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Friday, September 18, 2020
Vol. 8, No. 38
GUIDE TO LIVING 50+
G.N. PARENTS REPORT ANTI-ASIAN INCIDENTS
‘BAD EDUCATION’ GETS 2 EMMY NOMINATIONS
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Schools close for 2 cases
R E M E M B E R T H E FA L L E N
Schreiber, Daly reopen next day BY R O S E W E L D ON Less than a week into the new school year, the Port Washington school district closed Schreiber High School and Daly Elementary School for the day on Tuesday following confirmed COVID-19 cases at each of the schools. District Superintendent Michael Hynes said in a statement on the district’s website on Monday that a Schreiber student and a Daly student had tested positive for the virus. “In accordance with our reentry plan, the Nassau County Department of Health was immediately contacted to initiate a contact tracing investigation,” Hynes said. “We are following all building sanitizing and cleaning protocols, and out of an abundance of caution, the Schreiber and Daly buildings will be closed Tuesday, Sept. 15.” A representative from a public relations firm employed by the district would not say whether the cases were from the same Continued on Page 43
PHOTO VIA FACEBOOK, COURTESY OF THE MANHASSET-LAKEVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT
Members of the Manhasset-Lakeville Fire Department display an American flag on the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Herrington, party sweep in F. Hill Three new trustees elected in Plandome as incumbents return in other villages` BY R O S E W E L D ON A new mayor and several new village trustees were elected in the Manhasset villages on Tuesday. The village elections were originally scheduled for March 18, but following two reschedulings due to the coronavirus,
Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order for all village elections to take place Sept. 15. FLOWER HILL Mayor Brian Herrington, who took office after the death of Mayor Robert McNamara in April, handily defeated Trustee Kate Hirsch to retain his seat for a full term of office following a nine-month campaign in Flower Hill. Herrington received 596 votes to Hirsch’s 233. Herrington’s Flower
Hill Party slate members also kept their seats, with incumbent Deputy Mayor Randall Rosenbaum receiving 562 votes and incumbent Trustee Gary Lewandowski receiving 577 votes. McNamara, who was running for a trustee position under the same party at the time of his death, remained on the ballot as per the rules of the executive order, which called for candidates on the ballots to remain unchanged. He won the last trustee seat with 560 votes.
The Flower Hill Party has announced an intention to place resident Claire Dorfman in the seat following McNamara’s win. Under Hirsch’s Liberty Party banner, residents and trustee candidates Diane Turner, Jay Silverman, and Jeffrey Greilsheimer respectively received 240 votes, 232 votes and 225 votes. The elections saw Hirsch challenge the Flower Hill Party’s petition with the aim of having Continued on Page 42
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