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VOLUME SIXTEEN, ISSUE 27
THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 2014
20 PAGES
DIX HILLS
The Paramount Spotlight
Nursery School Plan Raises Concerns adollinger@longislandergroup.com
The hard-rocking, hard-partying Guided By Voices, touring after its sixth postbreakup reunion album, plays its first Long Island show ever at The Paramount on Aug. 22.
Guided By Voices Keeps Coming Back By Peter Sloggatt psloggatt@longislandergroup.com
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A pending application ZBA application calls for a nursery school on E. Deer Park Road. bumper-to-bumper traffic.” The pending sale has been what John Werbitsky said is about a two-year process so far. The land has been in the family for an estimated four or five decades, he said, noting that it was part of Kings Dairy Farm. According to John Werbitsky, 89, the farm was an “80-someodd” acre property with about 100 milking cows and 20 heifers.
MELVILLE
Route 110 Says: Welcome To Moe’s! Fast-casual Mexican franchise opening new location in September By Danny Schrafel
Long Islander News photo/Danny Schrafel
If your college had a radio station in the ’90s or you listened to internet radio back then, you know Guided By Voices. An Ohio-based, rock indie band, Guided By Voices got extensive airplay on the college circuit and was a favorite of DJs on internet radio, a precursor to today’s satellite radio. For the rest of us, it’s likely we’ve had at least a brush with a Guided By Voices song. There are, after all, hundreds of them. The band, which first formed among high school friends in 1983, spit out songs and albums at a prolific rate during a 20-year run. It disbanded in 2004, but in Cher-like tradition, has put out six reunion al-
Of a local landowner’s contract to sell a parcel of vacant space have come an online petition and a pending application before the zoning board for a private nursery school in Dix Hills. Town spokesman A.J. Carter confirmed on Friday that there is a pending application before Huntington’s Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) for a private nursery school on East Deer Park Rd, not far from the Art League of Long Island property. The proposed one-story, 7,092- squar foot structure would have eight classrooms, Carter said. The site is owned by Jane Werbitsky, and, according to Carter, the land is under contract to be sold to Steven Nacht, president of an organization looking to operate a nursery called “The Little School.” Werbitsky declined to comment, and Nacht could not be reached by press time Monday. However, Werbitsky’s husband, John Werbitsky, said that the land sale is a
result of increased taxes. “It’s running us out of the area,” John Werbitsky said. The proposal has instigated an online petition in opposition, which has garnered the signatures of 25 individuals that oppose what the petition labels a “daycare.” However, Carter stressed the structure will not be a daycare; according to the pending ZBA application. Limor Tintweiss, who lives off of Deer Park Road, signed the online petition after a friend sent her the link. “That area of Deer Park Avenue into Deer Park Road is already backed up very frequently, especially during rush hour,” said Tintweiss, who has two school-aged children and one child in college. “On a typical morning, it could take me 10 minutes to try to get out of my neighborhood.” Often, she said, she will loop around the neighborhood in the opposite direction because of backed-up traffic. “There’s already an issue with congestion here,” said Tintweiss, a school psychologist. “It’s...just going to create
Long Islander News photo/Danny Schrafel
By Arielle Dollinger
dschrafel@longislandergroup.com
A popular chain of burrito restaurants will be coming to Melville at the end of this summer. Moe’s Southwest Grill, currently under construction at 610 Broad Hollow Road, is the seventh to be opened by franchise partner Michael Walsh. An eighth, set to launch at the end of this year in Patchogue, is also underway. For Walsh, a Westbury resident who owns all of the Moe’s restaurants in Nassau County as well as several in Suffolk, said a Melville location has been a goal for several years. Located several doors down from Suburban Eats, the storefront he is occupying has been vacant for several years, he explained. “There’s so many people who work there, and there are not a lot of food choices,” he said. “I kept looking and looking [for a space]… I signed a lease two years (Continued on page A18)
Moe’s Southwest Grill franchise partner Michael Walsh stands outside what will be his seventh Moe’s restaurant when it opens in Melville later this summer.
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