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Friday, May 11, 2018
Vol. 3, No. 19
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SCHOOLS & EDUCATION
$390K STOLEN FROM PORT BIZ
SINGAS NAMED SCHNEIDERMAN SPECIAL PROSECUTOR
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$155M budget, board members up for vote
ISRAEL IN PORT
Johnson, Greenstein, Weisburd run unopposed in Tuesday’s election BY LU K E TOR R A N C E The Port Washington school district’s $155 million budget and three members of the Board of Education will be up for a vote on Tuesday. The three members are Vice President Nora Johnson, Larry Greenstein and! Elizabeth Weisburd. They are unopposed in their re-election bids. Voting will be held at Carrie Palmer Weber Middle School in Port Washington from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. The proposed budget’s $155 million total is a 2.92 percent increase from the current! budget. The tax! levy for the 2018-19 school year will increase by $4.19 million, or 3.15 percent. In addition to serving as vice president,!Johnson is a member of the Policy and Personnel Committee. She has served on the board since 2012. Johnson said she first ran for the position because she held lead-
ership positions in several other local organizations including the Home and School Association, the Community Scholarship Fund and Relay for Life. She said she decided to run again because she enjoyed the experience so much. “We have an excellent board in the sense that we’re cohesive and work well together,” she said. “I feel like I can continue to make a contribution to the community that I love … I get a lot of satisfaction from the learning about the educational system and using my legal and interpersonal skills.” For her upcoming term, Johnson said she is looking forward to continuing her work with the Diversity Committee, which she cochairs. “We live in a community that is very diverse culturally, ethically and economically,” she said. “We’re! working with faculty and with interested parents to create an even more welcoming environContinued on Page 20
PHOTO BY AMELIA CAMURATI
Local residents make pita bread as part of the Israelfest celebration, held Sunday at North Hempstead Beach Park. See more photos on page 85.
Flower Hill lights fight comes to Village Hall BY LU K E TORRANCE It may be the beginning of May, but the holiday season was on everyone’s!minds during Monday’s Flower Hill Board
of Trustees meeting, which was dominated by the discussion of a new exhibition law. The law would require homes that have “illumination of an outside area” that resulted in 20 or more people
visiting on three days within a 10-day period to obtain a permit from the village.! While it does not specifically mention Christmas lights, it would notably affect the light display of Continued on Page 84
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