Adriano Rangel, a junior who was East Hampton’s delegate to the Angelo Del Toro Puerto Rican/Hispanic Youth Leadership Institute in Albany, is also one of just seven delegates chosen to attend a similar program, the Somos Conference in Puerto Rico, in November.
Taking risks can be scary and overwhelming, but Emily O’Reilly, the eighth-grade English teacher at Springs School, showed students that taking risks can be worth it. Recently, she “walked the walk,” so to speak, when she entered a poetry contest she saw posted in a local newspaper.
“I’ve definitely had to answer questions” about the 2024-25 school budget proposal, Joshua Odom, Montauk’s superintendent, said in explaining the strange situation the district came up against this year — the discovery, by a school board member, that taxpayers were accidentally overcharged last year by approximately $56 per thousand dollars of assessed value. The solution? A tax credit for Montauk homeowners.
Public hearings have been scheduled in each school district ahead of the May 21 budget vote. See when your district's hearing is.
