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raEEPORT. NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 30.1982
47tbYEAR.No.23 ""
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TRIPt.E "A" ran 8AFETY.:.T1M Vl»ao«:of Fretfioft riotlved an.
AmsrJcaA Aulomobll* Auodailon (AAA) Safely ClUtlon, awarded to
communities where there riave been no pedestrtan deaths (or the past -
year. The award was presented by Leslie Q. Foschio (c.l. NMr York
State commissioner ot Motor Vehicles at • luncheon oereihoay held •
recently in WestciMstar County. Accepting the award ware t-reeport
Poiica UeulenanI Joseph Boland (I.) and Deputy Mayor Dorothy Storm
Pattbn Wins In Assembly Primary;
Judge Collins, Dorfman Also Victors
FREEPOBT/BALDWIN • Voters in this area went to the polls on
Primary Day Thursday. September 23 and. while In some instances
they apparently followed the state-wide voting trend, in other races
there were differences. But, one thing was dear; local residents fated
well with their neighbors as Family Oxtrt Jodfte Patricia D. Collins
of Freeport. in her primary bid to
Additional 24,000 Sq. Fi.
Includes Handicap Accesses
FKEEFORT •tlie vote was liglit. but tiie sentinieat was ovetwiielm-ingty
in Csvor of the Freeport Memorial libiary's proposed ezpansiod. '
Freeport sdwot/librsiy district voters went to tbe pods Wednesday,
September 29 and more titan 72% of tiiose voting cast "yes" votes
for a S U millioa bond issue diat wiD pay to canstmct and renovate
the oezt-door Imilding and tlie . -
present Ubraiyfadiity. " board "for tiie coorage of tBeir
The tetutl vote was 736 yes, convictiaos and Hie people of
and 391 no, for a total et 1,017 -fleeport for liaving bitii in tbeir
people at tliepoOs during tlie day., fmnre.'.'
In a polling, place (ndgfibor- Jeanette (Jadie)' Klempoer,
hood scfioob) breakdown of tiie prestdent of tlie libraiy Board of
'. vote, tlier». were 229 ves votes Thtstees. leniatked.. after/die
and aO'navbteatAit&f Street" vole.-teaiB'-^-^^^^--" —
Scfiool: 147 yes, 27 oo at ^^Ulin-\wen.wishers
son: 190 yes, 90 iw.at Bayview; Second floor,
. ISyes. 4noatCleveUnd; 36yes, ' "
3 no at Cdnmbos: and 116 .yes,
87QoatGibljnSdi0Qt.
Freeport Memorial library
director Jetry NidioU thanked his
win a line oa the slate (or election
to County Geott Judge, waa vic-toiious,
and Deiriocrats Barbara
Pattoa and Ahrln Docfman also
won their races.
Pattoo, the Democrat's con-venfloci
didce to ton for
Assembly in tbe new ISth A.O..
beat Carol HaU of.Rockville
Centre. She and fellow
Al Pottman, who sui .
were battling candidates backed
by idtm Kearse, Nassaa Coonty
EOC bead. Dor&naa, a 1 ^
Although the patties in the
Incident disagree SQtnewlut on
the facts, what Is dear is that a
court order signed by Justice Paul
VridUtz had-stipaUted that EOC
agendes were to keep their
oSices open on Ptimary Day and
tny employee taking the day oQ
should not be paid. Further,
Wldte had said that if EOC
citBSMis vioIated~Qrorda. they
would be held in contempt.
Apparently. Barbara Pattoo's
canq>aign forces wanted to be
Illegal Boarding
House Fined
FREEPORT • The owner of a
"one^amHy," wood-bame hoose
on Chordi Street is Freeport
has been fined a minimiMn of
S1.150 after a bearing in
Freeport'a AHUage Court deter­mined
that 21 petscms were
being tented rooms there.
The three-story boose at 154
Church Street is owned by HUda
FawU of 1402 Forest Aveinie in
Baldwin. At the order of
Freeport Village'* Bnildiog
OepMtmeat Soperintendent/ O.
RBIZ ' deZarate, - ten' stuninoosea
were.isMed^'to Msi'.'Fawh.'ia andSOoavotaatArefiefSttei^' vole,' te'tiis^ crowded rani
• Jo^ ^irheo>; the departmenV*
ImrMtigalWdetemiined that ate
wiia 'nuudng an illegal boarding
. hoinse, cootaiidng 2tpers6ns.
