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Friday, March 16, 2018
Vol. 6, No. 11
TOWN EMPLOYEE ED BOARD BACKS MANGANO SENTENCED GUN REFORM TRIAL BEGINS PAGE 26
4 vie for 2 trustee seats in Munsey Park
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Plandome, Heights, Manor, Flower Hill elections on Tuesday uncontested BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I The Village of Munsey Park will have at least one new trustee after the elections on Tuesday. Trustee Jennifer Noone is the lone incumbent running for two at-large trustee spots. The ballot will also include attorney Brian Dunning, attorney Anthony Sabino and former attorney Nathy Yakaitis. Trustee John Lippmann, who was elected in 2014, has opted not to seek another term. Noone, who was also elected in 2014, and Sabino are running alongside unopposed village Justice John Turano on the Residents for a Better Munsey Park ticket. Dunning and Yakaitis are running on the same platform but are not affiliated with a party. Dunning has been a Munsey Park resident for about 16 years and said his campaign stems from the behavior he has seen from
Mayor Frank DeMento and the trustees, including the appointment of DeMento’s brother-inlaw, Daniel Breen, a village utility worker, as village administrator without a job search. The village clerk-treasurer, Barbara Miller, said at the time that she was not made aware of the appointment before the meeting and was “shocked” that the creation of the position was not mentioned on the meeting’s agenda. Breen declined the position two weeks later in May 2017 after a public uproar, and Miller was replaced. “I’ve been watching closely what goes on in Village Hall more than when I first moved here, and there have been a lot of things I’ve objected to and thought could be handled a lot better,” Dunning said Friday. “They’re really not good at communicating, and unfortunately, that has been the tone of this Continued on Page 71
PHOTO BY AMELIA CAMURATI
Seventeen Manhasset High School students lie on the school’s football field surrounded by hundreds of students and teachers during a walkout Wednesday, joining schools nationwide to commemorate the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14. See story on page 2.
Officer kills man after Manhasset bat attack BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN A Nassau County police officer shot and killed a man on the border of Great Neck and Manhasset on Monday after the
suspect attacked two men with a baseball bat in a road rage incident near the Equinox gym and then refused to drop the weapon when confronted by the officer, the police said. News reports identified the
man as Michael Ward, who has also been listed as a suspect in a New Jersey carjacking and a crime spree in New York City. According to an NYPD spokesman, the man’s spree alContinued on Page 69
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