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Friday, June 18, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 25
GUIDE TO SUMMER
WHEATLEY TRACK COUNTY CHAMPS
COUNTY, POLICE AGREE ON CONTRACT, CAMERAS
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Anti-Semitic outburst amid property fight
MOVING UP
Roslyn Harbor neighbors’ dispute brings police and village officials BY R O S E W E L D ON A months-long property dispute on the Roslyn Harbor-Glenwood Landing border reached a head with one resident allegedly getting into a physical confrontation with one of his neighbors late last week and shouting anti-Semitic slurs at the neighbor’s home. Eric and Elina Goldman, who live in a Roslyn Harbor home that borders Glenwood Landing, called the Nassau County Police Department after a neighbor identified as Thomas Cerna shouted expletives and anti-Semitic slurs outside their home. The couple also claimed that the police did not properly respond to the situation. The Goldmans moved into the area in July 2020 and say that a dispute involving plantings by their next door neighbor over the property line began in early fall of that year. “Towards the end of the sum-
mer, there was immediately some confrontation regarding plantings on the property line, and this property line dispute ultimately escalated,” Eric Goldman said. “It really got to the point where the police had to come out, where they basically said ‘None of us are professionals. We can’t read surveys. We need to get the property officially staked out. When the stakeout occurs so that we can see the official dividing lines, everything will be clear as day.’ So I thought we’ll nip this in the bud. We’ll get the stake in to show the property line.” On Friday, June 4, Eric Goldman says he worked with Roslyn Harbor Mayor Sandy Quentzal, a village building inspector and “multiple police officers” to make sure that “everything was welldocumented” while the stake denoting the line was put in. “[Quentzal] and I went around taking pictures and videos Continued on Page 35
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NORTH SHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT
Seniors of the North Shore High School attended the Moving Up ceremony on June 3, a longstanding tradition for the high school.
Flower Hill 5K returns to remember Oppo BY R O S E W E L D ON
Katherine Rose “Katie” Oppo had graduated from Over 200 people took part Manhasset High School in in the return of a 5K run over 2009 and was preparing for her the weekend to honor a Flower sophomore year at Johns HopHill native who died of a rare kins University when in 2010 she was diagnosed with stage ovarian cancer.
four small cell carcinoma of the ovary, hypercalcemic type — an aggressive form of the disease — and died only a few months later in 2011. The Katie Oppo Research Continued on Page 35
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