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Vol. 3, No. 28
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Port North gets shuttle service to LIRR station
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Founder said operations could expand to other Port villages in future BY LU K E TOR R A N C E Some Port Washington residents are getting to their offices in the city two hours earlier than they need to be, according to Residents Forward Executive Director Mindy Germain. That’s because locals are trying to get to Port’s Long Island Railroad station before all 1,000 parking spots are taken. “The lot is pretty much full by about 7:15 a.m.,” she said. To give residents an alternative, one Port man has started a shuttle service that will travel from the LIRR station to several stops in the village of Port Washington North. “Some people are paying more for private parking spaces or taking a taxi or ride sharing,” said Jamie Engel, the service’s founder. Service is scheduled to begin on Aug. 20. The shuttle will make six stops along Soundview Drive before
heading to the station. Engel said it will make six round-trips in the morning — timed to line up with the express train to Penn Station — between 6:45 a.m. and 8:35 a.m. Shuttle service in the evening will last from 5:00 p.m. until 8:45 p.m. Engel said he was inspired to create the service when he purchased a home in Port Washington a few years ago. “In shopping for a house, I recognized the need for proximity to train,” he said."“When you’re out doing your research, you need to learn how do get to the train station, when do you get there to get a spot… and going through that process, I thought, ‘the town could use a shuttle.'” His dream dovetailed nicely with work that Residents Forward had been doing. “We recommended a shuttle for residents, so we conducted a survey in October 2016 and the Continued on Page 59
PHOTO BY LUKE TORRANCE
Volunteers scrubs a headstone clean at the Monfort cemetery on Saturday. The event was the first step in rehabilitating the 18th century gravesite in Port Washington. See story on page 3.
Les Read, former Baxter Estates mayor, dies at 82 BY LU K E TORRANCE
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“He really was a gentleman and was always pleasant to Leslie Read, the former residents,” said current Mayor mayor of Baxter Estates and Nora Haagenson. “He always a longtime resident of the vil- had a smile and did a lot to lage, died on June 28. He was give back to the village.”
In addition to his civic work in Baxter Estates, Read had a long career in television that in his early days included keeping the teleprompters in sync for Johnny Carson and Ed Continued on Page 60
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