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A race too close to call A week later, Griffin and Curran waited on Assembly vote count them.” Others, however, said they felt that taking the necessary time to Election night has come and ensure that the vote was calcugone, but the race for the 21st lated correctly was a good thing. Assembly District seat still “It looked like she had lost to remains undecided. him and now it looks like she’s Assemblywoman Judy Grif- doing OK,” Maryanne Pedersen, fin, the incumbent Democrat, of Rockville Centre, said of Grifand Brian Curran, fin. “So there’s no her Republican chalbias in this process. lenger and predecesIt keeps swinging sor, remained neckback and forth based and-neck as Nassau on the votes.” County election offiRepresentatives cials continued of the Nassau Councounting ballots this ty Board of Elecwe e k , t r y i n g t o tions confirmed on determine who will Tuesday that ballots represent the dis- JuDY GRIFFIN we re s t i l l b e i n g trict in Albany next Assemblywoman counted. year. “I’m really excitCurran continued ed, and I’d like to to hold a slim lead as the Herald thank everyone for coming out to went to press on Tuesday, but vote,” Curran said on Tuesday, that lead continued to shrink as one week after the polls officially absentee ballots were tallied. closed. “I feel confident in the Many voters said they were votes that are left, and hopefully surprised and upset that a win- we will receive an outcome ner had yet to be declared, over a shortly.” week after the election. Earlier this week, Griffin “It leads to speculation that if issued a statement acknowledgyou can’t accurately count bal- ing that she was behind by about lots in a small area within a few 270 votes, out of more than 50,800 hours,” Steve Rakeman, of Rock- cast. ville Centre, said. “I would think “This campaign has never that it leads to speculation that someone is playing games with Continued on page 7
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PRINCIPAl JENNIFER PASCAREllA, right, presented a check for $1,730 — the proceeds from the sale of 89 flags — to Stephanie Cassidy, of the National Military Family Association.
Flags fly on ‘Field of Honor’ Watson Elementary School starts a new tradition By DANIEl oFFNER doffner@liherald.com
The students and staff at Floyd B. Watson Elementary School decided to honor local veterans by starting a new tradition, which will extend beyond Veterans Day for the entire month of November. In an effort to raise money for the National Military Family Association, members of the school faculty and parents purchased 89 American
flags, which are now on display in front of the building, at the corner of Lakeview and North Centre avenues. Parents of faculty members who served in the military and other local veterans in the community were invited to the school on Monday morning for a ceremony to commemorate the “Field of Honor.” Principal Jennifer Pascarella said that the idea was inspired by similar projects at LYN, RVC, OCE, MER
other Long Island schools, including the Bellmore-Merrick High School District, which her children attend. “I thought it was just beautiful,” Pascarella said of the display at her children’s school. “I was driving by it every single day and it was just this amazing sight. It was something that I always knew that, when I had my own building to run, would be something that I would want Continued on page 4
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