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Manhasset kids to get two new cafeterias Munsey Park, secondary school renovations on track for Sept. 5 BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I Students at Munsey Park Elementary School and Manhasset Secondary School will have renovated cafeterias when they return next week. Manhasset Deputy Superintendent Rosemary Johnson said during a Board of Education meeting last Thursday that as of this summer, all the district’s cafeterias are air-conditioned. The cafeteria at Munsey Park, Johnson said, was gutted this summer. A separate cold lunch line was added to speed students through faster and give them more time to eat and allow children to line up inside the cafeteria. “The Munsey Park cafeteria was never made to handle the volume of students that pass through the cafeteria,� Johnson said. “In addition, the students had to queue up for the serving line in the hallway and therefore be quiet and

observe all the rules of the hallway when lunchtime is a time for relaxation and socialization. What we have been able to achieve is now the students will be able to line up in the cafeteria and have all the beneďŹ ts of lining up in the cafeteria waiting for their food.â€? All of the kitchen equipment has been replaced through the district’s cafeteria fund, and Johnson said the tile work should be ďŹ nished soon. Later this school year, Johnson said, the sound panels will be replaced in the cafeteria as well. The secondary school cafeteria is a two-stage project to ultimately bump out an exterior wall and provide more seating. Johnson said the ďŹ rst phase of the project was replacing underground oil tanks before the foundation is poured and the wall is moved in phase two. “When you go into the cafeteria, you will see a wall has been Continued on Page 74

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Roadwork Ahead crews work on Aug. 25 to finish repaving Cove Road in Plandome Heights. The repaving is part of a larger $1.2 million capital improvement plan kicked off last fall.

Plandome Heights road work nears completion state leaders. Plandome Heights Mayor Kenneth Riscica gave former The Village of Plandome state Sen. Jack Martins and Heights is working through current state Sen. Elaine Philit’s $1.2 million capital plan lips a tour of the village’s ongothanks in part to grants from ing road improvement project

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Friday, thanking both for helping secure funding. “Roughly 60 percent of the money is village money, and 40 percent is this grant,� Riscica said. “Without that grant, we Continued on Page 74

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