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Friday, June 24, 2016
Vol. 4, No. 26
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HEALTH, WELLNESS AND BEAUTY
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PASSION FOR ‘TRASHION’
Primary day nears in 3rd district Democratic voters to pick Martins’ opponent B y N oah M anskar North Shore Democrats will choose their nominee on Tuesday for New York’s Third Congressional District in a five-way primary election that will cap more than five months of campaigning. Jericho attorney Jonathan Clarke, former North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jon Kaiman, town Councilwoman Anna Kaplan, Suffolk County Legislator Steve Stern and former Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi are vying to take on Republican state Sen. Jack
Martins of Old Westbury in November’s general election to replace Rep. Steve Israel (DHuntington). The Nassau County Democratic chairman, Jay Jacobs, said he expects around 15,000
ELECTION 2016 of the district’s 194,508 registered Democrats to vote in the “low-turnout race.” “I don’t think that it’s captured generally a large amount of interest, which tends to fa-
vor the better known candidates,” Jacobs said. The five contenders emerged from a scramble set off by Israel’s surprise Jan. 5 announcement that he would not seek a ninth term. As many as 13 Democrats and five Republicans once considered runs in the district stretching from Whitestone, Queens, to Kings Park in Suffolk County. After meeting with potential candidates and pushing the popular North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth to run, Jacobs and his Queens and Suffolk County counterContinued on Page 64
Police pursue second suspect in burglary Investigation not over after arrest in E. Hills crime by C hris A dams Harbor Hill student wins contest with dress made out of trash. Photo courtesy of Ariella Ayenesazan
A second suspect in connection with an East Hills burglary attempt in December may still be at large, according to an investigator. A Nassau County Police Third Squad detective, James Wills, said the department is pursuing the possibility that a second man was in-
volved in the crime, after last week’s arrest of a Huntington man, Rony Compere. Some of the possessions left behind at the Wildwood Lane residence may not belong to Compere, and the man police engaged at the scene fit a different description, said the owner of the burglarized home, Adam Mehes.
The apprehended suspect was identified after a DNA analysis from a baseball cap matched a police profile, but a large shoe also left at the scene is unlikely to belong to the 5-foot-7 Compere, Mehes said. The suspect was originally reported in a police press release to be 6 feet 1 inch tall with a Continued on Page 65
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