The-Leader_1977-09-01

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FREEPORT
BALDWIN
ROOSEVELT
MERRICK
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NASSAU CTY HISTORICAL UUSSUK
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IIEWSPAPER
42nd YEAR NO. 18 FRFFPORT^EW-YORKT^EPrEMBER4T-i9?7- 4»RIGE15«»ER^0F1^
Primary Day fUD Zonlttg Revised Tp
September 8 FitrtherEievelopmenf
MINEOLA - Primary voting day
tilts year is lliursday, September
8. AO the poUbg places will rer
main open tills year from 6 am
to9pm
There are primaries on the Re-poblican,'
Democratic ^ and Con-sfcrvative
lines for Nassau County
Bcccutiye. On the GOP line; pre­sent-
County Executive Ralph
Caso battles Hempstead' Town
Presiding Supervisor Francis
Parcel] and State Senator John.
Dimne fbrthe designation* On the
t-Oetzmcratic 11^, 'Assemblyman ^
" frwlftlXwidcs"' and' Pawd Petrez
TMEmvou:EY»PAYOFP.TnBt)p«nvoii«yt»npi«yaiu»4-r«eppn- ^ fighting for the right to'be
Recreaticm-Cefttef, atarteifctwo y«araaoo<>n.TiMad«y-^ih»«tM««f»--: Tffiat^^^ be«er;
« . . »^ U.^^^^ o l ^ »r„«hu imm th« M««..^vw,nf^P«l*4 mt«if*l^ CbiisitVSVe' fegi^d ^ v S
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ttrpphyATtimJii9Na$a»uXkHur&P^kit^^
THEm VbUlEvllpAY OFF. Thffopen volley tsi»»t>i«y at iKaf r«eport
Recreattofr-CefTter, atartetktaro yaara. ago on Ttia
avl|Pdin*Miwmlplie«.trpphyJrom.t|>oNd»a«uX_ _
oam«^hd iflialn^f orUy^fwo; Pkitured; tJOttom rwf».:0^.tor.y are Andy -" /"an^^-amatm.. .
Qnierwf»ft, Joanne &nfillp(»; Sue DJnovanm
Indti/tohyflrtTFtBeixW School Dtttrlof Clerti RiiM
mrffiifiF^KjCtidsf^ the Freepbrf Polios Oepartmenra clerical
office and Betty' Narahlo. Ml»«ihgigre-teMv>iemi>er8. Nancy Delsoir^
MarkGfrtjeyandjrDmSJisa; - r - /^v^ %^ ,: • ' •'.
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FREEPORT • Although dose to 100 people attended the viDage
Board of Trustees public hearing oh %hafigbg the zoning of the Nonh
Main street; Monday iiight, there were few disagreements with the
oncept,..Mgt_rfj^fi pTtwrnt wif^r^ qi«g«i*«« f..- ^1^,^^.^^^*.^—„y^-
' commented onthe iieed for a buffer between lesidendal and com­mercial
properties and for stricter •'
code enforcement."
. After" everyone who was prcr
sent and wanted to speak (lid so,
the Board voted unanimously, to
change the village ordinances to possible
eliminate ' the -Planned . Dtdt' atlh^.
Development Pistrict (PUD Zone)
jn the uppet half of-l^orth Main
. Street'; and • ihs^t^ted- zoning
difngoi that 'would' esitabUsh a
" Service Bnsbios'(SB)'zbhe fear the
. rest" of the •' street. > Properties
adjoiMog North Mainv^treet
. ^ete tezooed from: P^D Secwid-ary,
bnmut cases to'RciMeiice
White explsihed'to .tlI<»e'pre-
• - sent ^tlut^ua^FJUD zoning; was
adc^ted hi 1972 ahd that «be ex­pected
development of tb< area
and a buffer'zone, but: that the .
restrictive zoning had: prevented
interest ftom^culijJn-,
y^ite pointt^ but ^t.to.zoneL
for liucuiy 'apartment .'hoastt. as
the B M ^ had d(mi^lnj$72^ does,
^ot guaranteesiidi d^lopmest*
The first qiiestbh came teem
rSaflnt>ttebard Higgs, of-fjeO'^
iutfd Avenue, wbci expt^ied.coa-.
qixn^^tMtWSi prope^'Cw^^be
taifcn away' «--it^ value wbiild
decrease. The mayor ej^Ialned
that the village had oofaitentkm
of condemning anjr proper^ and
tiiat the tezonlng cnfld' poliaps
liHiepoit^ Public $ch06ls
KMpMyBHera
nevermat^ialized; The changes enhance property valnwt oh' the
were proposed t^.the village's -residehti^ streets as weQ as.the
FREEPORT - Unlike inost otfiet.school districts In Nassau Coiinty,
-thfrFre^tort-psbBe-scbools are not faced with probleiiB of decteasmg^
enrollment and-nndemtiliz^sdiool bnHdirigs; Wbeh flie sdibbls open
MINEOLA - Nassau County
Qerk Harold McConneU ofBdally
announced this week the perman-^
ent dosing oftlie Freeport branch'
office of the Motor Vehicle
tiureau. Located on West Merrick' «
Road, the office will close effec- ^
pUm^g'consultant firm becaose.-
iiiquities bad been, tecdved in-dicating
- interest in the are <.by
prospective developers fOT (enter­prises
not allowed under, thei PUD
.zoningi During the hearing it was -
poiht«i out that the Zoning Board
of Appeals had allowed variances,'
with Tcqulrementa far aefthetica
commercialsitea.
