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Gordon Heights winner sees mandate for change

December 15, 2012 9:23 PM By RICK BRAND rick.brand@newsday.com

A firefighter battles a blaze off Wading River

Photo credit: Chris Ware, 2012 | A firefighter battles a blaze off Wading River Road in Manorville during a large brush fire that spread across eastern Long Island.

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Joyce Bourne, running to bring down high taxes in the Gordon Heights Fire District, last year lost her race for fire commissioner by one vote.

But Bourne came back last week in a three-way contest -- easily winning a five-year term with 268 votes. She beat longtime commission chairman James Kelly, who got 55 votes, and contender James Freeman, who wound up with 169.

What makes the victory...

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