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Friday, May 14, 2021
Vol. 70, No. 20
N E W H Y D E PA R K
LIVING 50 PLUS
BERKOWITZ BEATS GLICKMAN
AG DENIES COUNTY REQUEST FOR OVERSIGHT
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4 candidates vie for 2 ed board seats F.P.-Bellerose incumbents face challengers BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Three new faces and one familiar one are running for two seats on the Floral ParkBellerose Board of Education in the election on Tuesday. Jaclyn O’Donohue and Amanda Talty are competing to replace board President Laura Ferone, who is retiring after 14 years on the board, district officials said. And incumbent Trustee Douglas Madden, who has been on the board since 2017, is running
for re-election against challenger Beth Kierez. O’Donohue, a registered nurse, has been active in several local organizations, including as president of the Wednesday Mother’s Club, Liz’s Day board member and co-leader of her daughter’s Girl Scout troop and son’s Cub Scout den. “I believe that if we come together as parents and as a community, we can make a big change not only for the future of our children, but for the future of our fantastic village,”
O’Donohue said in a Facebook post. Talty, a product of the Elmont and Sewanhaka school districts, is the president and CEO of the Tourette Association of America. She is also a mother of two and the recording secretary for the district’s parent teacher association. Talty, in a Facebook post, said she wants to work toward bringing a team-teaching model to inclusion classrooms, taking advantage of publicprivate partnership opportuContinued on Page 47
Lavine back in spotlight with Cuomo investigation PHOTO COURTESY OF FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
Floral Park’s Joe Skrezyna was dubbed the “warrior” of the game after scoring two goals in the Knights’ 13-7 win over Lynbrook on Friday.
Glen Cove assemblyman again leads charged probe BY N O A H MANSKAR Several women had accused one of Albany’s most powerful men of touching them inappropriately, making creepy comments at work, and demanding they wear skirts and high heels on the job. The man was Vito Lopez,
who spent 28 years in the state Assembly and six years as the Brooklyn Democratic Party chairman before allegations that he had sexually harassed his staffers forced him to resign from office in 2013. He died in 2015. After state ethics regulators outlined Lopez’s behavior in a damning report, it fell to one of
his colleagues — Roslyn area Assemblyman Charles Lavine — to help mete out his punishment as co-chair of the Legislative Ethics Commission. The panel settled on a $330,000 fine, a penalty 33 times larger than the previous record of $10,000, Lavine said. Eight years later, another Continued on Page 48
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