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Roslyn schools to be ready for class: officials

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High school, Harbor Hill work set for completion before Sept. 5 start BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I Despite the dirt piled across the Roslyn High School parking lot, construction will be ďŹ nished and the lot will be ready for the ďŹ rst day of school, oďŹƒcials said. The district’s director of community relations, Barry Edelson, said all projects from the $40 million capital plan expected to be ďŹ nished before the start of the 201718 school year will be completed, including the high school parking lot. “It will be ďŹ nished this week,â€? Edelson said. “We start school next Tuesday, and that’s our deadline for everything, so it will be done.â€? During a Roslyn Board of Education meeting in June, KG&D civil engineer Courtney Riley said the majority of the parking lot work could be done without a permit, but the district was waiting for a Nassau County permit for curb work

and painting along the Round Hill Road right-of-way. Those permits have still not been received, but Edelson said “it will have no impact on our ability to open school on time.â€? Edelson also said a new gymnasium at the high school will be ďŹ nished this fall, likely within a few weeks. At Harbor Hill Elementary School, Edelson said, work on the parking lot will be ďŹ nished on time as well as a new multi-purpose room and work inside existing classrooms and hallways. “Harbor Hill Elementary School is in very good shape,â€? Edelson said. “The new multi-purpose room is about ready to go, their parking areas will be ďŹ nished, and all the classroom spaces will be done.â€? The Harbor Hill ďŹ elds are expected to be completed next spring. “It takes a long time to ďŹ nish them and seed them and let them Continued on Page 74

PHOTO BY DAVID POLLARD

Members of the Amityville Highland Pipe Band was one several bagpipe bands in attendance at this year’s Long Island Scottish Festival and Highland Games on Aug. 26 at Old Westbury Gardens in Old Westbury. The one-day event highlights aspects of Scottish culture from dress and music to food and sport. See story on page 12.

Another wave of Roslyn Landing homes set to sell Roslyn Landing is set to construct and begin selling the second phase of 50 luxury An ongoing development homes later this year. The main downtown Roslyn is releas- jority of the 28 units in the ďŹ rst ing another group of homes for phase have been sold, a spokeswoman, Cari Nogas, said. sale.

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“We expect to begin seeing move-ins within the next 30 to 60 days,â€? Nogas said. The development, which is located o Old Roslyn Road and Bryant Avenue within Continued on Page 74

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