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Gatherings restricted to 10 people Ash, a jewelry designer, said that she and her significant other, Peter Primont, purchased Responding to a resurgence their Sea Cliff home in March of Covid-19 cases across the 2019 and have been renovating it country and an increase in the to make it the hub of future faminfection rate of New Yorkers, ily activities. She said she was Gov. Andrew Cuomo has man- disappointed about Thanksgivdated that gyms and any estabing, which was suplishment with liquor posed to be their licenses, including “welcome to the new bars and restauhouse” celebration. rants, close at 10 Having to tell family p.m., and home gathmembers that they erings be limited to can’t come is an 10 or fewer people. uncomfortable thing With Thanksgivto do, she said. ing coming next “We can’t even be week, North Shore together on the holir e s i d e n t s h ave day where we’re supmixed feelings about posed to be grateful the new restrictions. for the people in our New Sea Cliff reslives,” Ash said. ident Cindy Ash said “Thanksgiving is she is known in her ElAiNE NEiCE t h e o n e h o l i d ay family as being the Sea Cliff where you have to big Thanksgiving reflect on the nonprovider. She hosted material things that you’re roughly two dozen family mem- thankful for, and that would be bers and friends in her Syosset your family.” home in 2018, she said, and Nonetheless, she said she planned an equally large celebra- understands the restriction, and tion in her new house next believes forgoing the normal Thursday. But Ash and her fami- Thanksgiving festivities will be ly decided not to bring everyone worth it if it keeps her loved together this year, she said, even ones safe. Even though everybefore Cuomo set the 10-person limit. Continued on page 9
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Courtesy U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi
U.S. REp. TOM Suozzi voted with his wife, Helene, and their youngest son, Michael, on Election Day. After most of the absentee ballots were counted, Suozzi was declared the winner of the 3rd Congressional District race on Tuesday.
Suozzi, Gaughran come from behind to win re-election By lAURA lANE and MikE CONN llane@liherald.com, mconn@liherald.com
When U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi held a news conference on Monday in Glen Cove, he said he was confident he would win his bid for re-election, but wasn’t ready to claim victory. Less than 24 hours later, he was. “George Santos called me
this morning to concede and congratulate me on my victory,” Suozzi stated in a news re l e a s e o n T u e s d ay. “ I thanked him for his call.” Santos had not returned calls requesting comment as of press time. Suozzi, the Democratic incumbent, was behind in the vote count on election night, with 49 percent, while Santos,
his Republican challenger, garnered 51 percent. That was based on in-person voting. But Suozzi said at the time that he was confident he would win, based on the larger-than-ever number of absentee ballots that still needed to be counted. As of Nov. 5, two days after the election, there were 48,097 Continued on page 5
eople are meant to live and love and be with each other. I feel strongly about that.