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Friday, August 20, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 34
FALL HOME & DESIGN
CENSUS DATA RELEASED
CUOMO IMPEACH EFFORT SUSPENDED
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New H.S. asst. principal
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Began teaching career in Ohio BY B R A N D ON DUFFY Mark Oppenheimer has been appointed as an assistant principal at Manhasset Secondary School. He recently worked in the same capacity at Schreiber High School and Weber Middle School in Port Washington. The new assistant principal established himself in the Columbus, Ohio, area as a high school band/instrumental music educator. He has also served as a middle school athletic director and assistant principal, and elementary school principal. He said he looked forward to working in much closer quarters in the community. “I think what separates Manhasset is it’s a small town feel versus a suburban feel,” he said. “That’s what drew me in because you get to really know the community and the kids a lot faster than you do when you’re in a much larger district.” Before moving to New York Continued on Page 44
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD
The Manhasset football team was honored by the Town of North Hempstead at the Manhasset Al Fresco event.
Port schools to require masks indoors District also to require social distance inside, outdoors for all BY R OB E RT PELAEZ
all students and staff, along with following guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and The Port Washington school Prevention. The guidance, published at district’s reopening plan, the first to be publicized in public school the district’s Board of Education districts on the North Shore, fea- meeting on Aug. 10, does not retures indoor mask mandates for quire staff to be vaccinated when school begins on Sept. 2, but all students and staff members who have received the coronavirus inoculation are encouraged to provide their school nurse with a copy of
their vaccination card. District Superintendent Michael Hynes, in a forum with Newsday on Tuesday, acknowledged that the guidelines would not appease all stakeholders in the district, but took the guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the county into account while drafting them. “We all know, we’re going to have parents that are happy and some parents who are not
happy,” Hynes said. Efforts to reach other North Shore districts were unavailing, but some districts may outline their reopening plans soon as they hold the last board meetings of the summer. According to the guidelines, the Port Washington school district will adhere to the prioritizing of in-person education by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Continued on Page 34
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