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Sea Cliff actor to hold casting call for film she is also the star of the film. The actor explained that the project was something she Brianna Lee, an actor and knew she wanted to make, writer from Sea Cliff, is holding describing it as her “dream a casting call on Thursday, project” “I have a few films that are April 17, at 2 p.m. in the Sea Cliff Elementary School audito- doing well in the film festival circuit right now, Lee said. “It rium for her new film “Troll” gave me this per“It’s a comment on the world of sonal confidence, social media,” Lee and I thought, why said. “It touches on don’t I just make cyber bullying. It my movie?” touches on fame The scene that and the themes of Lee will be hosting the price of fame. the casting call for It’s a comment on involves her charthe youth today and acter, Cat, an “influwhat social media encer pop star” has done to the according to Lee. teenagers.” I n t h e s c e n e, Lee grew up in BRIANNA LEE Lee’s character will Sea Cliff and is a On her upcoming film, visit a local high 2009 North Shore “Troll” school to select a High School gradusuper fan out of the ate, which was crowd. The fan where she first fell in love with would “spend the day with her the process of making movies. and be her lucky super fan,” Lee said that when she got Lee said, “ideally, I’d like to home from school, “I would just have an auditorium just comgrab a bunch of friends, we’d pletely packed with teenagers.” grab the camcorder, and we’d Lee said that she used a comjust make funny movies.” bination of social media, word The short film has been an of mouth and her friends to idea of Lee’s for the past five spread awareness about her years. It’s a thriller written, upcoming casting call. After the directed and produced by Lee;
By LUKE FEENEY
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Courtesy Rob Rich
Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor Joe Saladino listens to community members at a town meeting about extending a moratorium on a proposed lithium storage facility in Glenwood Landing, NY.
Residents push for BESS Moratorium Call to extend ban on lithium battery development By LUKE FEENEY lfeeney@liherald.com
Before the start of the second public hearing during the Town of Oyster Bay’s meeting Wednesday morning, Town Supervisor Joe Saladino looked out at the crowd in Town Hall North and said “please put your hand up if you are here in support of the continuation of the moratorium” All but two hands rose to the air in response to the question. Several residents from Roslyn, Glen Head, Sea Cliff, and other communities across the North Shore of Long Island raised a bevy of concerns against proposed lithium battery plants on Long Island. They also lamented against the Propel NY Energy project and the Renewable Action Through Project Interconnection and Deployment act. Despite the frustrations expressed by residents about the Propel NY project and the RAPID act, the topic of the public hearing during the April board meeting was specifically about the extension of the moratorium
on its battery energy storage system, nearly one year after the approval of the town’s first moratorium. The moratorium is set to expire at the end of April, and the board will be voting in May on whether or not to extend the moratorium. It will remain in effect in between it’s expiration and the May vote. Michael Montesano, the special counsel to the town attorney’s office, told the board that there would be no changes to the current moratorium, which says no land use applications for battery energy storage systems shall be approved or processed during the period. Montesano added that they were in “essentially the same condition” as they were a year ago. The moratorium was originally enacted in February 2024, effective April of last year. It was extended for another six months in October of 2024, which aimed to give the town additional time to assess the potential risks posed by these facilities, particularly CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
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