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Friday, September 10, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 37
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FALL SPORTS RETURN
CURRAN CALLS FOR LEGISLATURE TO RETURN
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Roslyn schools see jump in registration Hiring, building may be needed if bump becomes trend BY B R A N D ON DUFFY The number of students entering the Roslyn public schools sharply increased this year, the Board of Education was told last week. Superintendent Alison Brown said at a meeting last Thursday in the Roslyn High School auditorium that families were submitting applications to join the district almost every day. Brown said that 197 new students have completed the
registration process for the 2021-22 school year, including 104 in the month of August. Classes began Sept. 1, and applications are still coming in. The superintendent said over 20 people are in queue, which means their paperwork is in but has not been processed. She said the figures do not include 235 kindergarteners who are also joining the district. According to the New York State Education Department, the district in 2019-20 had a
K-12 population of 3,195. For the year before that, the population was 3,153, a difference of 42. In an email, Brown said, “We welcome all of our new families to the Roslyn School District, and we look forward to providing them with the rich, high-quality practices that the Roslyn School District is known for.” Board President Meryl Waxman Ben-Levy said that excluding the kindergartners, the addition of students Continued on Page 44
North Shore communities, transportation hurt by Ida Storm flooding causes delays, damage to roads and homes PHOTO COURTESY OF @ROSLYNMARCHINGBAND/IG
Members of the Roslyn Marching Band went to band camp before the school year in August.
BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Flooding from Ida resulted in delays on the roads and the Port Washington branch of the Long Island Rail Road, along with damage to some homes across the North Shore last week. Gov. Kathy Hochul vis-
ited the Great Neck station last Thursday to speak about some of the delays that the Port Washington line endured as a result of the storm. Though record rainfall was seen in parts of Nassau County and Long Island, Hochul said, preparations will be made in case the area sees similar rainfall in the future.
“We’re not treating this as if it’s not going to happen again for 500 years,” Hochul said. “What we saw, the record rainfall that precipitated, the situation out here in Great Neck ... it was an unbelievable amount of rainfall in an incredibly short amount of time.” According to the National Continued on Page 34
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