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Friday, May 28, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 22
OBSERVING MEMORIAL DAY
FLOWER HILLS OKS GARBAGE CONTRACT
OFFICIALS REACT TO TIMES SQUARE ATTACK
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St. Mary’s dropped from case
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School operator still named in suit BY R O S E W E L D ON A lawsuit alleging that St. Mary’s College Preparatory High School in Manhasset and the religious order operating it knowingly hired a faculty member with a history of sexually abusing students has dropped the school as a defendant, court papers show. Steven Gormley, 53, of Connecticut, was a resident of Long Beach when he entered the thenSt. Mary’s High School for Boys, operated by the Marist Brothers religious order, as a freshman in 1981, according to a complaint filed under the Child Victims Act in Nassau County Supreme Court in March. He claims to have been sexually abused an estimated 75 times by Brother Robert Ryan, a guidance counselor at the school who died in 2017. While Gormley agreed to settlements with the Marist Brothers twice in the years since his graduation, he said in March Continued on Page 35
PHOTO COURTESY OF MANHASSET PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Students at Shelter Rock School enjoyed the book fair sponsored by the Manhasset School Community Association early this month.
Singas picked for Court of Appeals Cuomo nominates Nassau DA, Manhasset resident, for state’s highest court BY R O S E W E L D ON
Manhasset resident, will fill a vacancy being left by Judge LesNassau County District At- lie Stein, who is retiring in June. torney Madeline Singas has been Her appointment was one of two nominated by Gov. Andrew Cuo- for the court announced on Tuesmo to the New York Court of Ap- day afternoon, alongside Civil Court of New York City Adminpeals, the state’s highest court. If confirmed, Singas, a istrative Judge Anthony “Tony” Cannataro, who will fill a vacancy left by the death of Judge Paul Feinman earlier this year. “I am honored by the Governor’s nomination to
serve on New York’s highest court and I look forward to the confirmation process,” Singas, a Democrat, said in a statement to Blank Slate Media. A native of Astoria, Queens, and the daughter of Greek immigrants, Singas obtained a B.A. in political science from Barnard College at Columbia University and a J.D. from Fordham Law School before serving as an assistant district attorney in Queens from 1991 to 2006,
holding multiple roles. She later served as the chief assistant district attorney of Nassau County and head of its first Special Victims Bureau before being appointed to succeed now-U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice (DGarden City). She was officially elected in 2015 and was re-elected in 2019. In a statement regarding Singas’ appointment, the governor’s office cited her creation of the Continued on Page 34
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