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HERALD Music Festival returns in style
Celebrating our independence
Morgan Park filled with song
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Weighing in on Trump bill’s impact on L.I. the deficit over the next 10 years. Over 1,200 pages long, the bill As Americans across the is certainly big. What is curcountry fired up their grills and rently unclear is what direct celebrated Independence Day, a impact it will have on residents different celebration took place of Long Island’s North Shore. Republican elected on the South Lawn officials Legislator at the White House. Samantha Goetz, President Donald State Senator Jack Trump signed into Martins, and Naslaw a massive tax sau County Execuand spending packtive Bruce Blakeage on July 4. The man did not legislation, nickrespond to an inquinamed by Trump as ry by press time. the “One Big BeauU.S. Re p. Tom tiful Bill,” narrowly Suozzi wrote that passed the House of he supported the Representatives in a b i l l ’s i n c r e a s e d 218–214 vote, mostly funding for border along party lines. security and the The budget bill $10,000 to $40,000 extends Trump’s increase for the 2017 tax cuts, elimistate and local tax nates taxes on tips deduction, known and overtime, and as SALT, for houseallocates approxiholds earning mately $170 billion CHARLES LAVINE $500,000 or less over t o s u p p o r t t h e Assemblyman the next five years, a d m i n i s t r at i o n’s starting in 2025. He border and immigration objectives. In addition, described it as “a partial victothe federal debt ceiling will be ry,” but vowed to push for the raised by $5 trillion by the legis- full restoration of the increase, lation, with the Congressional which is set to expire in 2030. The Long Island Democrat Budget Office estimating that a potential $3.4 trillion increase to CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
By LUKE FEENEY & WILL SHEELINE
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Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino snapped a selfie with volunteers, and museum and elected officials outside of Raynham Hall to announce the first Long Island History Hunt.
Hunt for history will include sites in Town of Oyster Bay By LUKE FEENEY lfeeney@liherald.com
Residents will have the chance to travel back in time to the Colonial era in downtown Oyster Bay, and across Long Island, during the first-ever Long Island History Hunt. At a news conference in front of Raynham Hall Museum on July 2, Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor Joe Saladino described the summer-long event as a fun seasonal activity as well as a way to learn about what life was like for Long Islanders during the Colonial period. “Oyster Bay is a time capsule” he said “to the years that came before us, not the least of
which is the Colonial period,” Saladino said, adding that the “spies that won the American Revolution came right from this home and family” while pointing to the museum, the second historical site on the hunt. There are a total of 12 sites altogether. The first stop is the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, and the final one is the Montauk Point Lighthouse. In addition to Raynham Hall, the Town of Oyster Bay is home to two others, the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum and the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary and Audubon Center. “This is only for people who love history, people who love Long Island and people who love Oyster Bay,” Harriet Gerard Clark, the CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
here’s always something relatively good in every disgusting piece of legislation . . . just like it’s not worth eating the soup that had the dead rat in it.