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Friday, December 21, 2018
Vol. 6, No. 51
NEW YEAR’S DINING GUIDE
CELL BOX MAY PERCH ON MUNSEY FLAGPOLE
REASSESSMENT HEARING DRAWS A CROWD
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MedMen ends Northern Blvd. relocation plans
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Will stay in North New Hyde Park while looking for other possibilities BY T E R I W EST After months of protests, MedMen, a cannabis company, said it will no longer seek to open a medical marijuana dispensary on Northern Boulevard in Manhasset. Daniel Yi, MedMen’s senior vice president of corporate communications and investor relations, made the disclosure Monday evening in email to Blank Slate Media. “The opposition was obviously very vocal and they made it very clear they don’t want us there, so we’re moving on,” Yi said Tuesday. MedMen’s current dispensary in the town is in an office building in North New Hyde Park. It has four dispensaries in the state, the maximum allowed under New York’s medical marijuana program. It had planned to relocate from North New Hyde Park to Manhasset. It will continue operating out of North New Hyde Park as it reviews options for a new location internally and with the state Department of Health, Yi said.
The action comes after the Town of North Hempstead passed a law in November banning medical marijuana dispensaries from operating as retail outlets. The vote was preceded by months of vocal opposition from Manhasset civic leaders and an October"protest"held by area parents and attended by local politicians. Protesters harked on having marijuana in a visible location that is also down the street from Munsey Park Elementary School. They said they did not want it to influence youth, despite the fact that one must have a license from the state to access medical marijuana and regulated recreational marijuana is expected to only be legal for those 21 or older. On Tuesday night, the Town Board approved zoning regulations that limit where dispensaries can be located and how many there can be in the Town of North Hempstead. On Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his intention to legalize adult-use marijuana in New York in 2019. Continued on Page 59
PHOTO BY TERI WEST
Maria Herrington, a Munsey Park Elementary School parent, at last Thursday night’s Board of Education meeting where the group discussed ways to add classrooms to the school. See story on page 2.
Bow Tie current state not sustainable: lawyer BY D E M I G U O
theater in its current state. Though “maintaining a The lawyer for the compa- movie theater is not off the tany that purchased the Manhas- ble,” part of the space will have set and Roslyn Bow Tie cinemas to be devoted to other uses, the said that it is “not financially lawyer, Paul Bloom, a former viable” to leave Manhasset’s Great Neck village justice and
trustee, said at a meeting of the Council of Greater Manhasset Civic Associations last Wednesday. He represents Cinemas GMC LLC, the new owner of" the two theaters. Continued on Page 12
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