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EDUCATION & CAMPS
FLOWER HILL APPOINTS COLLINS AS TRUSTEE
COUNTY COVID-19 CASES, DEATHS DECLINE AGAIN
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Outdoor dining on horizon Curran aims to aid downtowns BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Nassau County Executive Laura Curran is taking steps to revitalize village downtowns battered by the forced shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. On the first day of reopening last week, after 67 days of the New York On Pause quarantine, Curran announced new programs aimed at giving a lifeline to small businesses and restaurants: a plan to open main streets for outdoor dining and a program to deliver complete personal protective equipment kits to small businesses passed over by the federal program. Open Streets, Curran said, creates a fast track for municipalities to get approval from Nassau County to close county roads so restaurants can provide outdoor dining – still under the guidelines of curbside and take-out – so that restaurants can achieve a level of business to be viable. “The shutdown has come at
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Storefronts throughout The Americana in Manhasset were boarded up following incidents of looting in cities around the country in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing. See story on page 13.
School seats, budget at stake in Roslyn Board of Education President Ben-Levy, Vice President Saffron run unopposed BY R O S E W E L D ON
are on the ballot in Tuesday’s election. The two seats on the board Two seats on the Roslyn Board of Education and the bud- are being sought by incumbent Continued on Page 37 get for the 2020-21 school year President Meryl Waxman BenLevy and incumbent Vice President Clifford Saffron, who are running unopposed. Both were first elected in 2005 and are running for their sixth three-year
The district’s proposed budget for the 2020-21 school year is $115,860,057, a $2,669,861 increase from the budget of the 2019-20 year, which totaled $113,190,196. Among the notable additerms on the board. The election is being car- tions in the budget are a college ried out with absentee ballots adviser and new mental health because of the coronavirus pan- intervention approaches, and Continued on Page 37 demic.
See more school election coverage on pages 3, 20
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