, he attended Uniondale High, and was a member of the class of 2018. There he excelled in the 100 as well as the 200- and 400meter dashes and the long jump. As a senior, he finished fifth in both the 100 and 200 at the New York State Public High School
Athletic Association Track and Field Championships. In his senior year, he qualified for the New Balance Nationals, and got a taste of national competition. At Cincinnati, where he earned a degree in interdisciplinary studies, Borzor set university records in the 200 (20.55 seconds) as well as the indoor ContinUeD on pAge 9