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Friday, September 15, 2017
Vol. 66, No. 37
N E W H Y D E PA R K
GUIDE TO STREET FAIRS
NHP ROAD SCHOOL STOPLIGHT
TOWN OKs FUNDING FOR ELEVATOR FIXES
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Curran wins Dem primary for county exec Beats ex GOP comptroller Maragos 78%-21%, now faces Jack Martins BY N O A H M A N S K A R Laura Curran won the Democratic nomination for Nassau County executive on Tuesday, handily defeating a former Republican and turning her attention to that party’s current standard-bearer. Curran, a county legislator from Baldwin, beat Nassau Comptroller George Maragos 23,093 votes to 6,265, or 78.5 percent to 21.3 percent. About 7.8 percent of registered Democrats voted Tuesday, a smaller turnout than the 2013 Democratic primary for county executive. Jay Jacobs, the Nassau Democratic chairman, said that Curran had won just after 10 p.m., well before the Nassau Board of Elections published any returns. The declaration was based on results at several election precincts around the county, Curran’s campaign said.
Curran must now run a twomonth campaign against Jack Martins, the Republican former state senator from Old Westbury, as the Democrats try to take control of the county seat following the indictment last year of Republican County Executive Edward Mangano. “We are facing a political machine that has proven it knows how to win,” Curran told about 150 supporters Tuesday night at a restaurant on the Nautical Mile in Freeport. “But we know all too well what the reality of those victories have been: corruption scandal after corruption scandal.” Curran’s victory makes her the first woman to ever win a major party nomination for County executive, a year after Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win a major party’s presidential nomination. Her running mates, Jack Schnirman for comptroller and Continued on Page 88
PHOTO BY NOAH MANSKAR
A man plays “Amazing Grace” on the bagpipes in front of Floral Park’s 9/11 relic memorial at Monday’s remembrance ceremony.
F.P. remembers 9/11 victims, looks to future But to Floral Park Mayor Dominick Longobardi, remembering the infamous terrorist The words “never for- attacks should not mean getting get” are emblazoned on flags, bogged down in the past. “This day is a day to set the plaques and even the National Sept. 11 Memorial in down- future and go forward,” Longobardi told a crowd of about town Manhattan.
BY N O A H MANSKAR
100 gathered at the village’s 9/11 memorial on Monday, the 16th anniversary of the attacks. “Let us not take what happened to these individuals and let it be in vain.” Floral Park’s annual reContinued on Page 88
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