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Atlantic Beach settles Chabad suit for $950,000 Many residents questioned whether Atlantic Beach could afford to make the payments After more than three years without another tax hike on top of legal wrangling over proper- o f t h i s y e a r ’ s 8 7 p e r c e n t ty at 2025 Park St., the Village of increase. Village Trustee Barry FrohAtlantic Beach has agreed to settle with the Long Beach- linger said that the village would use money based Chabad of originally budgeted the Beaches with for legal fees and payments totaling road repaving, and the $950,000 over that no further two years. increase or use of According to the reserves would be agreement, apneeded. proved at a special The dispute meeting on July 1, began in November the village will pay 2021, when the the Chabad $700,000 Chabad purchased this year and the former Capital $250,000 next year. One bank branch at The settlement is 2025 Park, at the $550,000 larger than Ed RAdBURN base of the Atlantic an agreement the Atlantic Beach Beach Bridge, for parties reached in resident $950,000. The November 2023 that Chabad intended to was rejected by the build a community center for Chabad 13 months later. As part of the new agree- Jewish programming, educament, the Chabad will be offi- tion and worship as well as a cially welcomed into the com- drive-through café. Weeks later, the village munity, and the village’s Board of Zoning Appeals will be attempted to seize the property required to grant the organiza- through eminent domain, the tion the variances it requested acquisition of private property in August 2024 to renovate a for- for public use. In a letter to residents that mer bank building on Park Street that it purchased four was posted on the village webyears ago. ConTinuEd on pagE 8
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Courtesy Ramiel Jeacoma
Eagle Scout Ramiel Jeacoma with the beneficiary of his project, the Rev. John Christopher Ballard of Trinity-St. John’s Church, in Hewlett.
Repurposing a vintage mailbox for a unique Eagle Scout project By MELISSA BERMAN mberman@liherald.com
Hewlett High School senior Ramiel Jeacoma earned his Eagle Scout award by repurposing an old postal mailbox from 1966 into a flag drop and installing it outside Trinity-St. John’s Church, in Hewlett. Jeacoma has been a member of Troop 20 in the Five Towns, led by Scoutmaster Eugene Corless, for 11 years. “I was invited into it by a friend to attend a meeting, and at first I wasn’t hooked, but then I kept going and I had a great time,” Jeacoma recalled. “Basically, for 11 years I’ve been loving scouting.” His favorite aspects of scouting are the
people he’s met and the skills that he’s learned, he said. For his Eagle Scout project, Jeacoma knew he wanted to do something with an old mailbox he received from a former United States Postal Service employee. The box was donated to him in hopes he would use it for his Eagle Scout project. “I was donated an old mailbox from 1966, and I wanted to repurpose it into a flag drop where people can retire their flags — so that people could collect them and retire them respectfully by either burying, dedicating it to someone or burning it,” Jeacoma explained. He planned the project for a year and a half, ConTinuEd on pagE 12
ith the $950,000, the board should not be congratulating themselves over this — they lost.