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Friday, March 17, 2023
Vol. 9, No. 11
PortWashingtonTimes SCHOOLS, EDUCATION, CAMPS PAGES 25-32
SANTOS SAYS HE’LL RUN AGAIN
BLAKEMAN’S WIFE CROSSENDORSED FOR JUDGE
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All Port races incumbents, unopposed
A NIGHT OF 1,000 STRINGS
Port Washington North, Flower Hill, Baxter Estates host March 21 elections BY C A M E RY N O A K ES Three Port Washington villages will be heading to the polls March 21 to cast votes for numerous positions, all of which are filled with incumbents running unopposed Flower Hill, Baxter Estates and Port Washington North are each hosting elections next week. Flower Hill residents will be voting on three trustee positions that are currently held by Mary Jo Collins, Frank Genese and Max Frankel. Collins and the other trustees are running for the Flower Hill Party. Collins has worked on Wall Street for 40 years predominantly in fixed income and has been living in Flower Hill for 11 years. She started her term as trustee in June 2020. She told Blank Slate Media that some of her notable work has been achieved with the collaboration of the whole board, including repaving and updating drainage on Middle Neck Road, modernizing the village’s records, additional parking spaces in the village and increasing transparency between the village and its residents. What Collins said she is hoping to achieve if re-elected is continuing efforts of cost-saving for the village and revenue expansion to avoid increas-
ing taxes for residents, finding ways to foster resident participation with the village and its board of trustees and continuing to support the highway department. “The common denominator is to continue to focus on our village and try to maintain it as the special place that it is,” Collins said. Genese and Frankel did not respond to a request for comment. Genese is an architect and the principal at N2 Design + Architecture. He has been a trustee since 2016 and currently serves on the Town of North Hempstead’s Historic Landmarks Preservation Commission. He was previously on the village’s architectural review board and planning board after serving as the Munsey Park village architect consultant for 11 years. Frankel, a born and raised Flower Hill resident, joined the board in 2021. According to a fall 2021 newsletter from the village, Frankel works as a commercial underwriter and previously worked for Citigroup’s troubled asset loan sale/syndication group. Baxter Estates residents will also be voting on three positions: mayor and two trustees. Mayor Nora Haagenson and trustees Charles Comer and Maria Branco Continued on Page 47
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PORT WASHINGTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
Three hundred Port Washington students from grades 5th-12th performed at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts on March 8.
Baxter Estates proposes village rental-unit permits BY C A M E RY N O A K ES The Village of Baxter Estates proposed a local law to regulate the rental of residential units within the village through issuing permits and
annual inspections at Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting. The board also voted to approve the new Port Washington Fire Department contract. The local law on rents was pro-
posed the board and the mayor at the public hearing March 9 meeting. The board will vote on the measure at the next meeting April 5 and review the law in the meantime. Continued on Page 46
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