Serving Port Washington, Manorhaven, Flower Hill, Baxter Estates, Port Washington North and Sands Point
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Friday, February 14, 2020
Vol. 5, No. 7
Port WashingtonTimes LIVING 50 PLUS
F. HILL’S HIRSCH SETS SIGHTS ON MAYOR SPOT
CALL TO TRACK BAIL REFORM EFFECTS
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Elections not contested in most villages
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Baxter Estates, Port North incumbents running unopposed BY R O S E W E L D ON With one exception, villages in the Port Washington area will see uncontested races in March. The Village of Baxter Estates will see two trustees, Douglas Baldwin and Alice Peckleis, run unopposed, along with village Justice Elizabeth S. Kase. Trustees Steven Cohen and Michael Malatino of the Village of Port Washington North will also be unopposed in their elections. In Flower Hill, the mayor’s seat and three spots on the Board of Trustees are contested for the first time in several years. Deputy Mayor Brian Herrington is running for mayor under the Flower Hill Party banner, with incumbent Trustees Randall Rosenbaum and Gary
Lewandowski on his slate. Current Mayor Robert McNamara will be running for a trustee position. Under the Liberty Party banner, three-year Trustee Kate Hirsch is running for mayor, with residents Diane Turner, Jay Silverman and Jeffrey Greilsheimer rounding out her slate. All three village elections will take place on Wednesday, March 18. The villages of Sands Point and Manorhaven will see elections in June. Sands Point will elect a pair of trustees to two-year terms, one trustee to a one-year term and a village justice to a fouryear term. Manorhaven will elect a mayor and two trustees to twoyear terms.
PHOTO BY MICHAEL HYNES
Schreiber High School student Sarah Lucas paints on the walls of Weber Middle School.
Library investigation may wrap up this week BY R O S E W E L D ON An investigation into a December incident at the Manhasset Public Library involving library Director Margaret Gough may be finished late this week,
according to a representative from the library. Violinist Roslyn Huang, who held a recital in the library’s community room for her music group, the Long Island Camerata, on Dec. 14,
said that parents of her students told her that Gough had called the performers, many of whom were of Asian descent, “foreigners.” Huang also said that Gough complained about Continued on Page 61
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