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Friday, May 24, 2019
Vol. 4, No. 21
Port WashingtonTimes BEST OF THE N. SHORE NOMINEES
PREPARING FOR HARBORFEST
MEMORIAL DAY GUIDE
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AbramsonBrooks, Beys elected to board
PORTFEST
$160.5 million school budget passes with 2,517 votes in favor, 747 against BY J E S S I C A PA R K S Deborah Abramson-Brooks was elected to the Port Washington Board of Education on Tuesday with 2,119 votes. Incumbent Emily Beys was the highest vote-getter of all four candidates with 2,517 votes to be reelected to her second term. Both were elected to threeyear terms. The $160.5 million budget was also approved with 2,517 in favor and 747 votes against it. Jonathan Geisler received 745 votes and Robert Young received 550 votes in the contest for seats on the board. Abramson-Brooks is a lawyer and a prominent voice in the optout movement. She is a proponent of a whole-child education. “I will continue to work to strengthen a whole child education for all children by fighting against mandates and policies that harm our children,” Abramson-
Brooks said via email. She was appointed to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Common Core Task Force and has said the curriculum was written by college professors and business people without a single K-12 teacher on either the standard writing or validation committees. In an earlier candidates forum, she called the curriculum “the antithesis of a whole-child education.” In the email, she said she is looking forward to bringing her “knowledge, experience, and state and national advocacy to my hometown.” Abramson-Brooks said she will also fight for increased state aid and will use her “fiscally conservative nature to ensure that taxpayer dollars are spent in a most efficient and effective way.” She said she looks forward to working with her fellow board members, the new superintendent Continued on Page 93
PHOTO BY JOHN NUGENT
Twins Katarina and Gianna Curmi painted lanterns at HEARTS PW’s 8th annual PortFest. See story on page 3.
Town plan cuts housing from waterfront district BY J ES S I C A PA R K S
the potential for residential development in the area. Town officials unveiled the North Hempstead’s pro- modified code at a public hearposed zoning code for Port ing last Thursday. A moratoWashington’s waterfront busi- rium on building at the waterness district would eliminate front has been in effect for the
past 18 months. Michael Levine, the town commissioner of planning, said the town revised the code to prohibit residential development in November because it Continued on Page 82
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