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Bruce Blakeman claims victory Survivor and over Democrat Seth Koslow author works By MoHAMMAD RAFIQ
to remember
mrafiq@liherald.com
Voters tur ned out across Nassau County on Tuesday to decide critical races that will shape leadership and policy at every level — from county executive to local offices. Re p u b l i c a n i n c u m b e n t B r u c e B l a ke m a n s e c u r e d another term as county executive, defeating his Democratic challenger, Seth Koslow. Blakeman’s campaign focused on public safety, fiscal restraint and quality-of-life issues. “I want to thank the men and women of Nassau County for giving us all your trust,” Blakeman said at the Republican election night gathering at the Coral House in Baldwin. “If not for the people of Nassau County coming out the way they did, we wouldn’t have had the tremendous result we had tonight.” Blakeman, who told the crowd that President Trump has already called to congratulate him on his win, has enthusiastically supported Trump’s
“I started writing the first one about myself when my grandson was 9 years old,” When Freeport resident of Taub recalled. 57 years and Holocaust survivor Taub, 87, now an active eduMireille Taub began document- cator and speaker, explained ing her family’s journey from that the book is not only about Nazi-occupied France to the her experiences as a Holocaust United States, she did not survivor, but also a collection of intend to publish a memoir stories that she assembled about these experiabout her family ences, let alone a and her extended book. family. Each tale Taub will discenters on different cuss her book, “The relatives or friends Last Train from whose experiences Paris: Escape and were shared with Refug e 1940,” at her over the years. Sparkle on Stage Her own earliest Cultural Arts Cenmemories belong ter, 195 Woodcleft MIREIllE TAuB not to herself, but Ave., in Freeport, Freeport author to the stories told beginning at 3 p.m. by others. on Sunday. “I was 2 years The afternoon will include a old when we escaped from book talk and light refresh- France to the United States in ments, and copies of the book, 1940, so my memory is certainly which was published in the not there,” she said. spring, will be available for purThe book centers around her chase. family’s perilous escape from That first story, sparked by Paris in June 1940, and its title her grandson’s school project, comes from a remark Taub’s grew into a decades-long quest father had shared with her. to record lost histories — a long “He produced the title ‘The search that culminated this Last Train from Paris,’ because spring with her collection’s my dad had told me that we publication through Lamberson took the last train out of Paris Corona Press, based out of West as Paris was about to surrender Babylon. Continued on page 9
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Republican County executive Bruce Blakeman won his second term on tuesday, defeating his democratic challenger, Seth Koslow. efforts to control immigration, cooperating with the rampedup activities of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Nassau County. “Four years ago we made promises,” he said. “We said that we wouldn’t be a sanctuary county. We said we would take the masks off the kids and stop oppressing our children
here in Nassau County. We said we wouldn’t raise taxes. We haven’t raised taxes one penny in four years.” Republican county District Attorney Anne Donnelly was elected to another term, defeating Democratic challenger Nicole Aloise. Donnelly emphasized her record of prosecuting Continued on page 7
ElEction RESUltS Office
Leading
Opponent
nassau county Executive
Bruce Blakeman (R) ................. 56%
Seth Koslow (d) ................44%
nassau county District Attorney anne donnelly (R) .................... 56%
nicole aloise (d) ...............44%
nassau county comptroller
elaine phillips (R) ..................... 56%
Wayne Wink Jr. (d) ............44%
nassau county clerk
Maureen o’Connell (R) ............. 57%
Joylette Williams (d) .........43%
town of Hempstead Supervisor
John Ferretti (R)........................ 53%
Joseph Scianblo (d) ..........47%
town clerk
Kate Murray (R) ....................... 57%
Yveline dalmacy (d) ..........43%
county legislator District 6
debra Mulé (d)......................... 66%
danielle Samantha Smikle (R) .34%
unofficial results as of midnight tuesday
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e as survivors are a diminishing population.