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Friday, May 14, 2021
Vol. 6, No. 20
Port WashingtonTimes LIVING 50 PLUS
IHOP RESPONDS TO SANDLER
AG DENIES COUNTY REQUEST FOR OVERSIGHT
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Port area voters to go to the polls
A NIGHT OUT
Current prez, V.P., trustee face off against challenging slate, newcomer BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Residents of the Port Washington school district will vote for three seats on the Board of Education and on a $167 million budget for the 2021-22 school year on Tuesday. Three incumbents, President Nora Johnson, Vice President Elizabeth Weisburd and Trustee Larry Greenstein, are running for re-election. They are opposed by three challengers running as a slate and one independent candidate. Johnson is a 19-year Port Washington resident, a registered nurse and practicing attorney who has been on the board since 2012. She was elected president two years ago, having previously served as president of the Sousa Elementary Home School Association, co-president of the Schreiber High Home School Association and president of the Community Scholarship Fund, and having co-
chaired Relay for Life and served on the board of Port’s ED Foundation. Weisburd is seeking her third term on the board and chairs the district’s Budget and Facilities Committee. Before becoming a parent, she worked as a special education instructor, and first became involved in the district while advocating for a district bond in the early 2000s, when her children were in preschool. Greenstein has served on the board since 2005, chairs its Curriculum Committee and prior to that served as president of the district’s Special Education PTA. Active in disability advocacy as a parent of a child with “severe handicaps,” he said, he is a graduate of the Partners in Policymaking training program for disability advocates, a member of the board of Nassau County BOCES, and serves as the secretary-treasurer of the Nassau-Suffolk School Boards AsContinued on Page 57
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Patrons dine al fresco on Main Street at the return of the Port Outdoors event on May 7.
Lavine back in spotlight with Cuomo investigation BY N O A H MANSKAR
creepy comments at work, and demanding they wear skirts and high heels on the job. The man was Vito Lopez, Several women had accused one of Albany’s most who spent 28 years in the state powerful men of touching Assembly and six years as the them inappropriately, making Brooklyn Democratic Party
chairman before allegations that he had sexually harassed his staffers forced him to resign from office in 2013. He died in 2015. After state ethics regulators Continued on Page 58
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