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Old Westbury race still being decided BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO An Old Westbury village trustee reportedly trails his challenger by 249 votes following an initial runoff election Tuesday, but 268 absentee ballots still await count. Leslie Fastenberg, who earlier ran as part of a late write-in campaign, received 461 votes, while incumbent Trustee Andrew Weinberg had 212 votes, according to a Newsday report. An additional 260 absentee ballots were still to be counted before the Nassau County Board of Elections, and eight additional absentee votes were declared preserved by a state Supreme Court judge after being delivered less than 10 days prior to the runoff, according to the report. Phone messages to the village went unreturned, as did an email to Fastenberg. Efforts to reach Weinberg were unavailing. Fastenberg ran on the New Voice For Old Westbury line alongside Marina Chimerine and Continued on Page 60
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East Hills residents gather prior to the village’s annual Labor Day concert on Saturday. see more photos on page 77.
East Hills announces gas line deal Former civic leader who pushed plan cut out of press conference BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO East Hills officials announced a partnership with National Grid on Thursday to extend village gas lines at no cost to any resident that chooses to convert to gas service from oil.
The project is set to save residents thousands in heating bills and would have a similar environmental impact of taking 15,000 cars off the road for a year, officials said. “Gas has been said to have certain advantages,” East Hills Mayor Michael Koblenz said. “It has a history of being clean, less expensive, [a] preferred fuel for certain appliances and can even allow generators to run uninterrupted, without being refueled by
tanks.” Approximately 1,000 homeowners would be affected by the project, Koblenz said. Previously, homeowners converting to gas who lived more than 100 feet from a gas main were charged extra for the extension of a gas line, officials said. “National Grid and the Village of East Hills, together with the help of concerned residents, have paved the way for thousands to receive gas service,”
said state Sen. Jack Martins (RMineola). “They’ve created a model of how government and the private sector can work together for the betterment of the residents they both serve.” Ken Daly, the president of National Grid of New York, said the utility would install more than 60,000 feet of new gas mains for access throughout the village. Koblenz thanked East Hills resident Jana Goldenberg, the Continued on Page 66
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