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Friday, March 19, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 12
GUIDES TO SCHOOLS, CAMPS PAGES 23-42
RALLY AGAINST ANTI-ASIAN HATE
BLAKEMAN TO CHALLENGE CURRAN
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Ceriello nabs 2nd term in Munsey Park Incumbent mayor beats former Trustee Sabino in election BY R O S E W E L D ON With the exception of one trustee race in Flower Hill, three incumbent mayors, 12 incumbent trustees and two incumbent village justices won re-election in municipalities across the Manhasset area on Tuesday. MUNSEY PARK Mayor Lawrence Ceriello won a second term against former Trustee Anthony Sabino, village Clerk Tara Gibbons told Blank Slate Media via email. Sabino, an attorney and law professor, had been elected to a two-year term as a trustee in 2018 on the Residents for a Better Munsey Park ticket after serving on the village’s Building Advisory Committee, but lost a re-election bid in 2020 when his seat and that of outgoing Trustee Jennifer Noone were taken by Regina Im and Gregory LiCalzi. Ceriello, an attorney and partner in the real estate group of the
Manhattan-based firm Morrison and Foerster, is also a former trustee, having won one term in 2017 before succeeding Frank DeMento as the village’s mayor in an uncontested race 2019. The incumbent mayor received 253 votes, while Sabino received 77. Trustee Joseph Williams, who was elected to Ceriello’s vacant seat in 2019, won a second term with 280 votes, and Deputy Mayor Antonio D’Angelo won a third term with 279 votes. Both trustees were uncontested in their races. Gibbons did not report any write-ins for either position. PLANDOME HEIGHTS Trustees Daniel Cataldo, Gus Panopolus and Norman Taylor each gained another two-year term, and village Justice Cye E. Ross was elected to a four-year term. Cataldo received 54 votes, Taylor received 53, and Ross and Continued on Page 61
PHOTO COURTESY OF JACQUELINE FRANCHETTI
Kyra Franchetti of Manhasset plays at a park in an undated photo. Kyra, who was killed by her own father in 2016 at age 2, will be remembered with blue pinwheels placed at the Mary Jane Davies Green in Manhasset and Blumenfeld Family Park in Port Washington, which her mother Jacqueline says were two of her favorite places to play. See story on page 3.
St. Mary’s knew history of sexual abuser: alum BY R O S E W E L D ON An alumnus of St. Mary’s College Preparatory School in Manhasset has filed a lawsuit against the school and the religious order operating it say-
ing that a guidance counselor sexually abused him dozens of times, and they knew that the counselor had a history of abusing other students. Steven Gormley, 53, of Connecticut, was a resident of
Long Beach when he entered the then-St. Mary’s High School for Boys as a freshman in 1981, according to a complaint filed under the Child Victims Act in Nassau County Supreme Court Continued on Page 53
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