Thursday, 17 May 2012 12:24

Syosset

Budget

Yes: 3,530
No: 2,271

School Board Trustees

Joshua Lafazan: 4,739
Christopher DiFilippo: 2,531
Alan Resnick: 2,474
John Moore: 2,365
Sonia Rutigliano: 2,115

Friday, 18 May 2012 00:00

Newcomers DiFilippo, Lafazan elected to the school board in the wake of robocalling scandal

After an eventful and often contentious spring campaign, newcomers Chris DiFilippo and 18-year-old SHS senior class president Josh Lafazan were elected to the Syosset School Board, while incumbent Alan Resnick was re-elected. The arrival of some new faces on the board is newsworthy here, especially since both of the newly-elected trustees have been critical of many district policies. However, a bizarre event the day before the May 15 election threatened to overshadow the results: an accusation of theft levied by the district at Lafazan’s father, Jeffrey Lafazan, the use of the school’s emergency information network to broadcast that accusation, and the counter-accusation by the Lafazan family that the entire thing was a fabricated crime designed in an attempt to discredit Lafazan’s candidacy with a last-minute smear campaign.

Friday, 18 May 2012 00:00

Bradley Raxenberg of Woodbury makes it three for four

Twenty-three-year-old Bradley Raxenberg of Woodbury scored his third overall win over the four-race RunNassau Series, smoking the field at the Eisenhower Park 4-miler with a 22:03 finish, 51 seconds in front of his nearest challenger, 43-year-old John Kane of Levittown, who was the first masters finisher at Eisenhower Park.

New Jersey’s Patricia Brims solidified her hold on the overall women’s series championship with a 25:52 win at Eisenhower, notwithstanding a strong effort by runner-up Cristin Delaney-Guille, and Lesli Hiller of the Nassau Police Running Club who took top honors among the Masters Women with a time of 28:14.

Friday, 18 May 2012 00:00

Players in SYAC Girls Softball are in mid-season form, as exciting games were recently played on fields all around town. This week, the girls played teams from Albertson-Herricks and Manhasset among others, while in the Junior League, the team from Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza took on the New York Window Tint team. The players also took time out to pose for this season’s Photo Night. For more information, visit www.syacgs.org.