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Friday, September 4, 2020
Vol. 5, No. 36
Port WashingtonTimes BACK TO SCHOOL
FLOWER HILL VOTES TO ADMONISH HIRSCH
DiNAPOLI WARNS OF THREAT TO MTA
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CHEER UP CHARLIE
Grades K through 5 to be back by Oct. 1 Port district unveils plan to phase in full-time classes BY R O S E W E L D ON The Port Washington school district has announced that it will use a temporary schedule alternating in-person instruction in elementary schools for eight to 16 days, leading to full five-day in-person instruction. The length of the alternating schedule depends on when desk shields are installed, the district said, and full five-day in-person instruction is to begin no later than Oct. 1. The new approach came after hundreds of parents ob-
PHOTO VIA INSTAGRAM, COURTESY OF NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA
One-year-old hound mix Charlie is one of a number of animals available to adopt at North Shore Animal League America, which this week sent a squad of its volunteers down south to rescue animals affected by Hurricane Laura.
jected to the district’s previous plans. After the district announced Aug. 21 that students at Guggenheim Elementary School, Manorhaven Elementary School, John J. Daly Elementary School, John Philip Sousa Elementary School and South Salem Elementary School would not have the option of a five-day in-person schedule for the coming school year, parents led a demonstration outside the district offices and sent a petition with over 1,000 signatures, claiming that medical evidence support-
ed a return to full-time classes. District Superintendent Michael Hynes has said that the choice to not include an option for full-time in-person instruction came after the Port Washington Teachers Association expressed concerns regarding the faculty’s return. Efforts to reach the teachers union for comment were unavailing. Hynes outlined the new plan in an Aug. 28 letter to the community. “In an effort to find the safest and most instructionContinued on Page 35
BW moratorium to be extended: Dalimonte Councilwoman seeks time to better prepare code BY R O S E W E L D ON The moratorium against construction in Port Washington’s waterfront business district will be extended through October, according to Town of North Hempstead Councilwoman Mariann Dalimonte. Since 2017, the moratorium has been in place in order
for the Steering Committee, made up of representatives of numerous residential and business organizations, to discuss proposed changes to the town’s code. The changes would affect the so-called BW district, which covers the private commercial properties extending from Sunset Park to Manhasset Bay
Yacht Club and the area south of the Town Dock. After three years and five extensions, two of which took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, the moratorium was scheduled to end on Sept. 14, and a public hearing on the matter had been scheduled for the meeting of the North Continued on Page 45
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