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Friday, June 25, 2021
Vol. 6, No. 26
Port WashingtonTimes HEALTH, WELLNESS WEINSTEIN MOURNED AND BEAUTY AS A LEGAL GIANT
RYDER REJECTS CALLS TO STEP DOWN
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Has Terry returned to work in Port? Ex-Dem leader said to have visited Manorhaven BY N O A H MANSKAR It appears Gerard Terry recently returned to his old stomping grounds in Manorhaven – but village officials have been quiet about his homecoming. The Democratic power broker-turned-tax fraudster paid a visit in March to Manorhaven Village Hall, where he worked as village attorney about a decade ago, according to surveillance footage and other sources. Video from the building’s
security cameras shows a man who looks like Terry arriving shortly after 10:40 a.m. on March 24 with files and a bound book in hand. About 10 minutes later, he enters the courtroom to meet with village Clerk Joan Corbo Hanna until about 11:26 a.m., when they both leave the room. It is unclear what they discussed, but the mostly bald man – dressed in a navy blue long-sleeve shirt, khaki pants and brown shoes – can be seen thumbing through papers in one of his files while speaking with Hanna.
The man returned to Village Hall at 3 p.m. and handed a document to Ron Kaslow, a consultant to the Building Department, according to the footage. They are seen walking into the courtroom together before the man leaves the building at 3:01 p.m. The man is wearing a face mask in the footage, but three people – including Manorhaven Trustee John Popeleski – identified him as Terry, who worked for eight government entities and led the North Hempstead DemoContinued on Page 35
Port schools unveil plans for reopening PHOTO COURTESY OF PORT WASHINGTON VARSITY ATHLETICS
Port Washington senior Jack Witkow won the county championship in Discus and was awarded an all-county silver medal in shot put.
In-person classes planned for all students in September BY R O S E W E L D ON Administrators for the Port Washington school district said Tuesday that they expect a full return to in-person classes for all students in September. Presenting an initial reopening plan before the Board of Trustees, administrators said they were attempting to return
the schools to circumstances that were “as normal as possible.” The plans were presented by Christopher Shields, an assistant superintendent, and Stephanie Allen, the executive director of pupil personnel services, and were developed by numerous internal committees that included medical person-
nel, school officials, parents and students, and took in information from last year’s reopening and from the state and Nassau County departments of health. “Throughout the year, our building protocols committee was working at all three levels, elementary, middle school and Continued on Page 34
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