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Friday, July 10, 2020
Vol. 5, No. 28
Port WashingtonTimes LIVING CASTAGNA, OWNER CURRAN OUTLINES 50 PLUS OF AMERICANA, DIES DEFICIT PLAN PAGES 25-32
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Judge finds for ExteNet in town case
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LIGHT THE NIGHT
Judgment may include building 16 cell nodes across Port peninsula BY R O S E W E L D ON
A federal judge has decided in favor of wireless infrastructure provider ExteNet Systems in its case against the Town of North Hempstead. Judge Edward Korman of the Eastern District of New York granted the company’s motion for summary judgment in a June 26 order. ExteNet, which had been contracted by Verizon Wireless to build cell nodes across the North Shore, argued in the suit that the town’s council failed to act on the company’s applications to install 16 nodes in areas including Port Washington Estates, Manhasset Bay Estates, Bayview Colony and bordering the Plandome Manor area, according to paperwork filed with the Town of North Hempstead on Aug. 23, 2019, within a “reasonable” time frame. The company said that 14 days after the filings, on Sept. 6, the town paused the 90-day “shot
clock” by “requesting additional information, indicating that the town did not consider ExteNet’s application to be complete.” ExteNet added that North Hempstead received the additional information from the company on Oct. 1, and with the “shot clock” reset by Federal Communications Commission rules, the town had until Dec. 30 to act on the applications. Over the course of the town’s meetings in the ensuing months, the applications were not brought up in public session by the board, “triggering the filing action within 30 days thereafter,” the suit says. A planned public hearing on the applications for March 19, announced the same day as the lawsuit was filed, was canceled due to concerns over the coronavirus. “As the town has produced no reasonable explanation for this delay, ExteNet is entitled to summary judgment on its claim that Continued on Page 43
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Fireworks erupt over the Port Washington peninsula on July 4.
Suozzi, Tuman continue to lead in their primaries BY R O S E W E L D ON Updated vote totals from the Nassau County Board of Elections continue to show U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) and Town of Hempstead
Engineering Commissioner Douglas Tuman hold leads in the primaries for the 3rd and 4th congressional districts, even as thousands of absentee votes remain unreported by the New York State Board of Elec-
tions. In June, Gov. Andrew Cuomo extended the deadline to submit absentee ballots for the congressional primary races until the day of the election on Continued on Page 42
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