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Friday, February 26, 2016
Vol. 4, No. 9
MSGR. TOM HARTMAN RETURNS TO WILLISTONS
MANHASSET SCHOOL MAKES THE GRADE
COUNTIES JOIN FORCES IN HEROIN FIGHT
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Town to check party leader finance filings
As a bug in a rug
To begin enforcing own law after Gerard Terry steps down from post B y N oah M anskar The Town of North Hempstead will collect financial disclosure statements from town political party leaders for the first time this year. The town has never before collected the forms from town party leaders — including Gerard Terry, the Roslyn Heights resident who stepped down as the town Democratic chairman this month — Town Attorney Elizabeth Botwin said, despite a provision in the town code requiring the “town chairman or leader of a town committee of a party” to file them. “It’s our law, we must comply, and we will comply,” Botwin said in an interview. The decision to collect the forms came at the direction of Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, Botwin said. Bosworth ordered a review of town policies and procedures last month after a Newsday report revealed that Terry, who until recent-
ly was the attorney for the town’s Board of Zoning Appeals and special counsel for the town attorney, owes more than $1.4 million in federal and state back taxes, has been party to five lawsuits and let his attorney registration lapse for three years. The town never collected financial disclosure statements from Terry, the head of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee from 2007 until he resigned Feb. 1 except for a brief period, or any other party leader, Botwin said. “Last month the supervisor directed me to have all the party leaders in the town file financial disclosure forms, so we’re starting to implement that in this year for the 2015 calendar year filing,” she said. Pursuant to state law, North Hempstead adopted a code of ethics in December 1990, the online version of the town code says. Section 16A-7 outlines who is required to submit the town’s Continued on Page 41
“Snug,” a photograph of a baby monkey clinging to its mother’s fur by Scott Elberger, took first place in The Art Guild’s juried photography exhibition “I’m Ready For My Closeup.” See story on Page 27.
Dentist’s prescription only filled at delicatessen B y J oe N ikic To help patients cope with post-surgery pain and loss of appetite, a Great Neck dentist said he has found a treatment that would make a Jewish mother proud.
Harvey Passes, a Manhasset resident whose dental practice Passes Dental Care is at 415 Northern Blvd. in Great Neck, said he has been instructing patients to eat Ben’s Chicken in a Pot Soup from Ben’s Kosher Deli in Greenvale’s Wheatley
Plaza for more than 15 years. “I have been advising my oral surgery patients to consume it in order for them to avoid dehydration and fever,” Passes said. “My patients still talk about their prescriptions Continued on Page 49
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