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Baxter House dispute goes underground
F IGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS
Owner, district battle over prices BY LU K E TOR R A N C E In early October, the 200-yearold Baxter House was demolished, ending a long-running battle between the home’s owner, Sabrina Wu, and local residents who wanted to save the building. But the demolition marked the beginning of a new dispute between Wu and the Port Washington Water Pollution Control District. Wu and her attorney, Thomas Levin, wrote in separate letters that the sewer district was unnecessarily requiring her to disconnect from the main located beneath Shore Road instead of on Wu’s property. “To process the disconnect!at the main… will cost us 28 to 30 times of what a standard homeowner [is] expected to pay for the sewage disconnect,” Wu wrote in a letter on Sept. 8. Disconnecting from the sewer main would cost Wu about! $35,000, according to a
letter by her attorney, because the main is located beneath Shore Road. When the owner wanted to reconnect to the main, Levin wrote that it would cost an additional $35,000. “If this $70,000+ cost can be avoided, it would be a great benefit to Ms. Wu,” he wrote. Windsor Kinney, the superintendent for the water pollution control district, said that disconnects usually cost around $4,000 to $15,000 and that the district offers several licensed contractors so homeowners can get the best possible price. “We don’t deal with just one contractor, so you can hire someone cheaper,” he said. Baxter Estate Trustee Chris Ficalora suggested that the increased cost might have been due to the water pollution control district commissioners’ frustration that the Baxter House was allowed to be torn down. Continued on Page 91
PHOTO BY AMELIA CAMURATI
Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement advocate Jack Davis spent nearly 30 years in the New York prison system and spoke at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock on Sunday during the “Photo Requests from Solitary” art exhibit. See story on page 20.
Leaders among 17 MS-13 members charged: D.A. B Y R E B E C C A K L A R trafficking in Nassau County “Sailors,” are among the indictSeventeen alleged members and associates of the MS13 gang have been indicted on charges of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and drug
and across several states, District Attorney Madeline Singas announced on Thursday. The leaders of the two Long Island-based MS-13 subgroups, the “Hollywoods” and
ed alleged members, Singas said at a news conference. Singas said the investigations are ongoing and she could not reveal the identities Continued on Page 99
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