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Friday, July 13, 2018
Vol. 67, No. 28
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Ferrie to retire as super
W O M E N ’ S H E A LT H
Served district for seven years BY R E B ECC A K L A R The upcoming school year will be the last year Superintendent Ralph Ferrie leads the five high school’s that make up the Sewanhaka Central High School District following a school board vote on Monday approving Ferrie’s retirement. “For the past seven years, I, along with an exceptional administrative team, have worked hard to meet the needs of our students academically, emotionally and culturally, as well as through athletic programs and the arts,” Ferrie said in a district release. Ferrie is retiring after 44 years in education. He was recently named a Nassau BOCES Education Partner Award recipient. When Ferrie came to the Long Island district in 2011, the state had imposed the 2 percent tax cap. Ferrie’s tenure as superintendent also saw reductions in state aid and changes to curriculum as Continued on Page 60
PHOTO BY REBECCA KLAR
North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, left, Councilwoman Anna Kaplan, center, and Hempstead Town Clerk Sylvia Cabana show support for the Reproductive Health Act at Kaplan’s state Senate campaign rally last Thursday. See story on page 6.
GCP pilot to remove 1,4 Dioxane Program seeks to rid Manhasset Hills well of low levels of contaminant BY R E B ECC A K L A R
water through a process using chemical reaction and UV light. “Obviously, 1,4 Dioxane has The Garden City Park Water District has created a pilot been a topic of conversation and program aimed at removing low a hot-button issue lately,”!Garden levels of 1,4 Dioxane, a chemical City Park Water District Superinlinked to cancer, from drinking tendent Michael Levy said.!“The water district has taken it upon itself to get out in front of it and figure out how to treat it.” Right now, 1,4 Dioxane is an unregulated contaminant.
There is a recommended safe drinking water standard of! 50 parts per billion, Levy said. Across Nassau and Suffolk!counties about 70 percent of wells have some detection of 1,4 Dioxane, but the majority of wells are below 1 part per billion, Levy said. In the Garden City Park Water District, all wells except one have less than 1 part per billion 1,4 Dioxane detected.
The well with the highest detected level, the Manhasset Hills well, has 3 parts per billion, and is the site of the pilot study. “Our hope is to make it nondetectable to the best that technology can look for it today” Levy said. The Garden City Park Water District includes, Manhasset Hills, parts of New Hyde Park, parts of Mineola, parts of North Hills, Continued on Page 59
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