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North Hills incumbents seek election
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Arnold, Lentini hoping for fourth four-year term in Tuesday’s election BY N O A H M A N S K A R North Hills voters will decide next Tuesday whether to re-elect two longtime trustees who say they have kept the village on the right track. Trustees Elliott Arnold and Phyllis Lentini are the only two candidates on the ballot for the village election. Both are seeking their fourth full four-year term on the Board of Trustees. “We’ve been part of the same team for like 15 years,â€? Arnold said in an interview last month. Arnold was ďŹ rst appointed to the board in 2004 and elected alongside Lentini in 2005, 2009 and 2013. He worked as a health and life insurance broker before selling his insurance business and moving into real estate two years ago. Lentini was ďŹ rst appointed to a two-year term on the board in 2003. She is the widow of former village Mayor John Lentini, who
died in 2002 and for whom the Village Hall is named. They ran a real estate business together, from which Phyllis Lentini retired in 2007. Arnold said he wants to continue overseeing the village’s construction projects, including the second phase of the Ritz-Carlton Residences condominium complex and a planned 20-home subdivision at the former site of the historic Insifada Retreat House. Another major project, the new world headquarters of Dealertrack Technologies, an automotive industry software company, is set to open June 21. “We’ve built some very really beautiful projects but we’ve kept them where they don’t hurt the beautiďŹ cation of the village,â€? he said. Lentini echoed that in an interview last month, saying the village has so far succeeded at allowing these large projects while mainContinued on Page 57
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The Town of North Hempstead held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday for the newly renovated Pond View Homes. See story on page 2.
Scaramucci slated for OECD ambassador seat Scaramucci, 53, a Port Washington native, is Trump’s choice to become ambassador Manhasset resident Antho- to the Organization for Econy Scaramucci is ďŹ nally joining nomic Cooperation and DevelPresident Donald Trump’s ad- opment in Paris, a White House oďŹƒcial told Reuters on Thursministration.
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day. He was originally slated to become the White House’s public liaison to the business community, but he sold his investment ďŹ rm, SkyBridge Capital, Continued on Page 57
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