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Flower Hill passes light display law
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Resident says he expected passage, unsure if he will put up decorations BY LU K E TOR R A N C E After months of debate, the Flower Hill Board of Trustees passed a law on Monday that would regulate lighting displays in the village. Called the “exhibitions law,” the new rule will require homes that have “illumination of an outside area” that resulted in 20 or more people visiting on three days within a 10-day period to obtain a permit from the village. While the law makes no mention of Christmas, its passage is a reaction to the holiday light display of village resident Robert Young. Young’s annual light display on Sunnyvale Road is a popular holiday tradition, but the increase in visitors has led to frustrated neighbors and village officials. Under the new law, the appli-
cant will have to provide the village with a detailed description of the display. The applicant will be required to mail all residents in a 200-foot radius of the display a notice of a hearing on the display. The village board will be able to impose hours of operation and charge a fee that would cover the village’s cost related to the display. This could cover costs for advertising, stenographic minutes and legal fees and consultants. In order to cover this, applicants will be required to make a $500 deposit. “This allows for the village to properly manage these events,” said Deputy Mayor" Brian Herrington, who wrote the law. “I’d say overall, I think we’ve made a lot of progress on this and I’m hopeful it will help the community.” Continued on Page 103
PHOTO BY LUKE TORRANCE
Don Horvath instructs a student to use a smartphone to take a pictures of food labels at the Helen Keller National Center in Sands Point. Last week was dedicated to deaf-blind awareness, which the center does every year at the end of June. See story on page 3.
The North Shore through George Washington’s eyes BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN
mansions, but one of farmers and patriots. This is according to “George When George Washington Washington’s 1790 Grand Tour toured the North Shore as pres- of Long Island,” a book set to ident for the first time in 1790, be released on Monday, which it was a land not of Gold Coast documents the five-day tour
the former general took across Long Island, a place he once left in “great haste” 14 years earlier in the devastating Battle of Long Island. The book’s author, Joanne Continued on Page 115
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