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Friday, September 3, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 36
BACK TO SCHOOL
THE GHOST DIES
HOCHUL UPDATE ADDS 12K COVID DEATHS
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Residents question masks at board meet
G E T YO U R D O G S H E R E
School reopening plan including mandate at odds with attendees BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Members of the Manhasset community spoke out against mask mandates and aspects of the school district’s plans to reopen schools during last week’s Board of Education meeting. The district’s plans to reopen, which coincide with recommendations from federal and state agencies, feature mask mandates for indoor activities, regardless of a student or staff member’s vaccination status, along with three feet of social distancing in the classroom. Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered districts across the state to mandate masks in efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Concerned parents in the Manhasset school district voiced their opinions on the effectiveness of mask-wearing with a recent surge in delta variant cases throughout the country during the meeting. One mother with two children enrolled in the district
expressed the need for children to have breaks where masks can be taken off. “These kids are going to be going from classrooms to hallways having no mask breaks,” she said. “I don’t know how that was not thought of.” The reopening presentation to the public indicated that mask breaks would be provided to elementary students during lunch. Secondary school students will also be permitted mask breaks during lunch, with 11th- and 12thgrade students being permitted to eat lunch off campus this year. Another resident spoke on the need for the district to analyze upto-date scientific information on how effective masks and social distancing are. “There should be scientific data given to everybody about the effects of these masks and how they work,” the resident said. “The truth is, they don’t work. It’s getContinued on Page 35
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE
The North Shore Animal League held a shopping and adoption event at the Americana shopping center with wives of several Mets players over the weekend.
County has over 1M with at least one vaccination BY R OB E RT PELAEZ
on Monday that more than one million residents have received at least one dose of the vaccine. As of Wednesday, With concerns about the delta variant of the coronavirus 1,003,201 Nassau residents growing, Nassau County Exec- had received at least their utive Laura Curran announced first dose of the vaccine, with
906,234 having a completed vaccination series, according to figures from the state Health Department. Although Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn have Continued on Page 35
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