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A field unfit for football Lawrence High’s 15-year-old turf is deemed unplayable By MELISSA BERMAN mberman@liherald.com
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Lawrence High School’s artificial-turf field was deemed unplayable earlier this month, forcing the football team to play on the road last Saturday. Above, Lawrence High running back Bryan Guevara in a 2023 game.
The Lawrence High School football team played its first “home” game at Fireman’s Field, in Valley Stream, against North Shore High School last Saturday. The artificial-turf field at the high school was deemed unplayable by turf inspectors on the second day of school, after barely passing inspection in July. The turf was installed in 2010, two years after Lawrence school district voters passed a $1 million referendum to replace the grass field at the high school with turf. It was part of a $16 million, district wide 2008 capital improvement plan that included other renovations of district athletic fields, including new drainage, irrigation and Continued on pAGe 8
Atlantic Beach board finally fills all five trustee seats By BRIAN NORMAN bnorman@liherald.com
After months of deliberation, Douglas Garczynski was appointed to fill the fifth seat on the Atlantic Beach board of trustees at the village’s monthly meeting on Sept. 8. Garczynski, 70, has lived in the village for 33 years, and has been a regular attendee at
board meetings. His wife, Suzy Schneider, founded and chairs the Atlantic Beach Village Garden, where Garczynski is also actively involved. “I decided to join the board because I believe in the board, and I believe in their vision in a new way of governing this community — one based on transparency, inclusion and responsiveness,” Garczynski
said. “So when I heard the direction they were going, when I was offered the position, I was happy to join in their effort.” Three of the five seats on the board were vacant after Mayor George Pappas and Deputy Mayor Charles Hammerman resigned on July 2, just hours after the village agreed to settle its ongoing legal dispute with
Chabad of the Beaches for $950,000. Longtime Trustee Nathan Etrog was not re-elected in the village election on June 17, and a fourth seat was vacated when former Deputy Mayor Patricia Beaumont opted not to run, leaving Barry Frohlinger as the lone remaining member of the board. Joseph Pierantoni and Laura Heller were elected as
trustees in June, with one filling a vacant seat and the other succeeding Etrog. One trustee spot remained open, along with the office of mayor. Frohlinger was unanimously appointed the village’s sixth mayor at the board’s monthly meeting on Aug. 4. His acceptance left yet another seat vacant, and in his first act as mayor, Frohlinger Continued on pAGe 12