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Friday, January 29, 2021
Vol. 6, No. 5
Port WashingtonTimes HEALTH, WELLNESS 1,100 STUDENTS HAVE TESTED CURRAN EXTENDS AND BEAUTY GUIDE POSITIVE ACROSS N. SHORE GRIEVANCE DEADLINE PAGES 21-28
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‘Play ball’: Nassau backs high-risk sports Districts told to follow state guidelines, will begin Monday BY R O S E W E L D ON Nassau County has announced that it will support the playing of high-risk high school sports in line with state guidance. The action came last Friday on the same day the state said that it would reauthorize the playing of such sports beginning Feb. 1. Guidelines from the New York Department of Health issued on Jan. 21 listed these sports as high risk: basketball, boys lacrosse, competitive cheerleading, football, ice hockey, volleyball and wrestling. Last month the New York State Public High School Athletic Association announced that high-risk sports across all seasons would be postponed until reauthorized by the state, delaying the scheduled start of the high-risk winter sports. Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, who had supported playing sports during the pandemic, said in a statement on Friday
that she had directed the county Health Department to work with school districts “to safely resume school sports according to [state] guidance.” “As Nassau County Executive, I’ve continued to advocate for the safe resumption of organized sports, as well as for keeping our businesses and schools open,” Curran said. “For many, school sports are a path to promising academic and career opportunities. I’m excited to get our kids back on the fields, courts, and ice rinks they love so much. Let’s play ball!” “Effective February 1, 2021, participants in higher-risk sports and recreation activities may partake in individual or distanced group training and organized no/ low-contact group training and, further, may partake in other types of play, including competitions and tournaments, only as permitted by the respective local health authorities (i.e., county health deContinued on Page 36
PHOTO BY ROSE WELDON
Artist and Flower Hill native Spencer Stown stands by the mural he painted outside Joanne’s Gourmet Pizza and Dunkin Donuts at 1067 Northern Blvd. Following complaints to the village, the mural will soon be covered up. See story on page 2.
N.Y. to receive 16% more vaccine doses BY R OB E RT PELAEZ
doses along with guaranteed doses for the next three weeks. The action will increase the Gov. Andrew Cuomo an- number of doses the state renounced on Tuesday that New ceives from 250,000 a week to York will receive a 16 percent roughly 420,000, Cuomo said. He said the state had been increase in coronavirus vaccine
managing to acquire vaccines on a week-to-week basis. Cuomo said the news was confirmed on a call with the National Governors Association, Jeff Zients, the counselor Continued on Page 44
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