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Friday, January 22, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 4
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK
HEIGHTS COULD NIX SUOZZI, RICE PLANNING BOARD VOTE TO IMPEACH
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Cuomo, Curran seeking more, getting less Pfizer rejects governor’s request to purchase vaccines directly BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z
PHOTO COURTESY OF MANHASSET-LAKEVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT
Emergency Medical Services Capt. Lee Genser of the Manhasset-Lakeville Fire Department receives a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Despite encouraging trends for vaccination distribution on Long Island, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and Gov. Andrew Cuomo continued to say that the process needs to be sped up. Cuomo sent a letter to Pfizer’s chairman and CEO, Albert Bourla, after the state received 50,000 fewer vaccine doses this week than last week. Cuomo asked Bourla if the state could purchase vaccines directly from Pfizer rather than obtaining them from the federal initiative Op-
eration Warp Speed. “It is abundantly clear that these vaccines are the weapons that will finally win the war against COVID-19,” Cuomo said in the letter. “But with hospitalizations and deaths increasing across the country this winter, we are in a footrace with the virus, and we will lose unless we dramatically increase the number of doses getting to New Yorkers.” Pfizer, in a statement, said the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services would need to approve for the state to conduct a transaction Continued on Page 36
Application for 7-Eleven withdrawn BY R O S E W E L D ON
Plandome Road in Manhasset has been withdrawn, according Following intensely negative to North Hempstead Councilfeedback from the surround- woman Veronica Lurvey (Ding community, an application Great Neck). The site is a former meto place a 7-Eleven at a site on
chanic’s shop at 260 Plandome Road that owner David Mandel separated into stalls and offers to rent for commuters taking the Long Island Rail Road, with the Manhasset station directly across the street. Lurvey, who counts Manhasset in her district, made the announcement at a Jan. 13 meeting of the Council of Greater Manhas-
set Civic Associations, held over Zoom. “I would like to kick off 2021 by telling you that community action works and that the 7-Eleven applicants have withdrawn the application,” Lurvey said. “It has been removed from the [Board of Zoning Appeals] calendar.” The council first voiced displeasure with the proposal when
the applicants appeared before it in mid-June, objecting over traffic issues and the store selling vaping products close to the Manhasset Secondary School, among other things. A petition against the proposal began the same month. Created by resident and activist Mary Kay Barket, it received over 1,200 signatures. Continued on Page 27
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