The proposed Hewlett-Woodmere School District budget includes a 2.95 percent year-to-year increase, but that is attributable mostly to a $1.5 million jump in employee benefits and an increase in transportation costs of nearly $817,000.
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5/16/19
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The proposed 2019-20 Lawrence School District budget of $102,449,281 is exactly the same amount as the current spending plan, and includes a tax-levy decrease of 0.23 percent.
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5/16/19
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Facing an uphill battle to maintain the 58-year-old Peninsula Public Library building, the repairs and maintenance expense has doubled from the $75,000 in the current $3,004,400 million budget.
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By Jeff Bessen
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5/16/19
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All three incumbent Village of Cedarhurst candidates are running unopposed in the March 19 election.
Mayor Benjamin Weinstock and village Trustees Ari Brown and Israel “Izzy” Wasser are up for re-election. All terms are four years.
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By Matthew Ferremi
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2/28/19
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The economic news coming out of Washington has been very good lately. The economy is growing at a brisk pace, and unemployment is the lowest in decades. Some of the best news is . . .
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6/15/18
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On Tuesday, residents in six villages can go to the polls and vote for trustees, village justices and a mayor. Trustee and the mayoral terms are two years and village justice is four years.
In Woodsburgh, there is a three-way race for two board seats. Incumbents Gary Goffner and Jake Harman and newcomer Jeffrey Smith are vying to represent the 270-home municipality. The two candidates with the greatest number of votes win.
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6/15/17
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Incumbent Trustees Michael Fragin and Daniel Goldstein are the only two candidates who will be on the June 20 Village of Lawrence ballot since Nassau County Supreme Court Justice Daniel Palmieri ruled on June
7 that Larry Kolodny’s legal action was “untimely” and submitted past the lawful
deadline.
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By Jeff Bessen
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6/15/17
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Residents in the Hewlett-Woodmere and Lawrence school districts can go to the polls on Tuesday and vote for the proposed budgets and Board of Education trustees.
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By Jeff Bessen
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5/10/17
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In just over three weeks, voters in the Hewlett-Woodmere and Lawrence school districts will cast ballots not only for their respective budgets, but also for Board of Education trustees, on May 16. All terms are three years, and begin on July 1.
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By Jeff Bessen and Diana Colapietro
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4/27/17
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It is probably among the nation’s most thankless jobs –– Board of Education trustee. School board members spend untold hours . . .
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10/27/16
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