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Friday, February 7, 2020
Vol. 8, No. 6
VALENTINE’S DAY GUIDE
EXTENET SUES NORTH HEMPSTEAD
CURRAN AWARDS TRANSITORIENTED HOUSING GRANTS
PAGES 37-44
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McNamara won’t seek re-election
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Herrington, Hirsch will vie for job of mayor in Flower Hill BY R O S E W E L D ON Flower Hill Mayor Robert McNamara will not seek re-election to his post this year and will instead run for trustee. Deputy Mayor Brian Herrington and Trustee Kate Hirsch have each announced their campaigns for mayor. Beginning in 2010, McNamara served as a village trustee and later became deputy mayor to then Mayor Elaine Phillips. When Phillips was elected to the state Senate in 2016, McNamara was appointed to take on the role. He won an uncontested election bid in 2018. With Herrington and Hirsch also announcing their own slates of trustee candidates, the election appears to be the village’s first contested one in at least two years. Herrington, a three-term trustee who was appointed deputy mayor by McNamara in 2017, counts Trustees Randall Rosenbaum and Gary Lewandowski on
his slate. Rosenbaum was re-elected in 2018, while Lewandowski first took his seat in 2013. McNamara will also be part of the slate. Hirsch, a three-year trustee who served on the Ethics Committee prior to her appointment, includes in her slate Jay Silverman, former Board of Trustees president of Temple Beth-Israel and Planning Board member; Jeffrey Greilsheimer, commercial litigation attorney and North Hempstead Community Development Agency vice chair; and Diane Turner, Zoning Board of Appeals member and former village Planning Board chair. McNamara was unavailable for comment as he was taking a vacation, Herrington said at Monday’s Board of Trustees meeting. The Village of Flower Hill’s election will take place on Wednesday, March 18, from noon to 8 p.m. at Village Hall.
PHOTO COURTESY OF IZHAK SIROTA
A car went into the pond of the Acorn Ponds complex in North Hills on Jan. 31. The driver was reported to be unharmed.
D’Urso tells stories of Holocaust heroism BY R OB E RT PELAEZ
caust survivors and those who played an instrumental role in the liberation of the Jews from Each year, eighth-grade the Nazi reign. Last Thursday, state Asstudents from the North Shore Hebrew Academy conduct a semblyman Anthony D’Urso series of interviews with Holo- (D-Port Washington) shared
his experiences with students. The program, called Names, Not Numbers, allows students to conduct hour-anda-half-long interviews with five to six Holocaust survivors and Continued on Page 64
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