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Friday, February 12, 2021
Vol. 6, No. 7
Port WashingtonTimes TOP BUSINESS LEADERS SNOW DELAYS MURAL SCHNIRMAN TO NOT OF NASSAU COUNTY 2020 COVER-UP IN F. HILL RUN FOR RE-ELECTION PAGES 23-58
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New faces in Port North, F. Hill races Gerard challenges incumbents as Frankel seeks Beber seat BY R O S E W E L D ON Two mayor seats and eight trustee seats in villages across the Port Washington area will be mostly uncontested on Election Day, Tuesday, March 16. Except for one new face in Flower Hill, all incumbents are again up for re-election. Absent from this list is the Village of Manorhaven, which holds its elections in June. PORT WASHINGTON NORTH Mayor Robert Weitzner and Trustees Sherman Scheff and Matthew Kepke are seeking to keep their seats for another two-year term apiece." Opposing Scheff and Kepke for a trustee seat is newcomer Stanley Gerard, while Weitzner runs unopposed. BAXTER ESTATES Mayor Nora Haagenson, Deputy Mayor Charles Comer and Trustee Christopher Ficalora are up for re-election to two-year
terms. All three incumbents are running unopposed. FLOWER HILL Trustees Frank Genese, seeking a third term, and Mary Jo Collins, seeking a first full term after serving the rest of Mayor Brian Herrington’s term as a trustee, will run for election to two-year seats. Trustee Claire Dorfman, who was appointed last November after the late Mayor Robert McNamara was elected a trustee, is seeking a oneyear term. All three, representing the Flower Hill Party, are running unopposed. Notably absent from the ballot this year is Trustee Jay Beber. A resident of the village’s Roslyn area, he has served on the board since 2014 and chose to retire after serving three terms. Financial professional Max Frankel has filed a petition to run for Beber’s seat under the Flower Hill Party. According to his bio on the Flower Hill Party’s website, Continued on Page 76
PHOTO COURTESY OF MANNY GILLIS
Jett Gillis of Port Washington has worked for weeks to reopen the skate park in Manorhaven where he and his friends used to play. See story on 10.
Schreiber High going remote for rest of week BY R O S E W E L D ON
said. Hynes made the announceStudents and faculty at ment at the Board of Education Schreiber High School were meeting on Tuesday, just hours to work remotely most of this after a phone call went out to week, Port Washington district the school community with the Superintendent Michael Hynes news.
“Some of you may have just received a phone call from me regarding Schreiber going remote for the remainder of this week,” Hynes said at the meeting, conducted via Zoom. Continued on Page 68
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