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Friday, April 28, 2017
Vol. 66, No. 17
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HEALTH, WELLNESS AND BEAUTY
HERRICKS HIGH LOCKED DOWN
MARAGOS CLAIMS COUNTY SURPLUS
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Pool bids $5M over budget
POURING PERFECT PINTS
Town, residents weigh next steps BY N O A H M A N S K A R Planners of a major renovation at North New Hyde Park’s swimming pool are considering how to proceed after receiving bids for the project more than $5 million over budget. Only two ďŹ rms submitted bids to the Town of North Hempstead by Tuesday’s deadline for the proposed $14.1 million overhaul at Clinton G. Martin Park, town spokeswoman Carole Trottere said: Wyandanch-based Philip Ross Industries at $19,035,000, and Wantagh-based Gramercy Group at $19,474,000. The total project cost has risen to $23 million when soft costs, such as engineering and architecture services, are included, Marianna Wohlgemuth, a member of a resident committee overseeing the project, told civic activists in an email Friday. The Town Board will hold a special meeting May 8 to discuss potential solutions, Trottere said. The town will also hold a comContinued on Page 62
PHOTO BY ED STONE
A bartender pours drinks at The Clubhouse in New Hyde Park, where the Greater New Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce held its latest meeting on April 20. See more photos on page 73.
Martins enters county exec race Standing on Mineola mayoral record, ex senator aims to replace Mangano BY N O A H MANSKAR Former state Sen. Jack Martins announced his Republican campaign for Nassau County executive on Wednesday, pledging to restore the county to its former glory after years of scandal and
instability. In a news conference at Mineola Village Hall, Martins said he would bring ďŹ nancial strength, transparency and safeguards against public corruption to Nassau County, as he did in the village he led as mayor for eight years. “We have the ability to rewrite our history and to make sure that we take this county and make it the preeminent county that it was for its ďŹ rst hundred years,â€? Martins told a crowd of
about 50 village oďŹƒcials, community leaders and other supporters. Martins, an Old Westbury resident who lost a bid for Congress last year, is the Nassau County Republican Committee’s choice to replace the current Republican county executive, Edward Mangano, who has pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges and has not said whether he will seek re-election. The GOP’s executive committee is set to vote to endorse Martins on Thursday, according to
two party sources who are both members of the executive committee. No senior party oďŹƒcials were present at Wednesday’s news conference. In an interview Tuesday, Martins said the decision to run was not an easy one, given the county’s political and ďŹ scal problems. But if elected, he would push to create a procedure to recall corrupt elected oďŹƒcials from oďŹƒce and impose stricter limits on political donations and gifts, Continued on Page 62
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