Friday, March 22, 2024
Vol. 101, No. 12
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Comm. Agreement candidates sweep village election
RUNNERS IN RED
Results of the March 19, 2024 General Village Election, including absentee and early mail ballots: Community Agreement Party: * Vinny Muldoon - 2,168 * Judy Courtney - 1,926 * Jessica Tai - 1,851 * Bruce A. Torino - 1,770
Common Ground: Larry Nedelka - 458 For A Better Garden City Party: Charles P. Kelly - 1,050 Richard A. Williams - 1,035 Michael J. Sullivan - 1,028 Lawrence N. Marciano, Jr. 926 * Winners
Lawsuit over Board of Ethics appointment dismissed New arborist shares plans with EAB
Members of “Team Breidgeen” from Garden City give a “Thumbs up” to lung cancer at the fourth annual “Runner in Red 5K” March 16. More than 300 runners and walkers participated under a bright blue sky last Saturday to support the cause. Special thanks to sponsors Hilton Capital Management and Katten and to leadership from Northwell Health Cancer Institute for their booth on health and wellness. Megan Lavery, coach of the Sacred Heart track team, won the Barb Murphy First Place women’s trophy. Full details on the race and campaign to cure lung cancer at RunnerinRed.com.
BY MEG MORGAN NORRIS
BY RIKKI MASSAND Village of Garden City Mayor Mary Carter Flanagan and Trustee Michele Harrington, co-chairpersons of the Environmental Advisory Board (EAB), hosted a presentation from new Garden City Arborist / Horticulturist Joe Umana during the March 12 EAB meeting in Village Hall. Almost two weeks after his introduction to the Recreation
Commission on February 28, Umana boldly declared his plan for Garden City’s “Arboriculture.” “I came here to take over – I didn’t just come to participate,” he announced. Umana was born and raised in Nassau County, growing up in Levittown and going on to attend Kellenberg Memorial High School before completing his bachelor’s degree at the University of Delaware. As a
teenager he began working on his school grounds as part of the landscape crew. “From then on my passion for horticulture and working with my hands, working with trees just grew and I knew I wanted to do something with this for the rest of my life – it gave me a purpose. I may be clean cut and I present myself well, but an office job is not for me – when I’m not out in
A lawsuit brought against the Village of Garden City and Mayor Mary Carter Flanagan by a former member of the Village’s Board of Ethics has been dismissed as untimely by a New York State Supreme Court judge. The action was commenced in September 2023 by Ryan Torino, who had been appointed to the Board of Ethics in May 2021. Under the Village’s code, the term of office for members of the ethics board is three years. However, in 2021 Torino was given and executed an Oath of Office that specified that the term was for only one year. Again in 2022, another Oath of Office for one year was also sent to Torino by the Village, and he again executed it. Ryan Torino’s father, Bruce Torino, became a member of the
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