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Friday, June 11, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 24
NORTHWELL CHOIR ADVANCES
FLOWER HILL 5K FOR A CAUSE
COUNTY EYES POLICE DIVERSITY
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Residents threatened at gunpoint
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Man allegedly tries to rob Roslyn home BY R O S E W E L D ON A Roslyn man was arrested Monday night after allegedly threatening two people in their Pine Drive North home with a gun, the Nassau County Police Department’s Sixth Squad reported. According to detectives, Daniel Conwell, 40, was involved in a verbal argument with a 50-year-old man and a 79-yearold woman while at a residence on the street in the Village of Roslyn. Whether or not he knew the two victims prior to the encounter was not disclosed and the victims’ identities were not revealed. The argument escalated and Conwell allegedly pulled out what appeared to be a black handgun and pointed it at the victims, demanding money, the detectives said. The victims were able to convince Conwell to leave the residence and then called 911. K-9 officers responded and after a brief search of the area located Conwell near an interContinued on Page 35
PHOTO COURTESY OF NORTH SHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT
Sea Cliff School students take on the tug-of-war in their school’s Field Day last week.
Dejana site broke pollution rules: state Trash-hauler’s parent company hit with concerns regarding runoff BY N O A H M A N S K A R State officials have accused one of the North Shore’s largest municipal-services companies of violating rules meant to protect local waters from pollution, Blank Slate Media has learned.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation said Westbury-based Outworx Group flouted state regulations by letting potentially polluted stormwater run from its Manorhaven industrial property into wetlands adjacent to the site without the proper safeguards in place. The facility at 12 Manorhaven Blvd. is home to Dejana Industries, the maintenance and trashhauling outfit that serves
several North Shore municipalities as an Outworx subsidiary. State officials who inspected the Dejana site on Jan. 7 in response to a complaint found the facility was discharging stormwater without a so-called State Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit, which requires companies to take steps to prevent pollution from such runoff, the DEC said. The officials documented stormwater runoff that “may
have been in contact with street cleaning debris,” a potential source of pollution, according to the DEC. “Stormwater coming into contact with industrial waste material can pick up pollutants and discharge into the local waters,” the agency told Blank Slate Media in an email. “As such, permit coverage is needed along with a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan outlining best Continued on Page 34
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