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$150K grant helps repair 878 lighting years. Nahmias said that when he originally began working on After years of calls from fixing the lighting issue, the Five Towns residents to repair bridge authority found that of lighting along the Nassau the 54 lights that needed work, Expressway near the Lawrence 43 of them simply just needed side of the Atlantic Beach n e w b u l b s , w h i c h w e r e Bridge, village offireplaced. cials say action is The 11 remainfinally being taken. ing lights, on Rock The expressway, Hall Road, still need officially State to be repaired, due Route 878, was origto structural issues inally proposed in from 2012’s Hurri1945 as a freeway cane Sandy, and connecting the Belt wiring eroding due Parkway in Queens to saltwater. to Long Beach in Nahmias said Nassau County. the lighting has However, after become more of an the state acquired issue since the the road through SAMuEL NAhMIAS implementation of condemnation in Lawrence Mayor E-ZPass at the 1963, a key segment Atlantic Beach between Rockaway Bridge in December Boulevard and John F. Kennedy 2023, during his time as chairInternational Airport was man of the bridge authority. never constructed. Today the “In hindsight, this became road serves as a major route for more of an issue over the last many residents of the Five several years when I was on the Towns. bridge, because we made vast Lawrence Mayor Samuel improvements to the bridge N a h m i a s , w h o p r e v i o u s l y with E-ZPass,” Nahmias said. served as the chairman of the “We had a lot more people utiNassau County Bridge Authori- lizing that bridge because of ty, had been working with the E-ZPass. With the higher traffic village to solve this issue for ConTInued on pAge 12
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Last April, Bionica traveled to Houston to compete in the international FIRST Championship of Robotics.
Bionica selected to compete at International Premier Invitational By MELISSA BERMAN mberman@liherald.com
Hewlett High School’s 13-member, allfemale robotics team, Bionica, has been selected to compete at the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) International Premier Invitational in the Canadian Rockies. This is the first time that any robotics team from Hewlett High has been selected to take part in the competition, which will take place at the Edmonton Expo Center in Edmonton, Alberta, July 25 to 27. “Premier Events are capstone events specifically focused on celebrating FIRST Tech Challenge teams,” the competition’s website states. “Teams earn advancement to Premier Events the same way as they earn advancement to the FIRST championship, based on performance at their Regional Championship event.”
While Bionica did not have the regionals experience that they wanted, they still succeeded in advancing to another round of competition. “It’s not quite the world championships, but this year they’re trying a model where several locations in the U.S and abroad offer the opportunity for students who stood out at regional competitions but didn’t quite make the world championships,” Daniel Duffey-Birkenstock, Bionica’s coach, said. In previous competitions, Bionica had made it into the brackets and won numerous awards, but this time they didn’t make it to the brackets. “They were a little anxious about the awards because even if you don’t make it to brackets you could still win an award and they won another Inspire Award making it four this season,” Birkenstock said. Bionica will be able to showcase their ConTInued on pAge 12
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t’s a matter of quality of life for safety prevention, and it’s time that that issue got solved.