West Hempstead's proposed $74,125,176 budget carries a 4.2% spending increase, and a property-tax hike of 1.99%. Wainscott offered a reduced budget of $6,144,331, along with a whopping tax-levy increase of more than 95%.
Lauren Hand first had to beat all of the participating eighth-graders at her school before winning a state-level contest, then a national competition where judges select nine grade-level champions.
Police said Freeport High School principal Beth Summers was notified on Tuesday about a photo showing the student holding a gun in the school bathroom.