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Friday, February 7, 2020
Vol. 5, No. 6
Port WashingtonTimes VALENTINE’S DAY GUIDE
D’URSO WON’T SEEK RE-ELECTION
CURRAN AWARDS TRANSITORIENTED HOUSING GRANTS
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McNamara won’t run for mayor
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Herrington, Hirsch to run BY R O S E W E L D ON Flower Hill Mayor Robert McNamara will not seek reelection to his post this year and will instead run for trustee. Deputy Mayor Brian Herrington and Trustee Kate Hirsch have each announced their campaigns for mayor. Beginning in 2010, McNamara served as a village trustee and later became deputy mayor to then Mayor Elaine Phillips. When Phillips was elected to the state Senate in 2016, McNamara was appointed to take on the role. He won an uncontested election bid in 2018. With Herrington and Hirsch also announcing their own slates of trustee candidates, the election appears to be the village’s first contested one in at least two years. Herrington, a three-term trustee who was appointed deputy mayor by McNamara in 2017, counts Trustees Randall Rosenbaum and Gary Lewandowski on his slate. Rosenbaum was reContinued on Page 64
PHOTO BY VIVIAN MOY
The Port Washington Chamber of Commerce held its annual SOUPer Bowl on Saturday. Residents were invited to taste soups from local restaurants and pick their favorites. See story on page 21.
ExteNet sues North Hempstead Wireless infrastructure provider claims town hasn’t acted on Port apps BY R O S E W E L D ON
provider, which had been contracted by Verizon Wireless to ExteNet Systems has filed build nodes across the North suit against the Town of North Shore, alleges in the suit, filed in Hempstead for failing to act on U.S. District Court for the Eastits 16 applications for cell nodes ern District of New York, that the in unincorporated areas of Port town’s council failed to act on the company’s applications withWashington. The wireless infrastructure in a “reasonable” time frame. ExteNet says in its complaint that its applications were filed with the town on Aug. 23, 2019, and that 14 days after the filings, on
Sept. 6, the town paused the 90day “shot clock” by “requesting additional information, indicating that the Defendants did not consider ExteNet’s application to be complete.” The company says the town received additional information from it on Oct. 1, and that with the “shot clock” reset by Federal Communications Commission rules, the town had until Dec. 30 to act on the applications. Over the course of the
town’s meetings in the ensuing months, the applications were not brought up in public session by the board, “triggering the filing action within 30 days thereafter,” the suit says. The complaint, which also claims that ExteNet began working with the town on the applications in 2017, says that the town had asked the company to hold off on submitting them. “In its almost three years of Continued on Page 64
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