Local Residents Honor Susan Ben-Moshe

Currently serves on library board of trustees

Residents of The Village of Roslyn Estates honored former Mayor Susan Ben-Moshe at a special reception at The Bryant Library on Monday, April 2.  

Representatives from the state, county and local villages joined together to congratulate Ms. Ben-Moshe on her 16 years of service to the Roslyn Estates community. Among those in attendance was State Assemblyman Charles Lavine. Ms. Ben-Moshe served four years as a village trustee followed by 12 years as mayor.

Roslyn Budget Sees 2 Percent Tax Cut

Spending decreases come from bond retirement, ‘prudent’ planning

Year in and year out, local villages and school boards do everything they can to keep spending and taxes under control. But this year, the Village of Roslyn Board of Trustees surpassed even that by approving a budget that reduces both the tax rate and spending.

The 2012-2013 budget, approved at the April 3 meeting, contains a tax rate decrease of 2.02 percent.  In addition, it decreases spending by $323,284. Village officials said that most of the savings came from the retirement of an outstanding bond.

Town of North Hempstead Approves Building Expansion

6,800 sq. ft. additions to Greenvale property

The Town of North Hempstead board has unanimously approved a proposal by Green Cove Associates to construct a 6,800 sq. ft. addition to their property at 90 Northern Blvd.  

The approval came on the heels of a New York State Supreme Court decision last May, one that allowed Green Cove to submit a 6,800 sq. ft. application as requested by the town. Originally, Green Cove had wanted to make additions of 10,000 sq. ft. Town officials also told The Roslyn News that there will be a three-layer buffer zone, protecting the property from residential areas. Originally, a one-layer zone was proposed. In addition, town officials said there would be a number of species of trees and bushes included in the property expansion plan, plus an irrigation system that will be in permanent operation. Finally, the April 3 amendment contains compliances that would allow 16 parking spaces to be landbanked.

‘Pink Slime’ Yanked from School Lunches

Ammonia-treated filler out ‘immediately’

Pink Slime will no longer be in the lunches of Roslyn schoolchildren.

The Roslyn School District has announced that effective immediately, it will no longer serve meat containing the ammonia-treated filler.

“The meat product, called ‘lean finely texture beef’ but now widely known as ‘pink slime,’ has been used in many beef products that were sold through the National School Lunch Program to schools nationwide, which are contractually obligated to buy products from specified vendors,” a statement on the school district’s website said.

New Name for Roslyn Viaduct?

State senate approves bill for ‘Bryant Bridge’

Memorials and references to Roslyn’s most famous literary figure, William Cullen Bryant are at numerous places in New York: The huge Bryant Park and monument in back of the New York City Public Library, a Bryant High School in Queens County, and here in Roslyn, the local library, an avenue, and Cedarmere, his longtime home.

And pending approval of the New York State Assembly, that list might grow to the Roslyn Viaduct Bridge.

Roslyn Rescue Remembers Allen Frye

Fire captain served a variety of roles

Ten years to the day after a motorist traveling southbound on Glen Cove Road in Greenvale plowed through road closure barricades, and hurtled into unsuspecting firefighters, killing one of them, dozens of area firefighters crowded into the same area this past Sunday, March 25, to pay tribute to their fallen colleague.

Captain Allen Frye, of the Roslyn Rescue Fire Company, had been leading Roslyn firefighters in a training exercise, when the oncoming car struck him. He succumbed to his injuries a short time later at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset.

Incumbents Beat Back Challengers

Trustees re-elected in Roslyn, East Hills

In the March 20 elections, all of the incumbents in both the Village of Roslyn and the Village of East Hills were re-elected to another term on their village’s respective board of trustees.

But it wasn’t easy. In East Hills, the two incumbents, Clara Pomerantz and Manny Zuckerman were re-elected with 891 and 814 votes, respectively. Matthew Weiss, who challenged Michael R. Koblenz for the mayor’s job in 2010, came up short again, scoring 759 votes. Mitchell Winn, in his first run for public office, had 149 votes.

Election Results

Here are the elections results from the March 20 board of education races.

Village of East Hills

Clara Pomerantz: 891
Manny Zuckerman: 814
Matthew Weiss: 754
Mitchell Winn: 149
Pomerantz and Zuckerman are re-elected.

SPECIAL REPORT: ATTACK OF THE PINK SLIME

Dangerous beef filler might be in our kids’ school cafeterias

An Anton Newspapers investigation into a national story that impacts our local schools

Have you ever wondered what’s in that hamburger patty they are serving up in your child’s school? You may be surprised to learn that it might not be pure beef, but meat with filler known as “pink slime.”

Consumer food activists and high-profile chefs have been campaigning against the use of this product often found in fast food, and McDonalds, Taco Bell and Burger King have now all discontinued using pink slime. However, this year the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has plans to purchase millions of pounds of the “Lean Finely Textured Beef” (aka pink slime) for the National School Lunch Program. This cost-cutting measure once used for prisoners is now being used for school lunches around the country.

Congressman Ackerman Not Seeking Re-election

Fifteenth term in office will be his last

U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Queens/L.I.) will not seek re-election to the United States Congress next year. The announcement came late on Thursday, March 15, following the federal circuit court’s approval of Congressional district lines, a decision that Ackerman’s office called “extraordinarily favorable” to the congressman who is serving his fifteenth term in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Announcing his decision not to run for a sixteenth term of office, Ackerman added that, if he had chosen to run again, he would have run “with the primary-free backing of the Democratic Party virtually assured.”