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Mineola Memories Sixteen Candles
05/14/2022

Mineola Memories Sixteen Candles

All birthdays are special, but my birthday in 1959 left me with several enduring memories. The celebration at home included the usual greeting cards and gifts. To top it off, my mom honored the fam…

New Gym, Church Is Coming To Mineola
05/13/2022

New Gym, Church Is Coming To Mineola

The Village of Mineola Board of Trustees on May 12 voted in approval for a new fitness training facility and a church to open up in the village. Andrew Flores of Elmont approached the podium in fro…

A Q&A With Mineola Board Of Education Incumbent
05/07/2022

A Q&A With Mineola Board Of Education Incumbent

Mineola Board of Education Trustee Cheryl Lampasona is re-running for her seat. The Nassau Illustrated reached out to her to talk about her candidacy, goals and what makes her a good fit for the bo…

Mineola Fire Department Memorial Day Parade
05/06/2022

Mineola Fire Department Memorial Day Parade

The Mineola Fire Department will be hosting a Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 30 at 11 a.m. All are invited to join the Mineola Fire Department for the annaul parade, followed by a ceremony at M…

A Sit-Com Based On Mineola
05/06/2022

A Sit-Com Based On Mineola

In walks life-long Mineola resident George Papadimatos on April 29 into the Anton Media Group office in Mineola with a big smile on his face and a Yankee cap on. He introduces himself as the “bigge…

Village Of Mineola Announces 2022 Concerts In The Park Schedule
04/25/2022

Village Of Mineola Announces 2022 Concerts In The Park Schedule

The Village of Mineola will be providing a summer full of music for residents of the village. These concerts are happening at the Mineola Memorial Park Amphitheater, located at Marcellus Road and J…

Mineola, New Hyde Park, Westbury School Budgets Adopted
04/25/2022

Mineola, New Hyde Park, Westbury School Budgets Adopted

It’s budget season: and on May 17 community members will be heading to their local schools to vote on the budget, board trustees and other local matters. Three local school districts; Mineola Union…

Troop 45 In Full Swing For It’s 101st Year
04/17/2022

Troop 45 In Full Swing For It’s 101st Year

Troop 45, which celebrated 100 years of excellence in 2020, has returned to its full schedule of activities for year 101. The scouting year aligns with the school calendar, and in the fall, the tro…

Village Of Mineola Adopts Budget With Slight Tax Levy Increase
04/16/2022

Village Of Mineola Adopts Budget With Slight Tax Levy Increase

After a public hearing where no one commented, the Village of Mineola Board of Trustees adopted the $25,606,126 2022 through 2023 budget. This was a budget with a $261,180 increase, resulting in a …

Gas Tax Cut In Nassau County After Minority Caucus Push
04/15/2022

Gas Tax Cut In Nassau County After Minority Caucus Push

It was a dizzying morning at the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola. At 10:30 a.m. on April 11, State Senators Anna Kaplan, Jim Gaughran and John Brooks, State Assembl…

Mineola, Garden City Board of Trustees Re-Organize
04/09/2022

Mineola, Garden City Board of Trustees Re-Organize

Residents of Mineola and Garden City may notice some new faces on their Village Boards, as well as some of their officials sitting in new seats. Last week, both Village Boards held re-organization …

Drag Hostess Harmonica Sunbeam Hosts Bingo At Black Sheep
04/08/2022

Drag Hostess Harmonica Sunbeam Hosts Bingo At Black Sheep

The rules of bingo here are simple, but Harmonica Sunbeam adds joy and laughter to the classic game. Sunbeam, a drag queen performer, event hostess and wedding officiant, has been entertaining audi…

County Executive Blakeman, Presiding Officer Nicolello Announce ARPA Grants For Veterans Organizations
04/03/2022

County Executive Blakeman, Presiding Officer Nicolello Announce ARPA Grants For Veterans Organizations

The Nassau County Legislative Majority joined County Executive Bruce Blakeman on March 30 to announce that the county is creating a program to provide grants for veterans’ halls and facilities. The…

Perlmutter Cancer Center At NYU Langone Leads The Way: Expanding cancer care on Long Island
04/02/2022

Perlmutter Cancer Center At NYU Langone Leads The Way: Expanding cancer care on Long Island

Long Islanders no longer need to drive into Manhattan to get the cancer care they need. The Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island in Mineola is fighting cancer with treatment…

Mineola’s New Mayor Paul Pereira
04/01/2022

Mineola’s New Mayor Paul Pereira

  Former Mayor Scott Strauss Starts New Chapter Much has changed on the Mineola Village Board since the March 15 election. Deputy Mayor Paul Pereira has just moved to the mayoral seat as forme…

