POBots Place
Students of Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District’s John F. Kennedy High School Robotics Club, known as the POBots, recently participated in the elite New York City First Robotics Competition regional. The POBots gave an impressive showcase, advancing all the way to the semi-finals from an entry pool of over 60 teams. In addition to their distinguished demonstration, the POBots earned the Judges Award for their exceptional community outreach activities, including raising over $1,400 for Hurricane Sandy Victims. The POBots are gearing up to compete again at the SBPLI Hofstra Regional this month, where they expect to contend for numerous awards.
Final Budget Workshop
The Plainview school board approved staffing reductions in its 2013-14 budget during a workshop, and displayed a $143,280,933 revenue budget with a 4.38 percent increase for the third and final budget workshop last week.
The school board is scheduled to meet next on April 5 to adopt the budget.
New JFK Field
This is good news for district sports teams, but the field isn’t only intended for student use; it will be available for all town residents on Sundays, and evenings Monday through Saturday; during the summer, while school teams are on hiatus, the field will be open extra hours for community use. According to town officials, the field is meant to improve the quality of life for all residents in the area. According to town estimates, construction of the field should be complete in time for the opening of the fall 2013 football season.
Maragos: The County Isn’t Broke
Brushing aside widespread assertions to the contrary, Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos last week flatly declared: “The county is not broke.”
In a wide-ranging discussion with editors of Anton Community Newspapers in Mineola, the Republican comptroller declared, “Why can’t people believe that if we give an audited financial statement, performed by outside auditors and show that we have a surplus, why isn’t it real?”
Kick Butts Day
The Tobacco Action Coalition of Long Island recently visited local Girl Scouts at the Plainview-Old Bethpage Library. The purpose of the visit was to inform the girls, from third- through eight-graders, of the many marketing strategies used by tobacco companies to market their product to kids. The coalition started with a quick game focusing on advertising slogans, followed by two short videos to explain the dangers of tobacco marketing. Both videos were written in conjunction with other teens. Next, the girls completed teen post cards and signed a petition poster that proclaims to the tobacco companies that they have “seen enough!”
Local National Merit Finalists
The Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District has announced that four John F. Kennedy High School (POBJFK) students have been named National Merit Finalists for the 2012-2013 school year.
Students Sunny Zheng, Robert Adelson, Amelia Ricketts and Adrian Kim were recognized as National Merit Finalists for their outstanding performance on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying (PSAT/ NMSQT) Exam. In order to earn this esteemed title, these four students had to score in the top 15,000 among the approximately 1.5 million annual entrants in the National Merit Scholarship program.
Reinventing Nassau Coliseum
How can we reinvent Nassau Coliseum to become a vital economic engine for the 21st Century? It may be too early to say, but Nassau County is currently taking suggestions.
After several discussions on the potential future of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum with the Forest City Ratner team that designed the business model for the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano has announced that he is seeking requests for proposals from throughout the real estate community that would reinvent the aging facility as a new and strong economic anchor for the Hub.
Weitzman: Downtowns Are Key
Former Comptroller wants hometown feel in
Nassau County, IDA cooperation
“The comptroller is there to protect the taxpayers.”
That is what former Nassau Comptroller Howard Weitzman says is the job of a comptroller. It’s something he says he did during his eight years in the position, and it’s something that he wants to do again. Weitzman was elected to the position in 2001 and 2005 before being narrowly defeated by current Nassau County George Maragos in 2009.
Our Very Own Big Easy
Mara Levi sits at the bar of her restaurant, her feet hanging over the black and white checkered floor, enjoying a sandwich and a glass of white wine. She laughs as her son, and restaurant chef, Josh, on the other side of the bar, yells at her for swearing.
“When the kids were little,” Levi laughed, “they had a curse jar that they’d make me put a dollar in every time I swore. They’d take the money and go to the movies.” That lighthearted, kitchen-table spirit imbues Mara’s Homemade, her family-run Southern cuisine restaurant in Syosset. Known for its crawfish boil, Cajun flavor and Arkansas-styled barbeque, Mara’s is The Real Thing. “I eat here every day,” she said with her slight Southern drawl. “We all do.”
GOP Passes Districting Map
Despite protests, Republican map
passes legislature in party line vote
The turbulent redistricting process in Nassau County came to an end last week with a party line vote approving a map drawn up by the Republican majority, But the strong possibility of a lawsuit by those opposed to the new map looms.
Republican legislators were booed by members of the audience as they voted for the GOP map. Critics of the map had held out hope that Legislator Denise Ford, who had voted against a similar Republican map in 2011, would vote against her caucus, but she voted with the majority. The map passed 10-9.
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