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51st YEAR. No. 15. .
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Set for Freeport Primary
intments
In Baldwin District
PeflHon Cha/lenges
Denied for GOP Races
FREEPORT - One hundred candidates will be vjing for 52 spots as
Republican committeepersons in the Freeport zone when Primary Day
rolls around on September 10.
The names of the candidates have been released by the two sides in
an unusual political conflict. Their petitions were filed on August 11
and Both sides had the right to
Dollar Days
Sale This Week
FREEPORT - For the, 57th
year, Freeport merchants will
conduct their annual Dollar Days
sale, but with several innovations
The • "no!»rf bigger and better"
event will tun "four super sale
days,',' -^ on Wediiesday, July
31, and Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, August X-3 ~ and will
be capped off with a Sidewalk
Sale on Satiirday.
Many stores throughout Free-port
ate joining the Freeport Mall
merchants in providing special
sales for the^ customers. - .
Freeport's Famous Dollar Day.
Sales have been attracting both
village residents and out-of-lowners
for more than a half-
. centuiy. Plentyj)f free parJLing in
municipal parking fields is
promised for. those who drive
from far or near, and of course the
Freeport Mall is open for stroll­ing,
particularly on Sidewalk Sale
Saturday.
Fishing Event
For Youngsters
FREEPORT - A Snapper Festi­val,
sponsored by the Freeport
Recreation- Department, will be
• held on Monday, August 26
(raindate August 27).
' Eligible resident boys and.
girls, ages seven to 12, must be
registered no later than Tues­day,
August 20. There will be a
SI registration fee.
Registration will take place at
the Freeport Recreation Center,
Monday to Saturday, 9 am-4 pm.
A parent must accompany the
participant to the registration.
A card will be issued at regis­tration
which must be presented
at the Festival.
Fishing will take place at the
Town of •'Hempstead Guy Lom-bardo
Marina, foot of Guy Lom-bardo
Avenue. The seven to nine-year-
olds will fish al 10 am,
and the ten to 12-year-olds at
11 am. All youngsters will re­ceive
free caps, rods, bait and
refreshments. Trophies will be
awarded to the first, second and
(Conl. on Page 11)
Board Unanimously Okays
Wh'ife And Griggs
• BALDWIN -Two key administrative positions in the Baldwin School
District have been approved by the Baldwin Board of Education.
At its June 19 meeting, the Board voted unanimously to approve the
appointment of Raymond-"Duffy" While'as the Director of Health
Education, Health Services, Physical Edacatidh and Athletics, replac­ing
Dee Tyson; and at the July
17 meeting, the Board also unani-. County senu-profootball team.
mously approved the appoint­ment
of Gary Griggs to the posi­tion
of ^sistanl Principad at
Baldwin Senior High School.
Griggs replaces Saul Mines', who
retired, at the end of the past
school year..
White, a graduate of SUNY-Brockport,
received his Master's
degree from SUNY-New Palte.
Prior to ioinihg the Baldwin staff,
he was principal of Millbrook
(N.Y.) Junior-Senior High
School for three years, an ap­pointment
which followed three
years as assistant principal.
Along with his other duties
during that time. White also
served as the District Director
of Health and Physical Education.
White's bat^ground includes
11 years as a Health and Physical
Education teacher, the develop­ment
of a district-wide sex educa­tion
program,, the implementa­tion
of a time-management
study skills program for athletes
and the implementation of a dis­trict-
wide writing program. He
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Gary Griggs, the newly ap­pointed
Assistant Principal at
Baldwin Senior High -School,
received his undergraduate and
Master's Degrees horn Fordham
University, and his Professional
challenge during the next five
days. .
Two sets of petitions w-ere
subjected to specific challenges,
according to Commissioner ba­bel
Dodd of the Nassau County
Board of Elections.
Bradley Midgett, in the 64th
E.D. (I9th A.D.), a supporter of
present GOP Executive Leader
Ray Malone,'challenged the peti­tions
of Edward Harding and
Vincent Home, also running in
the Mlh E.D., but opposed to
and by Malone.
In the 76th E.D. (I8th A.D.),
Frank Smith and Jeannlne
Foilon, the "insurgents," were
challenged by Malone supporter
- Dennis Flauraenbaum, who is
1 running for committeeman in
that election district.
Ms. Dodd explained the chal­lenges
had been made on specific
technical'. grounds, but were
denied and the petitions were
all ruled valid.
The next step, said Dodd, is the
drawing for places on the ballot.
Each committeeperson candidate
will draw separately, and those
• rulining in support of one . side
may tioi all be found on the same
line in another election district.
It is also possible that the two
candidates who are "running to­gether"
in a specific E.D. could
draw different lines.
.As Ms. Dodd explained it.
voters going to the ^lls in the
primary could be confuieii.
The vote is also not ^ usual
occurrence. In fact, this year's
primary will see such party
"fights" only in one election dis­trict
in Massapequa Park, one in
Hempstead, and the- Freeport
districts.
But the Board of Elections
Compiissioner noted these pri­mary
elections do cost the taxpay­ers
money. Pointing out that in­spectors
(and there are four of
them at each E.D.) receive $60 for
the day's work, as well as addi­tional
compensation for time
spent at orientation, and that the
machines and . polling ' places
(e.g. schools) must be rented^
Dodd still called the primary part
of the election system.
The Freeport primary battle
actually begun in the March \-il-lage-
wide electipn when a former
GOP Leader, then committee-inan,
Fred Hager, challenged
Dorothy Storm's bid for election.
Hager barely beat Storm back at
the first Republican caucus and
(Ccni.cn Page 16) , •
Raymond "Duffy" White
also has eitensi\-e experience in
coaching such sports as foot­ball,
basketball, baseball and
girls' Softball, and has been a
. player/coach for the Dutchess
Gary Griggs
Diploma from St. John's Univer­sity.
He comes to Baldwin from
the Heinpstead School District
where he served for 11 years as a
Social Studies teacher, coordina­tor
for the District Alternative
School and assistant principal at
Hempstead High School.
During his six years as as-
' sistant principal, Griggs served
as a subject-area specialist for
the' Home-Economics, Social
{Studies, Industrial Arts, Art
'and Vocational education Depart­ments.
He also developed and
administered a comprehensive
program of career education in
the middle and high schools,
and has served as a coach and
advisor for various activities.
Griggs has been instrumental
in obtaining State and Federal
funds for vocational and technical
education programs and de­veloped
and implemented an
(Cent, on Page 8)
LIGHTS ON FOR FREEPORT. Mayor Dorothy Stoim (seated, i.) and
LILCO Vice Preiident of Corporate Planning Adam Madsen (sealed, I.)
sign theconliaci which entitles LILCO' to purchase from Freeport up
to 23,000 Kilowatts 0/ electricity until October 31. A similar option is
„pen lor the period May 1 to October 31, 1986. Under the agreement,
Freeport plants will generate power to be sold at cost to LILCO. The
benelit to the Village is that LILCO must allow use of its ((ansmissfan
lines to brina low<osl hydropower to Fieeoortconsumers. Forecasts of
suppiy and demand fjr eieciricny jn Ljng Island have pujecied shjri-ages
wis summei and even m^re seveie jnes next summer, 1986, and
LILCO had wai ned ihat the It ansmission usage migtii be cut. But meet-rngs
begun in the spring brought about the puichase plan. Looking on
at ihe coniiact signing aie Robert Ashbuin (I.) of Li/cq^nd Freepoit's
Acting Supeiinlentlent of Electiic Utilities William Cominos (i.).