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Honoring Freeport's
Women of Distinction
page 9
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SEP 30.2011
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76th Year The Community Newspaper Thursday, September 29, 2011 750
Red Devil gridders are 3-0!
FREEPORT 49, SYOSSET 21: Star quarterback Isaiah
Barnes. prepares for battle (left). Below, coach Russ
Cellan offers encouragement to his charges after the
Syosset game. For more, see Sporting Devils on page 8.
photos by Linda Hendrickson
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Residents discuss comptroller's audit at Freeport board meeting
by Jim Golding
Monday's Newsday story about the
state comptroller's audit report on the vil-lage's
general fund budgets under the
Glacken administration brought com-ments
from several residents attending
that night's Board of Trustees meeting.
The report charged that the "previous
administration provided inadequate
financial oversight and failed to properly
safeguard village assets."
Stephen Malone, former deputy village
attorney under the Glacken administra-tion,
asked why Mayor Andrew Hardwick
"didn't point out 12 independent audits"
that had been done under the previous
mayor.
Bill Nolan suggested appointing an
oversight board for village finances in the
future. He called the comptroller's audit,
as reported in Newsday, "vague."
Sharon Payne said that, while she did-n't
know if the deficit amount of $10.8
million reported in the newspaper was
accurate, she commented that "It doesn't
look good...We need to investigate this. I
feel personally offended." She also
appealed for the entire community "to
work together on the issues."
Several residents, including Eileen
Weaver, Stephen Malone and Dewey
Smalls, had high praise for Department of
Public Works and Electric Utility
employees for their quick response to
correcting problems caused by Tropical
Storm Irene.
Ms. Weaver said the crews were
"extremely efficient and active" and
responded quickly to remove a downed
tree in her neighborhood on Lena Avenue.
Mr. Malone also praised DPW employ-ees
for restoring power quickly, but com-plained
about the large number of reverse
911 calls and public service announce-ments
he received from the village.
Mr. Smalls expressed concern that he
had not noticed representatives of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency
in Freeport to deal with storm-related
issues, but Mayor Hardwick confirmed
that FEMA officials did come and that
they would be present in the village for
"six months to a year."
Mark Rouvella asked that village offi-cials
help expedite flood damage insur-ance
claims. Village Attorney Howard
Colton explained that Nassau County has
set up a claims center to expedite the
process.
James Caracciolo expressed apprecia-tion
to the mayor "for the great job your
team is doing." He cited another article
from Monday's Newsday about a new
museum and new retail shops planned for
Freeport and the board's recent actions on
approving bonding for capital projects
that would be eligible for partial or total
reimbursement from grants. "This is why
you're here," he said. "Our quality of life
is improving."
Anthony Miller raised the issue of bul-lying
of young people and asked that the
village promote an anti-bullying cam-paign
"so we can teach young people
greater tolerance and to encourage our
youth to celebrate each other no matter
what their differences are." He urged that
it not be done for political reasons or self-promotion,
but "do it for the kids."
continues on page 3
NAMES MAKE THE NEWS: Read about your neighbors! - 51 local people's names were in your community newspaper this past week. Maybe yours is in this week! See inside.
Summary of the
comptroller's audit
page 3
Attempted murder
in Baldwin
page 5
Residents speak at
community forum
page 7
Sporting Devils
page 8
Object Description
| Rating | |
| Title | 2011-09-29 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L & M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2011 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | |
| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | This digital image may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image is permitted without written permission of the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W. Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520 or email: frreference@freeportlibrary.info |
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