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Friday, May 10, 2019
Vol. 4, No. 19
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F. Hill residents question safety of cell nodes ExteNet files applications for 18 antennas to support data service BY S H E L BY TA L C O T T Residents packed the Flower Hill Board of Trustees meeting on Monday and expressed concerns, many regarding potential health risks, about the possible installation of 18 small cell nodes to improve Verizon cellphone service. “My problem with the installation of these nodes is that we don’t have enough research done to know how harmful they really are, and improved service is just not a good enough reason, especially when our service is really currently good now,” said resident Liz Oppo, who is the director of the Katie Oppo research fund, which finances cancer research. The public hearing included a presentation by ExteNet, the company that has filed an application with the village to build the cell nodes for Verizon. ExteNet designs, builds and owns distributed networks for wireless service
providers. The company offers outdoor distribution networks that enable and improve mobile and wireless services in suburban settings, according to its website. “My personal feeling is that there’s no significant health risks,” said Rich Rehak Jr., the company’s senior project manager for the Northeast region-fiber. “It is well, well within the limits of exposure as set by the FCC. As such, I have little concern.” Trustee Kate Hirsch received a round of applause from residents after questioning whether the limit of exposure numbers were really accurate. She said she believed that the last time the health risks were looked at was in 1996. “I know you’re technically assuming it’s under this regulation, which I’m not so sure it is,” Hirsch said to the ExteNet employees present. “I think that it’s a little bit of a hot button with the public obviContinued on Page 82
PHOTO BY JESSICA PARKS
Peter Forman, a Sands Point trustee and commissioner for the Port WashingtonManhasset Office of Emergency Management, donated a bell to NYU Winthrop to signify the end of his cancer treatment.
Sands Pt. trustee rings in end of cancer treatment BY J ES S I C A PA R K S
of Emergency Management, an entrepreneur, husband and father of three. And when he Peter Forman wears many found out he was diagnosed hats — as a trustee in Sands with a rare form of leukemia in Point, the commissioner of Port September, he didn’t let it slow Washington-Manhasset Office him down.
After eight long months, he marked the end of his cancer treatment last Friday morning with three rings of a large ship’s bell that he donated to NYU Winthrop Hospital in Continued on Page 82
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