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Vol. 32 No. 39
SEPTEMBER 21 - 27, 2023
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Racing to make history By WIll SHEElINE wsheeline@liherald.com
Courtesy North Shore School District
As the runners of the North Shore High School Women’s Cross Country Team crossed the finish line of their Sept. 11 race, they celebrated not just that win, but a culmination of 16 years with 200 consecutive wins. The team is undefeated in its league since Oct. 15, 2007. North Shore Cross Country Coach Neal Levy has been running the program since the winning streak began. He has overseen the group throughout the span
The North Shore runners beat four other teams to cement their 200th victory.
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Joseph Saladino vows to continue serving O.B. as supervisor Incumbent touts record of financial, environmental and community successes By WIll SHEElINE wsheeline@liherald.com
After six years as the Town of Oyster Bay supervisor, Joseph Saladino says he still has a lot he wants to accomplish. The Massapequa native has been a mainstay of town and state politics for over three decades, which, he asserts, makes him the only candidate in the race with the experience to lead the town into the future. To understand his plans, Saladino said, all anyone has to do is look at his accomplishments since he took office in
January 2017. Appointed by the Town Board following John Venditto’s resignation amid corruption charges, Saladino touted his reorganization of the town’s finances, his focus on environmental protection and development, and his upgrades of constituent services. “In essence, we turned (Oyster Bay) from one of the worst towns in America to now one of the best towns in America in every category,” Saladino said. “With 35 years of experience, I think there are very few elected officials on Long Island
that have more years of experience than I do.” He said that one of his proudest achievements, and a continued focus if he is ree l e c t e d , i s i m p rov i n g t h e t ow n’s f i n a n c e s. S a l a d i n o pointed to the fact that when he took office, his administration turned the town’s roughly $44 million deficit into a surplus of around $89 million. He also highlighted the fact that his administration had improved Oyster Bay’s credit rating, which is investment agencies’ way of determining the ability and willingness of
the town to meet its financial obligations. The town’s current rating is AA-, according to Moody’s Investors Service and other agencies, and Saladino said that, if re-elected, he planned to ensure that Oyster Bay becomes an AAA town, the highest rating it can receive, by continuing to responsibly man-
age its finances. “We’re only two notches away from a perfect AAA rating, while cutting taxes, while paying off all the debt I inherited,” he said. “We’re going to continue to work for a AAA bond rating, the best bond rating the town has ever had, or CoNTiNued oN page 8