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Friday, November 21, 2014
Vol. 2, No. 47
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Roslyn Road speed signs are replaced Nassau County aligns limit with North Hempstead regulations the uniform speed limit to a portion of Roslyn Road that extends from Jericho Turnpike to the Long Nassau County has replaced Island Expressway ramp near Powspeed limit signs along a section erhouse Road. The county has considered of Roslyn Road to conform to a 30 mile-per-hour speed regulation set eliminating a veer-off lane that by the Town of North Hempstead extends from Roslyn Road onto Locust Lane, an intersection in Roin September, officials said. PHOTO BY Jade marcus In an e-mail, Nassau County slyn Heights where in March two Wheatley High School senior Jade Marcus (center) with two Nicaraguan teens she Mineola teenagLegislator Judy ers were killed met while on a service trip to the Central American country to build a new soccer field Jacobs (D-Woodbury) said the his is an important after their car within the village of El Castillo. crashed into the county’s Department of Public step because it clears backyard fence Works would the way for the final of a residence there. analyze how the phase, hopefully. In the afspeed limit affects termath of the traffic flow to deJudy Jacobs crash, the town termine whether NASSAU COUNTY LEGISLATOR installed a additional adjustguardrail along ments to speed The pair spent eight days crete field with these deflated signage, or the reconfiguration of Locust Lane, and the county inBY B I LL creased signage and police presin early July building a soccer 30-year-old balls that are just the roadway, would be necessary. SAN ANTONIO field for residents of El Castillo not useable. They were mixing “This is an important step be- ence in the area. Locust Lane is operated by the cause it clears the way for the final While most Americans alongside a team of volunteers concrete for the field without Town of North Hempstead, while watched this year’s World Cup from Mitzvah Corps, an exten- gloves, and they don’t even phase, hopefully,” Jacobs said, The town council approved Continued on Page 46 from their local watering hole sion of the Union for Reform realize [the health risks,]” said or by sneaking in a few min- Judaism that helps pair teenag- Rothstein, of Roslyn Heights. utes here and there at work, ers with service opportunities. “We want to eliminate some of And this February, they that inconvenience.” Wheatley High School seniors Rothstein and Marcus, Jade Marcus and Jared Roth- plan on going back. “They were playing soc- each members of Temple Sinai stein took in the action from a Continued on Page 46 secluded village in Nicaragua. cer without shoes on a con-
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Watching the World Cup from a Nicaraguan pitch
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