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EDUCATION & CAMPS
FLOWER HILL APPOINTS COLLINS AS TRUSTEE
COUNTY COVID-19 CASES, DEATHS DECLINE AGAIN
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Outdoor dining on horizon Curran aims to aid downtowns BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Nassau County Executive Laura Curran is taking steps to revitalize village downtowns battered by the forced shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. On the first day of reopening last week, after 67 days of the New York On Pause quarantine, Curran announced new programs aimed at giving a PHOTO BY MELISSA SPITALNICK lifeline to small businesses and restaurants: a plan to open main Storefronts throughout The Americana in Manhasset were boarded up following incidents of looting in cities around streets for outdoor dining and a program to deliver complete perthe country in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing. See story on page 2. sonal protective equipment kits to small businesses passed over by the federal program. Open Streets, Curran said, creates a fast track for municipalities to get approval from Nassau County to close county roads so restaurants can provide outdoor dining – still under the guidelines of curbside and takeB Y R O S E W E L D O N in Tuesday’s election, being held sional, touted the district’s finan- the coronavirus pandemic, the out – so that restaurants can cial and curricular achievements district’s issues included “high with absentee ballots. achieve a level of business to be enrollment, aging physical conThe candidates for the board A contested seat on the viable. ditions of schools, the need to Manhasset school board and seat are incumbent President PaSee more school offer a challenging curriculum Continued on Page 38 next year’s budget are at stake tricia Aitken and resident Evan Mandery. election coverage and diverse extracurriculars, and school budgets that pressure At a remote candidate on pages 3, 21 property taxes.” forum held by the League Aitken added that while of Women Voters of Port Washington-Manhasset, during her time on the school she hoped that students could Aitken, a financial profes- board, and said that aside from Continued on Page 38
Election to include trustee seat, budget Manhasset school board President Aitken, resident Mandery to vie for spot
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