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Curran wins Dem primary Beats Maragos by 57 points BY N O A H M A N S K A R Laura Curran won the Democratic nomination for Nassau County executive on Tuesday, handily defeating a former Republican and turning her attention to that party’s current standard-bearer. Curran, a county legislator from Baldwin, beat Nassau Comptroller George Maragos 23,093 votes to 6,265, or 78.5 percent to 21.3 percent. About 7.8 percent of registered Democrats voted Tuesday, a smaller turnout than the 2013 Democratic primary for county executive. Jay Jacobs, the Nassau Democratic chairman, said that Curran had won just after 10 p.m., well before the Nassau Board of Elections published any returns. The declaration was based on results at several election precincts around the county, Curran’s campaign said. Curran must now run a twomonth campaign against Jack Martins, the Republican former state senator from Old Westbury, Continued on Page 88
PHOTO BY AMELIA CAMURATI
Members of the Port Washington Fire Department salute as a member of the Albertson VFW Post 5253 plays during the Town of North Hempstead’s 16th annual Sept. 11 memorial service.
Pols vow to keep 9/11 memory alive Town ceremony touts importance of teaching future generations about tragedy BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I Before the Rev. Victor Lewis became senior pastor at Friendship Baptist Church in Roslyn Heights, he watched Flight 11 and Flight 175 crash into the
World Trade Center from his desk at Cantor Fitzgerald Wealth Partners 16 years ago. “On that day and in the weeks that followed, I saw the best of humanity across this region. I saw the love poured on our city because for a time, everyone was black,” Lewis said. “When I say everyone was black, I mean it. Everyone who was in that vicinity was black. There was no white, there was no Asian,
no European, no African and no Middle Eastern. I am referencing the ashes and the soot that was stuck to the faces of every individual who was down in that vicinity, and they were all black.” Lewis was not the only civilian-turned-minister at the Town of North Hempstead’s 16th annual Sept. 11 memorial service Monday at Mary Jane Davies Green in Manhasset. The Rev. Donna Marie Field of Community Reformed Church
in Manhasset was a nurse in 2001. She had finished a night shift hours before the attack and went home to sleep. Field said she awoke to 16 voicemails, mostly from her nurse manager begging her to come back to work. “When I walked back into the hospital, it was a completely and totally different atmosphere,” Field said. “There was no arguing co-worker with coContinued on Page 89
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