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Lawrence field remains closed High school teams still forced to play ‘home’ games in Valley Stream created ongoing logistical challenges for athletes, coaches and families. Teams must travel off More than halfway through campus for practices and the school year, Lawrence High games, requiring additional School’s athletic field remains coordination of transportation closed, forcing all outdoor and reducing the opportunities for students to gathteams to continue er at their school to playing home games support their classat Fireman’s Field, mates on the field. in Valley Stream, Friday-night and leaving stugames and afterdents and families school sports events wondering when have traditionally their campus faciliserved as social ty will reopen. anchors for LawThe field was rence High students shut down last fall as well as their famafter it failed a ilies, alumni and county inspection, community memprompting district bers. Without a officials to relocate home field, many football games and students say, the other activities out ARBI CoRBItA sense of shared of safety concerns. Student school pride has At the time, adminrepresentative, diminished. istrators described Board of Education Board of Educathe move as tempotion student reprerary while further evaluations and repairs were sentative Arbi Corbita raised those concerns at the board’s planned. But as winter sports wind meeting on Feb. 9, telling trustdown and spring athletics ees that school spirit has sufapproach, the field remains fered this year. “Earlier this year, our field unavailable, and teams are still unable to host games at the was closed down from football and soccer games,” Corbita high school. The prolonged closure has Continued on page 11

By MELISSA BERMAN

mberman@liherald.com

Paul Grassini/Herald

Flashing a sign of dominance Hewlett High School junior Carlos Salazar earned a third straight Nassau County Division I wrestling championship last Sunday night at Hofstra University, taking the 126-pound title. Story, additional photo, Page 7.

Remembering Hewlett school’s Marisa DePalma-Galindez By MELISSA BERMAN mberman@liherald.com

For 16 years students passed through Marisa DePalma-Galindez’s classroom, and the lessons that stayed with them often extended far beyond textbooks — shaping the careers and enriching the lives of hundreds of people who credit the educator with helping them find their paths. The Hewlett Elementary School second-grade teacher formed close friendships with co-workers as well over the years. DePalma-Galindez died on Nov. 29, at age 65, after battling an illness for a year. “Marisa DePalma was a remarkable educator

and an extraordinary human being whose beliefs about teaching and learning shaped the joyful, nurturing classrooms she created,” retired HES Principal Sandy Pensak, her close friend, wrote in an email. Born in Brooklyn, DePalma-Galindez grew up in Whitestone, Queens, before settling in Williston Park. She earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in elementary education, with a specialization in reading, from CUNY Queens College. She began her career teaching first and second grades at P.S. 165 in District 25, where she spent 18 years before coming to Hewlett Elementary. After she retired in 2017, DePalma-Galindez Continued on page 17

t concerns most of the students in the school, and they want to have their school spirit back.