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NASSAU CTY HISTORICAL UUSEUU
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.41stYEARNo.24 FREEPORT, NEW YORK, OCTOBER 7,1976 PRICE 15« PER COPY
SchdoiPistriGt Is Served Court Order
Holiday Schedule Those "Unable fo Pay"
For Village Seeic Legal Acfion^
_ -^ _. . • FREEPORT-The Frecport School District was one of five defend-
• FREEPORT - There wUl be no ants named in a show cauSe order which they received last week
cu.rb^de: trash pickup _Wednes-, andjvhlch JMlLbc the subject ota Board ofEducaHoh special meeting
day.MJctobcr—13r^uo-to-tho—Wcdm!sdayrGctobcf-6r*ti5^m,-atdVUUns6FSchoblt^ahis-mcctteg--
Columbus day holiday on Mon­day.
The next trash pickup will'
be October 20. .
AU village offices will be
closed Monday, October 11 and
the Board of Trustees will riot
meet that evening. On Monday,
berl 8rthe^BQardTrtll-meet~
at 7:30 pm in open voting session
and hold'« public ..meeting at-
9 pm. Both sessions will 5e held ]
in the Main Conference Rbom'of.
VUlageHall. - - : ; > . ' - . \
will take place after this issue of THE LEADER is printed, but details
will be carried next week.)
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The order, signed by Judge
Albert A. Onpldo on September
28, asked tne Freeport School
District, along with the Port
Washington and Island Trees
are invoking the equal protection
under the laws clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment; claim­ing
that those who are uriahle
to pay the;fees charged by school
School Districts, to shoNv cause ^^^istricts-pn-ansterityr-forrtn^
" A.fjfTlN61*6tB*BonJM*pCirter^:W tfhw^ for^hta'co9tyirnes..by .
1;.BarlTara Krrby.r *m]!e— hlii' 'wife^: Qot^le.keeps tifir'eyd ;dn .things.
.. MaciG^rtefvlms^tMdCng.paLrt^n t%Jiv:pRoh<.C^ .
-'presentation<)f :th.&^e6rBe°GerBhvvin BroadwayJiit muslQal,.VQf Thee
•I SiriQ;^! which wiilb^ presented'at Freeport Hfgti School Noveniber.5. •-
'.6,'12^d ;i3.':Tleketa for all seataV which areteserved, will be $2.50 for
'students t^d'senlor citizens and $3.50,fQr-aU others- Call 623-2188 for
.: ticketsor«KilBnjj'>nemberoHlw««t;^ V .- /
FREEPORT - iSvp yiljage residents ,4ppeaircd before''the Village
! Board of Tpistees, Monday evening at the public meeting, td ,cbmpl^
totiie Board that they were'told they'had to use the Village-autborized
; omtraHrtoir-for .curb installatioris rather thanliheir. own. RobusteOo.:
they said, was charging S4 a foot, whAe their own contractor, Vallone.
/wasastojfbnlyMafoottbputin . .- - ;• '^ ^•: • :^ ~ > . > yX-'\'
: the'; curbs - which' ;««ne>: man- '
dated by the Vinageai$j)art of.:
• street improvements.' •"•• /,
.- Villjige Cleric Tom De Vmcenzo ^
-explained that "the dectsioh to
deny the residen|5' requests had
been made whQ&.he was out of •
the ofiice for a few' days and"
ste'nimed'from .the contract the .
Village . had with*.' Robustello •
whidi prevents more than-one-
. contractor from working'inTan -
area at-thf' same time. Th? •
. amount of curbing worit~ a con-.
. tractor was promised when be bid
on the; job was; only an «sfi-
- mate, De Vincenzo explained.,
Mayor. William Whitg^told the
\.residents' that there was no
,• questidn in his mind that "if
- your own contractor wants to do"
the job, he should." Because one
of the residents; who said he
represented his entire block of
Forbes Place, explained that the
village notices to do the curbs
-went out "just 15 days before''
the date it had to be'done,. White
- lengthened the time they would
have to do the job with their own
contractor. "We cannot getthose
; . notices out that la.te,"." White
. said, and he told Ithe Villager
Eii^ecr, Walter Pope,-to tell
Robustello not to do cither
Forbes Place or Locust. Place
until after the ten day extension.
: Open Voting Session
A short open voting session
^rilif
preceded the 9 pm-public meet- '
irig. The Board approved a 2,000
gallon jgas tank to be used try the ;
U-Haul;It .operation -on Ncilh _
Main" Stoeeti The .'area is T»ned :
Business "B.;' ^, .^; i > .
A request was. approved, to
obtain s(^ed bids;for Grading
and on-gqinjg-maintenance for
the. Bennington Park;yrban Re-peyalProject.
.- . -
. Thepfoposal for advertising for -
the Cable TV which had been
passed at th'e Village Board meet­ing
of September 27.was incor-rt^
y worded and 60 days-would
he heeded for the response
of bids' from the printing of the
proposal. . " r
Michael Kirwan, the village's
Director of. Human Relations,
who had been on coiitract was
now put on a permanent basis
as a village employee.
