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As a native Baldwinite, Joseph Scannell was inseparable from the community he grew up in, attending its schools, becoming involved in scouting and representing the Town of Hempstead hamlet as a Nassau County legislator. Scannell died of Huntington’s disease on May 13. He was 59.
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By Karina Kovac
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5/23/22
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Every two or four years, we get to hold our elected officials accountable for the decisions they have or haven’t made, the actions they took or didn’t.
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11/7/13
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Republicans in the Nassau County Legislature modified their proposed redistricting map yesterday, backing off a plan to place a sliver of Merrick, including the home of Democratic Legislator Dave Denenberg, into the neighboring district of Legislator Joseph Scannell, a Democrat from Baldwin. The plan would have removed one of the two incumbents from the Legislature.
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By Brian Racow, bracow@liherald.com
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2/27/13
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In a contentious meeting on Monday, the Nassau County Legislature voted 10 to 9 along party lines to implement a new Community Policing Plan, in which four of the county’s eight police precincts will be closed over the next seven months and replaced with “community policing centers.”
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By Aaron Axelson and Brian Croce
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3/7/12
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In a contentious meeting on Monday, the Nassau County Legislature voted 10 to 9 along party lines to implement a new Community Policing Plan, in which four of the county’s eight police precincts will be closed over the next seven months and replaced with “community policing centers.”
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By Aaron Axelson, aaxelson@liherald.com
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3/6/12
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A Nassau County Public Safety Committee vote on a proposal to convert four of eight police precincts into community policing centers was postponed when shouting matches broke out between legislators on Monday.
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Aaron Axelson
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2/8/12
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Unofficial results on Election Night gave victories to local incumbent Republicans Fran Becker and Vincent Muscarella in the 6th and 8th county Legislative Districts, respectively.
With almost all …
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By Herald Staff
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11/9/11
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With 94 percent of the vote counted as of early Wednesday morning, six-term incumbent Democrat Joe Scannell won a close contest in Nassau County’s 5th Legislative District, which encompasses Rockville Centre, South Hempstead, Baldwin and Freeport. In unofficial results, with 62 of 68 precincts reporting, Scannell had garnered 5,611 votes — 53 percent — compared with Republican challenger Chris Browne’s count of 4,916 — 47 percent.
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Judy Rattner
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11/9/11
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The third race between attorneys Chris Browne, a Republican from Rockville Centre who is challenging incumbent, seven-time county legislator Joe Scannell, a Democrat from Baldwin, took a provocative turn this week when the Nassau County Democratic Club sent out a mailing asserting that in June 2010, Browne, in his role on the Town of Hempstead Board of Zoning Appeals, voted to approve construction of a strip club in Wantagh.
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Judy Rattner and Chris Connolly
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10/26/11
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10/21/11
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