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Friday, September 15, 2017
Vol. 2, No. 37
Port WashingtonTimes GUIDE TO GRANT HELPS REPAIR STREET FAIRS GUGGENHEIM ROOF
TOWN OKs FUNDING FOR ELEVATOR FIXES
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Manorhaven remembers 9/11 victims Observance held on 16th anniversary BY LU K E TOR R A N C E It was a warm, clear September morning on Monday when the Manorhaven community gathered to remember what had happened on a warm, clear September morning 16 years earlier. For the sixth straight year, the Village of Manorhaven hosted a 9/11 memorial ceremony outside Village Hall. In attendance were local politiPHOTO BY LUKE TORRANCE cians, members of the local police and fire departments, military vetMembers of the Port Washington Fire Department listen to speeches during erans and over 100 members of the Manorhaven’s 9/11 memorial ceremony. community.
“This is a day for all of us to come together as one and reflect on those we lost,” state Sen. Elaine Phillips said. Following a bagpipe hymn and the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance, the National Anthem was sung by Ella Rowe, a 4th grader at Sousa Elementary School and the granddaughter of Manorhaven Mayor Jim Avena. “It gives me faith that your generation will remember this day for years to come,” North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth told the girl. Continued on Page 89
Curran wins Dem primary for exec B Y N O A H M A N S K A R tion to that party’s current stan- 7.8 percent of registered Demo- eral election precincts around Laura Curran won the Democratic nomination for Nassau County executive on Tuesday, handily defeating a former Republican and turning her atten-
dard-bearer. Curran, a county legislator from Baldwin, beat Nassau Comptroller George Maragos 23,093 votes to 6,265, or 78.5 percent to 21.3 percent. About
crats voted Tuesday, a smaller turnout than in the 2013 Democratic primary for county executive. Jay Jacobs, the Nassau Democratic chairman, said that Curran had won just after 10 p.m., well before the Nassau Board of Elections published any returns. The declaration was based on results at sev-
the county, Curran’s campaign said. Curran must now run a twomonth campaign against Jack Martins, the Republican former state senator from Old Westbury, as the Democrats try to take control of the county seat following the indictment last year of Republican County Executive Edward Mangano.
“We are facing a political machine that has proven it knows how to win,” Curran told about 150 supporters Tuesday night at a restaurant on the Nautical Mile in Freeport. “But we know all too well what the reality of those victories have been: corruption scandal after corruption scandal.” Curran’s victory makes her Continued on Page 88
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