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Friday, July 21, 2017
Vol. 5, No. 29
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Munsey Park mayor silences local residents
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DeMento bans four from speaking at hearing about walkway project BY A M A N DA C O P KOV The Munsey Park mayor silenced four village residents — including two former village officials — during a public hearing Wednesday night, saying they “did not have the right” to offer comment about a new walkway slated to be built in the village. Sargent Place resident Brian Dunning, former Trustee Jim McGivney, former Deputy Mayor Deborah Miller and Allston Place resident Nathy Yakaitis were prevented from speaking about the walkway, which would lead from the Congregational Church of Manhasset’s parking lot to the Village Hall property and then to the Munsey Park Elementary School. Saying he was tired of hearing from the same “peanut gallery” at every meeting, DeMento chose not to recognize the residents during a public hearing about the plan. The residents had been raising their hands and waiting to speak.
“You do not have the right to speak at this public hearing because it is not your public hearing,” DeMento said. The meeting then continued, with trustees Jennifer Noone and Lawrence Ceriello saying the village “owes it to the residents” to not make Sargent Place, a nearby street, a “driveway to the school.” The walkway project will allow parents to park in the church’s parking lot so that they can “safely walk their children to and from school while avoiding the sidewalk along Northern Boulevard,” the village website says. The village Board of Trustees approved the plan Wednesday night. DeMento implied that Dunning’s lack of support for the walkway meant he did not care whether children died because none of Dunning’s children attend Manhasset public schools. Dunning demanded an apology from DeMento but the mayor refused. Continued on Page 50
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Long Island Edge coach Kent Hitchcock, right, suffered a near-fatal cardiac arrest during the team’s championship game in March, and his team hosted the Edge Out Heart Disease fundraiser Sunday for the Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital where Hitchcock was treated. See story on page 3.
North Hills Inisfada site needs variances for OK by the Manhasset Bay Group Inc. for the proposed Crest subdivision at the former Inisfada The North Hills Planning Retreat House site, but most of Board held a public hearing last the questions from residents do Wednesday on a draft environ- not have answers at this stage. The 30.46-acre property mental impact study submitted
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is designed with one entrance and exit to the neighborhood with 46 single-family homes planned around a ring road. The designer of the master plan, Oliver Schaper, said origiContinued on Page 50
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