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NEWSPAPER
43rd YEAR. No. 20 FREEPORT. NEW YORK. SEPTEMBER 14.1978 PRICE 15< PER COPY
Alternate Plan For Bennington Unveiled
BB Gun Accident Scalomanc/re Offers To Boy
Results in State ^^^^^^ 5^^^ ^^^ j } , 0 0 0 . 0 00
and Develop If Pr/vafe//
FREEPORT- Local businessman and builder Fred Scalamandre this
week announced that he is submitting to the village Board of Trustees a
proposal for the^velopment of the 12 acre Bennington Park site. Sale
of the village-owned land to "Two Guys," a discount department store
b under consideration by the village board and will be the subject of a
Safety Campaign
FREEPORT - A statewide safe­ty
campaign on the use of BB and
pellet guns is being launched by
the Nassau Civic Qub. The
campaign, club executive director
Joel Robinson explained, is a
direct result of a recent accident __
in Freeport in which a ten year old ;. pub'urmeetTng'to'be announced
youth was shot m the_eye by _a BB sometime in the future.
fervr^
BOAT SHOW STARS are two Ixjats sponsored by Freeport's Lake
' Yacht Sales. One, shown above, is a 46-f6Qt Bertram, described by
. Charles PJgadis (l.),'presidenti]f Lake's, as a fantastic '{fishing ma­chine;"
The other is a 46-foot Hatteras- Pigadls and The Greater New
, York Boat Show'sr.'FIrst Mate,'.' Nancy Myricfcs ot Huntlngton.wlll t>e
on hand for the four day-show In Freeport. All the latest models from
more than 75'of the world's leading boat manufacturers will be on dls-
"'fplay, in-the-water, at thai town of Hempstead's Guy Lombardo Marina
on September 14-17. ,,
Big Boat Show This Week
FREEPORT - For the second successive year. Freeport and the Town
. of Hempstead will host the Greater New York Boat 5how. Described by
its sponsor, the Marine Trades Association of New York, as "New
York's numb^ one in-the-water boat show," the event will continue
•'- thrpugh a four day period at the town's newly named Guy Lombardo'
—Warina,-jat 4he-foot ot-GuyJjontL.
"^^Garrodvoe SAtrveeentu).e _ (formerly South
/ The show will be open to both
the general public'and the trade
"beginning 12 noon ' Thursday.
.;S.eptember 14. Show hours are
noon—to—9 -pm—Thursdays—aiuL.
Friday (September 14-15); 10 am
to 9 pm Saturday. September 16;-
and noon to 7 pm Sunday.
September 17. General admission
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gun._ Dr. Norman O. Stahl. an
opthalmologbt and surgeon af­filiated
with Lydia E. Hall Hospit­al
in Freeport. was called in to
treat the youth—Brian Pope, a
resident of the village-^and sub­sequently
announced that he will
be forced to remove the eye
because the^ damage was too
extensive.. • -••;'• •-''('' ' -- •-
Dr..Stahl. who is noted for his
advanced techniques in the treat­ment
of cataracts, is a member of
the Nassau Gvic Qub, which he
contacted. He disciissed the ac­cident
with club president Louis
L. "Levine, former Industrial
Commissioner of New York State:
and the executive director; and
Community Relations director.
The three men agreed with Stahl
that the dangers in tRe use of BE
guns is a situation which exists
Village Expects Another $2jMillion
FREEPCTRT - This village
should receive «eariy $2 million
in federal funds during the next
-three years imder a Small Cities
Conununity Development Pro­gram
grant, locals Congressman
Norman Lent announced .today.'
Lent said that the Department of
Housing andUiban lifrelopment.
had approved Freeport's prelimi-„
naiy application for the commnn--
ity development grant. Altiiough
final certification of the grant is'
still needed, HUD officials told
Lent the-grant was V99.9%
assured." " ]_'• •
The HUD program will provide
tinee equal grants'of $650,000
eadi daring the next three years..
ymage officals plan to use the
funds to assist in the ongoing
; /^(ConCo^Pagelii •;--•'[
iacross the state"
.action. Levine. who is chairman of
the Greater New York Safety
Council, expressed concern that
in a little over two months there
had been two children reqiiiring
eye surgery and eye removal; a
third child was killeid; and another
required treatment for - a leg
-wound, all caused by BB guns.
