The-Leader_1983-09-08

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Heoispapei
Village of '
. Fretpoft
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Ffeepofi
School Dislrlcl
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Baldwin
School Oijtiiel
m ^RHEPORT MEMORfAi: LIBRAR'V?
FREEPORT. NEW YORK, SEPTEMBERS, 1983
48th YEAR, Ho. 20
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Freeport Flexes Its Village Muscle
Enrollment Declines
In Baldwin Schools
l^enitk Road Barricaded
Until State Ciianges Light
FSEEPOST - It took aboot two weeksi some 17 accidents, banicades
. by the riSage,' and two oqt eom^dtij prodactire meetings between
village offidals and traffic "experts," bnt finaUr, with the "little gn;"
flexisg Us mosdcs; the safety of the pec^le wSl again take pteoedeoce
over traffic "flow,'"
/ Stadium Committee
To Meet Agam
On September 21
FSEEFOBT - The niedal
comadttee to (tody the (utare
of the Preeport Monicipai Sliidi-.
urn win bdd Its next meeting on
September "SI,' Acoxdlng to act­ing
rtnlnnan John' IMGnida,
who Is also chairman of die vil­lage's
Flaaning Board, the
committee — wMeh was appoint­ed
by Mayor WilUam H. WWte—
tias met three times sines its
origini) "orientation meeting'*'
vrHhWUte.
White appointed the committet
to look Into and ptovide inpot into
possible uses tot the Staifinm,
which has been tised and la HSi
being tad by promoters for car
races. The five year contract with
the most recent promoter, Campi
Ecteiprises, will teradnate at
the end cf tlds lommer's season
and WUte has pobBdy reiterated
that b« would advise the village
board against renewing the con­tract.
Several months ago, the vil-age
board asked the Hew Yort
Sute legislators fat a "liaine
nile" law enabling the village to
sell the land, wUch apparently
had been restricted by the state
to recreational poiposes. Introi
dnced fai tite Senate and passed
there, the law wax UOed in the
Assembly Ways and ^eans Com-'
mittee.
PlCraxia indicated this weA
that two pos^ie ptemolen,
one vt wUch was Campi. had
appeared befbte.Us comn^ttee
in e x e o i ^ icisioa to present
their propotab tor use ot the su-diom.
At least part of their
plans. THE lEADER has been
t<^, invotved contianincr of
carradng.
A third inanity from the pco-moter
o( the bfip Speedway had
been answered ^y the committee
and it bad bees expected Qtat
Crosurty .frooi'IsBp would be
at the last meeting. He did not
come Bor. THE LEADER learned,
has he b«ea in contact with
DiGradaoethetomiTiittretiace.
This weekj adf tel&ng of the
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The "little gny" in this case b
the Village of Freepott and its
people as well as noo-ieddent
oxers of Ueitick Road between
MeadowtmxA Parkway and Mill
Road.
The aaga of the experts vs. the
oomniaa folk started back on
Tuesday, Angost 23rd when Hew
York State, as part of Its TDFItS
^ragram, aheied the.seqoenR
attend, a'de^bielD^'229'atitiJentx ihim last year: Over the'rainimer, '-of thettalBc Hghts 'at'the five-
Some 229 Students less
Bxpected On Sept. i2
.byJcmDttaney:
BALDWIN • The Baldwin' School District wiO open sdbod fee its
stodenlt on Monday, Septeml)er 12 and 5.432 stndenls are expected to.
attend, a'dedinert 229'stitdentx fna last year; Over the'rainimer, -
82 new atndents eidoOed i t the clenientary level and 64 new students:
enrolled at the secondary level. It is expected that 16S stndents inD be
truisferrins oot of district. In
addition, Fdimary regbtratiaa ot
kindergarten students was- 338
cUldrea.
The pattern of dffiinlng en­rollment
is evident. At titt sec­ondary
level, particnlariy at the
senior high scboo), grade enroll­ments
are atm in the mld-SOO's.
However, in the lower Junior U ^
and npper elementaiy grades,
the enroUnient itxSoe, wtdch
triggered school dosingx, is
(Moos with dass rizes In the
40O's. Kindergarten rca^^ntioa
for the last few years has been
relatively coBsisteiit railing from .
308 to 3S4 in the last five years.
