Carl Macgowan
Writer at Newsday
Writer, @newsday journalist, Mets and Islanders, husband. Not necessarily in that order. I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me.
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Carl Macgowan
Voters went to the polls Tuesday in villages across Long Island to elect mayors and trustees. Incumbent mayors faced challenges in Port Jefferson and Sands Point. A Centre Island mayor's race included a candidate who ran a write-in campaign after being thrown off the ballot following a court challenge. In that race, Mayor Lawrence Schmidlapp easily defeated challenger Andrew Woodstock, 127-26. Brightwaters, Centre Island, North Haven and Port Jefferson also had contested trustee races.
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Carl Macgowan
The owner of Brookhaven Town’s first legal cannabis dispensary is refusing to close after being told the shop violates the rules of the East Setauket corporate park where it is located. Dr. Surinder Sandhu said Monday his recreational marijuana shop, Strong Strains, has "no reason to be closed," despite a cease-and-desist letter he received last week from a lawyer representing the property manager for the Stony Brook Technology Park.
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Carl Macgowan
This story was reported by Carl MacGowan, Joshua Needelman, Joseph Ostapiuk and Tara Smith. Voters will decide contested mayoral races this week in Port Jefferson, Sands Point and Southampton as villages across Long Island hold elections. Seven contested trustee races are also on village ballots this week. Some villages also will elect village justices. Incumbent mayors face challenges in Port Jefferson and Sands Point in elections set for Tuesday.
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2 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Carl Macgowan
The Centereach Fire District and its former attorney have agreed to drop a state lawsuit alleging the lawyer overbilled the district for his work on a bond related to a construction project. In a 2021 lawsuit filed in Suffolk County State Supreme Court, fire district officials had alleged that David Moran overcharged the fire district by $260,000 for his role in securing funding for a $13 million firehouse construction project, Newsday previously reported. Moran denied the allegation.
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2 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Carl Macgowan
When he was an emergency room physician, Dr. Surinder Sandhu had doubts about marijuana's supposed medicinal value. But his feelings changed several years ago when, he said, his mother's health improved after she took doses of prescription pot. On Monday — after two years of seeking Brookhaven Town zoning approvals and a New York State retail cannabis license — Sandhu, 59, is opening Strong Strains, his first pot dispensary, in the Stony Brook Technology Center industrial park in East Setauket.
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