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Friday, April 13, 2018
Vol. 3, No. 15
Port WashingtonTimes BLANK SLATE MEDIA April 13, 2018
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THE DEAD BRING AUTHORITY ANNOUNCES $18M NIFA SEES POSSIBLE G.N. ALUM HOME IN SEWER IMPROVEMENTS $100M COUNTY DEFICIT PAGE 29
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Vasa, Krevor win library trustee vote
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S TAY I N G W A R M
Port Library’s $7.47M budget also passed overwhelmingly by voters BY LU K E TOR R A N C E Sima Vasa was elected trustee and Michael Krevor was re-elected trustee for the Port Washington Public Library in Tuesday’s election. Vasa, who was running for trustee for the first time, received by far the most votes of the four candidates with 514. Krevor received the second most votes with 374. Tania Danielson and Stephanies Salzbank received 185 and 161 votes, respectively. There were also two write-in votes, according to a library spokeswoman. Vasa will take the spot of Trustee Thomas Donoghue, who did not seek re-election. “I was thrilled to be elected!” Vasa wrote in an email on Wednesday. “I love our library and I am honored to serve our community
in this role.” Vas said she began preparing to! run months ago by attending Board of Trustee meetings to understand what the job would entail. “Beyond that, I did what many people do to get elected which is PHOTO BY LUKE TORRANCE to campaign and get the word out to vote on election day,” she wrote. A puppy snuggles up to a North Shore Animal League America volunteer to stay The 18-year resident of Port warm at the ribbon cutting ceremony for a new pet wellness center in Port WashWashington and business owner also said her victory was due to ington. See story on page 48. the support of friends and family. She said that the first thing she would like to do as trustee would be to “extend the library experience to underserved areas of our community.” In previous interviews, Vasa said that she wanted to try new ways to promote the library to Port Washington residents, such as hosting a 5K run. And with a Continued on Page 68 B Y R E B E C C A K L A R a group of Democrats who had off in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s been caucusing with the Re- first week in office, giving ReState Sen. Elaine Phillips publicans reunited with their publicans control of the state Senate. was appointed to serve as the conference. The Independent DemoThe renegade Democrats, state Senate Banks Committee chairman on Friday by Major- known as the Independent cratic Conference under the ity Leader John Flanagan after Democratic Conference,!broke Continued on Page 67
Phillips named banks chair after Dems reconcile
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