Thursday’s primary elections will have three races that effect residents in Riverhead and Southold towns.
The most high profile of the three is a Republican primary for the second Assembly District. READ
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Tom Schiliro, Democratic candidate for assembly. (Courtesy photo)
Democrats have chosen a candidate to run against first-term Assemblyman Anthony Palumbo this fall, picking Manorville resident and Suffolk County Park Police sergeant Tom Schiliro.
Mr. Schiliro was one of several people to vie for the Democratic nod last year in the race for an open seat vacated by former assemblyman Dan Losquadro, who had won the race to become Brookhaven Town’s highway superintendent. The party opted to run John McManmon, an Aquebogue resident who was eventually defeated by Mr. Palumbo. (more…)