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Out of the dark, into LED lights
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VGN trustees sign on to lighting plan BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Village of Great Neck oďŹƒcials on Tuesday night approved a bid for the installation of LED lights and a plan for purchasing light ďŹ xtures to improve street illumination. OďŹƒcials said the plan would replace lights that are wearing out after decades. RealTerm Energy, which has served as a project manager and consultant on the LED lighting project, presented trustees and residents with two possible plans: a “like-for-likeâ€? plan where most of the ďŹ xtures would remain the same and another that would replace many of the decorative lights with cobrahead ďŹ xtures. Trustees ultimately decided on the second plan, which will cost about $604,000 to purchase ďŹ xtures and lights and install them. While the total of lights around the village will remain the same at roughly 800, the total cobra lights will rise from 202 to 619. Both RealTerm representaContinued on Page 106
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Members of the Great Neck Alert Fire Company honored their former fire company president Peter Meade at his home. See story on page 3.
Man links his cancer to Marcus Ave. Former consultant believes fumes contributed to development; Lockheed denies BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Roger Inesti’s immune system used to be strong — he said he would only get a cold once every three to ďŹ ve years. But after working at 1111 Marcus Ave. as a consultant for
DealerTrack between 2010 and 2012, things began to change. He said he didn’t feel entirely right. Colds began to come every few months. Later, a growth developed in 2015, one he said he didn’t think was serious. But thyroid cancer was diagnosed in May 2017. Inesti’s doctor asked him then if he had been around any industrial chemicals. “There were some industrial things coming out of the ground and I said ‘maybe
that has something to do with it,’� Inesti said in an interview. Inesti said he thinks exposure to toxic chemicals in the air like trichloroethene, dichloroethene, tetrachloroethene and Freon 113 — each of which is considered a carcinogen — may have led to the development of his cancer. He said he had gathered 100 to 200 pages of research, until his doctor said stress could worsen his condition. Those chemicals are the primary contaminants in the ground
at the Lake Success oďŹƒce complex where Inesti worked. The defense contractor Sperry used the building for manufacturing and dumped degreasers and other industrial solvents into underground tanks that leaked into the groundwater and soil. Lockheed Martin, the defense company, is leading a statemandated cleanup of the property. The ďŹ rm ceased operations there in 1998 and sold the property in 2000. Continued on Page 107
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