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49th YEAR, No. 18
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Freeport, Baldwin Enroliment Down
^Mic Hearing On Schooi
Property Rexoning Aug, 28
BALDWIN - Residents of the Baldwin School District will have an
opportunity to voice t heir opinions on rezomng of former school district
land to allow (he building.of cooperatively owned town houses.
A public hearing will be held on Tuesday, August 28. at^O am, at the
TowTi Hall PavDlion, Town Hall in Hempstead. The builder and the
school district have jointly V
20 Cars Damaged Schools Anficipafe Slight
irrParkingior
petitioned the Town to rezohe the
site of the now closed Baldwin
Junior High School and Prospect
Hemeniary School from Resi-
-lieiice "B"-tn-Rciidence ''D-A."
44 two-bedroom — units and 152
parking spaces.
The two bedroom units would
also each have its own one car
garage;
refTehreen, pdausmt .M sacrhcoho nt4is._Vinri caV p'Tuiefaslii'c Xhe one-bedroom
dents voted 867-63 in approval
• of the sale oif (he school properly .
for a price of $1.4 million.
Al August, president of the
Rrst Farrell Group, purchasers of
_lhe properly and, ..builders/
developers of ihe sile, said Ihe
two school buildings would be
-demolished and _lhe_properly._
which is at the southeast comer
of Haig Street at Pershing
Boulevard, would be developed
for town houses.
The petition "oil file at Henip\
stead Town calls for 78 units »id
157 parking spaces.
According (o A.ugusi, he will
build 76 — 32 one-bedroom and
units are
SI 10.000;
ones for-expected
to -sell" for
the two-bedroom
$140,000.
August, who is involved with
other de\-elopmenls on the South
Shore (cundomipiums in Free-port,
and Vhe-Maniolt Hotel, for
example) describes Ihe outside
of (he tiiwn houses as covered
-with-a-{irepr»of—material- lhal_
looks like wood, but b not. Wood,
he says, is illegal for such build­ings.
The Junior High School build­ing
was (he original Baldwin
High School until 1958 when the
present senior high school was
built further north on High School
Drive.
Receive Fines In Village Court
FREEPORT - The congregation
of Jehovah's Witness Kingdom
" Han,' located' at~6S~CoI6nial"
Avenue In Freeport Jas been
given 30 days in which to clear up
their parking violations or face
a fine of $250. That was the de­cision
of Judge Ralph Franco in
Village Court last Thursday,
August 16.
Last September, after neigh­bors
complauied about the many
cars parked at the. curb through­out
the area during (he ser­vices,
the Village's Building
Department servol the church
with a summons. .
h was found that the sealing
capacity at Kingdom Hall bad
been doubled firom 120 lo 240
seats and was in violation of
(he Vniage ordinance which
~ requires 'One parking space for
ereiy three seau.
Tbe Court's decision was post-'
poned ta allow the congregation"
lo apidy for a variance from the
Vin^e's Zoning Board of Ap­peals.
The request was recentiy
denied by thai body and sentence
imposed. There will be no fine,
if the condition is corrected within
Ihe30days.
FintdFor .
£xtra Famity
Also in Village Court, recently
was IzetU Gayle, owner of 300
St. Marks Avenue, who was fined
• ai;l?.S, Shr-hart frrrirrdjmin-monses
for altering the one family
dwelling for Ihe illega] occupation
by two families-.^for-lnstalUng~a "
stove without the necessary -
permits; for making interior al­terations
without a permit and for
having woTk done without Ihe
necessary electrical and plumbing
licenses.
Adrian Gonzalez, owner of 374
West Merrick Road, was also
fined $210 for the lack of permits
for a fence and a pool. Additional
summonses were issued for fail­ure
to cut high grass, maintaining
the premises with debris and
rubbish, for having an unsafe
front-porch' and- for-failure-io.-
apply a protective coaling of paint
or other suitable preservative to
(he cjlenot wooden surfaces.
Arthur MoU of Hewlett, owner
of Ihe apartment building at 48 -
South Long Beach -Arenoe,- was-oonditionaily
fined $250. He was
^ren a week in whidi to repair
leaks and other defects in two
aparUnenU in which case the final
. fine will be Sipo.
Operating illega] -ainto body
shops brought fines to Raonl
Vasqnez of 13 East' Dean Sueet
and Lloyd Matthews of 232
East Seaman Avenue. Vasqnez's
fine is $250 which wilt be reduced
lo S100 if the violation is corrected
within 14 days. Matthews' condi­tional
fine was $500 which cotild
.beredocedlo$100inl4davs.. • ».
FREEPORT - P..lirc arc Lik­ing
for a Dodge truck believed to
be responsible for damage i<> 20
cars parked in the loi I'f llie
c<ird<mii«iuius at 31 Casino
Sireei Friday nmrnirg, August
17.
