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Friday, July 12, 2019
Vol. 7, No. 28
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GRIST MILL STATE SEEKS FIRST WORK CONTINUES CAP ON DIOXANE
PAGES 29-44
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Roslyn’s Rust to row for U.S. national team
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FILLING THE SKY
Member of Port Rowing preparing for world championship in Tokyo BY J E S S I C A PA R K S Lindsey Rust of Roslyn has been selected to compete on the world stage with the U.S. junior national under-19 rowing team. Rust is the first rower with Port Rowing of Port Washington to be invited to the identification camp for the national team, a precursor to being selected. The team is expected to be finalized by July 18, according to Port Rowing women’s head coach Isa Rahman, but he said it isn’t likely to be adjusted unless someone gets hurt before then. The world championship is in early August in Tokyo. Rahman said the junior national teams always inaugurate the course that is to be used for the next year’s Olympic Games going back to the 1970s. He said it is a huge success for a member of a community-based rowing team to be selected to compete with rowers from much larger
organizations. Rust is currently practicing at a camp in Princeton, New Jersey, where she has been since she progressed to phase two of the selection process in which the pool was narrowed from about 45 to 25 girls. Rahman said Rust has been competing for a spot on the four or eight rowing teams. He said being selected took a lot of hard work and planning from Rust, with whom he has been working toward this goal for a number of years. She really wanted to get on the junior national team this year, the last year she was eligible, in order to have a better chance to compete with the under-23 team in the future, Rahman said. Rust put a lot of time in to achieve her goal, doing a lot of work on the margins and training when many others weren’t, her coach of three years said. Continued on Page 58
PHOTO BY ALAN SLOYER COURTESY OF THE VILLAGE OF EAST HILLS
The Village of East Hills hosted performances, food and a fireworks show on July 3 in honor of Independence Day.
Residents oppose, brace for Macy’s development BY T E R I W EST Richard Bentley, who leads the conglomerate of all of Manhasset’s civic groups, described it as “everybody’s worst fear.”
A development with three rental unit apartment buildings, an office building and hotel along Manhasset’s Northern Boulevard and Community Drive proposed by Macy’s and Brookfield Properties is simply
far too big, he said. After Brookfield and Macy’s debuted the plan for the Manhasset Square project to the Council of Greater Manhasset Civics Associations in May, disContinued on Page 58
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