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October 27, 2020

State Sen. Jim Gaughran, a Democrat from Northport, has made it his mission to focus on the needs of his constituents in his first term in the Senate, and it is clear from his advocacy that he has their best interests at heart. The Herald Gazette enthusiastically endorses Gaughran’s re-election.... | read more ››

October 24, 2020

Thousands of residents turned out Saturday morning to cast ballots on the first day of early voting in the Nov. 3 election.

Lines of voters snaked through the parking lots of the Dix Hills Fire Department and the Huntington Public Library Station branch polling places. By noon, several voters said... | read more ››

October 15, 2020

$50,000 New York state grant, Sea Cliff Village Library officials plan to purchase new furniture, carpeting and front doors, and expand the teen space, library Director Camille Purcell said.

A representative of State Sen. Jim Gaughran ap- proached library officials in January to see if the library needed funds. Ar-lene... | read more ››

October 13, 2020

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday endorsed two Democrats seeking second terms to battleground state Senate districts in New York.

Biden, the former vice president, backed Democrats Kevin Thomas and Jim Gaughran in their re-election bids. Both lawmakers flipped a pair of state Senate districts on Long Island... | read more ››

October 10, 2020

The Village Square plaza on Brewster Street was the scene of another ribbon cutting this past week, with the prior one occurring on Sept. 25 at Harbor Landing. Both marked RXR Realty’s Garvies Point developments.

“I love having all these ribbon cuttings,” Glen Cove Mayor Tim Tenke said. “Every week... | read more ››

September 30, 2020

HUNTINGTON STATION, NY — State Sen. Jim Gaughran (D-New York) secured $90,000 in state funding for the Huntington Manor Fire District, he announced Wednesday.

Huntington Manor Fire District will use the money to install security cameras outside of the fire station facing the street, and inside the building, according to... | read more ››