🌱 Man Found Shot Identified + New Superintendent Search

Hey, people of Five Towns! I'm here with today's issue of the Five Towns Daily.

First, today's weather:

Breezy and colder. High: 30 Low: 19.

Here are the top three stories today in Five Towns:

1. Nassau County police have identified a man who was found shot to death in Hempstead on Jan. 30 at Peninsula Boulevard and Sewell Street. Police found 49-year-old Santos Valeriano Argueta, of Hempstead, lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds. (Patch)
2. Valley Stream Central High School District Board of Education has hired Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates, a national educational leadership search firm, to help them in the nationwide search for a new superintendent of schools. (LI Herald)
3. Four Hewlett High School students were named semifinalists in the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium: Elizabeth Balzac and Carrie Zheng in the Social Science category and Benjamin Sherman and Anneliese Baum in the Science Research category. (LI Herald)

Today in Five Towns:

• Mornings At NCMA For Teens & Young Adults with Autism at Nassau County Museum of Art ,1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor, 9:30 to 11 a.m.

From my notebook:

• Nassau County Police Department's Peanut from the Mounted Unit Pig turned five years old this week. (Facebook)
• Late Nassau Police Officer Hector Nunez was posthumously promoted to Detective First Grade this week. His wife Jesenia and children Tianna, Lianna, Dahlia and Luke accepted the promotion. (Facebook)
• Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library: "Registration begins Sunday!" (Facebook)

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— Jackie