It can be expected, therefore,
that over the next few years, the
district - wiQ cnetimie to lose
appiu&Imately 2fiO more students
in aetdor hl|^ sdiool grxdoadoo
that it ga&s in Uodergarten
registratiao each year. How
kog that trend wiD eootinne,
however, cannot be measured
because it is forces outside of
the scfaoot,- ptimaiily sodo-economic,-
wfaiot tend to cause
these diangea.-
TUs year's sdiool opening is
later than nsoal because of the
timiqr of labor Day and the
Jewi^ hoBday of Soah Haahaaah.
which accnrs on Thnnday ai>d
l^iday, Septembei 8 and 9.
Alter math coi^sien among
sduot astricts. ti>e Baldwin
School Dixtriet finally dedded not
to have dauea tot stmVitft the
first week for only one day,
September 7 because of an aitfid-psted
Ugh absentee rate and a
aeheJnBng wlddi was not viewed
as bdng edacstionaliy frodnc-tfve.
•
For the first time in several
years„sci>oab are opening status
quo with one Junior liigh.sdiool
(7.8) and one 9-12 HA acbool
and no additional elementaiy
sdiooi dosjngs -projected. Al-
.though recent damage £.'<he srn-.
lor Ugjh sd>ool caused by a twist­er
summer storm have inter- -
feted with what would hsive been
a conudetely orderly beginning ta'
scliool, adjustments have been
made in the phydca) edncaticai
ciasses and the extra-cnrricnlar
and inter-scbolasfic xpoits pro­gram
so that no cimr< or pro­grams
win have to be cancelled.
Teachers were scheduled to
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comer intersection shared by
Merridi Road. Wi Road and
Albany Avenue.
WiA the Department of Trans-portatioo's
plan not completehr
in effect, the net result — whicA
wocld eoatiaae even after some
possible ma£ficatioos — allowed
ibr left tarns fmn the west­bound
Menidc Road turn lane,
while eastboond ttsfBc was
xtni flowing. In other words
tiie left lane of wesftoond traffic
fiad a '.'green ball" at the same
time that the eastboond lanes did.
The resobf A traffic fice-for-aD
for about ten iccoods every
leqaeace, and Qie Freeport
PoUce Department reported 12
acxJdents at the isiersectico be­tween
August 23 and the fdlow-ing
Monday, August 29, Three'
more acddcnls on Tuesday, Aug­ust
30, caused much coostema-tidn
to po&e, village officials
and local residents, sevinal of
whom had been calfing THE
LEADER'S ofBces, laSage Mayor
WUHans H. White and.State Sen­ator
Norman J. Levy.
' Levy stej^ed in. As.chainnaa
of the State Senate's Cbmmittee
on.Transporti^oo.Jie calkd an
on.^t)i'meeting and traffic' ex­perts
and government te{ne-sentatives,
ban levels starting
at the .village and working up,
came.
Minor adjustments were made,
i>nt acndeats'ctntitned and on
Tuesday night, August 30, the
village police set up barricades
pieventmg westbound traffic
from turning left at the inter-sectioit.
The State came in again. This
time, they and. Nassau County
arranged to eztead tlw asphatt
divider separating east and west
traffic cm Merrick Road. At that
time, Senator levy's office also
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LAUNCHINQ A SCHOLARSHIP DRIVE for HotstraUnWwsHy, lb* Fraspoci Oiarnber oi Oommarca
racantly hakj a directors' maeting at Hofstra'a Unhraraity Club. Present were (Mat«], I. ta r.) Stava
NIeoIIno, Marion Knoellar. Ctiarte* Mahrmann, Flrat Viee-Praaident MIka Oceca (who ctalrad the
maeting), Oora Piuaipa, Ctiaria* Baldwin: (ttanding, I. to r.) Ed Martin, Paul Conta, Joe PraaU, Ira
Btyck,Frank Penuonna, Richard Cantwan, Kay Benda, Jotut Uountcastia, UoocI Socoiov an) Bob
Smith. The Oiamber la iponaortng « parfijrmanoa of "South Padfio'' by Tha tSray Wg, HoCstra's
Alumni theatre group. ,•.". ' V . w .•» , . » , « , « . < • » . . . i . • , , . . . • , . . . < . . « . . » n - . ..