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Friday, April 28, 2017
Vol. 66, No. 17
HEALTH, WELLNESS AND BEAUTY
HERRICKS HIGH LOCKED DOWN
MARAGOS CLAIMS COUNTY SURPLUS
PAGES 35-46
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Martins enters race for Nassau County exec
L E A G U E O N PA R A D E
Standing on Mineola mayoral record, ex senator seeks to replace Mangano BY N O A H M A N S K A R Former state Sen. Jack Martins announced his Republican campaign for Nassau County executive on Wednesday, pledging to restore the county to its former glory after years of scandal and instability. In a news conference at Mineola Village Hall, Martins said he would bring ďŹ nancial strength, transparency and safeguards against public corruption to Nassau County, as he did in the village he led as mayor for eight years. “We have the ability to rewrite our history and to make sure that we take this county and make it the pre-eminent county that it was for its ďŹ rst hundred years,â€? Martins told a crowd of about 50 village oďŹƒcials, community leaders and other supporters. Martins, an Old Westbury resident who lost a bid for Congress last year, is the Nassau County Republican Committee’s choice to replace the current Republican county ex-
ecutive, Edward Mangano, who has pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges and has not said whether he will seek re-election. The GOP’s executive committee is set to vote to endorse Martins on Thursday, according to two party sources who are both members of the executive committee. No senior party oďŹƒcials were present at Wednesday’s news conference. In an interview Tuesday, Martins said the decision to run was not an easy one, given the county’s political and ďŹ scal problems. But if elected, he would push to create a procedure to recall corrupt elected oďŹƒcials from oďŹƒce and impose stricter limits on political donations and gifts, he said. “You have to take the issue head on and resolve it,â€? Martins said in the interview. “If someone’s in a position of public trust it is their responsibility to make sure that they uphold the public trust and that there are consequences when they do not.â€? Continued on Page 73
PHOTO BY BILL O’BRIEN
The Williston Park Little League celebrated its 65th opening day on Saturday, April 8. The annual parade led players, coaches and parents to Kelleher Field, where Williston Park village officials threw ceremonial first pitches and hot dogs were served.
Albertson studio carries on Hannah Kroner’s legacy BY J ES S I C A C H I N Despite losing two close friends to the Holocaust, Hannah Kroner never gave up — and she instilled that perseverance and resilience in her students at her
dance studio, the Hannah Kroner School of Dance in Albertson. “My mother suered many losses of those who were close to her and of course many relatives who died also,â€? Evelyn Summer, Kroner’s daughter, said. “But,
throughout all of it she kept trying to follow her dream to be a dancer.� Kroner died in 2015 at the age of 95, but Temple Judea of Manhasset honored her life and Continued on Page 73
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