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Vol. 6, No. 8
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3 new faces in Munsey Park elections
LACING UP FOR USA
Dunning, Yakaitis challenge Sabino, Noone in March 20 vote BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I Munsey Park residents will vote in the only contested Manhasset election on March 20, with one incumbent and three newcomers vying for two at-large trustee seats. The outlines of the race emerged after the village initially declined to say late last week which candidates had filed to run. The two seats up for election in Munsey Park are currently occupied by Trustee Jennifer Noone and Deputy Mayor John Lippmann, who were elected in 2014. Noone said she filed to keep her seat along with! Anthony Sabino, a member of the village’s Building Advisory Committee, both under the Residents for a Better Munsey Park Party. Lippmann, however, decided not to seek reelection.
“It was an honor to have been elected to two terms as a Village Trustee,” Lippmann said in an email Tuesday. “After volunteering four years of service, I look forward to pursuing other interests.” Lippmann, a seven-year resident of Munsey Park, has served on the Manhasset school district’s Citizens’ Advisory Committee for Finance. Challenging Noone and Sabino are attorneys Brian Dunning and Nathy Yakaitis. Munsey Park trustees serve two years and are unpaid. A woman in the village clerk’s office told Blank Slate Media on Friday, three days after the village’s filing deadline of 5 p.m. Feb. 13, that a Freedom of Information Law request would be required to get the list of candidates who had filed to run. In an email to Blank Slate Media on Saturday, village Clerk Tara Continued on Page 59
PHOTO COURTESY OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS
St. Mary’s alumnus Matt Gilroy played for Boston University and multiple National Hockey League teams before being named to the U.S. men’s hockey team a third time for the 2018 Winter Olympics in PeyongChang, South Korea. See story on page 3.
Troiano’s tax leins not in 2014 town disclosure BY LU K E TORRANCE
disclosure form he filed with the town in 2014, the form shows. The document was obtained Robert Troiano, former di- by Blank Slate Media through a rector of operations for the Town request under the state Freedom of North Hempstead, failed to of Information Law. The document was filed disclose tax liens in a financial
when Troiano sought to return to the town to serve as director of operations. He had left the town in 2010 to join the Nassau County Legislature, and in those four years he racked up $81,533 Continued on Page 58
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