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Vol. 5, No. 4
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D’Arrigo enters primary Port resident seeks Suozzi seat BY R O S E W E L D ON Melanie D’Arrigo, a Port Washington resident and progressive Democrat with a history of campaign activism, is challenging U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (DGlen Cove) for the Democratic nomination in the 3rd Congressional District. The district includes Manhasset, Roslyn, Port Washington, Great Neck and Floral Park, among other areas. Suozzi, the former mayor of Glen Cove and former Nassau County executive, was first elected to the seat in 2016. D’Arrigo, originally of Lindenhurst, graduated from Barnard College and earned a Master of Science degree from the School of Health Professions at Long Island University, and later worked as an allied health professional for health care companies Optum and Cigna. Following the election of President Donald Trump, D’Arrigo turned her attention to activism, volunteering as Continued on Page 51
PHOTO COURTESY OF URI BLOCH
The front of Uri Bloch’s home, where five incidents of vandalism took place.
Port home vandalized five times over Trump campaign signs BY R O S E W E L D ON A Port Washington native said campaign signs and flags he put up at his home in support of President Donald Trump
have been vandalized or stolen five times. In November, Uri Bloch purchased a yard sign advertising Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign and installed it prominently on his front lawn. The next day, he found it off to the side of the lawn and returned it to its spot, figuring “it was the wind.” “A day later, after I put
up the sign again, I found it thrown in the shrubbery next to my house,” Bloch said. He put the sign back in its place. Within two days, it was stolen from his front lawn. “Someone had been tampering with it, and then they came onto my property and stole it,” he said. The three incidents in November made Bloch decide to
add something more permanent. “I decided to get an actual flag and nail it to my porch so it would be more difficult for someone to do something,” Bloch said. Bloch then bought a flag from the Trump campaign and hung it on his porch’s overhang, as well as several more yard Continued on Page 51
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