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FREEPORT. tiWfi YORK. MARCH 14.4985
'49th YEAR. No. 47 ?'
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Freeportinlkige Vote On
Jkildwin S(q^Nal)n
Issue
19
Prover, vigiano C/ycfe Road Property
To Be Honored Sole Also On Agenda
Four Vie For Mayor^s Spot;
Two TrusieeSr Judge
Also tp^Bel Elected
FREEPORT • ViUage residents will be choosing a mayor, two trus­tees
and a village justice when they go to the polls Tuesday, March
19Ui. With six parties fielding a total of four slates and 14 candidates.
Voters mil have a long ballot.
Both the Republicans and Democrats are Irf the race with the Re­publican
candidates appearing o n ""
FREEPORT - A prominent
waterfront "mover of mountains".
•— underwater and on land •—
has been, named "Man of the
Year" by the Freeport Chamber.
. of Commerce.:—' - -
Al Grover; — boat builder,
"maiink owner, wee driver,, pro-
" raoterlof.Freeport's waters aiid
waterfront — will be honored at
the Chamber's annual installation
byJoanDtlantf
BALDWIN - There was something for everyone at the March 6lh
Baldwin Board of Education meeting. In a vote of 3-2 the Board de­cided
against implemeotingany extension of the kindergarteif'pro-gram.
yUso. on the agete^ was a discussion by the lawyer and builder
for Uie proposed Q ^ e Road development and residents present were •
abletoaskquesUons, Saperinten- • .' .
dent. Dr. RoDand Jones ' an- - bribed the deVafljof the devefop^-
npunced Ihe.'elimlnation of the ment,.which will be called Barclay
portion'rof the Humaii Relations Greens. The proposal calls for 13
a second line — the VillaEe
Party — and the Democrats afio
on another line — the Freeport
Party.
The Republicans will also be
facing another slate of "former
friends." The Home Rule-Party,
which last election fielded one
candidate, lionel Socolov, for
Village Trustee, is this year field­ing
a fulll slate.'-
Thenwo slat« — i.e. the Vil­lage
Party/Republicans .and the
Home Rule - Party/Republicans
batiled it out j in a. new-ttyle
bominatjng caiuctis with the Vic-candidate
Victor Cohen. V-individual
condominiums. The
8</> acre parcel would be sold
for S1.4 million, payable with
two-$70.0001inei-of credit (one; '
already signed and one to be
signed five days after the vote).'
At the dosing (estimated to be on
December, 1985) .the (Strict
would receive the'cash value of
these lines (f credit as'weU as'
an additional S280,0(X). The
of county,
and the
trustee omdidate running mates,
'Lionel Socolov and Ed Monroe,
narrowly todc the first caucus,'
but -when those results were
challenged and subsequently,
overturned ih a court of law; a
district w^oold then hold a three second Qaocus shifted the vicbny-year
mortgage of $980,000 pay- ^^ ^^^^j Mayor Dorothy Storm,
able qui^y,.with an uiteresfr ^^j^^ Ralph Smith and tnistee
(Cont.onPage12). -T .-:, - .
Al 8i Aril Grpver
dinner7dance to be held this year
on Saturday; March 23, at Salty
Bay Yacht Chib. ; '
Joining Grover as the recipient
of this year's honors is Alice
Vigiano, an active member of
Alice Vigiano "
the Freeport ladies' Auxiliary,-
who has been named "Woman of
;,, '.(Cont.QoPagea). ,,
Day at. the high school which - town house units jnnlaininB-96—t.vr'T-^rHI^ tobethe GOP line
w"c*iIdTuve dealt with the topic < J' '^ -• —^--•—•. •^- •
cf abortion because, of concern
for the safety of the students.
and. finally ,..adnurfsti»tor»-pre—
sented a report on the impact of
the Regents Action Flan, par­ticularly
at. the secondary level.
over the next two years. .
The Undergarten vote, attract­ing
many young parents, UnA.
place with each member of the
Board explaining his or her vote.
Board members William Ryan,
Robert Jordan _and.. Bernard
Pittinsky, voting in opposition to
the expansion, noted thai the
Reasons for their decisions were
the cost of the program as well
as their concern as tp whether this
expansion was, the besf educa-tfonal
respoSse to improved pro-
• gram at the elementary level.
Both Ira Matetsky and Lorraine
Deller outlined their support of
-the expansion. Matetsky spcfte of
. the question.in terms of educa­tion,
finances and priorities, not­ing
that in his opiniotr, the educa­tional
benefits outweighed the
disadvantages of cost. Deller, in
a half-hour" presentation, oat-lined
the history cf the. study of
kindergarten expaniion in Bald­win,
the research in the field,
her personal research on the
snbj^t, the finances of Baldwin,
land her decision that the expan­sion
represented "giving some­thing
back to Baldwin" for the
high taxes it pays.
Clyde Road
DeveUoprntnt _
- The presentation by the Clyde
Ro^ developers began the meet­ing
wilh many residents present
from the immediate affected area
in northeast Baldwin.
. , , .Uwj-?? Mifhi}Uj,De5ihip.des-complete
with use
facilities, moneys,
i-'eagle" symbol : -
Fred Hager., the Home Rule
mayoralty canffidatc,—and his — A final party,^n^mdependent
Storm/Smith/Cohen and Judge
Ralph Franco, running for re-nomination,
nr-ill appear on Rows'
B,— the Republican Party '^
and D—the Village Party.
Hager/Socolov/Monroe and
Charies Mchmtann, . candidate
for Vmaige Justice, n-ill appear on
Row C, the Home Rule Party.
lionel Souvenir is the candi­date
for mayor oh the Democratic
Party line. He and his running-inales,
.Ira J.. Schildkraut and
Michael .Marrin, who seek to
be elected trustees, will be on
Row A. for the Democrats,- and -
Row E, for.the Freeport Party.
They arejot presenting a judidal—
candidate.
local group new to' this jrear's
election, is-the Future Party.
"With Vincent Campion leading
the slate as the' cpmdidate for
mayor, he, and trustee candi­dates
Gorlon (Mow and Christina
Senkus, are on Row P.".
Voters may. cross~"pirly~lin'"es
.(Com. on Page 27)
NEW FREEPORT POLICE OFFICERS ara congratulated by Village Mayor Dorothy Storm (c). The
'nine new. members'of the Freeport Police Oef^ment took the oath of office at the Village Board
meeting Monday night, March 11. The rookies are 0. to r.) Philip Flood, Caesar Weekes. Timothy
-Seaman, Michael Quzowskl[Polic8 Capt. Dsvld Meehan and Mayor Storm] Richard Murray,
Bienvenido Andujar. Wayne Lester, Fidel Balan and Stephen Walsh. An additional two officers are to
be hired, bringing the force to a total of 85. five more than lathe pravh)us year's budget. The men
were hired from the 1977 CogiiTy list after Mayor Storm requested Its rac8rtlflcatlon.^t;ey.^lll be on
' limited duty until after their graduation from the Nassau Polite Academy, where the cJa^ starts In
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