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Friday, September 11, 2020
Vol. 5, No. 37
Port WashingtonTimes BEST OF THE NORTH CANDIDATES DEBATE STATE LAUNCHES PORTAL SHORE WINNERS IN MANORHAVEN FOR ABSENTEE BALLOTS PAGES 27-70
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Hirsch offered to drop out Asked mayor to fire 2 staffers BY R O S E W E L D ON Flower Hill Trustee and mayoral candidate Kate Hirsch said in an email to Mayor Brian Herrington, her opponent, that she would cease her campaign if village staff members were fired and harassment charges against her were dropped. The email, provided to Blank Slate Media by Herrington, was sent July 8, just over two months before the village election being
See additional coverage on PAGE 2 held on Tuesday. “In a good faith effort to resolve the litigation I recently commenced (and other costly legal matters currently pending) please consider this an Offer to Compromise,” Hirsch wrote in the email. The message is the latest in a Continued on Page 83
PHOTO COURTESY OF DIANA BERRENT
Teachers in the Port Washington school district organized a walkout last Friday afternoon.
Schreiber High teachers stage walkout just before first school day Event meant to highlight fear of returning in COVID not sanctioned by union BY R O S E W E L D ON
High School walked out of a staff training day on Friday, an action Just days before the first day that the Port Washington disof school, teachers at Schreiber trict’s teachers’ union said it did not sanction. Joy Grasso-Krebs, a science teacher at Schreiber and an officer in the Port Washington Teachers Association (PWTA), said in a videotaped statement on
the day of the walkout that staff members were “frustrated, anxious and scared for their health and safety.” “We worry about the health and safety of our students who are going to be walking through that school,” Grasso-Krebs said. “We are anxious about implementing livestream and the security of the livestream, and
there are so many issues that have been imposed upon us, we just don’t feel prepared.” In a statement posted to Facebook on Monday, the teachers union said that it had not sanctioned the walkout, but said that the union “absolutely” had concerns about returning to school. Continued on Page 95
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