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rTHEOLEA 76th Year, No. 14 Freeport, N.Y. 11520 The Community Newspaper Thursday, April 7, 2011
House fire on Long Beach Road HOUSE FIRE:
Freeport fire-fighters
tackled
a house fire on
Long Beach
Road on April 1.
photos by Mark Kasner
Irish Heritage Day
IRISH STEP DANCERS performed at the village's Irish-American celebration.
See page 7 for more.
Democrats cry foul
by Douglas Finlay
"The Nassau County minority
Democratic Caucus took to the steps of
the Legislative building on Monday to
decry what its says is uneven .funding
distribution to youth agencies, saying
that Republican districts were receiving
fewer funding reductions to their youth
programs due to county budget cuts
than Democratic districts.
"I am deeply troubled " by the
inequities contained in [Mr.] Mangano's
cuts," said county Legislator Kevan
Abrahams [LD1]. The cuts hit hardest in
communities that are within legislative
districts represented by Democrats, he
said.
Legislator Denenberg told the crowd
that red light cameras - first introduced
two years during the Suozzi
Administration to generate income to
keep youth programs solvent against
potentially crippling cuts -are supposed
to fund the youth programs, and to cut the
funding to youth programs could be
deemed illegal.
Under federal law, he said it is illegal
to discriminate by race, religion and/or
political affiliation.
But North Bellmore resident Katie
Grilli-Robles, press secretary to County
Executive Ed Mangano, bristled at Mr.
Denenberg's insertion of race or politi-cal
affiliation into the dialog. "That is a
divisive statement that is inflammatory
and meant only to garner attention to
himself," she told The Leader.
She said that the lists of youth pro-grams
in both Democrat- and
Republican-held districts reflect prima-rily
the same cuts across the board. "We
added the numbers up for both districts
and couldn't believe they were claiming
their districts-were being shortchanged,"
she said.
Mr. Abrahams supplied information
that said 83% of youth cuts were in
Democratic districts, in contrast to less
than 10% of cuts in Republican districts.
More red light cameras coming?
She said that Mr. Mangano had been
in Albany last week and, with the help
of Senator Charles J. Fuschillo, Jr., was
able to get more red light cameras for
the county. The revenue for those red
light cameras would in fact be used to
restore any cuts being made to youth
programs. , r °^ (continued on page 7)
Village board
organizes
page 3
Baldwin
Library Day
page 5
Freeport's Keating
Ms. Senior NY
page 6
Former FFD
captain dies
page 6
Object Description
| Rating | |
| Title | 2011-04-07 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L & M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2011 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | |
| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | This digital image may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image is permitted without written permission of the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W. Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520 or email: frreference@freeportlibrary.info |
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