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FREEPORT. NEW YORK. DECEMBER 9,1982
47th YEAR. No. 33
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1 PaJCE2S*PElCOPY
Mall Merchants Seek Morf Porkiii^
Holiday Festival JQ-Hour Spots Fdr Owners
At Rec Center
Mean More Customer Spots
TV la«l Saturday tvanlng, CHcambar 'i<ar«"~ot tlHt sQ-mlnuta
presentation, whlcti tall of aoma of iha vUlaiga'a alaintf, o*Ut*red
tog«lh«r aftar Iha taping to dlacun thair axperlanoa.-Tha ahow waa
"amcaed" by AuailnaWhlta (aaatad, 1.), wifa of vllUgo Mayor William
H. Whita, who apoka with lUmona Crook (laatad, r.), dirador of tha
villaoa's Homaf indar'a Sarvica; Robart Raynor Cttandino, r.), ardiWUt
of tha Fra*iMrt HIatorleal Muaaum; and. two Fraeportere who pur v .
chasad homaa through the Homaflndara Sarvie*, Ron Welnmann and>
Elfla Montgomary. Tha ahow will ba broadcast
ona mora tlma on
qh SarvKa, and
Saturday. Deeambar yfi. at 5:30^m, on Channel 30.
Residents Oppose Most
Of Reorganization Plan
For Baldwin Schools
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BALDWIN • Approximately 500 community rcsidenu attended the
December 1st regular Baldwin Board of Education meeting at Shobert
School and most used the opportunity to express their opposition to the
rtorganizatioo outline which tud been proposed on Novembei^ 17 by
the Superintendent's Committee on Reorganization (SCORE). The pro­posed
pUn calTed for the dosing
FREEPOBT - The vUUge's
Atmual Holiday Festival, spon­sored
by the Freeport Chamber of
Commerce and the • Freeport
Recreation Depaitment, will take
^place on Saturday. December 18,
12J0t4-J0 pro, at the-Freeport
Recreatloa Cepter. There will be
no admission^ fee nor ctuu-ge'fbr
any of the events.
Mr. and Mrs. Sanu CUus will
be on hand to greet children, up
to age 10, who will receive a gift.
Two petfoiroances <rf "Heidi"
will be presented by the Rec-
' realioo Department's Dtaioa*
Workshop and the Departroeni'l
-nrmoasts win also demoastrate
.IbeiriWlls. -. . ' ^ ' ' • ^ •-
There will be free Ice skating
in the babble from 12 JO-2 JO pm.
and a Hroited number of skates
will be available for rental at
75*eacli..
FREEPORT - Parking problem complaints in the village's Central
Business District took up the greaterpart of the pubBc meeting-section
of the Freeport Village Board of Trustees Monday evening, Decem­ber
6th session. In response to retail merchants and other business
people in the area of the Mall. Sunrise Highway and Merrick Road.
• Mayor WiUUm H. White stated
viously about the idea. White said.
he in turn had spoien to Majestic
Chevrolet and they daim they
sometimes need their lot.
Regarding parlung on Pine
Street. White said he can reinem-ber
that itiiad been looked into •
before, ^K* be:-ctuld find .no '
reconf joCitl. "Diagooal parkmg is -
dangerous parking." sau) White,
"aiid I dom't tMnk it right to
give' permit parking to school
teachers."
Grebinar noted thai permit
parking is done in other places.
such as KTiheola and Garden
, In the lobby, the Freeport
High School Select Chorale.
Brass^Quintet and Choraleers win
presenV''a proKram of Holiday
carols. There wiU also be a Craft
Gift Bazaar and a booth where
_ everyone will fjc invited to create
-i their own tree ornament.
Free refreshments for everyone
will be provided by the Freeport
Chamber of Commerce.
of Steele Sd)ool, the conversion of
Milbtmi Sdiool bito a .Under-garten
center, the development of
a foil-day Id^ergarten program
for the district at both Meadow
awt Milbani Sdiools. the re-tinlgametit
of all MUbtmi School
children to Brookdde School and
some Brookside School students
to Sbubett School and thtf re­assignment
of the PHC program
(Pn^ram for the Handicapped
Children) to-Plaza School. The
plan coold be implemented over a
two year petiad.
The majority o^ the audience
- seemed to be comprised of Steele
School residents. Their primary
complaint was the dosing of their
nei^borhood school. Other com­plaints
voiced were the lack of any
finasdal savings, the hazards and
lack of educational benefits of a
full-time kindergarten, the
elimination of any elementary
school between Seaman Avenue
and Meadow School and the
impact on real estate values.
