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six different endings based on who they voted for.” According to both Levenberg Residents of Wantagh, Sea- and Jennifer Malin, the show’s ford and Levittown have a choreographer and a 2012 gradupacked weekend of student the- ate of MacArthur, the students ater to look forward to, begin- all wanted to put on “Mamma n i n g w i t h Wa n t a g h H i g h Mia.” Since the show does not School’s production of “Radium require a large pit orchestra, Girls,” which will MacArthur will be premiere on Nov. 18 performing a second and run until Nov. musical in the 20. spring that will Students at Levitinclude band stutown’s MacArthur dents, as opposed to High School will a drama, and “Mamalso be taking the ma Mia” will use stage on Nov. 18, perrecorded tracks. forming Abba’s clasTo promote the sic musical “Mams h o w, “ M a m m a ma Mia.” Mia” was featured at MacArthur’s the- GRACE KEAtING Homecoming, with ater prog ram re- senior, the three female bounded strongly MacArthur leads in costume ridfrom the coronaviing in a truck. High School rus pandemic in the “We made a huge spring of 2021 with a banner for them,” masked performance of “Fro- Levenberg said. “We had music zen,” and in the 2021-22 school blaring the whole time they were year, students performed “Mur- riding. It was a whole big thing.” der in the Air” and “Chicago.” With such a large, well-known “Murder in the Air” is an show, MacArthur will continue interactive murder mystery, Lisa its tradition of persuading a Levenberg, music teacher and wide range of students — and director of “Mamma Mia,” said. staff — to appear on stage. “The audience chose who the “We have someone from the k i l l e r w a s , ” L e v e n b e r g football team,” Levenberg said. explained. “We had to rehearse Continued on page 4
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towN of HEMpStEAd Councilman Anthony D’Esposito was leading Laura Gillen in the race to succeed Congresswoman Kathleen Rice. 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.” D’Esposito will succeed Kathleen Rice in representing most of southern Nassau County at the federal level, the first Republican to do so since Daniel Frisa lost re-election to Carolyn McCarthy in 1996. McCarthy Continued on page 5
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 5
Steven Rhoads (R)............. 58% John Brooks (D)................. 42%
Assembly District 14
Dave McDonough (R)....... 64% Dustin Ginsberg (D).......... 35% unofficial results as of midnight eSt tuesday
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D’Esposito claims victory over Gillen in congressional race 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.” Yet as she spoke those words, unofficial election returns from Nassau County showed D’Esposito leading Gillen by 8,000 votes with 87 percent of precincts reporting. A half-hour later, the county 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 Island Park, appeared to have eked out the victory, and in the
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