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Friday, July 23, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 30
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NASSAU TO GET UP TO $115M IN OPIOID SETTLEMENT
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Herricks alum to pitch for Israel’s team
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Alex Katz joins country’s first baseball squad to compete in the Olympics BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z From humble beginnings at Herricks High School to joining Israel’s national baseball team in the upcoming Olympics, Alex Katz is accomplishing feats only a handful of people in the world can relate to. The 26-year-old Katz, earlier in July, was named to the final 24-man roster for Israel’s first Olympic baseball roster, which will be traveling to Tokyo to compete against other nations around the world later this month. Katz is also a dual citizen of the United States and Israel. “There’s no words to describe the feeling — it still hasn’t hit me yet,” Katz said. “I’m excited for the opening ceremonies and our first game, which will be against Korea.” A Manhasset native, Katz graduated from Herricks in 2012. During his time with the Highlanders, Katz was second-team All-Island
and first-team All-County and was named the Most Valuable Player of the Nassau County Exceptional Senior Game. Some notable performances Katz had at Herricks as a pitcher included games with 15 and 16 strikeouts against top competitors. After high school, he received an offer to play in the Cincinnati Reds organization but declined so he could attend college at St. John’s University. His junior year with the Red Storm proved to be the one that would pave the way for future success. Katz went 3-1 with a 3.40 ERA in 19 mound appearances with 52 strikeouts in 55.2 innings. That same year, Katz and the Red Storm won the Big East baseball championship and secured a berth in the College World Series. In 2015, Katz was selected by the Chicago White Sox organization in the 27th round of the MLB Draft. Katz, in a 2015 interview Continued on Page 26
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ROSLYN LANDMARK SOCIETY
The Roslyn Paper Mill was featured on the 1952 ESSO Long Island Road Map.
Uptick seen in Nassau County COVID-19 cases BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Despite continuous vaccination efforts throughout Nassau County and Long Island, the number of new, daily coro-
navirus cases has neared 100 for the past week, with positivity rates increasing and the new Delta Variant present. According to state Health Department statistics as of Wednesday morning, Nassau
County’s positivity rate was at 2 percent, with a sevenday positivity rate of 1.8 percent. While the numbers pale in comparison to some of the numbers during the peak of the Continued on Page 27
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