The Board of Education and its
president Lorraine Detler.
appeared to make every effort to
carefuUy explain the history, of
reorganization as weU as the
present status of the district,
since many of the residents in
'attendahce seemed unfamiliar
with the reorganization process
which has been oo-going in
Baldwin daring the last 10 years.
A diart was distrilmted listing
reorganization changes since
1973. Mrs. DeUer presented a
short histoiy of reorganization as
well as a summary of present
problems induding decfinjng
enrollment, racially identifiable
schools, spiralling inflation and
increasing fuel costs which, she
said, make it imperative that the
district cottsider methods of
cotisoiidation and cost-cutting.
Gene Lanzaro, chairman of the
SCORE committee, presented the
proposed ootlinc since, he said,
there appeared to be some
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JAZZ GREAT Otzzy Gillespie will
be in Freeport this Saturday,
Decemtjer 11. at 8:30 pm. Under
the auspices of The Arts Council
at Freeport, Gillespie will
perform in concert at Freeport
High School. Appearing with him
will be. MIctuiel Howell on bass,
Bernard Purdle on drums and Ed
Scherry (laying the goilar.
rickets are S9 eacn and can t>e
purchased at the Arts Council
cilice weekdays, 9 am-4:30 pm or
in the high school on the nigl\t of
the performance as available. For
further information call 223-2522.
that he didn't believe in reserved
parking for mercbaiits or their
employees and that "it is not in
the cards" to build any additional
parking al any expense for the
' taipajrers._
There were about ten . MaU
mt^cfaanls at the yniage Board
'nx^iing'f-ai weO a* several' other-businesspeople.
Lany Grebinar.;
co-chairperson ~ of- the Retail
Division of the Freeport Chansber
of Cornmerce and owner of
Irving's. a meii's store on Free-port
Man. spoke for them first.
Trustees for iBe recently con-stmded
- 32-space parking field
extension behind the northeast
section of the Mail. Grebinar
explained that additional parking
was needed. "If the employees
were given a special permit
area." he said, "we coul^. al­leviate
s<5me of the congestion" in
the customers'lots.
Ever since the MaU was con­structed,
the merchants have
been asking for more'parking;
pointing odt that on-street park­ing
B'as sacrificed for the Mall.
T^ey have particularly complain­ed
of a shonage of parking during
their peak seasons, when — they
say — most of their business is
done.
Grebinar made tn-o sugges­tions.'
Dodd Junior High School
teachers, he proposed.could park
diagonally on Pine Street and the
merchants could then use the
tot behind the Salvation Army,
whcrtf long-term parking is per­mitted.
Grebinar suggested a
paid permit parking field for the
merchants. Presently, he ex­plained
the teachers arrive for
work at the school earlier than
roetchants and employees arrive
to open the stores and the teach­ers
use up all the long-term
parking in the lot.
, Gtebiiur's second suggestion
for merchant/employee parking
Vas in the Majestic Chevrolet
company truck parking lot oj\
Heniy Street and Merrick Road.
He proposed the village lease that
lot from Majestic.
White said he doesn't believe
in reserved parking for merchanis
or their employees or any other
group of employees.-Noting that
Grebinar had spoken to him pre-
City and White answeied llai llie
taxpayers provided for their
employees when they paid for
ttie patting fields around VHbge
Hall. The school district, he said,
should pnrvide for its employees.
Grebinar and merchants Bin
^tiSfn Piyck of Barlsdi's Child­ren's
Store,. reiterated to the
Village Board that the merchants
want the '-'worst parking for
themselves and their emplojees
...the best foUheir customers."
Ira Btyck also noted that there
used to be sufficient parking for
merchants, at the triangular-shaped
lot at Henry Street and
Sunrise Highway. The parking
field, which used to ^e a muni-dpal
one, had.-meters, which
tootSIH for ten hours. The prop­erty
was part of a "trade" deal,
which acquired the car waih
property, then owned by Majestic
Chevrolet, for the village. Now
used for parking, although the .
ptoperty is not lined or improved,
the '-'car wash lot", will be used
for private parkinefor the Grant's
store, when it is sold.
Bryck complained that the car
wash property is presently 75%
filled with tiRR commuters, who
arrive l>efote 8J0 am and have
no commuter permit stickers.
The Mall parking fields, charged
. Bryck. arc filled even when the
Mai! isn't that busy. People park
iheir ca'rs there, he said, to go on
bus trips with the Salvation
Army, to walk to the stores on
Merrick Road, or louse the LIRR.
Bryck suggested permit park­ing,
"somewhere." as he said
almost desperately, coupled with
stricter enlforcement of parking
on fields 11 and 12. so that cars
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