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FREEPORT. NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 7,1985
49th YEAR, No. 42 " ' • .
; FREEP'oitT MEMORIAL LliUKX
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0. P.Caucus
For N.E. Baldwin
Citeslnadequqfw^Noiiee—:
To Regisfered Repubflcdns
FREEPORT - Village Republicans will have another opportunity to
participate in the designation of their party's candidates for the March.
19th Village election..
Stale Supreme Court Justice Vincent Ballctta has thrown out the re­sults
of the previous caucus conducted by the Freeport Republicans on
January -25rd al Sally Bay Yacht
^Cluh^
NW Burglary School Disffrcf PropOSeS
Ring Broken Sale Of Clyde-Roqd Land
FREEPORT "- The arrest of
two juveniles and three adult
males has apparently cleared up
"some 20 recent burglaries, inosi ."
of ihem in northwest Freeport.
. The chain of events began
when Freeport. Police Detectives •
Qaude Tristram and Raymond
Eustace spotted two tcen-aged
boys in Northeast Park Tuesday i. i j - »••_. ^
afternoon,.January 29 allegedly_f*~I:^-'P5'-J" y?*^."?-.'^*
-=;:^u:=^ ,i.__r:_„ .".;. .„_i.:_ • there was a need for an additional
pushing a shopping cart contain
ing. stereo equipment. Slopped
by the detectives, the- youths
-whose-naines are being with­held
because of .their ages,
claimed the equipment was their
own — ' ~—
. . . . JiyJoanOe/aney
....BALDWIN.-_Atits.ineelingheld.Thutsday evening, January 31, the—
Baldwin Board of Education .voted to sell the school ^listrict's Oyde
Road'property, in-north-east Baldwin lo the Qylaw Development
^rnrporatiyn fpj- fi 4 millinn fo£jhe.^£g!lSiniCiiBn .ClJ.apgroiiniatfly '.
96 town house cohdomiiiium iimls^' ' • ' , . ~' " •'*~'~~^-.;
• This eight acre piece of property in the Shubert-School sub-district- -
had been held in reserve by the
will be placed in a capital reserve
fund for various specified capital
projects, and; 5700,000 willbe
utilized as a.reserve to reduce
property taxes.
In the past, particularly dur-
_ing-lhe timf when-other schools
.were closed, there was much.
school„.However, declining en­rollment
and the sale of other
school buildings made it feasible
for the sale of the Clyde Road
property to be consider^!.
^c<Mrdingr:jq:ztiie__irsijluliini,-
In a 12-page opinion handed
down Wednesday- afternoon,.
-February 6, Balletta noted'that
f^each side" in the local Repub­lican
squabble "hoped to steal
the.election"- in the nominating,
process and ordered the Free-port
GOP to hold another nom^
.inating. caucus no later.than
February 28.
The results of the caucus which
Ballella has set aside had given"
the .Republican • nomination for
mayor to; Fred Hager, 207 votes
to present mayor Dorothy Storm's
200 votes. Trustee nomination
designations, went to" Lionel
Socolov (199 vo;es) and Ed Mon­roe
.(197 votes) over. Vincent
Cohen (195" votes) and recently
appointed Trustee Ralph Smith
(194 voles)
._deall.wil.h_tbe issue*!-the .'.Icau-.,
cus" as defined under the
new law.to include all enrolled
voters in a party..
This definition, explains Bal- •
letta, "h:.^ as its goal the expan­sion
of the rights and privileges •
of the electorate...Every effort
has been made, and these efforts
..will continue, to assure that there
is a fair representation of the
people by elected officials, and
to further guarantee' that in­dividual
citizens have the rig'ht
to participate in the electoral
processV wrote Judge Balletta.
It is this definition of caucus
. and .the notice requirements for
It that Balletta pointed to as. his
reason for ordering a new caucus.
While the petitioners •— Storm
and her slate and several local
Republicans who had not voted
But Tristram and Eustace I'vik.
their, names-and remembered
the incident, so that when — a.
