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Port ed board weighs biz sponsorships Members hope to prevent tax increase BY LU K E TOR R A N C E When Dave Kerpen was elected to the Port Washington Board of Education, he said he would be willing to go beyond the norm to ďŹ nd additional sources of revenue for the school district. “I wanted to look for a creative solution to the costs and funding challenges,â€? he said. One such idea that Kerpen is pushing would be to accept funding from corporate sponsors. “Every year we are tasked with increasing costs that raise taxes on our residents,â€? he said. “It is my job as a school board member to minimize that and one way we can do that is to bring in funds from corporate sponsors.â€? Recently the board put out an announcement looking for community members who have experience with sales and marketing to join a task force to seek sponsorships. Kerpen said the idea is “still in the exploration phrase.â€? This may not come as a sur-
prise to anyone who has followed Kerpen’s career. He used a method similar to the one proposed for Port Washington schools to pay for his wedding, which was sponsored by Entenmann’s, Broadway Mall and the Brooklyn Cyclones, among others. Before that, he became famous in Boston as a vendor around Gilette Stadium and Fenway Park, appeared on the reality television show “Paradise Hotelâ€? and cofounded the social media marketing ďŹ rm Likable Media. So when asked if he had a goal for fundraising, Kerpen had an audacious target. “I like to aim high, so I would like to raise $6 million,â€? he said. “Obviously the more money we raise, the less we would have to raise taxes.â€? He said that sponsors would follow the sports sponsorship model, where a business could sponsor a building or an athletic ďŹ eld. “It’s not that the computers will be sponsored by Apple,â€? Continued on Page 75
PHOTO BY LUKE TORRANCE
A demolition crew cleans up the remains of the Baxter House on Monday, as seen from Shore Road, which the house used to face.
200-year-old Baxter House is torn down BY LU K E TORRANCE For more than two centuries, the Baxter House has stood on Shore Road in Port Washington. It housed Hessian soldiers
during the American Revolution and famous architect Addison Mizner in the early 20th century. In that time Shore Road went from a dirt path to a paved, four-lane street, hundreds of homes were built and Baxter Estates, named for the
home, was founded. On Monday morning, the house was unceremoniously torn down. An excavator made quick work of the dilapidated home that had been damaged by Continued on Page 75
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