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Friday, June 9, 2023
Vol. 9, No. 23
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SCHREIBER SPRING CONCERT
Charged in killing of Roslyn teens BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z The driver charged with killing two Roslyn teenagers in a car crash last month was traveling 95 miles per hour on the wrong side of the road while drunk and with cocaine in his system, prosecutors said on Friday. Roslyn resident Amandeep Singh was charged with multiple offenses, including aggravated vehicular homicide, first-degree vehicular manslaughter, second-degree manslaughter, leaving the scene of an auto accident with a fatality, Driving While Intoxicated and two counts of second-degree assault. The two killed were Roslyn Middle Schoolers Drew Hassenbein and Ethan Falkowitz, both 14. Singh appeared at a Brooklyn appeals court on Friday where his attorney, James Kousouros, advocated for his client to be released on a bond. “He has longstanding community ties, he is 35 years of age, he has no criminal record, he has a degree in civil engineering from New York University and owns a successful business in which he employs up to 85 people,” Kousouros said in a statement to Blank Slate Media. “He is married with two children and owns a home in which his family lives. While we certainly acknowledge the seriousness of the offenses, under the Continued on Page 41
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PORT WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT
Schreiber High School students perform at their Spring Concert.
Thousands gather for Harborfest Nautical festival includes craft vendors, local eateries along Manhasset Bay BY C A M E RY N O A K ES On a cloudy Sunday, thousands of people gathered along Lower Main Street and the Manhasset Harbor to explore craft vendors, indulge in local eateries and celebrate the town’s bay for Harborfest. Harborfest is a Port Washington Festival that salutes the town’s nauti-
cal heritage and environmental preservation of the harbor, hosted by the Port Washington Chamber of Commerce and the Town of North Hempstead. Chamber member Leslie Ann Jacobi said the festival was started in 1991 to save the Manhasset Bay and raise environmental awareness about the harbor.
The festival is also one of the chamber’s fund-raising events to cover the organization’s costs for the rest of the year, Jacobi said. The festival featured a variety of craft vendors, live entertainment, cruises in the bay, games, fire boat demonstrations and much more along the town dock, Manhasset Bay and Lower Main Street.
The craft fair included dozens of local craft vendors selling a variety of products from crocheted stuffed animals to handmade pottery. Eileen Supran, owner of Luv on the Shells, participated in her first Harborfest selling her hand-painted clam shells. Supran scours the South Shore Continued on Page 42
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