NYU Long Island School Of Medicine Students Learn ‘Doctor Destinies’ On Match Day
03/25/2022

NYU Long Island School Of Medicine Students Learn ‘Doctor Destinies’ On Match Day

Excitement was in the air on March 18 as graduating students from the tuition-free, three-year program NYU Long Island School of Medicine, opened three years ago in Mineola, anxiously waited to fin…

Meadow Drive School Helps Ukrainian Children
03/20/2022

Meadow Drive School Helps Ukrainian Children

Staff, students and families of Meadow Drive School in the Mineola Union Free School District donated children’s pajamas and warm socks to send to an orphanage in Poland that is helping Ukrainian r…

Mineola Memorial Library Releases Historical, Digital Scrapbook
03/19/2022

Mineola Memorial Library Releases Historical, Digital Scrapbook

New for the month of March, the Mineola Memorial Library released a new library scrapbook, a collection of photos, news stories and other documents between the 1950s and the 1960s by Edwin Merara J…

Fatal Car Accidents — A Tragic Weeklong Result Of Daylight Savings Time
03/18/2022

Fatal Car Accidents — A Tragic Weeklong Result Of Daylight Savings Time

Daylight Savings Time (DST), a policy dating back to World War I to save energy, is an opportunity to get more light during the evening and less light during the morning. This makes days feel longe…

Lutheran Church To Celebrate 101 Years
03/13/2022

Lutheran Church To Celebrate 101 Years

The Lutheran Church of Our Saviour will celebrate its 101st anniversary on March 27. In 1921, Mineola was mostly farm country. Houses of worship also served as social centers of the village. As the…

Mineola Village Board Approves Community Development Block Grant
03/12/2022

Mineola Village Board Approves Community Development Block Grant

The Mineola Village Board on March 9 reviewed and approved the various projects that would be funded by the federal Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grants that are distrib…

Irish Pride In Mineola
03/11/2022

Irish Pride In Mineola

It was a joyous day in Mineola on March 6, as those near and far lined up to see marching bands, floats and this year’s Grand Marshal of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Brigid McNulty. The parade was…

Meet The Village Of Mineola Election Candidates
03/07/2022

Meet The Village Of Mineola Election Candidates

Changes are coming to the Village of Mineola as the March 15 village election nears. Mayor Scott Strauss will not be seeking re-election, and Deputy Mayor Paul A. Pereira is running for the mayoral…

Obituaries For The Week Of March 2, 2022
03/04/2022

Obituaries For The Week Of March 2, 2022

BETHPAGE Clifford T. McKinley, 93, of Bethpage passed away on Jan. 13, 2022. Beloved husband of 72 years to Doris. Loving father of Jill Walther (Jeffrey). Cherished grandfather of Ryan Walther (Ma…

Mineola Announces Partnership With Northwell Health
01/27/2022

Mineola Announces Partnership With Northwell Health

To best support the mental health needs of its students, Mineola Public Schools has joined the Northwell Health Mental Partnership. This new initiative between Cohen Children’s Medical Center and t…

Village To Be A Part Of Governor’s $66 Million Clean Water Systems Project
01/26/2022

Village To Be A Part Of Governor’s $66 Million Clean Water Systems Project

Governor Kathy Hochul recently announced more than $66 million to support vital water quality infrastructure projects across New York State. The grants and low-cost financings approved by the New Y…

Pennsylvania Men Arrested In Williston Park For Stealing Catalytic Converters
01/24/2022

Pennsylvania Men Arrested In Williston Park For Stealing Catalytic Converters

The Major Case Bureau reports the arrest of three men from Pennsylvania that occurred on Jan. 13 at 3:55 a.m. in Williston Park. According to Burglary Pattern Squad detectives, Third Precinct offic…

Town To Hold Remote Board Of Zoning Appeals Hearings
01/19/2022

Town To Hold Remote Board Of Zoning Appeals Hearings

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jennifer DeSena and the town board recently announced that the town’s Board of Zoning Appeals will begin holding its hearings remotely via video conference due to th…

East Williston Board Of Education Appoints New Superintendent
01/18/2022

East Williston Board Of Education Appoints New Superintendent

Last month, the East Williston School District Board of Education accepted a letter of resignation for the purpose of retirement from Superintendent of Schools Dr. Elaine Kanas, effective July 1, 2…

Departments Respond To Building Fire
01/17/2022

Departments Respond To Building Fire

The Public Information Office reports the details of a building fire that occurred on Friday, Jan. 14 at 6 p.m. in Mineola. According to police, Third Precinct officers responded to a call for a bu…

