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.FHEEPORT. NEW YORK. APRlt 7.1983
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/ / Grants'' Store Sole Is Finalized
4 Going For Baldwin
School Board Seats
Confracf Signing Ends four
Years df Negoiiafing
-FSEEFOBT-.Tlx.long vacant, fortnet W.T. Grant's Store building
. — wbidi presenthr opens onto Sunrise Highway, Newton Booleyard
and the Fteeport MaU — has been sold to a cotpocatkn beaded by a
local businessman. Gerard Binder, head of the 280 West Sunrise
Corporation, which dosed on the piupeity Monday momtns, April 4',
says he intends to divide the
Petemana's Killer
Sentenced T6^
r 20 Years To Life
MINEOLA - Two rows o< fasnly
members. 6iends . aad coogre-.
gantj at Ox late Bcr. Thnxlrf
Petemasa were prcsest.in the
Kassan Ccoiity Ccort room .'of'
Judge Edward Bal^ thb pan
Monday. April 4. waiting to bear
the sentence the judge woold
impose oa Otis Glacier, the
confessed idQer cf Peternasa.
Before Baker coold hand down
the sentence, however. Alan
Manning Miller, the attorney for
Glasper entered a surprise motioo
to change Us cCenl'x plea from
guilty to not guilty.
Glasper, M31er indicated
wanted "his dayia eoort." but
Judge Baker, who had previoasly
sentenced Clasper's coofiessed
accompBoe and ~ ' baU-iala
Candidafes Have Received
Endorsements ^ . ^ ^ ^
' BALDWIN - Four Baldwin School District residents have'indicated
their desire to ran for two seats on the Baldwin Board of Education.
' Thus ^ . boverer, oo petitians hare been returned to oSdally confirm
these iofenaal dedarsliaaa ot candidacy. Petltions,nmst be returned
• w><hainfaBa]innaf76iuinesbyMonday.'Apt31E i . '"' ^
The four candidates, who are
appareufly nnuung- have all.
rec«Ted endonements from var­ious
cuiiiiiiiinity groups. The pro­spective
rarulidatrs are incum-best
Board member Lorraine
Defler, Jane Irving, .Bernard -
Kardnell and faa Matefsky.
DeOer, who is pr^ently the
president of the Baldwin Board of
Education, has served for three
years as a tbember. Ptior* and
present . involvement includes
-participaBoa in batjf local and
Nassau District BT A. She and her
hnshatid, J^ui; are the parents
of three. eiudren who attend
Vanessa Henry to four to Uyeais -Baldwin seboob. Ddler has re-
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tot her part in the slaying, denied
Miller's motioa. Hemty bad
earlier pleaxJed jguilty to
manslaughter and had agreed to.
testily against Glasper.
Assistant District Attorney Ed
McAity argned that there had
been no csierdoa of Glasper and
that his guilty |dea had been
entered freely and the judge con­curred.
With the late Fetenana's
mother and bratber Jooathas
among these in the ccort room,'
Miller asked the judge to "tem-.
per justice with taacf' while'
pointing oat that ahfaoogh hb
client's record b Bot "ufatem-isbed.
be has'serer before been
involved in a vfakot crime."
McArty, oa the other haad,
arguied far the fnarinnim sen­tence.
(Editor's Note: 2S yean to
life) statiag that "no settteace wis
right the wirag or fin the void,
that the mHngcf the minister has
created."
Judge Baker xeateoced, aa
emcrinnlrts Glasper to 20 years
to life OQ two iiiuidci counts aad
two to six years oa a taiiglary
cocvicliaa, the two sentences
to run oaocarrcady. -
The judge tfaea remanded the
defendaat to the FtshUD Cor-tCont.
onP*0*ie)-
ceived the endorsement of the
Baldwin Actkm Committee
(BAC).
Jane Irving, a resident of Ken­neth
Atenoe^ b'the chairperson -
of the Baldwin School District's
Ciliirm* Property Disposal Com­mittee.
She b tiao cliairperson of
the Baldwin Educational Assem­bly's
Student Issues Committee.
She has beea active ia Baldwin
FTA aad b an employee of the
"Garden Gty Sdiool system where
sbe works as a derk-typist.
