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Now a sixth contender for Santos’ seat New York City from the country’s murder capital into one with the lowest murder rate in George Santos seems to be the country. “I was there in the mid-‘90s entrenching himself in his congressional seat representing when crime was running rampant, and I was all part of that the North Shore and parts of tur naround in Queens. But one Glen Head resident crime,” Sapraicone b e l i eve s h e h a s s a i d . “ I wo rke d what it takes to not very closely with only kick the the (police) comembattled conmissioner’s office, g ressman out of the deputy commisoffice, but also keep sioner’s of fice, the seat in Republiwhen murder was can hands. rampant in the subMike Sapraiways and on the cone, a retired New streets.” York Police DepartIn 1993, Sapraiment detective and cone found a new the owner of a priway to keep people vate security comsafe with a startup, pany, declared his Squad Security. He candidacy for the describes it as an seat least week, international busibecoming the sixth ness specializing in MIKE SAPRAICONE challenger to offi“high-end cor poCongressional c i a l ly a n n o u n c e rate, technolo g y, candidate against Santos. entertainment and Sapraicone complex logistical served in the NYPD between security services.” 1980 and 2000, reaching the Over the years, Squad Serrank of first-grade detective — vices has worked with everythe highest rank obtainable in thing from local businesses to the NYPD. He worked as part of Fortune 500 companies, Sapraithe Rudy Giuliani administra- cone said. An important aspect tion, and says he helped turn CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
By WILL SHEELINE
wsheeline@liherald.com
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Celebrating a carless day Bicycles had more than the right of way on July 22 in the hamlet when the Town of Oyster Bay hosted Empire State Ride Long Island, a charity bike ride to benefit cancer patients. More photos, Page 10.
Honoring victims of pandemic
LVHS graduate leads effort to plant 2,000 flags By WILL SHEELINE wsheeline@liherald.com
Many young people are committed to helping others and improving their communities, but few are as willing to devote themselves to charitable work as Jack Baker, of Bayville. A recent graduate of Locust Valley High School, Baker, 17, has gone above and beyond as a volunteer to honor the memories of those who died during the coronavirus pandemic and the attacks on the World Trade Center, and the soldiers who have given their lives for their country, among others. After spending his early years in Locust Valley, Baker and his family moved to Bayville when he was in third grade. He received high marks in all of his IB and AP courses at Locust Valley High, was All-Honors in the National Spanish Honor Society and was an All-Conference football and
baseball player. But it’s Baker’s efforts off the field and outside the classroom that made him stand out. One of his most notable efforts occurred during the dark days of Covid-19, when hundreds of thousands of American lives were claimed by the virus. One of them was Baker’s grandfather, and Baker knew that he wanted to honor him, as well as the hundreds of others in the community who died. After seeing a story about the hundreds of thousands of flags that were planted on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in remembrance of the victims, Baker was inspired to do the same in Bayville. “When my grandfather unfortunately passed away during Covid, my family wasn’t able to get together or have a memorial service or anything,” he recalled. “When I heard about the memorial CONTINUED ON PAGE 15
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e’re lacking people reaching across the aisle and not worried about what their own personal agenda is, or what their party’s agenda is.