-short-lime-later—-the-report-of-a
burglary on Craig Avenue list-the
sale
—ed-stereo->quipmenl-as-part-Df—^^Jbiicmust vote on the sale after
the missing items, the two^^^rio^of legal ajvert'ising The
.1, , „ /°'"^^°"'\ -"P?° ' discussion pro and con regarding
he passage of a referendum by ,he -.^I^ ^ ^^ 8 K
the voters and the subsequent ^j one-time, Baldwin
| e ^ g of proper zomng van- g,u?Ut-Al-Fam-indicat^d-4hatJ»^.i^tyeaf.
j\sJjV.!Tqiiir£d_hy_laTf. the- would "not cuLhlS-llagjmtil the——Thb-new-law-provides-that -BtirBalleila'dia'iind the word
The-eaueus-was-nin-by the-^beeauser-tbej-daimEdTThl^
local Republican organization, not know that. they could —
headed by. Executive Leader pointed to-irregularities in the
Ray Malone, under a new law voting itself. _BaHetla did not
passed by the.state Jfgislature find these any cause to call for a
— • newcaucm.—;— :—^^^ —
(Cont. on Page 5)
Holiday Schedule
FREEPORT - AU Village goy^ .
rmmrnt offices will be closed o'n -
Tuesday, February 12, in ob­servance
of Lincoln's Birthday,,
and on -Monday, February 18,
for Washington's Birthday.
The holidays will affect gar­bage
and trash collection. .There
will be no garbage collection in
the central section of the Village
on February- 12 and no trash
pickup-on Friday, February 15.
. There will be no garbage col-
' • lection in the northern section on
February 18 and no trash pick­up
on Thursday, February 21.
The Freeport Recreation Cen­ter
will be open on Lincoln^
B.irthday, but closed as usual on
Washington's Birthday Monday.
The Saturday afternoon schedule
will be in effect at the skating
_. rink from." Tuesday through
Friday, February 19-22, the
schools* winter recess period..
Although it is the eve of a
holiday, the Village Board of
Trustees will meet at 7:30 pm on
Monday, February 11. There will
be no Board meeting on Monday,
February 18...
actual vote. will lake place on
March 27, with a public hear­ing
for information purposes to
take place on March 6. at 8 pm, at
the District Office on Hastings
Street. Representatives of Clylaw
"IMveloproeni will present their -
plan and answer' questions from
the rommunity.
Any requests for . zoning
changes or variances would then
have Id" come before the Town of
Hempstead's Board of Zoning
Appeal. Residents would also
have the chance to speak to the: -
Town Board at that time.
— The $1.4 million purchase price
is based upon the Town zoning
board's approval of 96 units. A
formula is built into the agree­ment
between the School District
and Oylaw, dated January 23,
Which raises or lowers the final
purchase price depending on the
zoning board's decisions. The
formula includes a ihtniimim of
$1.2 million for £0 units and
could, of course, go higher than
the $1.4 million if. the zoning
board approves a higher, number
. ofunils.
The Board of Education has
included in the proposition for the
voters, the application of the pro­ceeds
of the sale. Based on the
$1.4 million tale price, $700,000
property was sold.'.' He did and
it wasn't. Other residents, par-ticulariy
those, nearer the prop­erty,
had expressed concern m
the past about the nature of any
sale and the development of the
property which .had been used by
community sports; ET""!*' *"*"
party nominations, of candidates
for village offices shall be made at
a party caucus oc a primary
election..In his-opinion,. Balletta
ing of the legal notice . calling
for the caucus lacking. "In my
view," said the Judge, 'Uny-
(Cont.cn Page 4)
pracuoes. At one-.tinie, the Dis­trict
described the problems m-volved
in maintainiiig this
property even for minimal com­munity
use.
At the present, the school dis­trict
has already sold two parcels
of property for .development
by builders. The Baldwin Junior
lUgh-Prospect Schools . property
was sold to the First Farrell
Corporation,, which is also re­sponsible
for the construction of
condominiums in south Freeport.
Demolition of the old. buildings
. began this past week.
The other parcel, the old
Coolidge School, has had a less
successful history. That pro­ject,
which was to include the
school's conversion lo 20 luxury
condominium units, has been at a
relative standstill. Despite resi­dent
complaints and investigation
by Town of Hempstead authori­ties,
builder Ralph> Chiaro, a
Baldwin resident, has not signifi­cantly
moved forward with
construction. Allhoagh there
(Com. on PSje 19)
A PROCLAMATIOM FOR PTA. Mayor Dorothx,Storm (2rtd I.) presents
a proclamation designating February 12 as "Freeport PTA Founders
Day" to Rev. Robert Dawley (I.), PTA Council Third Vice President;
Mary Jane Potluccl (2nd r.). Council Second V i ^ President and Chair­woman
ol Founders Day; and Carol Klarikaitis (r.). Council Treasurer
and Hospitality (^airwoman for Founders'Day. The Annual Founders
Day, to t>e held this year al Dodd Junior High School, honors past
and present members. Each unit selects those to receive Honorary Lite
Memberships, Bi honor awarded Mayor Storm In the past.- *• -