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Vol. 69, No. 23
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EDUCATION & CAMPS
POPPY’S PLACE SERVES HEALTH CARE WORKERS
COUNTY COVID-19 CASES, DEATHS DECLINE AGAIN
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Outdoor dining on horizon Curran aims to aid downtowns BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Nassau County Executive Laura Curran is taking steps to revitalize village downtowns battered by the forced shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. On the first day of reopening last week, after 67 days of the New York On Pause quarantine, Curran announced new programs aimed at giving a lifeline to small businesses and restaurants: a plan to open main streets for outdoor dining and a program to deliver complete personal protective equipment kits to small businesses passed over by the federal program. Open Streets, Curran said, creates a fast track for municipalities to get approval from Nassau County to close county roads so restaurants can provide outdoor dining – still under the guidelines of curbside and takeContinued on Page 38
PHOTO BY MELISSA SPITALNICK
Storefronts throughout Manhasset were boarded up following incidents of looting in cities around the country in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing. See story on page 13.
Herricks to vote on budget, trustees 2 incumbent Board of Education members are being challenged in Tuesday’s election BY E M M A J ON ES Residents in the Herricks school district will vote on the 2020-21 school budget in Tuesday’s election. Additionally, incumbent Trustees Henry R.
Zanetti and James Gounaris are being challenged by Bhajan S. Ratra and Tarantej S. Arora, respectively. The election is being conducted with absentee ballots because of the coronavirus pandemic. The budget of $120,534,523 is a 2.547 percent increase from the current budget of $117,541,264. The primary reason for
million of the approximately $3 million increase. Another $800,000 to $900,000 will be used to replace the entire wide area network, which they say has long the increase is the district’s con- been a complaint from stutractual obligations, according dents, teachers and parents. Zanetti and Gounaris said to Board of Education members. Contractual obligations such as the upgrade was supposed to raises for teachers and health happen two or three years ago, care contributions mandated by but the grant from the state did Continued on Page 37 the state account for about $1.8
See more school election coverage on pages 2, 3, 12, 37, 45
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