Why Vaccine Refusers Say No + Embezzler Sentenced To Prison

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The Long Island Marathon is coming back to Nassau County next weekend. Find out where and when roads will be closed. A street in North Woodmere was renamed after a late resident for her community service after a local petition and campaign. The former CFO of a real estate company was sentenced to five years in prison for embezzling millions. And one local man remembers how he captured the event of Sept. 11, 2001 in photographs that are now hanging in museums.

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First, today's weather:

Clear throughout the day. High: 75, low: 62.

Here are the top stories in Five Towns today:

1. Patch reports that Kwesi Bovell, 38, of Valley Stream, the former CFO of a Nassau real estate company was sentenced to five years in prison for embezzling over $3 million dollars. He also has to pay restitution of $3.45 million to his employer, The Mulholland Group, a Manhasset-based realty company. (Patch)
2. Alex Costello has the details on the Long Island Marathon, back next weekend after being canceled last year due to the pandemic. The three-day event will take place Sept. 17, 18 and 19 at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow. There will be a 10K, 5K, 1Km marathon and half marathon. (Patch)
3. Jerry Barmash looks at a recent poll by South Nassau Mount Sinai in Oceanside, asking Long Islanders why they refuse the COVID-19 vaccine. 23 percent of the unvaccinated say they will consider the shot now that there is FDA approval. (Patch)
4. Jeff Bessen looks at a local scholarship that keeps the memory of a Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department volunteer firefighter who died on 9/11 while working for the FDNY. The Kevin O’Rourke Scholarship was established in 2002 and is still being awarded, this year to Rebecca Adler. (LI Herald)
5. The Herald also tells us that a street in North Woodmere was finally rededicated to the late Sylvia Kaminetsky last Sunday. There were months of efforts by local residents to honor the woman who died last year at age 87 for her community service in the Five Towns area. (LI Herald)

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• Seymour Levy, of Woodmere, captured photos on Sept. 11, 2001 that are now in the 9/11 Museum and the Smithsonian. Read his account of that day. (LI Herald)

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