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Gounaris, Zanetti elected to ed board; voters approve $111M spending plan just wanted to hold the line and do what we need to do to preserve Herricks school district vot- what we’re doing here in the disers on Tuesday re-elected a school trict.â€? Gounaris, of Manhasset Hills, board trustee, elected another for the ďŹ rst time and approved a and Zanetti, of Williston Park, will $111.2 million budget for the next be sworn in for their three-year terms in July as the district gears school year. Trustee James Gounaris won up for the start of $29.5 million worth of capital a third term unopprojects this sumposed with 1,008 School Election mer. Voters apvotes, and Henry Coverage proved most of Zanetti was elected the spending for with 981 votes to PAGES 2, 20 the work in Dereplace Christine cember. Turner, the outgoZanetti has said he wants to ing vice president, after 27 years help an already successful board on the board. And voters approved the 2017- ďŹ nd ways to make the district more eďŹƒcient and play an active role in 18 budget 1,070-352. The budget will increase rev- resolving issues in the formula for enue from property taxes by 1.62 distributing state education aid. Zanetti attended nearly every percent, the maximum allowed this year under the state’s tax cap school board meeting before his election. He said he is looking forlaw. “We didn’t go shoot for a lot of ward to getting comfortable on the dierent expensive things and that other side of the table. sort of stu,â€? Gounaris said. “We Continued on Page 20

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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HERRICKS SCHOOL DISTRICT

First-grade students at the Center Street School in Williston Park recently took part in a Project Lead the Way lesson that challenged them to design and construct a playground that offers protection from UV rays. Project Lead the Way was a curriculum introduced in the 2015-16 school year and covers engineering, biomedicine and computer science.

Changing of guard eyed at vets of foreign wars ans of Foreign Wars Post 1688 in Williston Park, leading the regular rituals and cracking As he has done for years, jokes. Ten of the group’s mem86-year-old Charlie Boyd presided over last Thursday’s bers attended the meeting at monthly meeting of the Veter- Williston Park Village Hall, a

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number that members said is typical. Boyd, a U.S. Marine and Korean War veteran from Mineola, will likely cede his job as post commander to Bill Continued on Page 69

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