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VOL. 87 NO. 46

NOVEMBER 10 - 16, 2022

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D’Esposito claims victory over Gillen in congressional race By KYLE CHIN kchin@liherald.com

Anthony D’Esposito says he’s going to Washington. But as the clock struck midnight, turning Election Day into Wednesday, his Democratic opponent, Laura Gillen, wasn’t quite ready to concede the 4th Congressional District race. “We’re going to wait until every vote is counted,” Gillen told supporters in Freeport late Tuesday night. “It’s an extremely close race. There’s still a lot of ballots out there.” As Gillen spoke, however, unofficial election returns from Nassau County showed D’Esposito leading her by 8,000 votes, with 87 percent of precincts reporting. A half-hour later, the county elections board completed the counting, increasing D’Esposito’s lead to 10,000 votes. It was 51.9 percent for D’Eposito out of the more than 266,000 votes counted, compared with Gillen’s 48.1 percent. D’Esposito, a former New York City police detective from

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port Concert Band, this performance group dates back to 1921 when it was known as the FreeThe Freeport Community port Fire Department Band — Band kicked off its second centu- something to keep the first ry of performances around Nas- responders busy during times sau and Suffolk counties a little when they weren’t battling fires. later than expected. Bill Dayton conAnd what was to ducted the band blame? That’s right, until 1971. He was the coronavirus pansucceeded by Ned demic. Mahoney, who is Made up of musinow the band’s concians of various ductor emeritus. ages and backUnder his direction, grounds, the comthe marching band munity band is an gradually evolved all-volunteer group into a concert band. that welcomes everyBut a lot has one from high school changed over the teens to elders, amapast century, includteurs, professionals BARRY HOWARD ing its relationship Secretary, — from all walks of with the modern-day life. They hail not Freeport Community fire de par tment, just from Freeport which had evolved Band and neighboring in its own ways. The towns like Baldwin band dropped “fire and Oceanside, but also from as department” from its branding far out as Suffolk County and in 2009, and expanded substanQueens. tially — from 14 members, to “The Freeport Community more than 50. Band means my connection to “The band is no longer associmusic and fills a passion for ated with the fire department,” music that I have always had,” said Barry Howard, the band’s said Joshua Stein, a Woodmere secretary. “It’s a group of older resident and band member since people and younger people, all of 1989. whom have an interest in Also once known as the FreeCONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD Councilman Anthony D’Esposito narowly defeated Laura Gillen and will succeed Congresswoman Kathleen Rice. Island Park, appeared to have eked out a victory, and in the process flipped a seat from Democratic to Republican control. “I want to thank each and every one of you in this room,” D’Esposito told supporters in Baldwin. “You’ve worked hard

and you’ve knocked on doors. You’ve made the phone calls. You’ve dug into your pockets to get us across this finish line. We took a seat that’s been in Democratic hands for 25 years.” Gillen conceded on WednesCONTINUED ON PAGE 10

Winner

Opponent

Governor

Kathy Hochul (D) .................54% Lee Zeldin (R) .......................46%

Comptroller

Thomas DiNapoli (D) .........57% Paul Rodriguez (R) ..............40%

Attorney General

Letitia James (D) ..................56% Michael Henry (R) ...............42%

U.S. Senator

Charles Schumer (D) ..........58% Joe Pinion (R) .......................39%

Congressional District 4

Anthony D’Esposito (R) .....52% Laura Gillen (D) ....................48%

Senate District 6

Kevin Thomas (D) ................59% James Coll (R) .......................41%

Assembly District 18

Taylor Darling (D) ................84% LaMont Johnson (R)...........15%

Assembly District 21

Brian Curran (R)....................50% Judy Griffin (D).....................49% Unofficial results as of midnight EST Tuesday

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Community band begins second century By MOHAMED FARGHALY

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