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Friday, August 20, 2021
Vol. 70, No. 34
FALL HOME & DESIGN
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Mineola opening up Village okays 2 biz permits BY B R A N D ON DUFFY The Mineola village board has approved special use permits for a fitness studio and a tattoo removal facility to open their doors. After the approvals last Wednesday night, One to One Fitness Studio, operated by Kavita Sachdev, will occupy a space in a building at 393 Sagamore Ave. owned by the Ruhof Corp. Disappearing Inc., a laser tattoo removal facility that originated in Boston, will open at 169 Mineola Blvd. Sachdev, a personal trainer and muscle specialist from Massapequa, previously worked at Personal1 Fitness on Jericho Turnpike. The business will host one client at a time and will be located in what was previously a conference room for Ruhof. “It’s nice to be able to help people in the Mineola area and I’d like to continue,” Sachdev said during her presentation. Continued on Page 35
PHOTO BY BRANDON DUFFY
Senator Charles Schumer announces “Surge to the Sound” surrounded by local government officials. See story on page 11.
Port rolls out reopening guidelines School district will implement indoor mask mandates, social distancing BY R OB E RT PELAEZ
all students and staff, along with following guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and The Port Washington school Prevention. The guidance, published at district’s reopening plan, the first to be publicized in public school the district’s Board of Education districts on the North Shore, fea- meeting on Aug. 10, does not retures indoor mask mandates for quire staff to be vaccinated when school begins on Sept. 2, but all students and staff members who have received the coronavirus inoculation are encouraged to provide their school nurse with a copy of
their vaccination card. District Superintendent Michael Hynes, in a forum with Newsday on Tuesday, acknowledged that the guidelines would not appease all stakeholders in the district, but took the guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the county into account while drafting them. “We all know, we’re going to have parents that are happy and some parents who are not
happy,” Hynes said. Efforts to reach other North Shore districts were unavailing, but some districts may outline their reopening plans soon as they hold the last board meetings of the summer. According to the guidelines, the Port Washington school district will adhere to the prioritizing of in-person education by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Continued on Page 34
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