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Port Blvd. gets renamed
SUMMER UPGRADES
Honors U.S. vet from Manhasset BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I A portion of Port Washington Boulevard is being renamed to honor a U.S. Army Ranger who died in combat in Iraq. Sgt. James “Jimmyâ€? Regan grew up in Manhasset and was an All-American lacrosse player at Chaminade High School. After high school, he became a star member of Duke University’s lacrosse team. Deeply aected by the terror attacks of Sept. 11, he volunteered to serve in the U.S. Army after college, passing up lucrative Wall Street job opportunities and law school scholarships. He excelled in the military as well, graduating ďŹ rst in his basic training class, receiving the distinction of “Soldier of the Cycleâ€? and later earning a spot in the elite Army Rangers. Regan served four overseas combat tours, two in Afghanistan and two in Iraq. Regan died Feb. 9, 2007, Continued on Page 117
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Manhasset Secondary School is being updated this summer with capital improvement projects funded by a bond passed in 2014. Improvements include larger music rooms, updated science classrooms and a new technology classroom. See story on page 2.
Mooch woes from W.H. to L.I. After 10 days as communication director, Manhasset man fired from post BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I When Manhasset resident Anthony Scaramucci climbed close to the pinnacle of political power in Washington before crashing down the slippery
slope, the reverberations were wife, Deidre Ball, might be. Reporters tracked Ball, who felt on the North Shore. He lasted a mere 10 days was not wearing a wedding ring, to a Manhasset as White House Starbucks ďŹ ve communications See related days after she director, the shortest stint in Scaramucci story gave birth to a son, James, the that job in history. PAGE 5 New York Daily But while he News reported. was briey a favorite of President Don- During the delivery, Scaramucci, ald Trump, reporters staked known as “the Mooch,â€? was reout the village, his home, portedly with President Trump anywhere Scaramucci or his en route to the Boy Scouts Jam-
boree. Ball reportedly ďŹ led for divorce near the end of her pregnancy. The couple has been married for three years. Eorts to reach Scaramucci and Ball were unavailing. The newly installed White House chief of sta, John Kelly, a retired four-star general who reportedly made clear on his ďŹ rst day who was in charge of the sta, removed Scaramucci Continued on Page 97
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