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Friday, October 29, 2021
Vol. 6, No. 44
Port WashingtonTimes , the issues Your guide to the candidates n and local polling informatio
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ELECTION GUIDE
JOHN RYAN DIES
NIFA SAYS BUDGET ‘OUT OF BALANCE’
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October 29, 2021
County exec, supervisors headline races
DOUBLE TROUBLE
Voters go to polls Tuesday to decide who runs town, Nassau BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z The race for county executive between incumbent Laura Curran and challenger Bruce Blakeman headlines the elections in Nassau County on Tuesday. Nassau County Executive Curran, a Democrat, previously served as a member of the Baldwin Board of Education before being elected as county executive in 2017. Blakeman, a Republican, serves as a council member for the Town of Hempstead. Aside from being Nassau’s liaison between the county’s Republican Party and former President Donald Trump, Blakeman also served as commissioner of the Port Authority and the Town of Hempstead’s deputy supervisor under former Supervisor Laura Gillen. Blakeman has been critical of the county’s reassessment work introduced by Curran after she was elected. Curran has referred
to state and independent reports verifying the accuracy of the reassessment. Blakeman also criticized Curran for a recently passed initiative to provide eligible homeowners with direct payments of $375. The checks were more than half of the $193 million Nassau received as part of the American Rescue Plan. Curran, whose 2022 proposed budget includes a $70 million tax cut, touted the county’s improved financial state as the reason Nassau does not need to hold onto the $100 million in federal funds. Curran and Blakeman both touted their efforts to provide residents with coronavirus testing and vaccination opportunities, along with feeding those who were less fortunate during the coronavirus pandemic. District Attorney After Madeline Singas was appointed to the state’s highest court earlier this year, the race to Continued on Page 77
PHOTO COURTESY OF LONG ISLAND TENNIS
Schreiber High’s Dasha Perfiliev and Ellie Ross won the Nassau County doubles title earlier this month.
Warning to students with leaked documents BY T H E I S L A N D N O W S TA F F
web by hackers. As a result, district officials warned students who held or Sensitive files from the shared files posted online by Manhasset school district, in- hackers that they could face cluding documents decribing disciplinary action. Among the files now on the sexual harassment allegations, have been posted on the dark web are documents describing
a series of sexual harassment allegations between 2006 and 2008. After students reportedly passed around an unspecified file, acting Superintendent Gaurav Passi sent a cautionary Continued on Page 13
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