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FREEPORT. NEW YORK. AUGUST 4,1983
USthYEAR. No.15
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5 DOLUROAYS i
S SPfCIAlS I
PRICE 2 5 * PER COPT
Ask Return Of Village Police Boat
Residents CifeViolafions
Use Of Headsets To Due To Reduced Pafrolling
BeBonned On Roads
Dollar Days Here New Stafe l ow Ain%s Af
Cuffing Traffic Accidents
FREEPOKT - A gtoup oiwattiftoot hcBW owuen; attended (he Free-poet
VilUge Board meeting Mouda; ereoisg. Aogtut 1, and utK^d
Mayor waEam H. While and the foor trtistcej to reinstate the Frtepco
jV>licc Boat tfaia Tear.
led by CarcJ Kiaiitaith, o* Coy tombardo, Avenue, the residents
spoke of the damage being done
rior 55th Year
FREEPORT - loca! atorea wiD
hold their 5Sih Annnal Dcfiar
Days Sale Thmsday, Friday and
Saturday, Augiut •W,, and
shopper* are eniected to swam)
Freepoft'a Mali and «hop$mig
district in order to obtain the
tradlifaaalHt**'^^' ' ' ' ••'<-' -
Some (tons antichHaa linci
forming betxt their door* open
Thnrtday tBocning.'Whae"ovJSt
stores aqpect to o p e o i l 9 am,
Barasch'a Kid Clothes, in busi­ness
in the linage since 1902,
opens at 8 am and eager shoppets
often are waiting ftoin before
7 am.
On Thursday and Friday, Free-port
Mall store* will be open to
9 pra; OB Stttiniay to 6 pin.
The big sale'event ot the year,
which offers "incredible ptices"
and "hoge savings," aecording'to
Fteeport Chamber of Commerce
president Urry Grtbinar of
iTving's Men's Shop, ia spon­sored
by the Chamber's Retail
Division.
Retail Dh-ision Co-Chairtnan
Nat Mlirahi, of 8 4 N Stores,
reminds shoppers that plenty of
free parking is available in the
municipal parking fields.
Two Families Cant
Uve As Cheaply^As
One, Says Court
ALBANY - Beginning September I, drivers of motor vehicles and
peisma openuisg motcHTcydes, n»peds or riding bicycles in New Ycri
Sute win not be able to cover both ears with stereo headi*ooe». New
Yotk State win fbOow the eiam|de of several other state* and moBld-palides
b) the, coantty bi«« cffiKt to emii traffic Juxidents canscd b]r
nwtottxts. etc. not t«ing: able to
to tlieir property by speeding
boats, as weD as describing ihe
results at "poBnters," who use
local canals as ilatbage pails.
Mrs. Klarikaitis presented the
Board with a peti&xi-risncd^ she
s^d, by atxwt 196 pec^te. The
petiOon asked for the immediate,
boat had to Jiare ijeen a deterrent
to speeders in the past. Mn.
Storm promised she woold be in
"the foreftoot" in proposing to
pot the poBce boat bade in Ihe
bodget.
In presenting tite peti^on,
Mrs. marikaitis nrplaincd.
repiacenent of the boat, "which\ thai most at the people she had
win be^ protect and aafegnard) amoken to were coocemed that the
oor residents, docks, bolk-/ Arafa«eB<>M4wvoM«i<*esienjo
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FREEPORT - The.owner of a
one-family boose at 54 St. Marks
Aveooe, Fteeport was fined.
$500 in Village Cooit for allowing
another CanSy to rent Us one-family
hocse white be and fcis
family conHnned to Bve theic.
last Thnrsday, JnJy 28. Victor
Heraa pleaded goilty to the
cliarge and was giveo two weeks
to ccmti the violations at whkh
time the fine-will be redoced to
$250.
Heras, who received som-raonscs
ftwa the Village'a Build­ing
Department, came befixe
Village iostice Ralph Franco.
SoPmnb..JlneJ •
Hnrwiti Home ImpRnremesta
>f Fraskfin Sqttare was fined $125
or instal&ng a feiKe at 109 Jay
treet without first applying to
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eing ab
hear the soonda t« ttaSSc. (See
Ei£torial,M|te&.). •
Tlie tiiffic safety meastne,
sponsored by Long Island State
Senator Nonnan J. tevy. Chair­man
of the Senate Trmnsportation
Commitfee, was si^^sed into
law by Governor Mario Coomo
lastF»iday,jBly29.
"Operating a motor veliide or
bicyde oo busy stieets and roads
reijoires a diiver'a complete con­centration,"
levy espialned.
