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City bans e-bikes on boardwalk and sidewalks By CHRIS ColUCCI ccolucci@liherald.com
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The City Council passed the ban to keep the boardwalk safe for pedestrians and conventional bike riders.
Boardwalk regulars are familiar with the structure’s rules: walkers and joggers on either side, bike riders in the middle. Now Long Beach has added a new regulation, to deal with the proliferation in recent years of a new kind of vehicle: e-bikes. Their use is now prohibited on the boardwalk. At its June 2 meeting, the City Council voted unanimously to modernize the language in the city’s code of ordinances. As it is currently written, the law restricts “wagons, horses, carts, automobiles, motorcycles and motorized bicycles” from operating on sidewalks, the beach or the boardwalk. It will now outlaw e-bikes as well as electric and motorized scooters. That ordinance subsection was first enacted in 1968, and has been updated several times over the years, most recently raising fines for scofflaws in July 2024. Previously, the ordinance had only explicitly prohibitConTinued on page 7
Two girls from Long Beach earn Eagle Scout honor By AIDAN WARSHAVSKY awarshavsky@liherald.com
As Long Beach natives Alexis Ricoy and Scarlett Anderson rose through the ranks of Scouts B S A , t h e y w o r k e d toward becoming Eagle Scouts — the highest honor in scouting. On May 30, the two friends achieved that goal together at a Court of Honor ceremony at St. Agnes Parish Center, in Rockville Centre. The girls joined Troop 163G, in Rockville Centre, after its merger with Troop 215G in Long Beach. Each completed a community service project and fulfilled leadership, merit
badge and service requirements to earn the Eagle rank. Steve Bo, scoutmaster for Troop 163G, commended the girls efforts and noted their dedication to scouting. “I have been working with both Alexis and Scarlett for years,” he said. “To see their progress pay off was special.” Ricoy, 18, started her scouting journey with Troop 215G when she was 13, after she and her mother, Shannan Ricoy, helped establish the troop during the coronavirus pandemic. Serving as a senior patrol leader, Alexis played a key role in building the troop and guiding younger scouts.
Ricoy has volunteered at the Village Garden, in Atlantic Beach, since she was in middle school at Long Beach Catholic Regional School. She was introduced to the garden by a friend, and learned that it donates produce to the Long Beach Soup Kitchen. Ricoy decided to use her Eagle Scout project to continue her work at the garden. She has an interest in addressing food insecurity, and constructed a vertical planting box — a ladder-like structure with shelves for plants — there. “I already had the relationship with the people [at Village Garden], she said. “Knowing I
was directly impacting someone in my community and the Atlantic Beach community made me really happy.” Ricoy will graduate from Long Beach High School later this month and attend Hofstra University in the fall, where she plans to study business management and accounting. Like her fellow troop mem-
ber and friend, Anderson began her journey in Troop 215G before it merged with the Rockville Centre troop. She was an assistant senior patrol leader, and attributes her personal growth to her time as a scout. “My mother noticed that there was a troop being started [in Long Beach], and said that ConTinued on page 11