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Friday, January 1, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 1
HEALTH, WELLNESS AND BEAUTY GUIDE
BED BATH & BEYOND IN MANHASSET CLOSES
COUNTY BILL SEEKS TO AID RESTAURANTS
PAGES 19-22
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Dems find ally in Trump on stimulus
MORLEY CHRISTMAS
Press for payments of $2K but McConnell thwarts Senate vote BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Local officials called on U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) to push for $2,000 stimulus checks for American citizens after President Donald Trump signed a $900 billion coronavirus relief bill into law on Sunday night. Congress approved the nation’s second stimulus package to aid people in the ongoing fight against the coronavirus pandemic last week. The bill passed in the House 359-53 and in the Senate 92-6. The measure calls for direct payments of $600 to adults and children, payments of $300 per week for workers receiving unemployment benefits through March 14 and $20 billion in Economic Injury Disaster Grants. Despite signing the legislation after a five-day delay, Trump advocated for an increase of $1,400 for the second wave of stimulus checks for American citizens.
“$2000 for our great people, not $600! They have suffered enough from the China Virus!!!” Trump tweeted on Tuesday. Local officials on Long Island and in New York expressed support for the increased payments. “With Trump finally signing the bipartisan agreement, more relief is on the way. But it is not nearly enough,” U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City) said Monday. “Today, the House will vote to increase direct payment checks to $2,000, just like the President wishes. Now he must get his Republican colleagues in Congress on board.” On Monday, the Democraticled House voted 275-134 to increase the payments to $2,000, but the measure’s fate in the Republican-controlled Senate was unclear. “The President’s cynical ploy to threaten the COVID relief package to obscure his dark of night Continued on Page 27
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE BRYANT LIBRARY’S LOCAL HISTORY COLLECTION
A hand-drawn illustration by writer and Roslyn Estates resident Christopher Morley for his 1927 children’s novel “I Know a Secret,” posted on Instagram by the Bryant Library’s Local History Center in celebration of Christmas.
Former judge, East Hills Deputy Mayor Stack dies BY R O S E W E L D ON Elaine Jackson “Jackie” Stack, a retired justice of the New York State Supreme Court who twice served as deputy mayor of the Village of East
Hills, has died at age 89. A Mineola resident near the end of her life, she died on Dec. 19 at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset due to complications from COVID-19.
Born and raised in the South Bronx as the youngest child of bookkeeper Elsa Kamioner and hotel caterer and Polish immigrant Bernard Jackson, Jackson graduated from Continued on Page 27
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