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Voters in the Sachem and West Babylon school districts Tuesday approved revised budget plans for the 2024-25 school year that will keep tax hikes within the state's cap limitations.

More than 100 groups marched down Main Street, waving flags and dancing to music as the crowd cheered them.

Organizers said it was the highest number of  marching groups the parade has ever had.

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“The NLRB exists to resolve labor disputes and ensure workers can exercise our rights to join a union free from intimidation and retaliation,” said Ryan Stanton, executive director of the Long Island Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO.

New York State United Teachers president Melinda Person in a statement Saturday said the statewide heat standards are a “vital step toward making sure our classrooms are healthy spaces where the focus can be on teaching and learning.”

Brookhaven Irrigation Corp., a Farmingville-based landscaper and installer of sprinkler systems, has been ordered to pay $120,000 in back wages and damages to workers following a U.S. Department of Labor investigation and lawsuit.

In the works for more than a decade, Gateway aims to construct a 2½-mile rail tunnel that will carry Amtrak and NJ Transit trains between Penn Station and the Secaucus station in New Jersey, and also rehabilitate an existing 110-year-old tunnel across the Hudson River that was badly damaged by Su