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Veterans honored in parade
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Port celebrates Memorial Day BY ST E P H E N ROMANO Rain didn’t stop Port Washington veterans from marching down Main Street and Port Washington Boulevard in the annual Memorial Day parade to honor fallen soldiers on Monday. It also didn’t halt the support they received from a large crowd on Main Street, with small children standing on the edge of sidewalks holding American ags, and adults and fellow veterans clapping and saluting. Patriotic tunes blared from Port Washington school bands’ instruments and cheerleaders waved red, white and blue pompoms as they marched beside veterans groups, police and ďŹ re personnel, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, and veteran supporters. “This day is for our veterans,â€? Kathy Santoli, a Port Washington resident, said. “We’re honoring the veterans.â€? Burt Lewis, a Port Washington resident of 76 years, who was deployed to Germany durContinued on Page 79
PHOTO BY KAREN RUBIN
The Town of North Hempstead honored veterans during its Memorial Day fireworks and commemoration ceremony on Saturday at North Hempstead Beach Park in Port Washington. See more photos on page 74.
Village to extend moratorium: Avena Manorhaven trustees will vote at June’s meeting; Thypin Steel project still up in the air The moratorium, which was passed in June and then extended in January, has halted Manorhaven Mayor Jim Av- development on the village’s ena said Thursday that the vil- waterfront as the board and an lage board plans to extend the appointed advisory committee waterfront development mora- have discussed plans for the land. torium in June. Avena told residents about the extension at Thursday’s Board of Trustee meeting, saying although there have been rumors that the moratorium would not
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be extended, the board will vote on it at June’s meeting. In March, residents at a public hearing urged the village’s Waterfront Advisory Committee to seek to continue the waterfront moratorium, maintain the current zoning and allow access to the waterfront. When the moratorium was extended in January, it ďŹ rst had to be approved by the Nassau County Planning Commission, but it is unclear if the village
needs the same approval again. Eorts to reach Donald Badaczewski, the chairman of the Waterfront Advisory Committee, were unavailing. The Manorhaven Action Committee, one of the most outspoken civic groups on the preservation of the waterfront, also submitted a list of ideas and things for the board to look into at the hearing, including zoning, the nature preserve, global Continued on Page 78
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