Accot^ng to a vtuage spdces-person,
tM bouse oootained
three bedrooms in its attic, one
r^^Sl^S*i School Committee Wrestles With
bathroom on'the second floor;
five bedrooms, two of which eadi-had
two beds and one with a
kitdten,- another kitchen and a
bathroom on the first door; and
two apartments, aac with a
kitcbeq, in the basement. The
property also has a garage
. which was bclog'^used oy two
.tenants.. ,
The sped&c tuminonses-issaed
Ho the property were for running a
boarding lioue in a one-famHy
dwelBng in a Resident "A"
District without appfying for the
necessary permit; for permitting
^uman occupancy of the two
apartments in the basement,
which were heated by ietoteae;
for snowing the occupancy of a
"how tfirimng tiiis
is." Slie extended aorolades
to former, loog-time libraiy direc-toc
Wil&ed Motin, wlia — sSe
(Cent, on Page 3)
Que'stion~Of Future Decreases
FREEPORT - A committee
of Freeport Scbocd Distiict
residents have met four times to
discuss and wrestle with tbe
pnMem of fiitsre decreases in
the district's student population.
none are' 'really eliminated.''
GJitioo I retains the present
.conngnratiao <rf grades and
buildfaigs. Optka n would dose a
building and create a compre­hensive
early cfaildbood prograQ
According to Superintendent of—(Kindergarten and pire-kinder
Schools John E. Bierwirth, the
volunteer comtnittcg member^'
who have attended each of the
past meetings have discussed
various optioiu, ranging {com no
firture school closings to dosing .
at least one school and adjusting
the grade level coofiguratlons
intheothers.
Prom tbe beginning. Dr.
-told—those—district
second floor room wi&out suffi- ^ ^_^
occupant; (or tenting for holing t^^jests. who answered a
to two people a garage. i ^ A has eistrirt-wide'csfl for committee
y ^ * . ** . » ° ^ » ^ ^ * ° ^ ' ' members, that neither the sdKxJ
for allowing the occupancy of the ,dn^,j«ratk« nor the school
gsrten) at a single ste. It would
retain a fifth and as& grade
center-at Atkinson and a two
year Dodd Junior Hi^ Sdiool
and four year Setdor H i ^ Sdxnl.
Option m shifts tbe students
from dz levels to four levels. It
also doses a buHdlng and creates
a compreheosve esriy childhood
pirogtam at a s i n ^ site, but it
.conteins two middle schools, one
attotney.wascwosedattbeR^ me ftat EOC workers knew of ittic floof wtthouf providing ,,_._, u^ _ ,^
for his party's portion of WdrvWidliti's court order so arranged tO^ -* ^^L,Jr^ bqarfl had made
Assemuy District Leader. to have copies of it left at the
thiAs cwceert^U, nPga tttoo nf'isg uvroetes troetalela wseads agency's offices for empk>yees to
4,816. or 71.3% ot the total vote
cast, compared to lUB** 1.937
votes. JDgrfinan gathered 3 33
votes coeipared to his opponents
l,775votes.
Kearse's bsddng of candidates
apparently laid the roots for an
incident the day before Primary
Day at Freeport EOC'S offices
and a subsequent charge of
Assaah Third Degree being
leveled against the agency's
Fieeport head, Carol Green.
tee.
On Wednesday, September 22,
at a little alter 12 noon, a 23.year-
C4d Freeport housewife, Claire
DeRetro, a tamHy friend of
Patton's. went to Freeport BOC's
North Main Street office. Accord­ing
to the police report, Mrs.
DePietro durged that Mt».
Green told her to pick op aH
the copies of the court order
she had been attempting to give
employees, poshed her agunst
the will, pundied her in tbe
(Com. on Paga 18)
adgipiate means' of getting in
and out; and for Cuhue to install
required insulation over the oQ
burner.
Six of tbe vidafioBs have been
corrected. Village Jusdce Ralph
Franco, who beard tbe case and
ifflp«ted the fines, gave Fawls
30 daysJn wUdi to work within
the District Court to aocompiish
the legal eviction of any remain­ing
tenants. The miTi<mnm fine
stuMls even if all corrections
tre made. Village Attorney
Harrison J. Edwards, who pro­secuted
the case.ez^ains.- if any
violatians remain,-the-fines can
be as high as SI.-TOO.
any precon-c^
ved judgements. Although be
presented the committee with
several possible optional plans,
residents were able to make other
suggestions, and did.
Called . the long Baage
Flaming Comnuttee. the group
is applying itself to the, chaOenge
of both the past gradual decline
in enidlment and the future
pTC^e^ans of further decrease
during the next decade.
Of the five original optioos,
Bierwirth says the comnuttee
teems to have furrowed tbe
choices down to three— Optioos
!,< n, and IH—at this point, but
fix grade* &i£ 0>Ka^~BgSSb
and one for nistb tfaroa^ 12tb.
Optioa IV. wUdi is seen as
less feanble at fiie inoment,
creates tbe tour leveb. puts
kindergarten and early kinder­garten
at one site, closes one
boH&ig, but goes - further by
creating fisur. first throagh sixth
grade sdioots.
The fifth option creates four
levels vrith Atkinson housiBg
pre-K and kindergarten as wen
as one of the four-first through
sixth grade dusters.
The next meeting of the
committee win l>e held Monday
evening October A, at 8-JO pm,
in the library of Atkinson School.
Further information on popula­tion
figures and dxss sixes win
(Com. on Page 16)