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Great Neck nixes tree-trimming proposal
A proposed law that would allow Great Neck residents to trim village trees that immediately adjoin their properties without a permit was voted down this week.
Great Neck trustees had considered the law as a “benefit to the homeowner,” said Mayor Ralph Kreitzman, who joined trustees Jeffrey Bass and Barton Sobel in voting down the proposal Tuesday night.
The law would have allowed only...