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Friday, December 13, 2019
Vol. 7, No. 50
HOLIDAY SCHOOL HONORED FOR G.N. NATIVE SEEKS GUIDE BLUE RIBBON STATUS CONTROL OF METS PAGES 27-46
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Flynn re-elected as water, fire commissioner
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MERRY & BRIGHT
Defeats former board member O’Brien for second term in district BY R O S E W E L D ON Incumbent Steve Flynn defeated former Commissioner Donald O’Brien for re-election to the Board of Commissioners of the Manhasset-Lakeville Fire and Water District on Tuesday night. Flynn, a foreman for the Public Works Department in the Village of Plandome, won with 543 votes, to O’Brien’s 392, and will serve a second three-year term. InPort Washington, voters have chosen Frank T. Scobbo as their new commissioner in the Port Washington Fire District, defeating three-term incumbent Dave Franklin. Scobbo, an engineer and longtime member of the Port Washington Fire Department, won by a margin of 26 votes, receiving 372 to Franklin’s 346. The commissioner-elect has said that he plans to propose upgrades for the district’s current headquarters, which brought him
into conflict with Franklin, who supported the idea of an altogether new facility, over the course of the campaign. Scobbo will serve for three years on the district’s Board of Commissioners, along with Angela Mullins, who was re-elected in 2018, and Thomas Rice, who was elected in 2017. In the Port Washington Water District, incumbent Commissioner Mindy Germain ran unopposed and won a third term on the board, and Port Washington Garbage District Commissioner William Scaglione, also running unopposed, won a second term on his board. Germain, also the executive director of advocacy group Residents Forward, will continue serving with water Commissioners Peter Meyer and David R. Brackett, while Scaglione will rejoin garbage Commissioners Mary P. Giordano and Paul Oleksiw for another three-year term. Continued on Page 69
PHOTO BY ROSE WELDON
Dozens gathered at the Mary Jane Davies Green to see the lighting of the Town of North Hempstead’s Christmas tree. See photos on pages 12 and 13.
F. Hill, ExteNet court date pushed to January BY R O S E W E L D ON The first legal conference between the Village of Flower Hill and ExteNet Systems, which came after ExeNet Systemsr ejected applications for 18 cell nodes in the area, has
been rescheduled to Jan. 8, according to village attorney Jeffrey Blinkoff. Blinkoff, who practices at Roslyn’s Leventhal, Mullaney and Blinkoff LLP, said at the Board of Trustees meeting on Monday, that a conference
originally scheduled for Dec. 17 would instead take place on Jan. 8, according to an email from attorney Edward Ross, who was not present at the meeting and is representing the village in the matter. Continued on Page 69
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