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Vol. 69, No. 27
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UNION BLASTS MINEOLA SOME CONGRESSIONAL RACE POSTER POLICY VOTES STILL UNCOUNTED
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Sharp rise in school vote turnout totals More ballots cast in East Williston, Mineola than past 3 years combined BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z A flood of ballots poured in for school elections on the North Shore this year – at least compared with recent years. With residents casting absentee ballots for school board seats and on proposed budgets from the comfort of home due to the coronavirus pandemic, the vote total was higher than the past two years combined. The elections for school boards on June 16 saw incumbents retain their seats and 202021 school district budgets pass despite complications from the pandemic. In virtually every school district on the North Shore, budget and school board votes far surpassed those in previous years. Every budget increased from the previous year. The school districts included in these figures are Great Neck, Roslyn, Manhasset, Port Wash-
ington, Sewanhaka, New Hyde Park-Garden City Park, Floral Park-Bellerose, East Williston, Herricks, Mineola and North Shore. The figures were provided by the school districts. Craig Burnett, an associate professor of political science at Hofstra University, said the increase in voter turnout can be attributed to the convenience of submitting absentee ballots rather than physically going to a polling location. “People enjoy having the ballot sent to them and being able to fill it out on their couch whenever they want to and mail it back in,” Burnett said in a phone interview. “We are a nation that thrives on convenience, and this election turnout certainly proved that.” The Herricks and Mineola school districts saw the highest increases in voter turnout this year compared with the three previous years. Continued on Page 37
PHOTO COURTESY OF JESSICA NOVINS
Although a formal graduation ceremony has been postponed until Aug. 8, the Mineola Union Free School District has been doing all it can to honor this year’s graduating class in nontraditional ways. See story on page 47.
Motion by alleged killer of NHP woman denied BY R O S E W E L D ON A Los Angeles judge has denied a bid for a mistrial due to COVID-19 from accused murderer and millionaire Robert Durst in the 2000 slaying of
his friend Susan Berman. Prosecutors claim that Durst had killed his first wife, Kathleen McCormack, a native of New Hyde Park, and recruited Berman to help him create an alibi, only to kill Berman in
her home to silence her when prosecutors from New York starting looking into McCormack’s 1982 disappearance. Durst, who in the 2015 HBO miniseries “The Jinx” had Continued on Page 38
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