Nassau Civic Club o£Eicial$
agreed that ' ~ ' —"^
- Scalamandre. who with h'ls
brother Joseph Scalamandre was
involved in the ' building and
developing of parts of the Free-port
Industrial Park, the building
of the South Bay Condominium on
Casino Street. rehabUitation of
Salty Bay Yacht Club, and
numerous other projects in the
village and in Nassau County, has
for some^time expressed interest
in that land. -
- The plan, as submitted by the
Scalamandres, is in their own
words — "based on the concern
that the land can be used to its
maximum capacity to give the
village of Freeport a high tax
return for the undeveloped land."
The pro'posal is for the "outright
purchase'' of the land for approxi­mately
SI million dollars, the sum
mentioned by the Village "Board
requires—as 'ui tlie area of the-^Two Guys^
proposal. The land would be lued
for "light 'mdustiy, xommercial-retail.
a car wash and a two story
building extension on the now
existing BOCES building located
on Merrick Road." Scalamandre
_also sent the board a plot plan and
a rendering of one section of it'.
This ren'd^ing is reproduced in
this issue-of THE -LEADER on
The buildings shown
a major, campaign _£age one.
was required. Dr. Stahl was asET^-^o^ house. Scalamandre pUns,
light industtial ,or commerdal
uses. Fred Scalamandre meni
him for-development.
In figures the Scalamandres
submitted to the board, they
claimed that their proposal would
use approximately 204.200 square
feet for the bu'ildings. The "Two
Guys"' store, they said, would
require 110,000 square feet with
the "possibility" of an additional
34,000 square-feet for a food
maricet. Scalamandre pointed^out'
'that.it is-his Understanding that
food markeu'"are very reluctant
to locate in this area."
Projections done' by Scala­mandre
on the ; approximate
assessed valuation were also in­cluded.
They were'ifigurcd on a
formula used by Nassau County.
In the Two Guys proposal. Scala- "
mandre said the assessed valua-fipn
of the department store
would be $330,000 and of the food
market. S102,000. The total
valuation would bring the village
$144,720- in uxes,. The—Scala—
mandre plan of 204.200 square
feet would bring $205,221 in taxes
or $60,501 more than the ^'Two
Guys" proiwsil if there is a food
market and ^94.761 more if there
was no food market.
In al^second proposal to the
village board, Scalamandre refers
to the fact that the village itself
might want more input in hbw the
land is to be developed. In this
proposal. the Scalamandre
:Jo.: serve "as chairman of the Company woold be a developer in
- Committee to promote safe^imd^ ^ 5 , rn:a o«"am«jare m«.-^_^,,iv^^^,H,h^ . „ , „ , , - ^M
call f « stronger parental contror yoned to THE LEADER that he'-*^5^^'^^,'2S^«^;" " ^ .
over.BB guns. If necessary the luuj received interestfrom several PandiascoutnghtUie two or three
-club will also, s^k passage of { S f l ^ ^ S S S s w h o - . ^ "T^^^k^ '^!&
statelegisUtion. /- _ >ishbd to relocate to tiiat P r o - ^ ? ^ j - , ^ * ™ , ? ^ ^
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desirts to be part of tbe complex..
Scalamandre-wpold jtend to Uie-
-vOIage. details' of the' pbsnble
compiSy (type of bonness. Imild-ing
ietcjnf tbe villagiet sf-ereelqsu tiiruet- -
meots for the use of the land,'the
:Sralainandrr ~ fVimpanr'^'wwild
-S^ ^litlfl^JfTfly
of bndBron the nllageiieedeiHo
erect a building for the company's
tue. At thaMiaie-tbe t^d ttoaU
be pnrdiased and pot on the tax
role. - ,
In Scalamandre's first jrian.
the land is immediately put on the
tax role. BOCES. aldioagh an
eduQttional facility.: wctaW^not
own its buDding but would lease
it from Scalamandre.'
Scilamanrire'y^aanonBcetnent
came tbe day following a village
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