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Thursday, December 11, 2025 ~ Volume 71 ~ Issue Number 2 ~ $1.00
‘Commonsense’: GOP Senators Unveil PROTECT Act By Matt Meduri As lawmakers await the upcoming session of the New York State Legislature in Albany this coming January, bills are already hitting the docket, with their sponsors hopeful those measures will be taken up. Republicans in the Assembly and Senate have long decried the Democratic trifecta’s inability or unwillingness to bring some pieces of legislation to the floor, while other initiatives to roll back the heavily-criticized criminal justice reforms have perennially stalled in negotiations.
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Senator Dean Murray (R-East Patchogue) and Senator Pam Helming (R-Canandaigua) (Credit - Matt Meduri)
Center Moriches H.S. Opens Renovated Auditorium By Matt Meduri
In May, the Center Moriches School District pitched a proposition to voters to pass a $1.2 million capital expenditure to renovate the school’s auditorium, which is located at the high school on Frowein Road but is used by all three schools in the district. Proposition 2 passed with 77% of the vote, allowing the district to take on necessary renovations to the auditorium that serves as not only the district’s performance, cultural, and assembly center, but also as a meeting space for the Center Moriches community. The project is also 78% reimbursable with State aid over the next fifteen years. The newly-renovated auditorium at Center Moriches High School (Credit - Matt Meduri)
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