"Headphones over Iwth ears,
playing nmsic or other recorded
sounds, may filler oat oc even
totally block out the sounds of
traffic, anch as car horns or shxns
— seiioqsly impsliing the safety
of botii motorists and/or
cydista."
The new Uw does not.
bowever, ban the use of these
portable lieadseu by joggers and
other pedestriass.
Under the new law, uwtotista
operating » motor veWde, niotor-cyde
oe niopal, as well as bicycle
rxfers, wearing'more than one
earphone wi>Se trareSng oo
streeu and roads win face a fine
of up to $50 or IS days in iaa for a
first offitnse. If convicted a second
time, of the same oHetjje, vrithin
ISD^nths, the sentence wtnld
be * fine hi not mbce titan UOQ
and/or 4S days in jail. A tUrd
conviction witliin .18 months
reaoires a fine al not more than
$250, and/or up to 90 days in jail,
levy noted tluin some mana-factaieis
of stereo lieadplnties.
recc^gniziag the inbesmt ilangen
Uut these devices may cause in
' sotoe sitnalioBs, win be enckoing
brochures with then product
advising cottsumcrs not to use the
beadptxmes whale driving and to
keep the votnme low enoogh
during other activitiea on toads
and idghways so that traffic
sounds are not btoded oot.
"Tl»e new State law does net
prohibit total use of portable
aadio devices, but it does help
ensure that motorists and cydists
who d»se to ose radios or tape
players while driving or riding,
arts keepbg "oDe ear open" for the
traffic sooads aioond, them."
sUted levy. "This meajtue can
help prevent the occnrrenoe of a
poteiitially seiinis acddeat and
save the fives not only of the
motor vehide operator or cycfist
using aadSn devicet, but other
drivers and pedestrians <-» oor
streets and roads," coododed the
State Senator.
'jcmna3* mad vwUenwiy*."
T!>e Preeport IVjBce Boat was
polled oot tf service befoce tlna
past spring seasoo started,
because of its physical cooditioa.
It ttad iteaily been letited the year
before, but — becaitse of resi­dent*'
orgiBBi — it had been re­paired.
Aaardisg to ^scas^cd at
tliia past year's budget meetings,
tiw boat was now beyond repair
and the Village Board decided not
to attocate the over $20,000
needed to porduse a new one.
Since the poBce iwat has been
in drydock, it has been vandalized
and lus bad some equipment
stolen. Deputy Mayor Dotothy
Storm told the residents that, as
a waterfront resident herself, she
had fought to retain the boat,
• bat — she added — it b too late
to replace if this year. Mrs. Storm
agreed that wakes firom speeding
lioats were trerocndcaii ar«l called
the absence of the boat "detri-mental
to the waletftOTt. ..There
is more speeding than in the
past," she noted, adding that the
tSe"«3Meirt»,'She,«« oW « « coats' ^••
t^ nftSiiMm tuiahrWIiia (aeattjr
UOO • foot) damaged by the
wakes cf speeding bocts and said
the damage was being done now
and would cootimie to be dooe an
sotnmer.
"We need « poBce boat now."
stressed Mis- 83arikaitis, "not
nextmnmer.".
The residents suggested that
the boat coold perhaps be pnr-chased-
Ct cost Btxn one of the
load boat companies.
According to Mrs. KUrikaitis.
the only person Who refiised to
sign' the petition did * i because
lie befieved the boat would only
pay for itself if it ran more than
one shift, so it could gm out
more ticketj.
White told the madests that he
had personally been iavoircd in
the waterfront for more than
25 yean and tnight have been
responsible for iJw initiatioo of a
ViHagt PoBce Boat. Thb past
year, he said, the Board had
decided not to purchase a new
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Two Arrested Ibr Prostitution
At Church & Sunrise
FREEPORT - Two-arreata for
ptostitotioB have been made, by
Fteeport Vaiage poBce wttlan
eight days. Both apptehcosioos
were at the comer cf Chan*
Street and Sunrise Highway.
On Friday, July IS. at aboot
6J0 pm, Frwport PoBce Officer
Thomas Garrity arrested 31-year-old
iames S n ^ of DehnbcCf
Street, and charged Km with
soOdting for prostitatloa. Smith,
who was dressed as « woman and
wore'» female's brBnette -wigv-aOegedly-
oOoed to perfafttt-oralsexforSlO.
The fcdowing week, oo Satur­day,
ioly 23. at aboot lh4S pm.
Village FoUce OfBcer Rayrooad
Eustace arrested Karen Capoto of
9S North CoiambBi Aveooe.
Allegedly Caputo attempted to
soGcit a custcsncr in the same • . —
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