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Old Westbury race moves toward runoff
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Neither Weinberg nor Fastenberg plans to appeal court ruling of tie By J ust i n e sCHoenBaRt The attorney for Village of Old Westbury trustee candidate Andrew Weinberg said on Monday that he will not be appealing Judge Arthur Diamond’s July 27 ruling, which declared Weinberg and write-in candidate Leslie Fastenberg tied for trustee with 178 votes each. Last week, Steve Schlesinger, Weinberg’s attorney and brotherin-law, said that if he were to appeal, he would be looking to throw out two votes for Fastenberg that only included her surname. Schlesinger said he chose not to appeal because his prior experience has led him to believe that an appeal will end up leading to a run-off election. “In my past experience in election cases, even if you’re maybe technically right on the appeal, the court will avoid deciding the issue if the result of their non-decision will be that the voters get to de-
cide,” he said. Schlesinger said both parties have until Aug. 18 to file an appeal. He said that if Fastenberg’s attorneys choose to file an appeal, he will file a cross-appeal. “If there were a 50-vote difference and I was looking to knock out these two votes, it wouldn’t change the outcome,” Schlesinger said. “But they won’t knock them out because it would change the results of the election.” Last week, Fastenberg’s attorney, Ken Gray, said that if his side chose to appeal, the appeal would focus on getting the votes for Fastenberg that were incorrectly made in columns 2 and 4 of the ballot counted. Attorneys for Fastenberg have not yet filed an appeal. Fastenberg said on Tuesday that she and her attorneys are viewing the situation “on a moment to moment basis.” “I think we’re moving ahead cautiously,” Fastenberg said. “Assuming that we can move ahead Continued on Page 39
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Rana Bell (left), the director of northeast development for the adoption service JAFCO, leads a candle-lighting ceremony Thursday during the “Fun in the Sun” fundraiser at the Glen Head Country Club. see story on Page 3.
Searingtown filmmaker’s short going to Hollywood By B i ll san antonio
So he started to write characters based on their personalities — his grandfather goofy Jacob Mariani had long and affable and his grandwanted to showcase his grand- mother as one quick to emoparents in one of his short films, tion — and cast the couple in but feared his time with them what eventually became the short “Marriage Tools,” which was running out.
Mariani wrote, directed, shot and edited. “It was a bit of a strain to come up with an idea but the reason why the film is the story that it is is because I’m trying to build upon the characters they Continued on Page 39
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