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Get the first glimpse inside a beautiful new Hempstead art gallery packed with Mexican artifacts
Lynn Castle never knew what the late John Fairey would pull from under his bed, dig from his closets or retrieve from the rafters when she visited his home near Hempstead. Fairey famously collected many rare botanical specimens from remote areas of Mexico during a few decades of plant hunting that began in the late 1980s. Over time, the acres he cultivated with those finds evolved into one of the world’s great conservation gardens. And plants weren’t all Fairey brought home. He was just as obsessed with Mexican folk art, amassing more than 600 pieces — way more than the private gallery next to his home could hold. When he…
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Bayville Turf Masters to pay Mexican workers back wages: investigation
BERKELEY – A business landscaping organization in the township has been purchased to shell out 47 non permanent employees $181,670 in back again wages and $38,329 in civil penalties, pursuing an investigation by the U.S. Office of Labor. Turf Masters Inc. of Magnolia Street in the Bayville segment, was using grasscutters from Mexico for a lot more than 50 hours for each 7 days, in accordance to the Labor Department. Nonetheless, the personnel ended up compensated “sub-prevailing wage charges for all hrs worked,” which Turf Masters then tried to hide from the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division, the department mentioned in a information release Thursday night time. Judges from the…
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