The-Leader_1984-09-27

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Village of
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Freeport •
School pistrict
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Baldwin
School Dislrici
eREEPORT MEi'/iOi-^l/vL LIBRARY;
FREEPORT, NEW YORK. SEPTEMBER 27.1984
. 4SHh YEAR. No. 23
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BaldwnrStudents
^aryAer^Awards
Vm Ho^ Omdos Seniors Recognized For
proposed for "^OUf^^ilng^ores^^^^
Lofflbardo Prapert)!^
'oCommercial
Freeport Schoo/rA/so Plan
Bond Issue For Repairs
FKEEPOBT • The recoDimendeil MI« of OcvcUiid Avenne School to
• store display con^juy and a SS milUoa capital {mprovemeot program
forthe FtMport pubBc scboob were coapjed totelMt at • pabUc mee (^
~ ing held by (he Fkceport Board of Edneatioa oii Taesoay eYeBlng,
^-Septcuibei 25; ; :
The meeUog, which was an- .. _ _. «,, . „., wi w
iKWneed In THE LEADER ^«„£.»±1?'5'^'l^fi;!"'''
of a dlslrirt-wide mailing. YeW , J ^ ! ^ / ^ ^ *» ^ L ?
fewer than three dcwsnTSidenU *« Oevtland Avenue- School.
BAtDWIN - Sevepteen senlots at Baldwin Senkir Mgh School have
- .-lw.T» d(si^uated Conunended .SUuleutAin the 1985MciikPiugianrrr
trnctrorMj-r cr™. ^„r. n ^ = I h e s e slodenls placed in the top 5% of over one mSilion paitJcJpanta
thZ^lt^^AwMdlv uW^hJd^^^Z ASi,rrd,, ^: -fte - ^fo*n= B >^ ho HO"T" o-f" oln tc4otm«npdeitntUgo pnT «om,dl s^a f«oi« ^ilUvirec aac UadUcmeriocf KCoicmctms*e. nda- fencedandhigUyhedgrfprop. .^ 7^,^^^^ ^ ^ J ^ ^ .,
ertv on the wesV side rf Sonth . _ . - _ _ . • . • ^ « n j y .hope^Uui thdr ao-compHiIiiaehts.
Uitis far wQ]
Campbell, Diane C. CatiOion^ motivate these stodentatopartae
Yeclin C3ian. Raymond F. Can- higher edacaiJoii and to ac^ire
ningfaam, C3]risiopher Davis, the skilis they will need to beonne
Steven M, Greenberg,
erty on the w-esi side"of > B - ^ . B^,^^_. ^^^ g^^^
-Grove. Street was a: pdnt " AndrewTf. raad.'HMlhw R."
' inleie^Jo ]x>th visitors to and
residents of Freeport. Tlie .home
of Gny Lombardp. internationally
known composer. - ordiestia
leader and producer, and his wife
Unibelle. the house and grounds
have fallen into disrepair since
the deaths of the coaple. Even
the hedges are no longer beao-
UtaUj trimmed and cared for..
Bat village residents bave kept
_the J«mi«:d2JiJiSe_as_part of ., . .-,., - ^ •
their hist<ay, renaming-South-^5nJcn~TWfflInU^ program.
Grove SUeet (from Sunrise High- stated; that, -The exceplionany
" way to the southern end) Gny higMesV-peifonatece-^-ywag-
Barbara
J. Jaeger, Abx>z Jafaf, Debra L.
Javeline, Thomas Kelley,
Deborah A. MUsom, Alexander
H. Press, William A. Sceiio,
and Paul R. Siragnsa. - - . -
An officer of National Merit
Scholarship Corporation (NMSC),_
Lo^ardo Avenne. The Town dl
. Hempstead Marina at the stitet's
tip was renamed by the Town
- the Guy Lomhaido Marina.
The house and proper^ liave
been on the market for several
years. Occasionally, this news­paper
would hear of an imminent
sale, which apparently always
fell through. The asking price
would be too iilgh; 1^. pn>-
specth-e purchase?j. ijffer too-low;
the taxes too steep; the
house in too much need of re-
.pair.
Months ago, it was rumored
...that developers were interested
in purcha^og- -the . one acre
property in order to build five
one4ai^ bocoes there. There
people who are named Com­mended
Students in the ez;
treroely competitive Merit Prj-,
gram is deserving of recognition
in thdr communities- To admow'
ledge the atloinments of aca-demkally
talented students and
to credit schools for the part
they play in the development of
these youth are important in a
nation that valuies excellence. We
productive adults and contribut­ing
dtizens in a &ee society." -.
Paiticipants entered the cur­rent
Merit Program by taking
the PSAT/NMSQT in the faU of
1983, when most of them were
juniors. Although the qualifying
Tesrwarenrf "the 35,000 Com­mended
Students designated
im}fm<ifi<4i> wT^ vffry high, thev
were slightly below the level
required for Semiiinalist standing
in the competition for some 5,500
Merit Sdwlarships to be awarded
in 1985. The 15,000 Sem'diaalisU
in this year's competition were
announa>d publicly by NMSC on
September 13. Five Baldwin
Senior High Schoni "'itadyWft
were named semifinalists. (THE
LEADER, issue of9/13.1
attended to fearsUperimeBaenr
of Schools Dt. John E. Blerwlrth
go over the plaimed renovations
and repaira Item by item.
