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Friday, September 17, 2021
Vol. 70, No. 38
GUIDE TO STREET FAIRS
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Pain grows: Strauss Mayor sees no end to losses BY B R A N D ON DUFFY The 20 years after the events of Sept. 11 have not translated into a time of healing for Mineola Mayor Scott Strauss. The tragedy that struck the nation in 2001 still resonates as he reflects on the last two decades. “People say that time heals all wounds; that’s not the case,” he said in an interview on Friday. “EvPHOTO BY KAREN RUBIN ery year it seems to get more and more difficult, because we continue to lose more people. Because 9/11 The Town of North Hempstead held a ceremony to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11 at Manhasset Valley Park last week. is not going away anytime soon.” Strauss was a detective with the Emergency Service Unit of the NYPD in 2001, taking a train home to Long Island that Tuesday morning like any other day. When he heard the news, he went back to Manhattan. Assigned to the rescue operation after the north tower of the Furthermore, Bosworth said ceremony at Manhasset Valley the 19-foot monument, a steel BY R OB E RT World Trade Center collapsed, Park on Saturday. State, county beam salvaged from the wreck- that the monument is pointed PELAEZ Strauss and his unit went into the and town officials recalled the age, with a plaque listing the and angled directly at ground debris for hours amid the smoke names of the 56 North Hemp- zero, 17 miles away. The Town of North Hemp- tragic events 20 years ago. and turmoil to search for surviThe monument is not comThe park is the new home stead residents who died directstead hosted a Sept. 11 rememvors. Continued on Page 51 brance and recitation of names to a monument commemorat- ly in front of it. pletely finished. A wall of reTown Supervisor Judi Bo- membrance will be added coming and honoring North Hempstead residents who sworth said the beam is visible memorating first responders died during the terror at- from the LIRR overpass, the rail and those who succumbed to line so many of the victims took illnesses from Sept. 11. tacks. Continued on Page 50 Officials presented on their way to work that day.
Reflecting on 20 years since 9/11 Williston Park Mayor Ehrbar stresses importance of remembering all who died
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