She and her husband John are
the parents of six dnldren. -
five of whom graduated bom the
Baldwin Sdnol syxtem aad one
who attends Baldwia. High
School. She. has received the en-donemeat
of the 'Baldwin' Ax-toriatinn
of bdepcodeat Taz-payersCBAIT).
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Bnsinessaua' Bernard Kard­nell
resides CO Harbor Pobit-
• Boaa with hb wife. They are the
patents of three diildtea, two of
wixio attend. Baldwin sdwob
and coe who' attends ooOece.
Kardad b the owner and met
fcieuilive officer of « chaia of
jewdty stares. Ia adiEtiaa, be
b an Assistant Rxjfessor of Ac­counting
at Queensboro Com-mamty
OoOege. He has tecdted
. thecadkxxesacstof BAIT.., > , , ,
ba Matetsky ir a student at
Princeton Univetsity and a
Baldwin readent who has been
tnvdved and active' in' school
district affurs during recent
yeaii. A memlier of the Executive'
Board of the Baldwin Edncatiooa]
Assembly, he b also a niember
of the Ptx)perty Disposal Cbm-mittee.
He b a member ,of var­ious
commimiiy groups and has
also served on ' the Baldwin'
Library's Gtiiens* Comnutfee.
Matetsky has received the en­dorsement
of BAC.
THE LEADER will publish an-noimcetnenb
of candidacy of
all official candidates" far the
Baldirin School District and for.
the Baldwin Library Board of
Trustees. Thus far, there are no
announced candidates for Li­brary
Board, where trustee Kevin
(Cont. on Page 9)
property into several retail store
units, with at least one large
enough to attract a major retailer
or national chain.
Binder pbns on some S300,000
in renovaticos' for the one acre
site. His first action, be says, win
be to rent the two empty stores on
the MaO.-that are part of the'
building. The stores Be (Erecty
east and west of Karl.'Ehmer's .
;(also patt.af'tfae building)-and,':
:say», Bfaider,- there' b already
some interest iu them. Next,
Binder plans to tear down the
car wash on Henry Street and
Sunrise Highway to provide more
parking for customers of the new
stores. -,
' Binder plans to develop the
Sunrise '- Highway and Henry
Street sides of the building as
the "front," and divide the build-
_ing into at least one large 10,000
square foot store and perhaps five
or so smaller ones, with the stores
going back to the Mall'.
• According to Binder, the loca-'
tion should draw a major retail-
,ing outfit. lutiona] chain store
or quality name store-, which the
Mall needs. As president of Jack
Kahn Music Stores, with' 10
retail outlets in Huntington,
Manhattan, Ceniereach, White
Plains and Freeport, on Stmrise
Highway, Binder speaks from
personal experience of Freeport
as a business community.
"Sunrise Highway," says
Binder, "has a life of its own,"
and he. telb of customers who
come to the Fteeport store from
as far away as Staten bland. He
finds Freeport a successfiil and
vublearea for hb stores aiid ex­presses
great enthusiasm for its.
future., ' •' ,.-
The eyents that led up to Mon<,
day's dodng between the 280 .
West' Sunrise Corporadon-^and..,
South Nassau Communities
Hospital in Oceanside, the orig'-
inal owner, started back in 1979.
According to Binder, he first .
found out about the buildins
when he was iiegotuting for
other property forUier w'est on
Sunrise ICghway, near hb Jack
KahiLstore, and met local realtor
Sidney . Ud>erman, who was
^presenting someone else inter­ested
in the same site. Binder,
hoaever, did buy that property,
•which had belonged to the Ford
Company, and that same day
sold the parcel on the north side
of Sunrise' to Guardbn
Ambulance. Ueberman. had ar­ranged
that sale becan.v. while
Binder at tliat time was only
interested ia the property oa-the-south
side of the street, the two
parcels were sold together as
(Conl.onPageS)
A NEW LOOK b planned for the aouthweat cbmar of Sunrise Highway and Henry Street • * thb
rendering (above) show*. The property, formerly the »He of the old W.T. Grant'* ttore — whWi went
tjankrupt nationally In 1975 — w*» purctaaed tW* week by • Freepon bo»lne**m«n, Gerard Binder of
Jack Kahn Music Studios,.Inc. Binder plans to redevelop the building lor me by eight .retail atore*.
' >Thb drawing look* el theweit *)de ol the bonding, wMcti b preeentty a >o»d weU..
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