The-Leader_1985-01-31

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Village of
Freepott
• Freeport .
School Oyitrici
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Baldwin
School Dislricf
• FREEPORT, NEW YORK. JANUARY 31.1985
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Another Fire At
^aldwjn^s Coolidge
""GOP Eagie Grounded Fire Marshal Looking Into ^
_ _—By Court—^ " Pc^Ble^Arson "^^
FREEPORT - Temporarily.- the
~el6ctIon campaigii intEeVlliage
of Freeport.— at least'on the
•side of the Republican Parly —
has been stopped by a State Su­preme
Giurt lemixiraiy restrain­ing
order preventing the use of
the GOP Ea^e, party funds, etc.
by either of two opposing sides fa • •
the forthcoming March 19th
_ elecUons., —_— •
While the slate beaded by
•tnayoralty candidate Fr«d Hager
—which had apparently,w0n the
Republican designation' at last
week's nominating caucus — and
that headed-by Mayor Dorothy
Storm can continue to campaign,
" neither group can lay claim to be­ing
the RepubHcan _standard
bearetsrr". ' ' '"'•"
'Hager.'who with trustee can­didates
Ed Monroe and Lionel
Socolbv, had already be^ri desigr.
' Dated the candidate:of ilx Home
Rule Party, had claimed victory-over
Mayor Storm by a vote.rf
207-200 al the caiicus Wednesday
evening. January 23, at Salty Bay
-,Yachiaub.
Mayor Storm and her running
mates, newly appointed trustee
Ralph Smith and Victor CphenJ
had already been nominated by
the Freeport Village Parly.
Following the caucus, the
Storm forces almost immediately
labeled the. procedure, at the
least, irregular, and their "attor-nejSi'
Williaro F. Glacken of
- Freeport and Matthew Tedone, of
Tedone and Tedone of Albertson,
went to xigart. Tuesday, Janu­ary
29, with a show cause order.
The nominating caucus was
run under a new slate law, which
allows all registered voters to
BAlbWDT^The vacant, often-vandalSed^ormer Coolidge School
on North Grand Avenue in Baldwin was the site of still another fire
Monday afternoon, January 28. ' . ,
The blaze caused extensive damage to the roof of the old gym area
and resulted in injury to the Baldwin Fire Department's Third Deputy
Chief. - *^ .
'/John' Btpwn. .'the- imiired been set.
Bfepuly VOifcf.vrsuaained. leg*--' tC^Bi fiso sa^tHat the buBd-
Schildkraut, Marrin To
Run For Village Board
FREEPORT- Village Democrats held their nominating caucus
Thursday evening, January 24, and in a quiet andprdetiy manner —
quite the opposite of their. Republican counterpart's nominating
convention the evening before—^ selected a slate of candidates for the
March 19th Village of Freeport election.- "
A36-year-oldattomey,Iionel Souvenir,-"was selected by iheTJefifS
crals to run for mayor in his first
bid for local oSniie. Souvenir's
junning mates will be Irs' Schild-
^ u t , 39. chairman of the Social
_ Studies Department, at Freeport.
_ High ISchoql; juid KCchaeL'
injuries while fighting the fire and
-was takento South-Nassau Com^-
•moniUes Hospital where, it is re­ported,
he jvas treated for pos­sible
tendon • and ligament
damage. . '
The fire, which was reported
at aboui-4 pm, was in the audi­torium/
gym area in the rear of.
the school- .
The Nassau County Fire Mar- ,
shal and Arson Squad are investi­gating
the blaze,
ing seemed secure.to falm. but
Ihat local storekeepers' bad told
him that entrance to the property
was possible by swinging over the
fence from a tree.
During recent months, prob­lems
of vandalism, loitering aiid
tittering, possible drug use on the
premises, and frequent fires
at the'Coolidge School..have
led ia complaints-by residents to
the Town of Hempstead. • The
town's Building Department
Fire Marshy.^Joseph:_Lyjich_ recently-met-with-owner-Ralph
termed tfie'fire "arson"- and said
it looked like an inflammable
.matenal had been sprayed on
the ceiling of the area; Three dif­ferent
fires appeared to have
^Sform, Smffh
Sworn [n .
FREEPORT - The village's
first female mayor and first black
trustee were formally sworn in at
a ceremony, in Village Hall Mon-.
day evening. Janoaiy 28;.
