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Light Rain Installing a new cupola
Hewlett-Woodmere replaces damaged tower top at WEC
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The cupola tower is raised to the top of the Woodmere Education Center on Sept. 5.
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Hewlett-Woodmere Superintendent Dr. Joyce Bisso tugged on the strap attached to the cover of the cupola tower.
Jeffrey Bessen/Herald
The cupola cover was moved from the truck to the buildong's grounds before it was raised to top off the tower.
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The tower was positioned to be lifted up to the Woodmere Education Center's peak for installation.
Jeffrey Bessen/Herald
Traffic was slowed and stopped on Broadway in Woodmere as a 150-foot high crane lifted the tower and its copper top into place on the peak of the Woodmere Education Center on Friday.
The cupola, which was destroyed in Hurricane Sandy, was replaced on top of a school building that was built in 1917. It has been home to Woodmere High School, Woodmere Elementary School and since 1995, Hewlett-Woodmere School District’s administration building.
Designed consistent with the original, the materials used, while similar to the destroyed cupola, are expected to withstand the outdoor elements better, district officials said.
Expanded story coming in next edition of the Nassau Herald.
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