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Friday, November 15, 2019
Vol. 7, No. 46
SENIOR LIVING
SCHREIBER GIRLS TENNIS TEAMS WINS TITLE
REP. KING TO NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION
PAGES 27-32, 41-46
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Plandome, F. Hill see developments over ExteNet
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Plandome to hold hearing Monday, Flower Hill receives court date BY R O S E W E L D ON The Village of Plandome will hold a public hearing on an application from ExteNet Systems on Monday, Nov. 18, as the latest in a series of villages considering cell nodes within their limits. The hearing comes in the wake of the Village of Flower Hill receiving a date for a conference in federal court in Brooklyn with the wireless infrastructure provider in connection with a lawsuit brought by ExteNet. ExteNet claims in the lawsuit that Flower Hills offiicials were delaying its work with unwarranted objections. Officials from Plandome previously met with representatives from Elite Towers in July. A 71page application filed with the village on Oct. 17 includesa mapdetailing the proposed 10 cell nodes. Three nodes would replace wood poles on Plandome Road, Rockwood Road and Dogwood
Lane. Two nodes would be new wooden poles, one on the end of the Woodedge Road cul-de-sac and the other on Rockwood Road near the Long Island Rail Road’s Plandome station. Another two nodes would be placed within “stealth poles” next to trees on The Ridge and North Drive. One node would be placed on an existing metal lattice tower on Plandome Drive in a corner of the Village Green, another on an existing wooden light pole on Rockwood Road, and one more on an existing wooden pole on Rockwood Road West. Village of Plandome officials would not comment on the upcoming hearing. Verizon Wireless had contracted ExteNet four years ago to install small cell devices in a number of Long Island communities to improve local 4G and later 5G networks. In Flower Hill, ExteNet had Continued on Page 69
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD
Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth and Councilwomen Lee Seeman and Viviana Russell examine some of the quilters creating squares for the town’s Civil Rights historical initiatives. See story on page 71.
Uber driver crashes into Flower Hill pool BY R O S E W E L D ON The “morning routine” for Flower Hill resident Deborah Wrynn was interrupted when a car crashed through her neighbor’s fence and into the
shallow end of her own home’s in-ground pool around 10 a.m. last Wednesday. “I heard a loud bang that shook the house,” Wrynn recalled. “When that happened, I ran downstairs. I noticed
water all across the windows in the rear of the house, saw that my neighbor’s fence was destroyed. And I looked out to see the roof of a car submerged in the pool.” Continued on Page 71
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