Hon. Patricia Collins. Justice of
the Slate Supreme Court ^nd a
Freeport resident, administered
the oaths of -office to Dorothy
Storm, who had been chosen by
the Board of Trustees to fill the
vacancy created by former mayor
William H. White's resignation..
On jheJlnmyetsaty-Cf-Martin
Chiaro. who had purchased the
school. .building . and-' property
from the Baldwin School District
several years.ago. At that time
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partidpalc in their party's caocps DTtEer King Jr/s birthday,
for village election candidates. "-' • • '" •
The Freeport Republfcan caucus
was chaired by Edward Karle,
head of the Nassau Republican
Committee's Law Committee.
Results of the caucus, certified
% "Harte that evening, gave
Hager 207 votes and Storm 200.
The Tice for designation for irus-
• tee spots was even closer with »• Occasion
Lionel Socolov getting 199 votes; [jfe/
Ed Monroe. 197 votes; Victor Mayor Storm urged
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Storm had announced her choice
of Ralph Smith to fiU the vacancy,
on the Board of Trustees. Judge
Collins also administered the oath
toSmith. . '.
The large nfeeting room- in
Village Hall was padied with rela­tives;
friends and well-wishers,
who heard Ralph Smith call the
the happiest (fiy of my
the resi-
Clyde Road
Property Sale
BALDWIN - The Baldwin
Board of Education is mbet-
. ing Wednesday—evening;—
Jajiuary 30th, too late for
coverage in this week's
issue of THE LEADER.
THE LEADER has learn-ed,
however, that the School
. Board will be voting upon the'
sale of the eight ^cre Clyde
Road, property-in the Shu-bert
School sub-district.
It has been saidlhat d e~
velopers have proposed to'
build a minimum of. 12 con-,
dominium iijlits per acre on
the property.
As required by law, the
public win have to vote.on
the sale, with a possible
date of March 27th suggest-ed
for such a referendum.
A full report on the School. •
Board meeting will be fea-tnre4
in the next (Febru­ary
7tb) issue of this news-psper,
-
Martin, a'Brooklyn attorney and
resident of Archer Street.
The caucus was held under a
recently promulgated New York.
State law. which allows any
reg'istered member of a particular.
political party. living in that
"viUafeci^ijq- vo(e'~in"» village"
.'election nominating caucus.
Unlike (he Freeport Republican
caucus which drew more than 400
. commltteepersons and residents
to vote, approxiinalely three
dozen people were present in the.
-Fireman's Exempt Hall when
Democratic Zone. Leader Arnold.
Sylvester convened the caucus.
Only one. surprise seemed to .
crop up as Sylvester announced
that-the' nominating commiltee.'s
re&mmehdation for the can^-
-dacy-Df^Vinag'e~Tnstice,Tftbert
Siegel, had to withdraw for busi­ness
reasons. '
No other names were placed in
nomination and a voice vote
acclaimed Souvenir, Schildkraut
and Marrin the Democratic candi­dates.
. .
Souvenir, who said he had been
» home owner in Freeport for five
years and a resident for spproii*""
mately ten, said he would "per- -
sonally weather the storm" (a
reference to present -^mayor
Dorothy Storm who is running for
reelection) and prophesued that
Fred Hager, another opponent,
would enjoy "a long, long retire­ment."
He referred to some of
the issues of the campaign, which '.
he had already started to wage,
noting such things as the "uglifi-cation
of the'doBTitowd arei.-;,fa-."
competence—increasing taxes
withoBl the qoaiity of services
increasing."
Schildbaut, who had been an
unsuccessful candidate for the
Board of Trustees in 1981, said of
the village: "We haven't had a
two' party system for a dozen
years. It is time to return Freeport
to the U.S.A."
Marrin, whose father -was a
Freeporter but who grew up in
"TiBckyiae-Centre-and-retumed to'—
the village nearly two years ago,
said his primary goal is to make
Freeport "a' peaceful place to live
in."
SouvenirrMayoralty Candidate
Uonel Souvenir is an attorney
with a Brm in Lake Success.
A Member of the American Bar
Association, he is an Arbitrator in
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DEMOCRAIICCANDIOATES In the VHIafle of Freeport'i March 18th •
election "faca the camera." KJayoralty candidate Uonel Souvenir (I.)
Is joined by trustee candidates Ira Schildkraut *:.) and Michael Marrin'
(r.). (See story, thlapags.) . " .