Bid to build drugstore in Bay Shore back on track
Photo credit: Barry Sloan | Pharmacist Tomas Diaz speaks to a customer on the phone at the SaluMed Pharmacy in Brentwood. (Feb. 13, 2012)
For almost 23 years, Tomas Diaz has run the SaluMed pharmacy from a bustling strip on Fifth Avenue in Bay Shore, offering customers service from a mostly bilingual Latino staff -- and a range of products, seemingly transported from the store shelves of Ecuador or El Salvador.
Among longtime, loyal locals and community leaders, SaluMed has a reputation as something of a community center --...