- Both proposals would-go^before-the.
voters, probably sometime
in November. Bierwirth has ex­plain^
that the SSSO.OOO'pto-
- cee.da.o( liie aak,.af .Oevelui^
Avenue School to A B C Hanger
Company wculd be oied to oEbeV
some of the cost* of the
S4,9QS,750 capital improvement
program. Xhe rest of tiie money
would be raised by • bond issue
to be floated only after Uie work
' is completed and only for'the
work actually done.
.. The tale of Qevelaod Avenue
School to the more than 40-ycar-old
funily owned display busi-
- ness, while not the use primarily
"sought by a dtirens' task force,
is recommended by tke school
—board.
menta, win add another t2^,000
in sUle aid to the district's
coffers.
The price to be reallied
more BSn the valuation oST
$405,000 put on the building by
Cnshman.& Wakefield, a real^
'company that ba4.^umined iti
building for the tcbool district.
-T-t-Tbe-saJedoet-jwUndode (
small buHdinga on the grounds,
which will b« used focjchool.
equipment and Inr athletes using
tiie ^rtOage-owned field behind the
school.
The prinury concern expressed
by some of the residents present
at the meeting was over the Iraflic
conditions that might be effected
by use of the building for com­mercial
purposes.
Louise -Siiiipion, noted Ihst
Zoning Board to Decide Future
Of Senior Apartments
' FREEPORT • The sponsors of
federally iiinded txmsing planned
for northwest Freeport have
applied for variances which wiH
was even'tali that-tig-tombafdo- be bard by lh«-ViB«goi»-Zoning
bouse wmld remain, be reno­vated
and about four sew houses
placed on the estate prcqierty.
Nothing nulerialited onti] re­cently.
Mote than a week ago, THE
LEADER leaned that the prop-
""er^baabeeo soM-and Dtl^ibor^ *^J^
bg resdenis were being b- Tbe
Board <of Appeals Wednesday
evening, OcUAxtl.
. Variances to buHd the 97-uoit
complex deal with off-street park­ing,
the square foot areas of
apartments, tbe height of the
structure, the size of tiie parking
ana^requtied-^teeetsg.-
Hnman Development
Board's agenda as the St. Johns
Senior" Otizehs "Housing;' the"
complex is to be called the Rer.
Timothy C. Petemana Houses.
—Eev^ Petemana, Pastor of tiie
' Tint Presbyterian Church of
Freeport and a Village Trustee,
was murdered in his dinrcb office
'(Cbm.dnPaoelS)
The Task Force had suggested
sale of tiie building to an educa­tional
facility and had specilled
tiut the. final purchaser not In­crease
traffic" pfoblenU" In "lije"
area, in wliich two apartment
complexes'— Moxey Rlgby and
Liberty Park — are already,
-surrounded by main arteries and
heavy industrial uses.'
ABC Hanger Company does
not manufacture on its premises,
assured Bierwitih and'Assistant"
to.tiie'Snperintendent John Sex­ton,
The bnikUng would be
used for office space and ware-tnating.
The company is in effect
«"~"nnddJemaji," Sexton ei^
plained. Pieces of displays —
piping, ttangers, racks — in
various shapes and designs are
shiimed to it and orders are then
reui^iped out. Sales personnel,
office (taff and a teiepbone crew
are among tlie 30 employed in
Qeveland Avenue is a dead end
street and titat neighborhood
—gr4jwn
customed to playing[ tthheerree..
Dr. Bierwirth answered that
there would be less traffic and
fewer cars tiuo were generated
when thei' school was open,
staff members parked there and
buses used the street.
Bierwirth also noted that tiw
school district would have no con­trol
over any future sale of the
'building even if told it now to an
- eduealionai - institutionr-He-re^
marked tiut a lease arrange­ment,
ratiier than a direct sale,
' would bave been Impractical for
any purchaser because of tixs
- amountof renovatioos needed in-tive
building.
"Do yon think this Is (he best
use you could do for this build-
- lagr^Un Ximpvm qaetieS Dr,
Bierwirth.
Tbe answer came back a _
_ (Ck)nt.onPa(}«4)
formed of Ihe^pMsaiejSexfilgp- Office of the Diocese of RoetviBe
ment of tlie land for 10 condo- Centre,. spon$«i of-the noo-mfataan—
town—booses;—I^l__teriaiian _ lionsing^fbt „tenkji_
week't-ixsoe of THE LEADER atoens and handicapped, dli-disoissed
llie possibili^ on l i s ' "»«> recenliy announced thU
, (Conf.onPagatS).
constructioQ would begin shortly.
White. listed on the Zonbg
lBALfiH(Ut[£ENF
Baldwin G.O.P. Honorees p. 7
Baldwin High-Ljtes : P. 8