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Flanagan elected mayor; Finneran, Harrington, Chester win trustee seats
RUNNER IN RED
The following are the certified results for the March 21st Village of Garden City elections: Mayor: Judy Courtney 1,226 *Mary Carter Flanagan 1,351 Trustees: *Edward T. Finneran 1,514 *Michele Harrington 1,312 Cosmo Veneziale 984 Richard A. Williams 986 *Bruce J. Chester 1,215 Michael J. Sullivan 1,097 *Winner
300 runners stepped up to the line on March 18th for the Runner in Red 5K race to fight lung cancer. The event was created in memory of Barb Murphy, a marathon runner who developed non-smokers’ lung cancer and passed away in 2013. See page 24.
Budget talks continue amid middle school security threats BY KASSARA MCELROY The March 21st Garden City Board of Education meeting began with a discussion of recent security threats to the Garden City Middle School. Recently there have been three overthe-phone threats directed at the school, from late January through last week. “Regarding these inci-
dents, which are still under investigation, the actions we’re taking involve multiple agencies. These are not isolated to Garden City. It’s connected to similar phone threats taking place throughout the country,” said Dr. Kusum Sinha, Superintendent of Schools. Garden City Police have been working with the FBI to focus on the source of
these internet-generated calls. “The only real way to trace something like this is through a subpoena process that takes a few weeks to complete, five to be exact following our initial January incident,” the police explained. Parents expressed concerns over evacuation sites. One parent asked if the sites See page 57
The totals include absentee ballots. The following absentee ballots were received for each candidate: Ed Finneran - 110 Judy Courtney - 85 Michele Harrington - 93 Cosmo Veneziale - 67 Mary Carter Flanagan - 152 Richard A. Williams - 119 Bruce J. Chester - 137 Michael J. Sullivan - 137
Board discusses St. Paul’s construction cost estimates BY RIKKI MASSAND As the Garden City Village Board of Trustees convened for the last time prior to the Village election on March 21, the future of historic St. Paul’s remained the key contested topic. The March 16 Board meeting featured a presentation of the construction cost estimates recently released by Westerman Construction Co. The company presented costs for three options: adaptive reuse, facadism and building demoli-
tion. According to the report by Westerman’s firm to the village, the costs for three scenarios would be: Demolition - $17,678,312 Adaptive reuse (first phase) $49,526,287 Façadism - $46,444,836 to save the south facade and build a one story building behind it. The report was delivered to the Board by Lloyd Westerman, principal of the firm. Mayor Cosmo Veneziale started the evening’s presentation with a recap of his 2021 initiative to develop an all-vol-
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Girl Scouts hold Gold Award showcase PAGE 36 GCHS announces top of Class of 2023 PAGE 6