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Kaplan, Zimmerman win primary Melanie D’Arrigo and Reema Rasool who have never held office were also on the ballot. State Senator Anna Kaplan “Our victory tonight proves won the Democratic primary for that when Democrats stand the North Shore against political together and fight together, we newcomer Jeremy deliver results,” Joseph by a large Zimmerman said margin on Tuesat his victory party. d ay, c a p t u r i n g James Scheuerroughly 85 percent man, the executive of the vote accorddirector of the ing to the Nassau Nassau County County Board of Democratic ComElections. mittee, said he Democrat Robwasn’t surprised ert Zimmer man by the election also won in the priresults. “This was mary for Congress, a race with talentwith approximateed candidates,” he ly 34 percent of the said. “The primary vote for the seat is over. It’s time to vacated by U.S. come together and Rep. Tom Suozzi, beat the Republiwho lost his bid for cans in November.” gover nor in the Kaplan, 56, a June primary. North Hempstead Zimmer man’s ANNA KAPLAN resident, was first race was a crowded State Senator elected to the state one, which includsenate in 2018, ed veteran elected becoming New leaders Jon Kaiman, the deputy York’s first Iranian-American Suffolk County Executive who member. Having fled to the Unitwas also a five-term Town of ed States for religious freedom North Hempstead supervisor with her family when she was 13, and Josh Lafazan, who is cur- she is also the Legislature’s first rently serving his third term in former refugee. the Nassau County Legislature. CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
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ROUGHLY 70 WINDOWS have been replaced with historically accurate replicas, which will provide superior heat retention compared to the originals.
Snouder’s nearing completion
Renovations should be finished by early spring By WILL SHEELINE wsheeline@liherald.com
Now nearing the end of its third year of reconstruction, Snouder’s Corner Drug Store is well on its way to completion. It’s estimated the store will be completed by the beginning of spring of 2023 at the latest following a long and arduous journey. Snouder’s was an institution in Oyster Bay for over a century, founded in 1884 by Abel Miller Conklin, and was the oldest continuously operated business in Oyster Bay until its closure in 2010. In addition to being a cultural center of the hamlet, where children and adults would gather to enjoy the soda fountain
installed in 1889, the store also played an important role in the presidency of Oyster Bay’s “first citizen,” Theodore Roosevelt. During Roosevelt’s tenure as governor of New York, and subsequently his presidency, he would spend most of his summers in his Oyster Bay home at Sagamore Hill, known in posterity as the “Summer White House.” As Snouder’s had the only telephone in Oyster Bay, any messages for the president had to be relayed through the drug store, further cementing its place in the Oyster Bay history. Recreating the glory of this building has not been a smooth ride due to the nature of the construction business in the pandemic and CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
occupy the seat for the time that I’m in office, but the goal is to be the messenger and the voice of this district, and I will continue to do that.