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May 17-23, 2012
Saluting the E.R. village board
To the Editor:
East Rockaway is in the middle of a phenomenal turnaround, and Mayor Fran Lenahan and the village board deserve to be saluted for a job well done.
The Department of Public Works is hard at work beautifying our village and repairing our roads. The building department is finally caught up with its backlog. The library is no longer paying the college tuition of a select few favored employees at taxpayers’ expense. These cost-saving measures save precious tax dollars. Our village is being beautified, term limits have been restored and yes, every homeowner has now gotten an unprecedented two tax cuts.
Even though the Herald endorsement dismissed Lenahan and his running mates in last year’s election, you cannot argue with their success. In endorsing the Freedom Party, on March 10, 2011, the Herald opined, “East Rockaway residents deserve no less than a five-person governing board that will be there for them, listen to their issues, and make decisions accordingly — all with a combination of knowledge and integrity. In other words, we need a board with no other agenda but to do what is best for the residents of East Rockaway.”
Thankfully, the voters ignored your endorsement but took that sentence to heart and elected Lenahan and his team. They clearly have no agenda but to do what is best for East Rockaway.
Wouldn’t it be refreshing if the Herald were to print an editorial acknowledging that it backed the wrong slate last year?
But given the bias, sometimes nuanced, sometimes very direct, with which the Herald treats Mayor Lenahan and the village board, I sincerely doubt that will ever happen.
Gary Aue
East Rockaway
L.I. families are still struggling
To the Editor:
I recently sponsored an outreach program in conjunction with the state Department of Financial Services for homeowners in the 6th Senate District who have concerns about their mortgages. The turnout, according to DFS, was the highest they had seen for any of their mobile outreach services.
