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Friday, July 16, 2021
Vol. 6, No. 29
Port WashingtonTimes SCHOOLS & EDUCATION
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Beys, Epstein picked to lead new Port board Take reins after being nominated by two newly elected trustees BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z The Port Washington Board of Education appointed members Emily Beys as president and Julie Epstein as vice president during its annual reorganizational meeting on July 6. Beys, who has served two terms as a board member, was first elected in 2016 and re-elected in 2019, beating opposition in both races. Newly elected board member Adam Smith nominated Beys to serve as president, with the rest of the board unanimously agreeing to appoint her to the position. Epstein, who was first elected to the board last year, was nominated by another newly-elected member, Adam Block, and unanimously approved as vice president. A mother of two, Epstein has volunteered in Port Washington as the co-president of both the Salem Elementary School Home School Association and the Parents’ Council and as a member of the Weber
Middle School’s Executive Board. Beys pledged to make changes to the board — and they started with her first meeting as president. For one, the members used a new seating arrangement in which they were spaced out along a rectangular table, facing each other. The board also began a new practice of addressing, reviewing or answering community comments from previous board meetings. “We are committed as a board of seven to try new things and make all our systems a little better,” Beys said. “We’re asking, though, that everybody be patient… as we try new things we may have to reevaluate and see if they are working or not.” During the meeting, the board discussed what to do with the about 6,600 desk shields that the district obtained because of the coronavirus pandemic. Smith wanted to ensure the district had done due diligence on the costContinued on Page 35
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Northwell Health nurse and Port Washington resident Sandra Lindsay was the grand marshal of a ticker-tape parade honoring New York’s health-care workers on Wednesday.
Port nurse Lindsay leads ticker-tape parade BY R OB E RT PELAEZ
in New York City honoring local healthcare workers who served on the frontlines during Northwell Health nurse the coronavirus pandemic on and Port Washington resident Wednesday. The streets of New York Sandra Lindsay served as the grand marshal for a parade City’s Canyon of Heroes, fa-
mous for holding a variety of parades since the 19th century, were filled with a sea of blue and orange ticker-tape honoring all of the state’s transit operators, law enforcement, Continued on Page 34
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