Public Access Television will be shining a spotlight on the Great Neck and Manhasset villages throughout the next few months in a series documenting their history.
“We want to partner more with the villages to get to their residents,” said Shirley Bruno, executive director of PATV. “It’s kind of like a refresh for the community.”
The series will begin with “Inside Lake Success: with Mayor Ron Cooper,” which will air in late July, Bruno said.
“We’ll be asking the mayors a few basic questions about the village and show some photos and videos of the area,” she said.
The interview with Cooper will be followed by a month-long series of PATV programs about the Village of Lake Success and programs that were produced by residents of the village, Bruno said.
“It should be interesting,” she said of the series.
The series will continue with an interview with the mayor of another Great Neck or Manhasset village, followed by programming about or produced by the residents of that village, Bruno said.
She said she is not sure which village will air after Lake Success.
“We’re not exactly sure of the order we’ll go in,” Bruno said.
Bruno said PATV, located at 1111 Marcus Avenue in the Village of Lake Success, is hosting the series in advance of its 30th anniversary in October.
Public Access Television serves the six incorporated villages of Manhasset and the nine incorporated villages of Great Neck, Bruno said.
She said she came up with the idea for the series in so that residents could get to know the history of their village and who their current mayors are.
“The village mayors, trustees, all of those people change through the years,” she said.
Bruno said since the inception of PATV there has been “programming on several things” about the Great Neck and Manhasset villages.
“The Village of Plandome Manor used to have a country fair that we have a tape of,” she said. “We have a program of when the Village of Lake Success dedicated the new Village Club.”
Those programs will run alongside shows produced by residents of the villages, Bruno said.
She said programs about a village may also have to take the place of an interview with a village mayor.
“I might have mayors that may not be interested in an interview,” Bruno said.
