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Friday, April 7, 2017
Vol. 5, No. 14
GUIDE TO SPRING DINING
TOWN APPROVES COFFEE SHOP
NASSAU COLISEUM REOPENS
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Strike hits trash pickups
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Meadow Carting workers walk out BY ST E P H E N ROMANO More than 65 workers from Meadow Carting Corp., a Westbury-based garbage company serving many North Shore municipalities, including the Town of North Hempstead, went on strike on Monday, seeking higher wages and better beneďŹ ts. Town and village oďŹƒcials said the strike disrupted or delayed trash collection in municipalities across the North Shore. The workers, who are represented by the National Organization of Industrial Trade Unions, have been picketing Meadow’s main building at 581 Dickens St. in Westbury since Monday, when they rejected the company’s proposed contract. The last contract expired on Friday. “We’re out here to try and get better beneďŹ ts and better pay,â€? said Marco Garcia, a Meadow employee for 11 years. “We haven’t gotten a raise in nine years.â€? Garcia said the Meadow Continued on Page 71
PHOTO COURTESY OF TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD
North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth attended a St. Baldrick’s Head Shaving Bonanza at the Plandome Haircutters on March 26. See story on page 24.
Applause and then resignation call GOP legislators press Mangano to step down as county exec BY N O A H M A N S K A R Norma Gonsalves, the Nassau County Legislature’s Republican majority leader, introduced County Executive Edward Mangano’s annual State of the County address shortly after 1 p.m. on
Monday in the newly renovated Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, a major achievement of Mangano’s administration. Gonsalves and other Nassau legislators applauded Mangano, also a Republican, as he touted the county’s economic growth and ďŹ nancial progress in the eight years since he was elected. But three hours later, Gonsalves and eight other GOP legislators called for
Mangano’s resignation outside his elected oďŹƒcials. ‌ We believe Mineola oďŹƒce — more than ďŹ ve that for the good of the county, of months after his indictment on Nassau County, and the residents that we serve, that our county exfederal corruption charges. ecutive should step “We need to lift the cloud Hempstead Councilman down.â€? Gonsalves, Nithat is above our county govern- Ambrosino arrested, fired colello and Legislator Howard Kopel ment,â€? said LegPAGE 5 (R-Valley Stream) islator Richard — the Legislature’s Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park), the Legislature’s dep- top three Republicans — sent uty presiding oďŹƒcer. “We need Mangano a letter Monday afterContinued on Page 82 to restore the public’s faith in its
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