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Vol. 67, No. 20
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HERICKS RANKS 47th IN STATE
TERRY JAILED
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Herricks votes for 2 trustees, $114M budget
RAISING THE ‘THIN BLUE LINE’
Nancy Feinstein, Brian Hassan re-elected to serve on school board BY R E B ECC A K L A R
has managed to operate under the tax cap. “We manage to do that and The $114.3 million Herricks school budget for 2018-19 passed maintain [and] expand programs on a 885-382 vote on Tuesday for all of our students, all while having a pretty low per pupil night. School board members Nancy spending – as compared to our Feinstein and Brian Hassan, both [comparative] school districts,” incumbents running unopposed, Feinstein said. This will be Feinstein’s third were voted in with 928 and 774 term on the board. votes, respectively. The Roslyn resident The budget See related has three children represents a 2.68 percent, or $3 mil- election coverage who have all attended Herricks lion, increase from PAGES 20, 21 schools. Her youngthe current budget. est daughter will The tax levy graduate from the high school this will increase by 2.55 percent. Including the 2018-19 tax year. Hassan, an Albertson resident, levy, the average tax levy increase over the last three years is 1.44 will also be serving his third term on the board. He has two children percent. The number of residents reg- who have graduated from the istered to vote in the district is Herricks schools and a daughter currently completing her junior 19,900. Feinstein, in a previous inter- year at the high school. view, said she is proud the board Continued on Page 21
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE TOWN OF HEMPTEAD
From left, Hempstead Town Clerk Sylvia Cabana, Town Supervisor Laura Gillen, Nassau County Police Commissioner Pat Ryder and Councilman Bruce Blakeman raise the “Thin Blue Line Flag,” for fallen officers. See story on page 22.
NHP native shares L.I. nature through artwork B Y R E B E C C A K L A R photographing nature on Long know about all the species of Diana Poulos-Lutz knows what the beach looks like in the dead of winter. It’s one of the natural beauties she discovered through
Island. “As much as I love traveling myself and seeing new places, we have so much beauty here,” Poulos-Lutz said. “And many of us, myself included, don’t even
wildlife.” Long Island nature is the focus of Poulos-Lutz’s exhibit “Our Connection to Nature: A Photographic and Literary Continued on Page 66
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