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Friday, September 15, 2017
Vol. 66, No. 37
GUIDE TO STREET FAIRS
TEACHER SEEKS HELP SAVING PLAINS
TOWN OKs FUNDING FOR ELEVATOR FIXES
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Curran wins Dem primary for county exec Beats ex GOP comptroller Maragos 78%-21%, now faces Jack Martins BY N O A H M A N S K A R Laura Curran won the Democratic nomination for Nassau County executive on Tuesday, handily defeating a former Republican and turning her attention to that party’s current standard-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 7.8 percent of registered Democrats voted Tuesday, a smaller turnout than 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 several election precincts around 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 the first woman to ever win a major party nomination for County executive, a year after Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win a major party’s presidential nomination. Her running mates, Jack Schnirman for comptroller and Dean Bennett for county clerk, also defeated their respective Maragosbacked challengers, Ama Yawson and Carl DeHaney. Continued on Page 88
PHOTO BY NOAH MANSKAR
A member of Cub Scout Pack 311 presents the American flag at Williston Park’s 9/11 remembrance ceremony on Monday night.
9/11 ceremonies keep memory of attacks alive “If you looked up at the sky 16 years ago and you looked up this morning, it was almost The weather on Monday was exactly the same,” North Hempfamiliar to those on the North stead Town Councilman Angelo Shore who lived through the ter- Ferrara (R-New Hyde Park) said. “I didn’t see one cloud in the sky, rorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
BY N O A H MANSKAR
which is exactly how it was on that fateful day.” The pain that day inflicted on the region and the nation still lingers for many, including local officials who spoke at rememContinued on Page 89
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