Oyster Bay rally a time of expression
Request for new graduation policy
Joe Suozzi is now a Met
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JUNE 19 - 25, 2020
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School election results Locust Valley School District $88.7 million budget passed 1,748 “yes” votes 1,254 “no” votes Board of Education trustee election (three seats)
Lauren Themis
Lauren Themis 2,202 votes John Del Tatto 2,150 votes Shawn Steele 2,131 votes Laura Lane/Herald Guardian
Pre-graduation fun Locust Valley High School had a non-traditional Senior Send-off this year, but the students may have had even more fun. Story, more photos, Page 20.
New Glen Cove Hospital unit to aid recovering Covid-19 patients By ALEC RICH newsroom@liherald.com
On April 15, Etienne Fontaine noticed that his father, Edner, was struggling to breathe while on a Zoom call with his congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses. As the night wore on, Edner’s condition worsened, and around 1 a.m., Etienne found him screaming in his bedroom as he fought for air. On the advice of Etienne’s sis-
ter-in-law, a nurse at Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, Edner, 78, was taken to Southside from his home in Central Islip, where he tested positive for Covid-19. Over the following month and a half, Edner was placed in two medically induced comas, each lasting longer than a week, and he needed the help of ventilators and a tracheotomy to breath during his time in and out of the intensive care unit. “Every time I saw the number
of the hospital calling me, if I was standing up or driving, I would pull over or sit down, and my heart was just pumping,” recalled Etienne, 44, who is in the Navy Reserve. “I didn’t know what would happen if I was given bad news, but I always kept thinking positive.” His father recovered from the virus late last month, but remained weak after spending so CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
John Del Tatto
Oyster Bay-East Norwich Central School District $60 million budget passed 1,787 “yes” votes 1,043 “no” votes
Shawn Steele
Board of Education trustee election (one seat) Darren Gerbosi 1,201 votes Michael Lacapria 1,049
Darren Gerbosi