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Friday, November 22, 2019
Vol. 94, No. 47
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PAGES 29-36
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Bonanno charged in Nassau
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Pleads not guilty in county court BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Great Neck resident and plastic surgeon Matthew Bonanno faces over a dozen new weapons charges after police raided his East Shore Road residence in late August, according to the Nassau County district attorney’s office. Bonanno pleaded not guilty Friday during his arraignment before acting State Supreme Court Justice David Sullivan, according to the district attorney’s office. Bonanno was charged with 11 counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees, along with two charges of criminal possession of a firearm, according to an indictment. The 47-year-old Bonanno was first indicted in Westchester, where he pleaded not guilty to 53 weapons charges in September. Those charges are based in Westchester, separate from the 13 Nassau-based additional charges Bonanno now faces. Tuckahoe village police Continued on Page 51
PHOTO COURTESY OF NORTH SHORE TELEVISION
Members of the North Shore community gathered for the ribbon cutting of NSTV’s new studio. See story on page 2.
Enrollment figures back project proposal More classrooms at E.M. Baker, Lakeville said to be needed to accommodate students BY R OB E RT PELAEZ
Enrollments in the public schools will grow by about 40 students per year over the next Enrollment projections for five years, according to new prothe Great Neck Public Schools jections presented Monday at a reenforce the need for addition- Board of Education meeting by al classrooms at two elementary Stephen C. Lando, assistant superintendent of secondary eduschools, officials said. cation. According to Lando, he used a “cohort survival method” to come up with more accurate projections. The method is a projection
of future populations based on the existing population and births that will occur over a fiveyear period. Lando updated his projections using this method after the Board of Education unanimously approved a change to the district’s optional attendance zone last year. The optional attendance zone was implemented by the board over 10 years ago in an attempt to combat overcrowding
and to balance student enrollment in secondary schools. This allowed students from E.M. Baker and Saddle Rock elementary schools, which are normally zoned for South High School, to exercise the option to attend North Middle or North High School instead. In January 2018, the board adopted a change that allows only students entering sixthgrade and residing within the Continued on Page 51
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