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Village finishing LEDs
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$50K grant will not cover all costs BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I The Village of Roslyn Harbor is working to complete an initiative to install LED streetlights throughout the village with a state-issued grant but will need village funds to ďŹ nish the project. A $50,000 Clean Energy Community grant to the village PHOTO COURTESY NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART is set to cover installation work and equipment on three village Celebrating the groundbreaking for the Manes Family Art & Education Center at the Nassau County Museum of Art roads, village Clerk Marla Wolfare naming donor and museum Trustee Dr. Harvey Manes, second from left, with Trustees Clarence F. Michalis, son said. Sharon Cuchel and Deborah A. Cannon, board President Angela Susan Anton and museum Director Karl E. Willers. “The grant will pay to See story on page 3. complete [installation of LED streetlamps on] Bryant Avenue, complete Dogwood Avenue and complete Motts Cove Road South,â€? Wolfson said. “There are still others in the village trustees could approve to do as well.â€? Wolfson said to get the grant the village had to spend its own money converting half the vil“We required them to go “I don’t know what that trafstretch of the northern Long IsBY A M E L I A lage lights to LEDs and the grant house to house for the people ďŹ c is going to look like,â€? Koblenz land Expressway service road C A M U R A T I would cover some of the costs of that were immediately aected said. “All I can do is warn everyfrom Pinetree Lane in Old Westcompleting the second half. The by it and advise them of what’s body.â€? bury through East Hills to JefIn the coming months Navillage spent $28,000 in February going on,â€? Koblenz said. “ResiResidents who live on streets ferson Avenue in Roslyn Heights. tional Grid crews will install a 2016 to install LEDs as part of a Mayor Michael Koblenz of along the planned construction dents should not be inconveContinued on Page 107 new gas main along a 1.8-mile East Hills said work is sched- route are encouraged to take a nienced except for the noise, the uled at night, from 8 p.m. to dierent route home but will be drilling and the jackhammers 5 a.m. Sunday through Fri- allowed along the one lane re- at 2 in the morning — no one’s day beginning Aug. 15, and served for emergency vehicles looking forward to that. It’s not construction is expected to and residents during construc- quiet work.â€? tion. be ďŹ nished in December. Continued on Page 107
Night work planned for East Hills
National Grid installing new gas main under LIE north service road this month
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