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Friday, December 13, 2019
Vol. 4, No. 50
Port WashingtonTimes HOLIDAY PORT BOYS BASKETBALL G.N. NATIVE SEEKS GUIDE CONTROL OF METS REBUILDING PAGES 27-46
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Scobbo defeats Franklin in race for police board
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Germain, Scaglione retain seats BY R O S E W E L D ON Port voters have chosen Frank T. Scobbo as their new commissioner in the Port Washington Fire District, defeating three-term incumbent Dave Franklin. Scobbo, an engineer and longtime member of the Port Washington Fire Department, won by a margin of 26 votes, receiving 372 to Franklin’s 346. The commissioner-elect has said that he plans to propose upgrades for the district’s current headquarters, which brought him into conflict with Franklin, who supported the idea of an altogether new facility, over the course of the campaign. Scobbo will serve for three years on the district’s Board of Commissioners, along with Angela Mullins, who was re-elected in 2018, and Thomas Rice, who was elected in 2017. In the Port Washington Water District, incumbent commissioner Mindy Germain ran unopposed and won a third term on the board, and
Port Washington Garbage District Commissioner William Scaglione, also running unopposed, won a second term on his board. Germain, also the executive director of advocacy group Residents Forward, will continue serving with water commissioners Peter Meyer and David R. Brackett, while Scaglione will rejoin garbage commissioners Mary P. Giordano and Paul Oleksiw for another three-year term. Elsewhere on the North Shore, Frank Cilluffo was re-elected to a third term as commissioner of the Great Neck Park District on Tuesday night. Cilluffo defeated Erica Beggs by a margin of 318 votes, receiving 993 compared to Beggs’ 675. After spending 20 years as a patrolman for the NYPD, Cilluffo moved to Great Neck and immediately became an involved member of the community. He was first elected to the position of commissioner in 2014 in a special election to fill the vacant seat that had been held by Ruth Tamarin. Cilluffo touted his experience Continued on Page 59
PHOTO BY ROSE WELDON
Moxie the beagle mix warms up in her owner’s coat at Port Washington’s annual Christmas tree lighting. See photos on pages 12 and 13.
County execs announce task force against anti-Semitism BY R OB E RT PELAEZ & ROSE WELDON Nassau County Executive Laura Curran joined her Suffolk County counterpart, Steve Bellone, on Monday in
announcing an island-wide coalition that will combat antiSemitism and hate symbols. The announcement was made at the Nassau County Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center in Glen Cove following the second discov-
ery of anti-Semitic graffitti on the center’s premises in two weeks. Over 40 elected local and state officials, religious members, and community activists were present to address the Continued on Page 58
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