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COUNTY GOP SLAMS CASHLESS BAIL
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Hynes named Port’s new school chief
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Ex-Patchogue-Medford educator an advocate of whole-child education BY J E S S I C A PA R K S Michael J. Hynes, an advocate of whole-child education and education reform, has been named superintendent of Port Washington schools. He makes his way north from the Patchogue-Medford school district on Suffolk County’s south shore where he served as superintendent since 2014. Hynes will fill the role soon to be vacated by Superintendent Kathleen Mooney, who announced her retirement, citing health concerns, at a Board of Education meeting in December. He is slated to begin on July 15. School board President Karen Sloan said Hynes’ commitment to a whole-child education and reputation for community engagement are qualities that make him “a perfect fit for our district.” Before serving as the Pa-
tchogue-Medford school superintendent, Hynes was superintendent for the Shelter Island School District. Throughout his 20 years of experience, Hynes has risen through the ranks from elementary school teacher to elementary and middle school principal and then superintendent of curriculum and instruction. Of his time in the PatchogueMedford schools, Hynes said “they have been the most rewarding five years of my life” and he has been “proud to steward our vision and mission of what a whole-child education looks and feels like.” Hynes has been a prominent voice in reforming public education. He has long promoted a whole-child education and been a critic of standardized testing. In a TedTalk Hynes hosted at Adelphi University, he discussed Continued on Page 24
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“Clean Green Main Street” volunteers picked up 5,000 pieces of trash along Port’s Main Street. See story on page 12.
Candidate accuses Terry of improper behavior BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN
serving a prison term for tax evasion, of having propositioned him to have sex when he A Great Neck lawyer has was a young political activist. The lawyer, Michael Weinaccused Gerard Terry, the former North Hempstead Demo- stock, 47, who served as an cratic Party chairman who is assistant district attorney in
Kings County for five years, made the allegations in a letter made available to Blank Slate Media and interviews. He made the claims in announcing that he would run Continued on Page 55
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