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Friday, July 30, 2021
Vol. 6, No. 31
Port WashingtonTimes HEALTH & WELLNESS
TOWN, COUNTY TO BOYCOTT BEN & JERRY’S
LAVINE WARNS CUOMO ON AIDE’S COMMENT
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Sands Pt. eyes opt out of cannabis sales Village lacks commercial district but seeks to use time given to discuss BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z The Village of Sands Point Board of Trustees will hold a public hearing next month on whether to allow retail marijuana sales within its borders. The board voted unanimously on Tuesday to set the Aug. 24 hearing. Newly elected Mayor Peter Forman said village officials made the decision “out of an abundance of caution.” “Sands Point, per se, does not have any commercial districts,” Forman said. “We are availing ourselves of the limited time that the state has given us to do so.” Under the state’s new marijuana law, consumption and smoking of cannabis is now legal throughout New York wherever smoking tobacco is legal. Municipalities have until Dec. 31 to refuse to allow retailers to sell the substance, though they will not get to share in any generated tax revenue if they do so.
On Monday, the Village of Williston Park became the latest North Shore municipality to opt out of the retail sale of marijuana. Members of the Williston Park board said that even if they were to allow retail cannabis sales, the village would have limited space for such businesses to establish themselves and little control over how they would operate. Also during Tuesday’s Sands Point meeting, Forman appointed Trustee Jeffrey Moslow to serve as the village’s deputy mayor. Moslow, who grew up in Port Washington, has been a Sands Point resident since 2002. He was appointed a trustee in August 2019 to fill the seat of Marc Silbert, who had died months before. Prior to serving as a trustee, Moslow was a member of the village’s Board of Zoning Appeals. He also attended Tufts University and Harvard Law School and served as a senior partner at Goldman Sachs.
PHOTO COURTESY OF STEVE CUNHA
Manhasset resident James Farrell was one of five people, including his brother Michael, to die in a car crash in Quogue on Saturday evening.
3 Manhasset men killed in Quogue car crash BY S A M U E L E PETRUCCELLI
ing in the hired vehicle, local police said. Approaching midnight on A man driving along a a winding strip of the Montauk narrow highway in Quogue Highway last Saturday, the crashed head-on into an on- driver veered on the two-lane coming Uber, killing three road and collided with a Toyyoung Manhasset residents rid- ota Prius carrying the Manhas-
set passengers, according to Quogue police. The drivers of both cars were also killed, raising the death toll to five. Among the fatalities were Ryan Kiess, 25, and brothers Michael Farrell, 20, and Continued on Page 26
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