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Friday, September 21, 2018
Vol. 6, No. 38
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Manhasset couple dies in plane crash Hundreds attend real estate broker’s and prominent surgeon’s funeral BY T E R I W EST Those who knew Jodi Cohen and Dr. L Michael Graver as a couple knew them to be an adventurous, fun-loving pair whose distinct personalities made them perfectly complementary. Hundreds of people gathered to celebrate memories of the inseparable Manhasset couple at a joint funeral Tuesday after CoPHOTO BY TERI WEST hen, a real estate saleswoman, and Graver, chief of adult cardiac Jodi Cohen and Dr. L. Michael Graver’s funeral was on a rainy Tuesday at Temple Judea surgery at North Shore University in Manhasset. Hospital, died in a plane crash on
Saturday. Graver, 65, was piloting the plane, which crashed in a residential area of Woburn, Massachusetts. He and Cohen, 52, were the only people aboard, and no one on the ground was injured. The funeral at Temple Judea stopped traffic on Searingtown Road in Manhasset. Jon Cohen, who performed surgery with Graver, emphasized the results of Graver’s confident, precise skills at the funeral. “The results of his talents are Continued on Page 81
Manhasset marijuana dispensary eyed BY T E R I W EST
The store would be a facility operated by MedMen, a company A medical marijuana company based in California that currently has applied to open a second dis- has four stores in the state of New pensary in Nassau County in a York. Nassau County is home to one storefront on Northern Boulevard in Manhasset currently housing a of them, which is in North New Hyde Park, and another is on Fifth mattress store.
Avenue in Manhattan. Richard Bentley, president of the Council of Greater Manhasset Civic Associations, announced the news at the council’s meeting last Wednesday. The room erupted in groans. “I am going to jump out of my chair,” one woman said, shocked by the news. “It’s going to be our next battle,” Bentley said. MedMen submitted the
application to the town Building Department for 1575 Northern Blvd., a building that is currently a Sleep Number mattress store. Bentley noted potential obstacles for MedMen’s proposal getting approved as the site having limited parking and its proximity to a residential area. Medical marijuana has been legal in New York since 2014, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Compassionate Care Act.
Medical marijuana companies interested in doing business in New York had to apply to the state in 2015 to become registered organizations. Each of the 10 registered, including MedMen, were then allowed to create a manufacturing facility in New York as well as up to four dispensaries. Under the most recent version of the program, individuals with conditions that qualify for opioid Continued on Page 81
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