Louise Simpson, of Colonial
Avenue, speaking (or Contxmed
Neighbors; requested that zoning
ciianges be done in a less hap­hazard
maimer and that the com­munis
be consulted about jguide-lines
n>r future development. She
•? (Cont^onPageM)
district'* seven public sdiools. This figure doies not indude the four'
year oollddss^ in t'h e district's pre- ^
kindergarten • program at . the
Early Childhood Center in the
aevelimd' Avenue School. Last
years 'enrollment figures -saw
school begin vrtth 7,562 children. -
Archer Street School, whidi
houses 1-4, wiQ have 635 stu­dents;^
Atkinson School will have
1,160/^Gfth and: azth graders;
Bayvicw Avcnoe, Sdiool's "first
igh_fiMrtli__^ades,_j525i.
Cohn5bns'Avcnae~S3i6oI's 'im-~
dergarten and grades one
throng^ fbor-WiUhave 805 child­ren;
Giblyh Sdiool; vdth grades
one through- four, 670; Dodd
Junior High Sdiool (grades 7-8),
1,330; and Freeport High Schbc^,
2^530 students. -
"IWvoCartfnBy"
—-—^Ihe" .villagers Pcfice Depart­ment
is partictpating in tbc
Antomobile Onb of New York's
- - t a i m a l - "Sdiod'a Open - —
D r i v e Careftdly" camwign. Free-.
port Fb&e Cnmmliwner David
'-Meehan "^aid Ida department
wxjutf'be~ idodating the". AAA
, '.*SdJooi'»; Open" posters ; on
street pdes to hdp raotectthe
• Bvea-. of Reepotra sdiool
ageyoungstexs-
ITlnndTrds of rtindrm witl he
tivp i h ^ gnrt trf thf hiit<r»^« Hyy
Friday^septembCT^. j^_ '.
many for the first time,-'" the'
Conunissionersaid. "VHule your
poUce ' officers, and' crossing
guards win be on duty at school
crossings, many duldren will be
crossing at unprotected comers or
may step off the.sidewalks be­tween
parked cars.' Motorists
should be especially careful when
driving in sdiool areas-and-near
rparks=:.and^pIaygTOuidf.:^:SpNn;4-
should . be regnlAted to allow
ample'margin for a sudden stop
ahtmld one be necessary." '
The Commlssidner called.
special attention to the New York
State U:9r that requires all vehi­cles
to stop whien meeting or over­taking
a school bos stopped with
its flashing red lights mdicating
that &e driver is picUng op or
disdiarging passengers. _ _
Bus Sorvice
CARLE PLACE - The Freeport
to Jamdcaj(H4) roote of the Met­ropolitan
Soburiian Bos Authority
(MSBA) wJQ be improved begin­ning
Sunday, Septmber 4, wiiea
the MSBA's mrw fall srhednle
walking to and: from school, goes into effect.
- The MVB's decision to shut its
Freeport brandi was forecast in
last week's issue of THE LEA­DER,
which also printed a letter
from the Freeport Chamber of
Commerce urging' the Bureau to
remun in Freeport.
Village Mayor William White
told THE-LEADER Tuesday
- that he would be meetiiig Friday,
^Septembcr-2,. with^ifcConneli-and
a representative of County
Eiecntive Ralph Caso's office 'to
discuss the matter. "I wdll see
what can be done to keep the
Motor Vehide Bureau here,'!
White-said, "not only Cor the-benefit
of the dtizcns of this vil­lage
wiio use its services, but for '•
the benefit of the village as a
whole." The Mayor explu&ed
thit the village is active in altract-
. ing people here^^who win remain
to shop fa village_dtarea.- "if
100,000 people s t ^ at the MVB
eadi year," he said, "we would
fike them to cnntinne to come to
Freeport."
White comuKnted titat the
- Bureau need not mnain in its
present location; tbetc are otiier
_Jg!gtktta in the villagt that cnnld
satisfy its needs.
BREAKINO GROUND. Freeport'a Mayor Wintam White (sedsnd from
. r.) Joins Hempstead Town Presiding Supervisor Francis Purceli phlrd
from I.J and membera of'the Gemco-Ware^ Inc. firm (n cerunonlea
breaking ground for a.new expanded QemcorWare plant in the lndu»-
trtaJ Park in Freeport^The company, which manufactures kitchen
ware, dedded lo sxpan'd Jrom a 50.000 square foot fadllty to a new
120,000 square foot plant instead of moving out of state. The expansion
. win not only save 75 existing iobs, but adds 75 new ones to the payroll.
Participating In this cerannonles ere Q. to r.) Oemco-Wafe president
Walter ScMessel; Mrs, Schiesset; Purceli; GemcO'WarB Vlie.President
Murray Jay; While; and Hempstead Town industry'artd Commerce
•Commiasiony Roy Cacdatore. a Freepoft resident, whoea department
7~coordinatedth*e:^»islonprojecL . • •. - T^"