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Friday, July 29, 2016
Vol. 4, No. 31
health, wellness & beauty guide
bosworth presses faa on noise
officials cast wary eye on tax cap
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Carillo brings in new clerk, fires Callahan
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Brian Ridgway, of Garden City, brings ‘customer service’ to job BY CHRIS ADAMS Mayor Fred Carillo has ousted Ken Callahan as village administrator in Old Westbury and replaced him with Brian Ridgway, the village clerk in Garden City. “[Callahan] is a very good treasurer, but when it came to the administration and welcoming people to the front desk, that’s where I think he lacked,” Carillo said. Ridgway has a background in corporate management, where he worked as a project manager at IBM for over 15 years. He said brings to the position an ability to address the needs of residents, or in his words from the private sector, “customer” needs. “Customer service is my passion,” Ridgway said. Ridgway was born and raised in Garden City, where he also started a family and continues to
live with his wife. When his position at IBM required him to relocate to Cranford, N.J., he declined to move his family and began his career in village government, serving as village clerk and treasurer in Mineola. After his time in Mineola, he became clerk and deputy village administrator in Garden City, where he worked up until his appointment as Old Westbury’s administrator this month. Ridgway is also a past president of the New York State Association of City and Village Clerks and the Long Island Village Clerks and Treasurers Association. “One advantage that I do think I bring to the table is my wonderful network with people, and being past president of the State [Clerk’s] Association and Long Island [Clerk’s] Association, I’ve developed a good working relationship with a lot of colleagues Continued on Page 51
MAD SCIENCE PHOTO COURTESY OF BRYANT LIBRARY
The Bryant Library in Roslyn hosted “Chem in a Flash,” a fast-paced class aimed for grade school students, where they observed chemical reactions and took part in science experiments, presented by Mad Science of Long Island.
New super Allison Brown wants schools to be ‘great’ BY CHRIS ADAMS The new superintendent of Roslyn Public Schools, Allison Brown, is determined to take a district she calls “good” and make it “great.” Brown said she isn’t saying the district is only satisfac-
tory. In fact, she called stepping in as superintendent of the Roslyn school system “the ultimate honor,” but says the district should never stop improving. Fitting for an educational system, Brown and the school board have modeled their vi-
sion for the district around a book, “Good to Great” by Jim Collins. In it, the author suggests good is the enemy of great. “It’s really exciting to be here,” Brown said. “It’s just the greatest honor to be here as Continued on Page 62
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