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Lawrence couple are honored by FIDF By MELISSA BERMAN mberman@liherald.com
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Lawrence Deputy Mayor Tammy Roz, far left, honoree Suzanne Gurvitch, County Executive Bruce Blakeman, Mayor Samuel Nahmias and honoree Barry Gurvitch at the annual FIDF dinner on May 8.
Barry and Suzanne Gurvitch, of Lawrence, were honored by the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces last week, for strengthening the organization’s mission through service and generosity, as well as their values. “We know that Suzanne and Barry belong to this amazing community,” Steve Weil, FIDF’s chief executive officer, said at the FIDF’s Five Towns and Greater South Shore Evening of Solidarity at the Sands in Atlantic Beach, on May 8, “and I always think about it, and it tings in my head that this communiCoNTINuED oN paGE 7
Route 878 lighting repairs set for completion this month By BRIAN NORMAN bnorman@liherald.com
The Village of Lawrence aims to begin repairing the lights along State Route 878, near the Lawrence side of the Atlantic Beach Bridge, in the coming days, and to complete the work by the end of the month. The pledge comes after the
village announced a plan to fix the broken lights on the highway, also known as the Nassau Expressway, in early April, a project that Five Towns residents have requested for years. Lawrence Mayor Samuel Nahmias, who has been working to solve the longstanding problem since he chaired the Nassau County Bridge Authority, said that of the 54 lights
along the Lawrence side of the Expressway, 11 are in need of repair. The lights that stretch from the Atlantic Beach Bridge to Rock Hall Road remain out of service, having sustained structural damage and wiring erosion caused by saltwater flooding during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Nahmias added that the other 43 lights only required MAY 15, 2025
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new bulbs, and are now operational. To fix the remaining lights, he said on May 6, “We just selected a company called Hinck Electric, and the goal is still the end of May. We were in the process of selecting a company through a bid. They submitted a work and safety plan in April that we reviewed, and then we selected them based off
of that.” Nahmias, who was elected mayor last year, said the issue has grown more urgent due to an increase in traffic on the Atlantic Beach Bridge since the implementation of E-ZPass in December 2023, when he served as chairman of the bridge authority. Lawrence’s Department of CoNTINuED oN paGE 12