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Locust Valley hosts budget presentation roughly $100.25 million, a 2 percent increase over the current year. It includes a tax levy The Locust Valley Central increase of 2.1 percent, well School District held its fifth below the district’s maximum presentation focusing on the allowable increase of just under 3 percent, p ro p o s e d 2 0 2 6 - 2 7 according to the budget Wednesday state’s tax cap fornight, outlining a mula. $100.25 million Several cost-savspending plan that ing measures officials said balhelped keep the tax ances fiscal increase below the restraint with concap, Horoszewski tinued investment explained. They in student programs included a shift to a and safety. six-day instructionThe presentation al cycle, which elimfocused on employinated the need to ee benefits, debt serhire an additional vice, interfund music teacher; stantransfers, revenue dardizing Chromeand a final budget KAREN books to reduce summary. HoRoSzEWSKI licensing and main“Our g o a l Assistant tenance costs; and remains the same: superintendent for refining scheduling to educate the whole business, at the middle and student and to i n s p i r e l i f e l o n g Locust Valley Central high schools to maximize classroom lear ning,” Karen School District use. Horoszewski, the The district’s fund balance, a district’s assistant superintendent for business, said at the key indicator of financial stameeting. “Our budget mission bility, has $3.9 million in unasis to support those educational signed funds, or roughly 4 pergoals while remaining fiscally cent of the operating budget, the maximum allowed under responsible.” The proposed budget totals Continued on page 11
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Before Raynham Hall was a town-run museum, it was preserved by the daughters of the american Revolution, who are partnering with the museum for the Revolutiona experience.
The American Revolution comes to Raynham Hall By WIll SHEElINE wsheeline@liherald.com
Raynham Hall Museum will host the traveling exhibition “American Revolution Experience,” offering visitors a look at the people and stories behind the nation’s founding ahead of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. A collaboration of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the American Battlefield Trust, the exhibition will be on display during the museum’s public hours through April 4, with an opening program scheduled from 1 to 2 p.m. on Saturday. The local DAR chapter, which has longstanding ties to the museum, facilitated
Raynham Hall’s selection to host the exhibit. The organization owned and maintained the Townsend homestead in the early 1900s before it became a town-run museum, and continues to hold meetings there. “They had heard that there was this collaboration between their organization and the American Battlefield Trust to create a traveling exhibit to go to libraries, historical societies and museums,” Justinne LakeJedzinak, the museum’s director of education and public programs, said of the DAR. Local chapter leaders identified a window for the exhibit to appear at Raynham Hall. It is fully funded by the partnering organizations, allowing the museum to host it at no Continued on page 13
ur goal remains the same: to educate the whole student and to inspire lifelong learning.