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Friday, May 24, 2019
Vol. 7, No. 21
BEST OF THE N. SHORE NOMINEES
JCC COACH ARRESTED
MEMORIAL DAY GUIDE
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Trustee to not seek 2nd term Fastenberg of O.W. steps down BY T E R I W EST Old Westbury Trustee Leslie Fastenberg is not seeking reelection after serving four years on the village board, and resident Jeffrey Brown is running for her spot. Fastenberg cited tension with the mayor and other trustees as her reason for stepping down the morning after Monday’s meeting, where she announced her decision. “Politics is a sticky wicket,” she said. “I would say there has been a persistent campaign to diminish my participation.” Fellow members of the board often do not return her calls or update her on village happenings, she said. No one told her, for example, when email addresses for village officials changed. At Monday’s meeting Trustee Marina Chimerine said there will soon be a new village website, which Fastenberg said she had never heard about. “It was just too difficult to do normal business,” Fastenberg Continued on Page 13
PHOTO BY TERI WEST
Roslyn High School junior Lara Gerstman works as an election official for the Roslyn school district election Tuesday.
Roslyn-area school budgets pass Residents re-elect school board members, weigh in on spending in Tues. vote BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN, J E S S I C A PA R K S AND TERI WEST
Roslyn and Williston-area school district budgets passed Tuesday after residents headed to the polls in high school gymnasiums. The Herricks election saw the most voters, and residents approved the district’s $117.5 million budget and re-elected Board of Education President Juleigh
Chin. Below are election results for Roslyn, East Williston, Mineola and Herricks. Roslyn Public Schools Roslyn’s school budget passed with 80 percent approval along with two propositions designating funding toward capital projects and vehicle purchases. Trustees Steven Litvack and
Bruce Valauri were re-elected. The 571 people who voted in favor of the capital reserve proposition paved the way for renovations across four district schools, including new playgrounds for Harbor Hill and Heights schools and science classroom facelifts in the high school. There were 117 votes Continued on Page 93
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