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Friday, April 2, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 14
GUIDE TO SPRING
PREGNANT MOM DIES OF COVID
CURRAN DELIVERS STATE OF THE COUNTY
PAGES 25-40
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CASA head to run for town supervisor
COLOR MY WORLD
Jennifer DeSena named GOP pick, will challenge Wayne Wink BY R O S E W E L D ON A Manhasset community organizer will lead the Republican slate in the Town of North Hempstead’s November elections, the Nassau County Republican Party has announced. TOWN SUPERVISOR Jennifer DeSena of Manhasset has been named as the GOP’s candidate against Town Clerk Wayne Wink of Roslyn, who has been named the Democratic candidate following Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth’s announcement that she would not seek a fifth term. DeSena is a registered Democrat and newcomer to seeking public office who currently serves as executive director of the nonprofit Manhasset Community Coalition Against Substance Abuse and led a successful effort last year to drive away a proposed 7-Eleven convenience store not far from Manhasset Secondary School. A victory for DeSena would
mean the town’s first Republican supervisor since 1989. TOWN CLERK Ragini Srivastava of Manhasset Hills will run as the party’s candidate for town clerk, opposing Councilwoman Viviana Russell (D-New Cassel) of the town’s 1st District. A business owner and appointee to the Nassau County comptroller’s Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise Council, Srivastava has run for office twice before, in 2019 as the GOP candidate for North Hempstead’s 2nd District, losing to incumbent Councilman Peter Zuckerman (D-East Hills), and last year as the party’s nominee for the 16th Assembly District, losing to nowAssemblywoman Gina Sillitti (DManorhaven). DISTRICT 1 With Russell, the incumbent, running for clerk, Kerri Delio of Carle Place is the ReContinued on Page 45
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MANHASSET SCHOOL DISTRICT
Manhasset Secondary School seniors and National Art Honor Society officers TJ Roszko and Olivia Robson presented 200 student-made coloring books to the Ronald McDonald House in New Hyde Park, along with packs of crayons for children and their families.
County OKs Nassau Knolls Cemetery land expansion BY R O S E W E L D ON
At a session on March 22, the Legislature unanimously A 121-year-old cemetery in approved an emergency resoPort Washington is on track to lution regarding a request to receive a land addition follow- acquire a parcel of land subing approval from the Nassau mitted by the Nassau Knolls Cemetery. County Legislature.
The cemetery, which has operated in the same location since 1900, is currently in contract to purchase a small parcel of land on Beechwood Avenue from its current owners. Continued on Page 44
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