The Port TIMES RECORD
Volume 28, No. 41
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Gallery North’s 50th Outdoor Show also: Chrysler’s Chrysler comes to the Vanderbilt, TVHS celebrates 50 golden years, Port Jeff Dragon Boat Race Festival
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Photo from Port Jefferson school district
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The first day of kindergarten can be a little scary for some kids, so Port Jefferson’s Edna Louise Spear Elementary School invited its incoming class to take a practice bus ride before school started this week, to help ease first-day jitters. Students and their parents rode the school bus from their designated stops to the elementary school, where they had a snack before they got back on the bus to go home. Above, a Port Jefferson kindergartner steps off a school bus on Sept. 3 during the bus orientation.
Yacht club changes name going into Village Cup Regatta
Lawsuit calls out broken promise
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BY elana Glowatz
File photo by erika Karp
Port Jefferson is fighting to keep property tax revenue flowing from the power plant, above.
Port Jefferson Village moved another chess piece in its match against the Long Island Power Authority last week, filing a lawsuit to dispute the utility’s property tax challenges from the last few years, which are still pending in court. Village Attorney Brian Egan said at the board of trustees meeting Tuesday night that the village filed the lawsuit last Friday contending LIPA had
promised not to challenge its property tax assessment at the Port Jefferson power plant unless the assessment was disproportionately increased. That perceived promise links back to a 1997 letter from former LIPA chairman Richard Kessel, upon inking a power supply agreement between LIPA and the Long Island Lighting Company, as the former was taking over for the latter. That agreement LIPa continued on page a10