Two Arrested For Stealing Packages In Mineola
01/15/2022

Two Arrested For Stealing Packages In Mineola

The Third Squad reports the arrest of two individuals from Queens for petit larceny that occurred on Jan. 4 at 1:08 p.m. in Mineola. According to detectives, defendants Tyree Stewart, 30, of Roseda…

Rotary Pays Tribute To Garden City And Rotary Treasure Maureen Clancy
01/12/2022

Rotary Pays Tribute To Garden City And Rotary Treasure Maureen Clancy

It is with great sadness and loss that the Mineola-Garden City Rotary Club mourns the passing of our most esteemed member, Maureen Clancy. Clancy has been our treasure since she became the first wo…

Deputy Mayor Seeks Mayoral Seat In Upcoming Village Election
01/11/2022

Deputy Mayor Seeks Mayoral Seat In Upcoming Village Election

As we enter the election cycle for 2022 the New Line Party candidates continue to work hard to keep Mineola the wonderful community those before us have shaped. Our candidates have made many import…

Mineola Man Indicted For Leaving The Scene Of Deadly Pedestrian Strike
01/06/2022

Mineola Man Indicted For Leaving The Scene Of Deadly Pedestrian Strike

Acting Nassau County District Attorney Joyce A. Smith recently announced the indictment of a Mineola man charged with striking a man walking along Roslyn Road and leaving the scene. The victim late…

Senior Helps Protect Healthcare Heroes Through Research Project
01/05/2022

Senior Helps Protect Healthcare Heroes Through Research Project

Mineola High School senior Keira Talty is working to protect healthcare workers with her science research project. Throughout the pandemic, many patients were in the hospital because they were expe…

Town Supervisor Appoints Mineola Clerk As Deputy Town Supervisor
01/04/2022

Town Supervisor Appoints Mineola Clerk As Deputy Town Supervisor

Newly elected Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Jennifer DeSena recently announced the first appointment of her incoming administration, with Mineola Village Clerk Joseph Scalero coming on board a…

Troop 45 Celebrates Its 100-Year Anniversary
12/22/2021

Troop 45 Celebrates Its 100-Year Anniversary

On June 9, 1921, the first charter for Mineola’s Boy Scout Troop 45 was issued. On Nov. 27, more than 275 people gathered at Jericho Terrace to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Troop 45’s servic…

Greg Bavaro And Tony Lubrano Receive Community Service Award
12/16/2021

Greg Bavaro And Tony Lubrano Receive Community Service Award

It was a great holiday luncheon full of good cheer, merriment and fellowship when Mineola-Garden City Rotary held its annual Holiday Luncheon Party. Rotarians and guests gathered to honor two remar…

Students Become Certified Interpreters
12/15/2021

Students Become Certified Interpreters

Two Mineola High School students recently completed a 40-hour training course, making them certified interpreters. Pietra Cabral and Fabiely Passos Ricci da Silva completed the Community Interprete…

Meet Mineola’s Newest Trustee
12/14/2021

Meet Mineola’s Newest Trustee

With longtime trustee Dennis Walsh vacating his seat on the Village of Mineola’s Board of Trustees in order to take on his new duties as 3rd District Councilman for the Town of North Hempstead, it …

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As seen in Mineola American Letters to the Editor:

We Support Judge Barnwell

Steve Barnwell is a longtime friend of mine & is running for Judge in Mineola. Although we know its going to be difficult to replace an iconic man like Judge O’Shea, I believe Steve would be the perfect person for this position. Currently, he has been doing a fantastic job filling in at the Mineola Village Court as Acting Justice. He is down-to-earth, approachable, and has shown the ability to apply the laws of the Village honestly and fairly.

For many years, Steve was my next door neighbor at my restaurant, Eleanor Rigby’s, in downtown Mineola. His door was always open to me, my family and my entire staff.

Steve put himself through Law School, while working full-time as a NYS Court Officer. He is an active on-call criminal defense attorney for the NYPD PBA. He runs his law firm right here in Mineola.

Due to the coronavirus, the election was rescheduled. Please consider Steve and the New Line Party when you vote on Sept. 15 at Village Hall!

Lt. Larry Monachelli, retired FDNY & former owner of Eleanor Rigby’s restaurant
As seen in Mineola American Letters to Editor:

We Support Judge Barnwell

As a New York City Police Officer with over 30 years of service and retired as the First Vice president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, I would like to comment on the upcoming election of Steven Barnwell for judge. I have seen Judge Barnwell work in many capacities.

