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In Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, June 6, 1974 Copyright 1974 by
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New Budget Vote June 29
Hearing Set
Monday Night
THE BEST SPELLERS from Farmingdale's five elementary schools
competed in a district wide spelling bee during Monday night's Board
of Education meeting. Receiving their words from Post Editor Bob
Starrett are [ left to right] Christine Streizer, Albany Ave. 5th grader ;
Burton Kaliski, East Memorial 5th grader; Tony Coroesi, North Side
fith grader; Mary Jean Corbett. Parkway Oaks ( ith grader and district
champion; and Susan Haff, Woodward Parkway <> th grader.
I Photo bv Hickish I
49 To Get BOCES Certificates The Nassau Board of
Cooperative Educational Ser­vices
( BOCES) will award
certificates next week and the
week after to 49 Farmingdale
High School students who have
completed a year or more of
study in a BOCES occupational
education program. Three of the
students will receive special
awards for outstanding
achievement.
The youngsters are among 2200
teenagers from 58 Nassau high
schools who will receive BOCES
course completiqn certificates
this month.
The youngsters - a record
number - have taken a year or
more of occupational education
as a high school program elec­tive.
They bjjve attended a
BOCES center for half of each
school day, and have spent the
remaining half at their home
high schools pursuing their
academic studies.
Now most of them are heading
for jobs in fields for which they
trained at BOCES. But many will
continue their education in two-year
or four- year colleges. And
some will enter the armed ser­vices,
while others will become
homemakers.
The Farmingdale High School
students will receive their cer­tificates
in three different
ceremonies, depending on which
of the BOCES occupational
education centers they attended.
The public is invited.
The following students, who
attended the BOCES Southeast
Center in North Bellmore, will
receive their certificates at 7: 30
p. m. June 18 at General Douglas
MacArthur High School, Wan-tagh
Avenue, Levittown:
Frank Albrecht, Gary An­derson,
Betty Jo Aracil, William
Beatty, Gary Borysewicz, R.
David Bruce, Joanne Catanzaro,
Karen Cavaliere, Lorranine
Cavaliere, Kevin Connolly, Cheri
Covell, Frank Danetra, Marie
DeGeorge, Louise DePaola,
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Town Joins Cable Fight
Adding formalized support to a
stand of two of its members, the
Oyster Bay Town Board called
for the undergrounding of - the
• Holbrook- to- Newbridge Road
high voltage transmission line
throughout the Town.
By adopting the resolution, the
Board goes on record as sup­porting
the stand of Town
Councilmen Gregory W. Carman
and Salvatore R. Mosca who had
both appealed to the State Public
Service Commission to order the
line buried.
Although the PSC staff has
already recommended the un­dergrounding
of that portion of
the Long Island Lighting Com­pany
proposal that would run
through a major portion of
Farmingdale, the Commission
itself has made no determination
regarding that recommendation
or the burying of the lines in
Bethpage.
Councilman Mosca, in ex­plaining
the Board's desicion,
noted that safety, planning,
economic and aesthetic con­siderations
mandate the un­dergrounding
of the transmission
lines in Oyster Bay Town. " The
Board's action is welcome added
support," said Mosca. " I am
disappointed by the Public
Service Commission's inaction to
date. Both Councilman Carman
and I have supplied over­whelming
evidence for the un­dergrounding
of the lines, and the
people of our communities have
the right to know what awaits
them in the future."
The LILCO proposal would
require the construction of 96- foot
towers to carry the high voltage
lines.
" By LILCO's own estimates,
the additional cost for burying
the unsightly and potentially
dangerous transmission lines in
our Town would be nominal,"
asserted Councilman Carman.
" This cost would be little enough
to accept in assuring the
retention of enjoyable and safe
residential communities. I join
Councilman Mosca in
acknowledging the support that
the Town Board's decision has
added to our cause."
Farmingdale's Board of
Education set Saturday, June 29,
as the date for the second vote on
a revised school budget during
,^ their regular June Meeting
Monday night, but thus far no
new figures have been set.
A special budget hearing will
be held Monday night, June 10, at
Farmingdale High School. A
second hearing, at which the
revised budget will be officially
announced and set by the board
will be held Wednesday, June 12,
also in the high school's Guilford
Hall.
Another voter registration day
will be held on Saturday, June 22,
at Howitt Junior High School.
District residents who have not
voted in a school election for two
years must reregister if they
wish to vote on the school and
library budgets. Registration for
local, state of national elections
does not count, as the school
election is separate and in­dependent
of any other political
registration or election.
At the opening of Monday
night's meeting, the district # 22
spelling bee finals were held and
Miss Mary Jean Corbett, a Park­way
Oaks sixth grader, was cited
as the champion speller in
Farmingdale's five elementary
schools. The editors of the three
area newspapers served as
judges for the contest; Robert J.
Starrett of the Farmingdale Post,
Eric Besser of the Farmingdale
Observer and Bill Edwards of the
Massapequa Post. Representing
other schools were Christine
Streizer, Albany Ave.; Tony
Carnesi, North Side; Burton
Kaliski, East Memorial; and
Susan Haff, Woodward Parkway.
Following a heated public
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Library Cuts
Budget Figure
The Farmingdale Public
Library Board of Trustees voted
last week to put their reduced tax
appropriation request before the
voters on Saturday, June 29.
After considerable deliberation
they cut their budget request by
$ 8,000 taking $ 5,000 from
Professional Fees, and $ 3,000
from the book purchase fund.
The new appropriation request
of $ 540,300 will be voted on at the
WeldonE. Howitt Gymnasium on
Saturday, June 29, from 10 a. m.
to 10 p. m. A hearing will be held
on the budget by the Library
Trustees at their regular
meeting, Tuesday, June 11, at
8: 30 p. m. in the South Far­mingdale
Branch Library.