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When Jessica TibaquiraGomez first dropped her fifthgrade daughter off at Shaw Avenue Elementary School on the morning Sept. 3, she was struck by how quiet it was. Speaking on Sept. 10, shortly after her daughter retur ned home from an unprecedented first full week of school, Tibaquira-Gomez
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Labor Day, Valley Stream schools opened their buildings to students for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic spread across the U.S. in mid-March. With protocols to prevent the spread of infection, virtually every aspect of school life has been altered, and thus far, local parents have re por ted that beyond a handful of technical glitches, the reopening has
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recounted how, typically, children can be seen bustling about in the mornings during the first few days of school, reconnecting with classmates and checking to see which teachers their friends have. “Normally even parents socialize,” she said, noting that it’s a time to exchange phone numbers, “but even they were keeping their distance.” T he T hursday before
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STuDENTS lINED uP at Clear Stream Avenue Elementary School on the morning of Sept. 3 for the first day of school. Parents said that with reduced student density, picking up and dropping off their children has been smoother than usual.
All of us at the Herald Community Newspapers were frightened by the coronavirus pandemic when it reached Nassau County in early March. Some of us were sickened by Covid-19, and some were even hospitalized. But we had a job to do. We were, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo called us, “essential workers,” relaying vital information people needed to know to stay healthy and survive this potentially deadly disease. So we did what we knew how to do — re ported the news, day in, day out, for weeks on end. Suddenly, we were no longer a weekly newspaper. We were a daily, publishing the news online at liherald. com and in our daily newsletter. Hundreds of thousands of people came to our website for the latest news. The pandemic stretched us to our limits, but we never broke. We were with you throughout, and we pledge to remain with you until we return to normal life — or whatever our lives will be in the new normal. Producing the news, however, is a costly endeavor. We must pay the salaries of reporters, editors, photographers, graphic artists, advertising account executives, press operators, drivers and managers. Now, more than ever,
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