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Scouts mark drains to protect local waterways The Town of Hempstead provided the troop with the medallions as part of its Members of Scouts BSA Stormwater Management ProTroop 20 from Hewlett placed gram, which the town has run medallions on 40 storm drains for the past several years. The medallions are marked in Hewlett and Woodmere on June 3 to help raise awareness with “Drains to the Bay” to about protecting local water- remind residents that anything dumped in the drains can flow ways from pollution. The Boy Scout troop marked directly into local waterways. The town has par tnered storm drains throughout the with many other community to volunteer groups, show which ones with the goal of flow into the Great marking all 30,000 South Bay and to storm drains withd i s c o u r a g e re s i in its jurisdiction, dents from dumphelping to reduce ing harmful matepollution flowing rials down the into the bays. drains. Patrick Maguire, The Great South an assistant Scout Bay runs along sevdirector for Troop eral communities 20, organized the in South Shore event to help Long Island includaddress the local ing Amityville, stor m drain probBabylon, Bay lem. S h o r e, B ay p o r t , PAtRIck MAguIRE Maguire and Lindenhurst and Troop 20 assistant Corless led the 19 several other areas Scout director Scouts in attenwithin the towns of dance for an hour Babylon, Islip and Brookhaven. Eugene Corless, the troop’s and a half, teaching them how Scout director, said the project to properly glue the medallions embodies what the Scouts are to the storm drains and showing them where to place them. all about. Dog waste, plastic, bags, “The Scouting program is all about preparing people for other refuses and chemicals life, and educating our youth are all on the list of items that about conservation, in general, Maguire and Corless insisted will make them good stewards should not be dumped in the for our planet moving for- storm drains. Each drain received two ward,” Corless said. “It also enables them to have a local medallions — one indicating it impact and, also at the same leads to the bay and another time, educate the public while w a r n i n g a g a i n s t d u m p i n g they’re doing it.” ContInued on pAge 11
By BRIAN NORMAN
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Large trucks have already begun to park at the site at 500 Bayview Ave. by Cherry Street in Inwood.
Inwood neighbors protest dump truck site approval on Bayview By MELISSA BERMAN mberman@liherald.com
Inwood residents are speaking out against the Town of Hempstead’s approval of Bayview Inwood LLC’s zoning change for the property at 500 Bayview Ave. by Cherry Street, from residence to light manufacturing, to create a storage facility for 29 dump trucks. The town officially approved the ordinance at a public meeting, on Oct. 1. According to Inwood resident Ameera Gomes, the town did not notify the residents on Bayview Avenue after it was approved. Gomes said she only just saw a sign posted up on June 1. “The Town approved the zoning change at
the October 1st , 2024 Town Board meeting,” Brian Devine, director of communications for TOH wrote in an email. “Prior to the public hearing on this topic, as well as the decision, all proper notifications were issued pursuant to the Open Meetings law. The Hempstead Town Board always takes feedback from residents into consideration before making any decision.” A trucking company, Five Star Cargo, occupies a huge portion of Bayview Avenue. As of press time, representatives from Five Star Cargo could not disclose any information about the zoning change. “We witnessed the removal of trees on May 31, which was the first visible sign to many of ContInued on pAge 6
opefully, this little marker will just educate the public so that they’ll be more aware of what they’re doing.