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The East Rockaway Village Board unanimously adopted its 2010-11 village budget of $8.9 million on April 19. The spending plan contains a 1.6 percent increase over the current budget and a 5.43 percent tax levy increase. The average homeowner will pay an extra $110 in taxes.
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4/28/10
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Below is an unedited transcript of the April 1, 1910 East Rockaway Village Board meeting. Henry F. Johnson was president (mayor). The president of the United States was William Howard Taft. St. Raymond’s Church has been built the year before, and the library was established in 1908.
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Courtesy author and historian Pat Sympson
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4/21/10
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Robert L. (Bob) Sympson is a tree hugger in every sense of the word. He is an untiring advocate of trees, planting them, studying them, educating the community about them. It’s no wonder that he has been named the recipient of the Arbor Day Foundation’s 2010 Lawrence Enersen Award for his lifelong conservation efforts.
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Mary Malloy
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4/21/10
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East Rockaway Mayor Ed Sieban announced that the village board has scheduled a community meeting to present their proposal to transform the industrial district in the village, and to listen to the …
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Mary Malloy
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4/14/10
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“Trust me, this weighs heavy on my mind.”
That was East Rockaway Trustee Irene Villacci’s thought on the village’s tentative $8.9 million 2010-11 budget — and in particular its near 7 percent tax levy increase — which the village unveiled at Monday’s board meeting. Officials vowed to pare down the tax levy over the next two weeks, with the final budget due by April 30. As it stands, the average homeowner would pay an additional $170 in village taxes.
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Anthony Bottan
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4/14/10
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The days are getting longer and warmer weather has arrived. It’s time to venture outside and enjoy these early days of spring as Old Westbury Gardens and Old Bethpage Village open for the season.
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Karen Bloom
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4/7/10
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More than 100 residents of Freeport and neighboring communities like Merrick, Bellmore and Rockville Centre converged on Freeport Village Hall on Monday to protest Mayor Andrew Hardwick's reported proposal to build a $550 million waste-to-energy trash incinerator in south Freeport, near the Merrick border.
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Sari Zeidler and Scott Brinton
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4/6/10
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By ANTHONY BOTTAN
Lynbrook's 2010-11 tentative budget contains a 2.1 percent increase from this year's spending plan and nearly a 5.9 percent tax rate increase. Though Lynbrook officials say that …
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Anthony Bottan
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4/1/10
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Deputy Mayor Richard Meagher has invited the public to attend a meeting on April 29 to help launch a new village organization, Coalition for Youths in East Rockaway. Meagher said he hopes the community-wide effort will help to educate parents and their children about the dangers of substance abuse and offer healthy, village-sponsored activities and programs for young people.
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Mary Malloy
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4/1/10
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