I first met him about 20 years ago in Rockaway, Queens when he responded as the On Call Attorney for the P.B.A. to represent a retired police officer involved in a shooting while being the victim of a knifepoint attack. He immediately took charge and refused to go along with the District Attorney’s approach to handling the incident, and refused to proceed until a full and fair investigation was completed. We spent over 10 hours in the 100th precinct station house, and at the end of the day no charges were filed against the retired officer.

He has done this hundreds of times in every borough of the city of New York, Suffolk and Nassau counties, representing police officers at internal investigations, arraignments and in criminal and in traffic court.

In my current capacity as a private investigator, I have seen Steve Barnwell interact with Supreme Court Judges and prosecutors, and they all respect and admire him as the professional that he is.

He is not a politician. He is a judge and a lawyer who applies the law fairly and equally to all who come before him. He is a good man, but not so absolute in goodness as to forget human frailty. The people of Mineola would be well served to return Justice Steve Barnwell to the village court.

Bruce A Robertson
As seen in Mineola American Letters to the Editor:

We Support Judge Barnwell

Before Steve Barnwell became an Assistant District Attorney in Nassau County, while he was a New York State court officer, he was president of City & Suburban Tenants’ association on the upper east side of New York City. Through this association, we began a very long friendship with Steve that continues to this day. The tenants’ association was formed to fight for the complete landmarking of the 14 buildings between 78th & 79th Streets on York Avenue, which housed over 1,300 tenants, including many elderly tenants who were terrified at the prospect of having to move and find affordable housing. The complex was purchased by a prominent real estate developer, and he had other ideas for these buildings — to evict us all and tear down the buildings to make way for a huge development of four 46 story luxury high-rise apartment buildings.

Steve immediately proved himself as a steadfast leader to oppose this plan. He was instrumental in preserving the complex. He worked tirelessly for City & Suburban in his capacity as president of the tenants’ association, while working at his day job & attending law school in the evenings. His skills at organizing the tenancy and bringing this opposition to the forefront of civic leaders, the media, as well as politicians, such as then-Mayor Edward Koch, led to successful landmarking of the complex and saving the homes of over 1,300 individuals.

It is with much confidence that we endorse Steve Barnwell, knowing that he will work hard to carry out the duties of his position as Village Justice. Steve would be a tremendous asset to the town of Mineola and he deserves your vote.

Maureen Bogle & Pam Green
As seen in Mineola American Letters to the Editor:

We Support Judge Barnwell

Steven Barnwell is, without a doubt, qualified to hold the office of Mineola Village Justice, having spent the better part of the last 3 years in a courtroom in one facet or another. Beyond his professional qualifications, we believe that his character, vision and his reputation of being compassionate, fair and level-headed, make him the right choice. My husband, John O’Shea, picked Judge Barnwell to serve with him as his associate village justice, and I know he would be proud to have him as his successor.

I, Kathleen O’Shea, and my family, steadfastly support Judge Barnwell and the New Line Party for election, and I’m asking you to support them as well on September 15th. Thank you.

Kathleen O’Shea
As Seen in Mineola American Letters to the Editor:

We Support Judge Barnwell

I would like to offer my strong endorsement of Judge Steven Barnwell in the upcoming election for Mineola Village Justice. I have had the opportunity to utilize Mr. Barnwell’s legal services over the past 15 years. As a result of our interactions a number of skills have become very apparent. Judge Barnwell possesses the rare ability to efficiently and effectively distill complex situations down to the core. This allows for an accurate assessment of the relevant issues, but more importantly, a comprehensive and insightful solution. As a Senior Executive in the Healthcare Industry, I understand the value of these skills which can’t be taught from a textbook. It is honed and developed with years of experience in dealing with complex issues and complex people. Judge Barnwell possesses the skills, knowledge, experience, compassion, tenacity, to be an outstanding Judge. I think the people of Mineola would be very well served in electing Judge Barnwell to the position of Village Justice.

Joseph Franolich
As seen in Mineola American, Letters to the Editor:

We Support Judge Barnwell

I am writing to endorse, Steven Barnwell, for Mineola Village Justice. Judge Barnwell is my brother and I want the people of Mineola to know what many of us, including the late honorable Judge John O’Shea, have known for a long time. Steve is smart, fair-minded, generous and honest. He has an excellent and agile legal mind. He is a person of integrity with a strong work ethic. As a family member, I know how hard my brother worked to become a lawyer–he attended law school while working a full-time job, persevering until he finally achieved his goal of becoming a lawyer in his late 30s. I believe this is one of the reasons he is able to empathize with people, their situations and their perspectives, and ultimately solve problems. As his sister, I have benefited from his guidance for decades. I urge the people of Mineola to vote for Steven Barnwell for Mineola Village Justice so that they too can benefit from his wisdom. Thank you.

Dr. Veronica Barnwell
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