According i.i the •rcp*>rl, ide
truck was speeding thnmgh the
parking lot and struck a large
awning fastened lo llic building.
Ripping tlic juiiliig off, it cjuicd
it on iis lioiid as it oiniinucd
speeding ilmmgh Ihe lot. scrap­ing
and denting parked auto­mobiles.
Leaving the lot, it finally
dropped the awning at Casino
and RiHiscveli Avenue.
Rcporicd damaged were -a
1978 Chevrolci. a 1982 Toyota,
a 1970 Poniiac, a 1976 Buick,
a 1976 B^rd.a 1977 Buick. a 1984
Porsche, a 1974 Toyota, a 1972
Oldsniobile. a 1977 Cadillac,
a 1983 Lincoln, a 1981 Oievrolel
belonging to the Village of
Frceporl. a 1979 Cadillac, a 1982
Buick. a 1979 Ford, a 1974
Chcvnilci. a 1983 Dalsun and a
1983 Mercury.
Toxic Fumes Close
Baldwin Street
Drop In Sfudeht Body
FREEPORT/BALDWIN - When Frcepoti and Baldwin youngsters
head back lo Iheir disirlcis' public schools Ihis year, feucr »ill be in the
classnmms.
The first day of class is Septembers, Ihe Wednesday follnwirg labor
Day.
In figures pmjected several
weeks before l)ie beginning of
classes, Baldwin sht)ws an ap­proximate
193 student decline, or
3.57% fnmi Ihe previous year;
-and the Frocport SchHil District
a minus 145 in prtijeclcd enroll­ment,
a 2.26% drop.
In Freeport, projected, total
regular enrollment, pre-kindcr-garlen
through higji schtKil ihis
semester is 6,245; Baldwin's
projected September, 1984 en­rollment
totals S,20J.
Frccporl's (wo year junior
high school shows a small 40-
student drop, from 1,075 lo
1.035; Frceporl High SCIUKII
• Hronrpppr<f.,ll ni.M-,.." 7.'; ^liitlrnH or
2.00J255 ffrrooim last year's 2.100 en-roUnieni.
In Baldwin, the secondary
projected secondary SC1I<M>1 en­rollment
toiak 2,835: elementary
(or kindergarten through sixth
grade) is projected at 2,365.
Freeport, Baldwin Show
4)e€fease^ln=Taxable Valuation
. MINEOLA - The Freeport and
Baldwiii School Districts are two
of the seven school districts in
Nassau County with decreases in
assessment.' according lo Abe
Seidin. chairman of (he Nassau
County Board of Assessors.
Seidin recently released figures
showing a county-wide total
taxable value of $3,713,928,758,
an inaease over (he previous
year's figures of $38,259,303 or
1.041%.
Freeport's decrease in assess­ment
was .09% or 169,867. The
school distria's taxable valuation
in 1983-84 was $79,186,443; in
Ihe currenl year, 1984-85, it is
$79,116,576.
Four other school districts
have larger or Ihe same decreases
than Freeport; Hempstead, with
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—BALDWIN - A seclion.of Grand -
Avenue was closed U) traffic for
abniii-three hours last Tuesday
night. August 14, while the area
was cleared »f toxic substances •
released following an accident.
The pniblern began al about
11 pm, when a 1973 PlynwMiih
struck a truck parked at Foxhurst
Road and Grand Avenue.
The I ruck, belonging lo D & T
Ragonesi Tile Co, <if Foxhurst
Road, contained some bottles of
muriatic acid and other sub­stances.
When ihe truck was hit.
iheTiotlles' fell' arid" (he siib-slances
spilled. As they mixed
Uigether they-began giving off
acid-iype noxious fumes.
-. The_Baldwin, Fire _pepart^
..ment respimd^ td'the scene and.
under Chief Canipo along with
Fue Marshal Richard Celner,
(Com. qnPaga 8)
FLYING THE COLOHS. Members cl the William Cllnlcn Story Pest
1342 cl'th« American Legion display th« American <l»g at the gruupts
recent picnic crgtnize<I lo r«ls« (undstor (h« Statu* of Ub«rly'«Reit-
-cr«tlcn-CommlHe«.-Leglonn»lfas-ln-»ltend»nca Include,0.-!0-r.).
Vic«-Commander Harold Fredricks, Commander Roger Oaynor of
Freepcrt, Past Ccmmander Ed Licence cl Bafdwln, Paal Commander
VitoTarulli of Freepcrt, and Past Commander Fred Hager ol Freeport.
A Message From Dr. Jones P. 8
"Just Write" by J. Delaney- P. 5
Wally Young Fired.. P- 5
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