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Friday, April 14, 2017
Vol. 2, No. 15
Port WashingtonTimes ARTS EXHIBIT AT GOLD COAST
STATE REPORT PANS LIRR
BLANK SLATE WINS 10 STATE AWARDS
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IZZY’S IN TOWN
Garbage cans are back on Main Street 10 temporary bins put out until new ones arrive BY ST E P H E N ROMANO Garbage cans are back on Main Street in Port Washington. The Port Washington Business Improvement District board voted unanimously last Wednesday to purchase garbage cans for Main Street, a month after the Town of North Hempstead removed its cans at the request of the Port Washington Garbage District. The BID has not yet decided how many cans will be purchased but they will take 10 to
12 weeks to arrive, Mariann Dalimonte, the BID executive director, said. Ten temporary cans purchased by the organization were placed along Main Street on Tuesday. The BID applied for a Town of North Hempstead Business and Tourism Development Corp. grant, but recently asked for the grant to be resubmitted to purchase more cans for Main Street, Dalimonte said. “We will be definitely be purchasing 10 but if we get money it will increase the amount,” Dalimonte said.
Once the new cans arrive, the temporary ones will be removed. The garbage district will resume collection six days a week, Paul Oleksiw, a garbage district commissioner, said. Oleksiw also serves as the president of the BID. He said the cans will be carefully mapped out. The cans were removed after the garbage district passed a resolution in December to stop emptying them and suggested they be removed to Continued on Page 47
Target gets OK from village; store set to open in October Board approves site plan for flexible-format store PHOTO COURTESY OF VIVIAN MOY
The Dolphin Bookshop hosted Beth Ain to speak about her new book, “Izzy Kline Has Butterflies.”
BY ST E P H E N ROMANO The Village of Port Washington North gave Target the go-ahead last Wednesday to open a small-format store in October. The village board unanimously approved the site plan for a 48,000-square-foot store
to be built at 3 Shore Road in the Soundview Marketplace, replacing a King Kullen that closed in 2015. “This is very exciting,” Port Washington North Mayor Bob Weitzner said. “With all the changes coming to the Soundview Marketplace, including Target, it will be unrecognizable. It will be phenomenal.”
The Soundview Marketplace is privately owned. “We look forward to serving even more guests on Long Island with the addition of Target’s Port Washington store at the Soundview Marketplace,” Mark Schindele, senior vice president, properties, for Target, said in January. “We think Continued on Page 47
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