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45th YEAR. No 7 FREEPQPT. NEW. YORK. JUNE U. 1981 Newsstand ^ - >
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Accused Robber f^ Decide 2 Board Seats,
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SHOOT-OUT. Vincenl!-GJordanb'(r'.);iake$ steady alm:«ft.a masked.
figure at the Atlaiillc Avenue brandi of Long Island Trust Co,, in
Freeport, last Monday. June 1. A 21-year old off-duty New York City
transit police officer, Giordano was making a deposit at the t>ank when
the masked man, later identified by police as Rol>ert Weiss ot
Huntington, apparently entered th^ bank and fired a shot. Weiss, who
" pollc6Tay^obbed another Freeport bank of hearly" $7,000 minutes
before, allegedly threatened-Giordano, two other bank patrons and the*
bank's employees before Giordano drew his service revolver from his
' shoulder holster and shot him once in the chest. A Freeport resident,
Giordano is the son pi a retired. Freeport police officer who now lives
upstate. This picture, one in the series taken during the robbery,
was loaned to THE LEADER by Giordano. - .
Business Development Director's
Position To Be Abolished
FREEPORT - MAtin SUberg, the vaiase's Director di Business
Development for the last two-and-one-halfyears, was told this past
week that .his position is being abolished because of a decrease in
federal funding. Four other persons, alt in the village's Community
Development Agency, received similar notice. They are Deputy Direc-
• tor ot the Community Develop­ment..
Agency Hany Brewster,
who has been with that agency
for more than ten years; Bill
Vagts and "Buddy" Meyers,
who work with the village's' .
Homesteading " - Program; and
Joseph Bradshaw, a mainten­ance
man.
The five men received official
.word from the Village Board of
•Trustees about a week ago:
Silberg was told Tuesday, May 5.
Minutes of the spedal meeting
of the Board of Trustees held
May 27 show that the Board met
with Etic Hemphill on that day
to discuss a realignment of
personnel of the Coipmunity
Development Agency. Hemphill
is Director of Planning and the
Community Development
Agency..
Village Mayor WUliam White
said the terminatioD of the five
was solely to cat down on admini­strative
costs because of the.
expected decrease of Community
Development funds. White
said under, the new limited
fun(fing the "agency was "top
heavy" in administration, adding
that the remaining staff "will
have to wort a little harder."
Silberg said he expected that
Attempted Murder
FREEPORT --The 39-ye«r oM
accused bank robber, shot in
Frecpott bv » 21-jear old off-duty
trandt police' officer last
week, has been indicted on nine
charges, one of whidi is at­tempted
murder.
If fbiind gouty of attempted
murder, Robert Weiss who on.
Monday, June i; allegedly held-,
np the Freeport brandb of Cbem-'
ical Bsnk-and took neariy S7.000
and ii^ote$t<4ater tried to pull
off •• similar robbery at. the
Atlantic . Avenue. (Freeport)
brsndi 'of Long Island 'Trast,
..ooald be sentenced to .aisaziianai .
of 25 years to tife {mpiisoDssent.
The charge cardes a mlaimttm
sentence dF 15 years to life.-
The otter nine charges indnde
robbery, atten^ted tobben
and grand larceny, and tten
of the car iriiidi police dalm he
used in both c^>ets.
HocMtowa Hcn>
E>;pfaLkiB"Siioot.«dt*' .
Seconds after he fled from
Chemical Bank and after Free-port
Police Headquarters re­ceived
the call of a bank robbery,
in progress, -Weiss was oa his
way to the South Fteepoct braDch
of Long Island Trust where
Vincent Giordano, the Freeport-bom,
oS-duty police' officer,
was one of three patrons.
Giordano, whose father Joe
FREEPORT • Residents of the Freeport School District will go to tiie
polls Dezt-Wednesday.-Junfr 17, to vote on a $26,768,678 sdiool bud­get,
a $954,316 library budget, two members of the Freeport Board of
Education and a spedal proposition, initiated by a distoict resident,
wUdt wtMild require at>targe elections of school board members start­ing
with the next election.
he_would remain with the village
at least until the end of Jiily.
