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Guercin gets new admin role
WAV I N G T H E F L A G
Principal named curriculum chief BY N O A H M A N S K A R Three outsiders have joined the Herricks school district’s central administration since 2015, but the latest addition comes from within. The school board on Thursday appointed K. Elizabeth Guercin, the Searingtown School principal, as the new assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, eective Sept. 1. She replaces Christine Finn, who is leaving to become superintendent of the Shelter Island school district. Guercin has been the elementary school principal for nine years, and has taken an active role in developing new curricular initiatives, district ofďŹ cials said. She said she wants to build on Herricks’ academic growth in recent years. “We’re a high-performing district, and I think the district just doesn’t want to remain Continued on Page 82
Supervisor Judi Bosworth and Councilwoman Lee Seeman celebrate the 70th anniversary of India’s independence. See story on page 22.
No eclipse glasses? No problem North Shore events offered chance to see phenomenon without hard-to-get shades B Y N O A H M A N S K A R the continental United States weren’t sure at ďŹ rst whether locally around 2:44 p.m. MonThough protective glasses were in short supply, there were plenty of ways to catch a glimpse of Monday’s solar eclipse without them. The Port Washington Public Library streamed the total solar eclipse — the ďŹ rst visible from
since 1979 — drawing about 200 people, including 90 children from the Port Washington Children’s Center. The nearby Sands Point Preserve Conservancy taught another 200 people how to make pinhole viewers out of cardboard boxes while also streaming NASA’s eclipse video. “They seemed really fascinated by it,� Dan Chuzmir, the head of community relations for the Port Washington Public Library, said. “We
people would be interested in watching it on the screen but people seemed to really enjoy it.� Eclipse-chasers from across the nation ocked to places from Salem, Oregon, in the west to Charleston, South Carolina, in the east to experience totality, the period during which the moon completely blocks the sun. North Shore residents could only see about 70 percent of the sun blocked. The eclipse peaked
day, nearly three hours after totality started on the West Coast. The hot eclipse commodity was a pair of glasses with a special ďŹ lter that blocks out all visible light except the sun’s ultrabright beams. Fred Rapp, an optometrist who owns Focal Point Optical in Garden City Park, said he sold 50 pairs of the glasses for $5 apiece in about three days last week. One woman alone bought 10 pairs, he said, but the oďŹƒce saved one for its sta. Continued on Page 82
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