Friday, May 19, 2023
Vol. 83, No. 20
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SERVING PLAINVIEW, HICKSVILLE, AND LEVITTOWN
BHS senior earns first place School budgets pass, in Italian singing competition board members elected Bethpage The Bethpage School District’s budget for the 2023-24 school year passed in voting on May 16th. 584 votes were cast in favor of the $102,062,376 budget and 206 were cast against it. Michael Kelly and Anna Israelton, both incumbents, were reelected to the school board. Kelly received 642 votes; Israelton received 557 votes. Both were unopposed. Levittown The Levittown School District’s $251,792,906 passed 1,197 to 520. A second proposition to create a capital reserve fund also passed. Jennifer Messina, Michael Pappas and Phyllis Dalton were elected to the
Bethpage senior Graziella Conte (middle) with Italian teachers Francesca Calio (left) and Teresa Sagarese (right). Photos courtesy of the Bethpage Union Free School District Graziella Conte, a senior at Bethpage High School, was recently recognized as a first-place winner in the singing portion of the Secondary School Poetry and Arts Contest: Gara di Poesia e Gara di Canto. The contest is run annually by the Long Island chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Italian. This
year, students were invited to submit pre-recorded poem and song recitations. Conte submitted a video of her performing “Caruso” by Lucio Dalla, in honor of her nonna (grandmother). Dalla was her grandmother’s biggest inspiration growing up. Conte’s grandparents were born and raised in
Italy and both of her parents are first generation Americans. She developed a love of singing from an early age and has taken Italian courses throughout her entire high school career. Now in her senior year, Conte is enrolled in Advanced Placement Italian with Teresa Sagarese. See page 12
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school board. They ran unopposed. Plainview Old Bethpage Voters in the Plainview Old Bethpage School District passed their budget 1,038 to 365. Ginger Lieberman and Debbie Bernstein, running unopposed, were elected to the Board of Education. Hicksville The Hicksville School District passed 763 to 308. In addition, voters approved measures to create a Capital Reserve fund and to fund the Gregory Museum. Sunita Manjrekar, Irene Carlomusto and Danielle Fotopoulos, all running unopposed, were elected to the Board of Education.
Volunteers aim to collect 1000 books during Day of Service Members of the Hicksville - Jericho and the Floral Park - Bellerose Rotary Clubs, along with local volunteers, have set a goal of collecting at least 1000 books during a collection drive on Saturday, May 20th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Hicksville Fire Department. The drive is part of the Rotary Day of Service, an event at which Rotarians across five states and three countries will volunteer at different projects for
a Day of Service. The two local clubs will be accepting donations of new or gently used books (for children and adults) which will be sorted for donation to The Book Fairies, a not-for profit that sources and redistributes books to under-resourced communities on Long Island and in New York City. Volunteers will accept donations at the Hicksville Fire Department, 90-94 West John Street, Hicksville between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
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