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Friday, September 18, 2020
Vol. 8, No. 38
GUIDE TO LIVING 50+
G.N. PARENTS REPORT ANTI-ASIAN INCIDENTS
‘BAD EDUCATION’ GETS 2 EMMY NOMINATIONS
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Herrington defeats Hirsch in Flower Hill
T H E F I R S T D AY
Novick elected in Old Westbury, will succeed longtime mayor Carillo BY R O S E W E L D ON Two mayors were elected and most incumbents returned to their seats in elections in the Roslyn area villages on Tuesday. The village elections were originally scheduled for March 18, but following two reschedulings due to the coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order for all village elections to take place Sept. 15. FLOWER HILL Mayor Brian Herrington, who took office after the death of Mayor Robert McNamara in April, handily defeated Trustee Kate Hirsch to retain his seat for a full term of office following a nine-month campaign in Flower Hill. Herrington received 596 votes to Hirsch’s 233. Herrington’s Flower Hill Party slate members also kept their seats, with incumbent Deputy Mayor Randall Rosenbaum receiving 562 votes and incumbent Trustee Gary Lewandowski receiving 577 votes.
McNamara, who was running for a trustee position under the same party at the time of his death, remained on the ballot as per the rules of the executive order, which call for candidates on the ballots to remain unchanged. He won the last available trustee seat with 560 votes. The Flower Hill Party has announced an intention to place resident Claire Dorfman in the seat following McNamara’s win. Under Hirsch’s Liberty Party banner, residents and trustee candidates Diane Turner, Jay Silverman and Jeffrey Greilsheimer respectively received 240 votes, 232 votes and 225 votes. The elections saw Hirsch challenge the Flower Hill Party’s petition with the aim of having it thrown out, only for the Nassau County Board of Elections to rule in the party’s favor. Hirsch then filed an ethics complaint against Flower Hill’s chief election officer, village AdContinued on Page 42
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ROSLYN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Superintendent of Schools Alison Brown greets a student at the Heights School at the Roslyn school district’s first day back.
Lumber Rd. plan won’t have big impact: trustees BY R O S E W E L D ON
ees agreed Tuesday night via Zoom. The company 45 Lumber A proposed apartment building for 45 Lumber Road Road LLC is seeking a special will not have significant envi- use permit from the village to ronmental impacts, the Village construct a four-story buildof Roslyn’s Board of Trust- ing consisting of 33 two-bed-
room apartments. Under village code, only 27 apartments would normally be permitted in a structure of this type. Originally, the building had been said to be 12 stories and Continued on Page 53
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