State Commends
School Program
FREEPORT-.-Jrhe.school dis­trict's
industrial arts programs
recently received a commenda­tion
.from-Dr. aifford Lloyd,
Associate-Supervisor of the.
Bureau of Industrial Arts Educa­tion
in the State Education
(ContionPagell)
; ROCKVnXE GENTTIE - The
Freeport . Family Community:
Center |s one of four ^Nassau
County agencies to receive; new
grants from the 'Rockville Centre "
diooesan Humsin" Development
Office for -local ,self:heip pro- -
j e c t s ^ . : " . . ; V ; ; . ^••;', •.. -,_.
• <Jrants, were also approved for
the-Central PTassau Children's
Center; the Families United for
a Black future Thrift Shop and
the; Big • Brothers/Sisters of
. Nassau County.
;.The Sl,400. grant for the Free-port:.
8gericy was approved for a
van wfajch will be osed to trans­port
people to services they could
: nototherwiiereaJch. '
5 Out
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For Two Hour«
FREEPORT - Several hundred^
Freeport riesidents were without
elecfric power for two and a half
hours Sunday morning when the
rubber.tie wire connecting Power
Plant Two and a substation broke.
Freeport Electric Department
crews worked at the. substation,
on MUl Road and South Main
Street, to restore power to the
customers of the South Main
Street and Colony Park areas, as
as far west a^ Gariield Street.
The outage occured at 10:02
am and power was restored at
12:15 pm. Radio Station WGBB,
whose transmission station is on
the comer of Atlantic Avenue and
South Main street,"was unable to
'transmit from 10:03.am to 12:42
pih, according to Station Manager
'Robert Lawrence. y '\
Village soured explam^ that
the wire that broke was "
posed to. be guaranteed
lifetime."
why people in their communities,
"too poor" to pay the fees set for
.instructional supplies and "fin- .
andally. unable to pay these
.tee$. should not re<xive the same
'supplies and equipment as the
rest of the children. ..
—~Named<'«i>^'^l«feadaats-7akHig—
with - the threp school 'districts,
..are; the.'State Comroiss^ner of
Education Ewald . NygiiUt; and ;
:.. Nassau :^Coanty's;Cdmmissl6ner
of Social Services Joseph D'Elia..
". The five petitioners, -; three • of'.
•- whom reside in Freeport, one In
Port Washington and one in'Is­land
TreeSi are; attempting .to ,
sue.in a class action, representing
all those in the district financially
: onable to pay the fee iand who
"are penalized'because of their'
- h i a b i l i t y . " - • ;: •; < • : "
; The hearing.on the order, will
. be held October 18 and the defen­dants
niust^reply about a.-week
before that date; Freepoft School
Board m e m b e r Joseph
• McAndrews requested the spedal
meeting to discuss the . issue.
: Thp next regular, public Board of
Education meeting will be Octo­ber
20.
According to a School District
' source, if this petition is granted
and if the supplies needed in the
' classrooms cannot'be distributed
"under ; an . "aiisteri^" budget
under State Education Law^ .the
district will be "hoisted'oh its
ownpetard." • _ -
The petitioners, who are
^^represented by / the Nassau
County Law Servites Committee,
structional supplies,^ are denied
an equal opportunity for, an edu­cation.
While Port Washington and
Freeport are two.of the seven
Nassau County districts on aus­terity
this year. Island Trees had
passed its s<;hool __budget,; Jbut_
subsequently hiTri "hilled' ttie^".
.parents.;bftiie students for cer-taiii
itdtns they had not included;
Inthelrbudget.:?: . ;;. v^ •"
Meetlns With btiipr Districts
• Fre?pon' Board of : Education
President • Harold , Levine, had
^alltid a - meeting of the other
school districts faced with aus­terity
.which was held last Thurs­day,
September 30. Present at the
meeting were: representatives
from Freeport, Hempstead, Wan-tagh;
North Bellraore, Roosevelt
and Levittovyn; as well as Dr.'A.
Buell Arnold, Assistant. State
Commissioner of Education;
State Senator Norman Levy and
his aide, Marcia Corsi; and Dean
Skeles, representing the office
of Assemblyman Joseph Mar-giotta.
Republican , Leader of
the County. ..
Icvine called the meeting
"an extfaordhiaiy!' one in which
the school districts discussed the
various ways they were coping
with' austerity. Most' of the
school districts, Levine said, had
already sent .out, bills. The
"common denominator," he
commented, was that "no school
. district, would do anything to
isolate a child or to hurt him
scholasttcally." •
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TURNING THE UGHT8 BACK ON, members of the Freeport Electric
sop- DeMrfment were at wofk, this past Sunday morning, repairing a
for a^^i3token wire which caused a two and a half hour blackout of a portion of
southeast Freeport. . ". . - (A LEADER photo)