Franklin Square/Elmont
HERALD F.S. man was on ‘Jeopardy!’
Prison sentence delayed
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Vol. 22 No. 25
JUNE 18 - 24, 2020
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School election results As of press time, only results from the Franklin Square school district and library elections were avaiable. Full election results could be found at www.LIHerald. com.
William leder
Franklin Square school district $40.2 million budget: Passed, 2,152 - 1,056 Trustee election (2 seats) William leder (unopposed): 2,016 votes Melissa Koenig/Herald
FrEDDy AND ENzo Grant knelt as protesters shared their experiences with racism in front of Sewanhaka High School last Sunday.
Sewanhaka students, parents protest systemic racism By MEliSSA KoENig mkoenig@liherald.com
In a protest against police brutality and systemic racism on Sunday night, more than 100 Sewanhaka Central High School District parents, students and alumni marched through the residential streets leading from H. Frank Carey High School to Sewanhaka High School, chanting, “If we don’t get no justice, then you don’t get no peace!” and “Humans don’t deserve to
be slaughtered!” The protest was organized by Elmont alum Erik Blan and Carey alumna Julia Gornicz, who connected on Twitter and made a plan after both attended a similar protest in Elmont and Valley Stream a few weeks before. They wanted to show administrators in the Sewanhaka district that the black community is “tired of racism,” Blan explained, and gain support for the antiracism movement, because not everybody in the commu-
nity was behind it. “I just think it’s good to have the whole district show solidarity,” Blan said before telling the crowd that gathered outside Carey that they should educate themselves and others about systemic racism and hold their friends and families accountable for their words and actions. In 1985, the State Education Department ordered that the Sewanhaka district reintegrate its five high schools, Continued on page 3
Diane Hansen
Diane Hansen: 1,716 votes Anthony Vellon: 910 votes Elmont school district Results for Elmont’s $94.4 million budget vote and trustee elecAnthony Maffea tion were not available at press time. Incumbent Anthony Maffea ran against challenger Simmonie Swaby, and Tiffany Capers ran unopposed. Sewanhaka CHSD As of press time, reuslts for Sewanhaka’s $209 million budget proposal were not available.