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Friday, February 26, 2021
Vol. 6, No. 9
Port WashingtonTimes HEALTH, WELLNESS AND BEAUTY GUIDE PAGES 19-23
TOKU LICENSE SUSPENDED AGAIN
COVID-19 VARIANT FOUND IN GLEN HEAD
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Market upgrades questioned
KINGDOM OF ICE
Proposed changes to Uncle Giuseppe’s meet with concerns from residents BY R O S E W E L D ON Proposed renovations to a Port Washington Boulevard market have raised questions from nearby residents about traffic and noise. Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace filed a petition with the Town of North Hempstead to rezone part of its property in Port Washington from “Parking” to “Business-A” and to remove the covenant that was placed on that property, according to Councilwoman Mariann Dalimonte. “The covenant that is currently in place states that west of the current building must be a parking lot,” Dalimonte said in a newsletter to her constituents last week. “Uncle Giuseppe’s would like to expand into that parking lot and demolish the existing tenant space on the northeast of the property and repurpose that area into a parking lot.” Owned by the company of the same name and one of nine such
markets on Long Island, Uncle Giuseppe’s presented its plan in a meeting on Tuesday night with the community and Dalimonte in attendance, answering questions received beforehand from residents. Nick Stripp, director of facilities and construction management for Uncle Giuseppe’s, began the meeting, conducted over Zoom. “We’re really excited about our plans and we’ve done a lot of work to ensure that we’re providing what we believe to be the best design for the local community,” Stripp told the meeting’s 60 attendees. Among the proposed changes are the addition of a closed trash compactor, full finishes on all four sides of the building, and some changes to the inside, modeled after the company’s North Babylon location, albeit smaller to fit the Port store’s 20,000 square feet. New construction would also extend from the current building. Continued on Page 27
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Castle Gould at the Sands Point Preserve received a dusting of snow last week.
Area summer camps plan 2021 reopening BY R O S E W E L D ON With the announcement from the state that day and overnight camps can open this summer, camps across the North Shore are beginning
preparations. The announcement came last week from Gov. Andrew Cuomo during a news conference in which he also said that outdoor amusement parks and family entertainment centers
could begin reopening procedures in the next two months. Specific reopening guidance, including details on timing, will come from the Department of Health in the coming weeks. Continued on Page 28
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