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Friday, February 8, 2019
Vol. 7, No. 6
GUIDE TO KOBLENZ WRITES GOV VALENTINE’S DAY OVER PROPOSED CUTS
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Animal delivery to Pups4Love leads to assault Joanne’s Gourmet owner suffers punches after filming pups’ arrival BY J E D HENDRIXSON A Missouri man has been arrested in connection with an assault on a Roslyn man last Wednesday outside a pet store, Pups4Love, in Albertson. Christopher Hyde, 40, of Springfield, Missouri, has been charged with third-degree assault after kicking and punching Rino DiMaria in the parking lot of the puppy store located at 957 Willis Ave., according to Nassau County police. Police are still searching for two other men wanted in the incident. Hyde is not an employee at Pups4Love. DiMaria said he was recording the delivery of dogs to the store with his cellphone before the assault occurred. The confrontation has sparked a social media backlash against Pups4Love on both Facebook and Yelp since DiMaria published a video of the altercation online in which he and store owner Barry Forrest en-
gaged in an obscenity-riddled argument before the assault occurred. In a statement posted to Pups4Love’s Facebook page, the store wrote that DiMaria verbally taunted the man and others from his car, and apologized for the language that Forrest used in the video, calling it “indelicate” and saying that he “let his anger get the better of him under the circumstances.” “The man who verbally insulted the delivery drivers also made allegations that our puppies come from ‘puppy mills,’ which is untrue,” the statement said. “All of our dogs come from USDA certified and licensed breeders.” Forrest declined to provide additional comment. DiMaria, owner of Joanne’s Gourmet Pizza on Northern Boulevard in Roslyn, said that while sitting in his car in the parking lot before dropping his dry cleaning off, he observed two white vans unloading dogs. Continued on Page 67
PHOTO COURTESY OF ROSLYN HIGHLANDS
Barney Murtagh at the celebration for his 50 years of service to the Roslyn Highlands Hook and Ladder, Engine and Hose Company.
Murtagh honored for 50 years at Roslyn Highlands BY T E R I W EST
commemorating his 50th year with the department. Last SunFourteen plaques are dis- day, Barney Murtagh joined played on a wall in a spacious their ranks. People of all ages clad in room in the Roslyn Highlands the Roslyn Highlands navy firehouse. Each features a volunteer, jacket and matching cap gath-
ered to celebrate the company’s past president in the firehouse Monday evening. “You’ve done so much for so many people,” Town of North Hempstead Clerk Wayne Continued on Page 66
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