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county, town governments up for grabs

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Voters set to pick DA, Legislature, town supervisors, council majorities gations of corruption. Murray, who has no prior exWith four days until election perience as a prosecutor, said that day, voters will soon go to the polls Singas has been lax in her duto decide who Nassau County’s ties as DA, especially in the fight next District Attorney will be, against the rising heroin epidemic whether the Republican Party will in the county. Coming into the election, Reachieve a supermajority in the county Legislature, and who will publicans in the county Legislature serve on the North Hempstead and hold 12 of the 19 legislative seats. Should they win one more Hempstead Town Council. seat, the party will Acting DA Madachieve a supermaeline Singas, a Democrat, took office this ELECTION 2015 jority, meaning they owned a two-thirds January after former majority, enough to DA Kathleen Rice was pass legislation withelected to Congress. She seeks to win her first out any Democratic votes. In the race for legislative disfull-term election in the DA race against Republican Kate Murray, trict 9, Republican incumbent who has served as Hempstead’s Richard Nicolello takes on Democrat Mal Nathan. Town Supervisor since 2003. Republican Lisa Benjamin and Singas has been critical of Murray’s lack of experience as a Green Party Candidate Cassandra prosecutor and said she is look- Lems look to unseat Democrat Eling to continue her efforts fighting len Birnbaum in the race for the against political corruption, which Legislature’s 10th district seat. Democrat Delia DeRiggi-Whitincludes investigating the county’s contracting system following alleContinued on Page 57

By J oe N i k i c

The Boy Scouts of Troop 10 donated and planted a tree in Firefighter’s Park in celebration of their 100th anniversary. See story on Page 48.

Flutist gives back to GN through music society By J oe N i k i c For former Great Neck resident Alyssa Greengrass, creating the Nassau Chamber Music Society, a nonprofit concert series on Long Island, was her way of helping the community

that launched her musical career. “I’ve always been really drawn to chamber music and I felt so strongly about wanting to bring a higher level of music to Long Island,” Greengrass said. “This is where I grew up

and where my career was nurtured.” Greengrass, who grew up on Grace Avenue in Thomaston, began playing the flute in elementary school, though it did not come easy to her, she Continued on Page 58

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