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Keep ‘off-year’ elections off-year
Long Island voters are heading to the polls next Tuesday, to decide on a number of races spanning town boards and administrations as well as county legislatures. It’s what we call an “off-year” election . . . more
Superintendent Dr. Shari Camhi presented plans for Innovation 2020 at a Jan. 8 school board meeting at Plaza Elementary School.
$158M school bond vote set for today in Baldwin
Baldwin School District residents will vote on the $158 million capital improvements bond referendum on Oct. 1 at the District Office, at 960 Hastings St., between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. The … more
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Vast renovations to all of the area schools are planned if residents approve.
Vast renovations may be coming to G.C. schools
The Glen Cove City School District will be moving forward with a proposal for a health, safety and repair bond for 2019. The bond will provide approximately $84.6 million in funding over a four-year … more
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Dr. Kishore Kuncham, superintendent of Freeport Public Schools and Michael Pomerico, President of the Freeport Board of Education.
District cuts tax levy for 4th straight year
For the fourth straight year, the Freeport School District has proposed a budget that lowers the tax levy — the total amount that the district must raise in taxes to meet expenses. In 2018-19, … more
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Rockville Centre resident Harold Peterson, third from right above, expressed concerns about voting in favor of a constitutional convention.
To convene, or not to convene?
“Benjamin Franklin … was asked by a woman as he was coming out of the constitutional convention, ‘What sort of government have you produced?’” said Valley Stream resident Janet Halatyn at the Rockville Centre Public Library on Sept. 28. “And he said, ‘A republic, if you can keep it.’” more
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Hundreds of Island Park residents approved a bond issued by the Board of Education on Jan. 24.
I.P. voters approve $17.1M bond
Island Park residents voted on Jan. 24 to approve a $17.1 million bond proposed by the village’s Board of Education to pay for major renovations and repairs at the Francis X. Hegarty Elementary … more
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High schools' bond passes
Voters approved the Valley Stream Central High School District’s proposed $41 million bond on Tuesday with 612 yes votes to 528 no votes, or 54 percent of ballots cast. more
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School district, library declare first joint bond to target repairs
Infrastructure improvements are taking center stage as the East Meadow School District and the East Meadow Public Library have proposed their first joint bond referendum, each releasing plans for major improvements. more
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Brandon Crofts, a student at the high school, shared information with Board of Education trustees he’d learned in his government class about polling as it pertained to voter turnout for the recent bond referendum.
After failed bond, students, residents discuss plans for outdated Lynbrook High School
The Lynbrook High School cafeteria was packed to near capacity on April 19 for a Board of Education meeting, with residents and students having come to discuss last month’s defeated $45 million bond referendum, and what the rejection means for the effort to improve the high school’s outdated facilities. more
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An artist’s rendering of what the completed high school would have looked like if the bond had been approved on March 15.
Residents seek redrafting of bond proposal
A petition signed by more than 550 community members has surfaced on social media in the wake of the Lynbrook School District’s defeated bond proposal, with disappointed residents calling for the Board of Education to put the project up for a second vote. It was rejected on March 15 by a margin of 314 votes, 1,363 to 1,049. more
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