In discussing his office and
what it had accomplished in the
time he had been with the village,
Silberg described some "signifi­cant
changes" brought about
by his efforts.
He ssud first on the list of
priorities, given to him when h ev
first came to the village was the
site of the former W.T. Grants "
store, an anchor store for the
Freeport Mall. He called the
work on that project as meeting
with "incredible obstades,"
caused not be the village but
other governmental bodies,
"a highly disinterested owner...
a lot of complications involving
otha properties...We are ^
the point where I have brou^t
it almost to the stage where
the contracts can go intoi dos­ing,"
Silberg said. Silberg,
expressing confidence in the
devdoper's "Midas touch,"
said the property should be
retwvated and open by Thanks-grving.
H the developer, Gerry
Binder, is able to accomplish
what he says he will, Silberg
makes a prophecy that the
(Coot, on Page 16)
There has seemed to be little
discussion on the school budget,
although it carries a tax increase
of S1T97 per $100 assessed
valuation'. Few people have
attended any of the prelindnaiy
budget • . woHcshop meetings
scheduled by the Board of Educa­tion
and less than • handful of
taxpayers were at the n^eeting
several weeks ago, when the
School ' Board,^ ^ itnanimoiisly..
voted tcTpiit'the jmposed b'lidget
figure on the ballot.
'The Board has pubUdy stated
several ' times that it would
submit its proposed 1981-82
sdxMl budget amy one time at
the polls. If defeated, tiie district
would go oivynsterity.
' Appareatly of more interest
to we voters is the election to
the Board ot Education.
Cal Yemen is running on-o]^
pQsed for one seat; Sara KoBy,
ptesentiy s e r ^ ^ as the Sdwoi
Board's preddent, had aanoon-,
ced eatUer that she vroold bat
-be a candidate for re-election.
Venzen, who has two. childrea
is tiie district's pnblic schools.
Is a resident of Wallace Street
He is vice-president of the
OomnUttee For A Better Free-port,
a recentiy formed groop
headed by former school board
member Ed Monroe. A medical
sales representative, Venzen has
a degree ~in "economics" ftom
Long Island University. This is
his first bid for public o£Bce.
The second-seat on tiie board is
a race between incumbent
George Boulukos and Sharlene
Asendio-Rossell. A seemingly
quiet campaign at first, .the
election has begun to' goierate
some interest In the 'sdxMl
district. Ms. RnsseU, a giddance
coosselor .in. ,tfae.-. Hempstead
'Sdiool Distrid, has spoken before
several commui^ groups.' both
with and without her opponent.
Boulukos. for example, appar-entiy
was not invited to a meeting
of the Freeport CAP. Russell
had apparently asked to tppear
there.
RnsseU seems to. be cam--
paigiting hard to her first try at
the polls. Her posters have been
up for more than a wedt and she
sai<|. she has'been distribating
flyws.
A boat cover ad in the local,
free distribution shopper this
past week, placed by Ms. Russell,
gave. a trVplMnn number for
voters to cau for transportation
or information. The number is
that of Freeport EOC. a public
agency.
Several district resdents
called THE LEADER and ques­tioned
ihe-ad, asking if EOC
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Vincent Giordano
is a retired police officer, is the
son and grandson of Freeport
natives and gradtuted Our Holy
Redeemer Sdiool fai tiie village,
before attent&ng Maria Refma
High School and C.W. Post
College.
Giordano said he was making
out a deposit slip when he beard
a loud soot. The masked robber,
.Con't. on Page 14)
READY, AIM, FIREI Members of the Freeport Rifle & Revolver
Club and Freepon PBA brought home ieven Individual and six team
trophies from the recent Hempstead PBA Invitational. Displaying
some of the trophies are 0- to r.) Freeport Poltee Officer Dori Rtehert,
Freeport Fir5T)epartment First Deputy Chief John Provenzano,
Freeport Police Sgt. Joe King and Freeport.Police Officer Wllliatp
Olaan. Other memben of the winning Freeport team were Freeport
Police Sgt. Bryon Sullivan; Freeport Police Officer* Mike Capriole,
Bob KIrmse, Bob Ross and Morgan O'Connell; and retired Freeport
P.O. Bob Hock.