Town celebrates Indian independence Day

BY RIKKI MASSAND

India’s annual Independence Day and the many local contributions of the Indian diaspora were celebrated at the Oyster Bay Town Board meeting on Tuesday, August 15. Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino welcomed meeting attendees with a special greeting announcing, “Happy Indian Independence Day,” and discussing the ceremonies that took place in front of Town Hall, 54 Audrey Avenue in Oyster Bay.

Prior to the Town Board’s meeting, Saladino and the Town Council members and other local officials joined leaders of the South Asian community across the Town of Oyster Bay in raising the Indian green, white and orange flag in front of Town Hall.

Supervisor Saladino said that in keeping with the Town Board’s tradition since he took office in 2017, the August 15 meeting would begin with a prayer.

“We begin every Town meeting with prayer as we all believe that is very important as a society, and ecumenically we bring in a very diversified group representing so many different religions. It is our ecumen-

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