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Friday, December 21, 2018
Vol. 3, No. 51
Port WashingtonTimes NEW YEAR’S DINING GUIDE
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Sands Point police chief to retire in Jan.
LET’S SHAKE ON IT
Richard Lertora to leave after 37 years with department BY J E S S I C A PA R K S Sands Point Police Chief Richard Lertora is to retire from his post in January. The village Board of Trustees approved his termination pay at its meeting on Tuesday. He has held the position since August 2015, when he replaced! Mark Mandel, who had held the post for 10 years. Lertora, 61, previously was a lieutenant for the Sands Point Police Department. He!has been on Sands Point’s police force for 37 years. In a telephone interview, Lertora said he is retiring because it’s time. He said when he started someone told him that he would know when it was time to leave, and now is “as good time as any.” He said that his greatest accomplishment as police chief was all of the officers he has hired over the years. He said he is happy to
leave the department to such great officers, and he expects they will be there for the next 20 or 30 years. “Everyone that I have hired is an absolutely great cop that has a great future,” he said. He said that he will miss coming into the department in the morning and seeing all of his fellow officers, but he is sure he will be back to visit. He added that working for the Sands Point Police Department has been a terrific experience and he “could not ask for a better Police Department or a better area to work.” He said that the crime rate has stayed steady during his time as police chief. “Sands Point has always been a low-crime area and has remained a low-crime area,” he said. The Sands Point Police Department’s jurisdiction covers three Continued on Page 69
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Port Washington Lions Club President Jim Contino presents technology grant to Joseph Bruno, the president and CEO of Helen Keller Services. See story on page 2.
North Hempstead limits medical marijuana spots BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN
capping how many dispensaries can be in the town at two and relegating them to specific The Town of North Hemp- districts. The passage came despite stead passed a second law aiming to control marijuana a decision by MedMen, a candispensaries on Tuesday night, nabis company, to cancel a plan
to move a North New Hyde Park-based medical marijuana dispensary to Northern Boulevard in Manhasset. “We’ve moved on,” Daniel Yi, a spokesman for MedMen, Continued on Page 21
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