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School district passes budget Maria Venuto and Robert Nosek win seats on G.C. Board of Education last year’s voter approval of the district’s $118.1 million 2025-26 spending plan, which passed by The Glen Cove City School a vote of 850-389, with 1,239 resDistrict’s proposed $122.3 mil- idents casting ballots. That lion budget for the 2026-27 budget represented a roughly school year passed Tuesday $4.7 million increase over the previous year’s night, earning spending plan. strong support District officials from voters despite previously described months of discusthe 2026-27 budget sions surrounding process as one of a multimillion-dolthe most difficult lar budget gap, in recent years as planned program inflation, contracreductions and tual obligations ongoing concerns and health insurabout rising school ance increases concosts. tinued to put presThe spending sure on district plan passed by a finances. Foundavote of 668-388. Vottion aid growth has ing took place at b o t h C o n n o l l y ALEXA DOESCHNER also slowed significantly after several School and Glen Superintendent years of larger Cove High School, increases from the where the budget received 116 yes votes and 88 no state. In the Board of Education votes at Connolly, and 552 yes votes and 300 no votes at the race for two open seats, incumbent Maria Elena Venuto, 60, high school. The spending plan is 3.55 received the highest number of percent larger than the current votes with 547, followed by Robschool year’s budget, and ert Nosek, 58, with 510, securincludes a 2.42 percent tax levy ing both seats on the board. increase, which is the district’s C h a l l e n g e r A n g e l a R a i m o received 470 votes, and there allowable cap under state law. The approved budget follows CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
By ROKSANA AMID
ramid@liherald.com
Roksana Amid/Herald
Riders on the Oyster Bay line saw trains resume Tuesday afternoon after representatives of LIRR’s unions and the MTA reached an agreement.
After three-day disruption, L.I. Rail Road strike ends By ROKSANA AMID & BRIAN KACHARABA of the Herald
The three-day strike by the Long Island Rail Road ended late Monday, after five unions and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority reached a tentative agreement, restoring train service following days of disruptions that affected thousands of commuters across Long Island, including many on the North Shore. The shutdown began at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, after negotiations between the MTA and union representatives failed to produce an agreement before a federally mandated cooling-off period expired. The strike halted train service across the LIRR system for the first time since 1994, forcing commuters to scramble for alternate transportation options while businesses and local governments activated contingency plans.
Among those impacted was Shenel Etheridge, a Glen Cove resident who commutes four days a week from the Glen Street station to her job in Manhattan. Etheridge said that the uncertainty surrounding the strike created stress not only for her commute, but also for her family responsibilities. Etheridge typically takes the 7:16 a.m. train into the city and the 3:57 p.m. train home. She and her husband have a 9-year-old daughter who attends Landing School and takes part in an after-school child care program. “We are literally up in the air waiting right now,” Etheridge said before the agreement was reached, explaining that city employees had not yet received guidance on whether they would be permitted to work remotely if the strike continued. Etheridge said that driving into Long CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
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ince the budget passed, we know that the community feels confident in the work that we’re doing.