Floral Park Dispatch

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Friday, 11 May 2012 00:00

L.I. native John Tesh set to bring Big Band to Westbury

The quintessential example of being able to take the boy out of his hometown but not the hometown out of the boy, John Tesh once again returns to the area in support of his latest musical project. On Saturday, May 12, he will be playing the NYCB Theatre at Westbury in support of his latest album, Big Band.

A former Garden City resident, Tesh has always carried a special place in his heart for the village despite the fact that his family moved out following his graduation from high school in 1970. Those formative years living on Seabury Road inspired him to not only lend his hometown’s name to the title track of his 1989 album, but do the same when he founded a recording imprint in 2000. When asked about this inspiration while preparing for the upcoming tour at his Los Angeles home, Tesh came up with an interesting rationale.

Elmont School District taxpayers could see a 6.9 percent increase

Residents attending the Stewart Manor Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday, May 1, gave a resounding thumbs-down to the 2012-13 proposed budget for the Elmont Union Free School District. The proposed $78.56 million budget marks a 2.8 percent increase from 2011-12 and would yield a 6.87 percent tax levy jump over last year. The majority of village residents live within the Elmont district, but many homes on Fernwood Terrace are zoned for Garden City public schools.

Residents present at the May 1 meeting questioned why Elmont’s proposed increase is so much higher than the other 56 districts in Nassau County, with the exception of neighboring Floral Park-Bellerose, which is proposing a budget that would increase taxes by 6.58 percent. Residents also expressed concern that the nearly 6.9 percent increase exceeds the state’s 2 percent cap on property tax increases.