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0/ticial Newspaper Village of • Freeport Freeport School District Baldwin . School District m U abeh FREEPORT. NEW YORK. OCTOBER 15.1981 46th YEAR. No. 25 Single Bid May Win Public Works l5f COORDINATING A FASHION EVENT. Mrs. Adrian Persico n.), of Freeport, Is having this year’s Annual Frock and Bonnet Safe^whicfi will benefit Family Service Assocfatfor^of Nassau County. This sale of designer fashions, gently-used dresses and sportswear and nostalgia articles, will bo held on Friday and Saturday, October 23-24. 10 am- 4 pm, at Cathedral House. 50 Cathedral Avenue In Garden City. Admission will be$1. Freeporter Mrs. George Popkin.amemberof the committee, joins in making plans for the sale, which also includes new costume jewelry designed by Omni Creations, housewares, books and chrysanthemum plants. Cooffdge School Sale Vote ^ Wednesday, Oct. 21 , , ^ ' b y J p t iO a lm tty BALDWIN - Residents in the Baldwin School District will go to the polls on Wednesday. October 21. to vole on a referendum for the sale of Collidge School. Chiaro Associates, has offered to buy the school building and its 1.078 acre parcel of property for S175.000. Ralph Chiaro. president of Chiaro Associates, is a long-time Baldwin resident. He proposes to convert Two Uppretiended Village Building And Land r o Scalamandres ^ FREEPORT - Only one bid has been received fortbe purchase of FREEPORT - Vmage police ^I'^^SeofFjwporrsmunicipanyownedPubUc Works budding and officers were joined by Nassau Returnable and c ^ n e d on Monday. October 5, the bid County Police Special (^rations Scalamandre, owners of Sea Crest Cppstniction units and a County police heli- Corp. op Mill Road in Freeport. The Scalamandres are also owners copter in apprehending two ^ loc^yacht club and tennis suspects in the robbery Tuesday builders of a l u i ^ condo- afternoon, October 13, of a Fk»wer apartment‘building on ■ Randall Bay; and Freeport residents. Sea Crest Construcdon has been involved in many major building projects throughout the Long Island area. The Scalamandre brothers’ bid for the Albany Avenue property was 5675.000, 575,000 OMwe than the ups^ ^ c c . The 37.760 square foot Public Works building is located on a waterfront site of —145.795 square feet, 2.87 acres of which are undeveloped. According to a spokesperson for Mayor William H. l^ i t e ’s office, the Scalamandres —• if their bid is accepted — would relocate their office headquarters to the Albany Avenue she. Test Gasoline station Merrick Road, just Meadowbrook Parkway. on East west of According to Freeport police officers, the two arrested were Hugh Henry, 17, of 165 North Oilambusi Avexrae, and Jerry Darnell Walden, also 17. of 160 Colonial Avenue. both in Freeport. Following the village’s decision to sell the Public Works property, * an advertisement for hs sale was placed in the New Ycffk Times. Those companies who answered that advertiseroent, as well as some, such as Cahlevisioh, which were considered possible pur chasers of such property, were sent the bid specifications. Accorwng > to *• villaae sources, 100 such bid specs.'Wer^ the one bid At approrimately 1:45 pm Tuesday afternoon, ' Freeport police received a telephone call that there had been a “ stick-up” ofthe gas station. The two men, witnesses sjud, ran into the Moxey Rigby I apartment building on Albany ' Avenue. In an attempt to appre hend the suspects, more police '\Touted As Saleable _ When the Village first pro posed to sell the Public Works the school building, at a cost of approximately SI million, into approximately 20 condominium apartment units. His company, an' engineering/architectural firm based in New York City, has had extensive experience in quality renovatioas and conversions. According to a spokesman for the School District, negotiations for the sale of the property took place over several months with proposals by other groups received and reviewed. * Coolidge School was closed in June. 1980 because of declining enrollment in the district and implementation of a reorganiza tion plan which sent its students to Plaza and Brookside Schools. In selling the school, the School District's goal is to return the propert)- to the tax roles and. if possible, to upgrade the area which is in the center of town. The School Board has stressed hs feeling that the sale to Chiaro will accomplish this. Several cotxxmunity groups including the Property Disposal Committee, which was set up during ihe rcOTganiution process and which consists of community members, approved the sale. The Baldwin Public Library Board of Trustees as well as the executive board of the Mid-Baldwin Association also approved the sale. The design, which Chiaro sub mitted, includes extensive landscaping around the borders of the property and maintenance of the existing outside structure of the building. Blueprints of individual units seem to use existing space creatively w^th several duplex units pictured. were called out. and the County buUding and move that municipal units and helicopter arrived on department to the v a ^ t vUIage- the scene. At about 2:30 pm, Freeport police received information as to in which apartment the two suspects were. Freeport Police Sgts. Carmine Napolhano and Frank Medaglia, Lt. Joe Bachety and Det. Julius Pearse, assisted by P.O. William Olsen, entered the apartment and arrested Henry and Walden. As THE LEADER went to press late Tuesday night, the two had been taken to Nassau County’s First Precinct to be processed. Any resident who has not voted within the last two years must register in order to be eligible to vote. The last day of regist.'ation at District Offices on Hastings Street is Friday. October 16. Residents who have voted in a school district or regular county, slate or Federal elections within the last two years are already registered and eligible to vote. Polls on October 21 will be open 7 am • 10 pm at Baldwin Senior Hijkh School. Important Notice Due to new* postal regu lations. publicity releases and all other correspondence to THE LEADER should be addressed to P.O. Box 312. Freeport, N.Y. 11520. While our offices are still on the fourth floor of the Olive Building, 16 East Sunrise Highway, the use of a street address on the mail w*ill delay ct reaching us and perhaps cause your release to arrive too late * for inclusion in THE LEADER. owned former Sewer Department buUding, the Albany Avenue land was touted as being extremely saleable. Anticipating the sale, when preparing the 1981-82 municipal (ludget in December of L980, the Board of Trustees figured in an additional $300,000 in revenue. This amount. White said at the time, was what they felt would' be the amount they would receive after deducting the costs of moving Public Works and renovating the Sewer Plant for that department. A ^lage-refained architect, Sigmund Spiegal, told the Board of Trustees in December that it would be “sound judgement” to sell one of tHe two municipally ow;ned buildings, jhus putting at le'ast one back on the tax roles. In his estimation, he said then, the Ihiblic Works facility was the more saleable of the two properties. At that time, the Board of Trustees was told there were two parties interested in the property. According to a v*il1age source this week, one was Scalarpandre, the other Doninger Metal of Buffalo Avenue. This latter company. THE LEADER has been told, has recently purchased or leased another building in the village's industrial area and is therefore no longer interested in the Albany Avenue site. mailed...and only received back. The bid's'pecs require that the purchaser of. the site guarantee the construction of an additional .50,000 square feet. The property, which borders Freeport River, cannot be bulkheaded, according to the New York State Depart ment of Conservation, but must use a “rip rap” method for the full shore width of the proj^rty. This stipulation, Maygr White is said to believe, eliminated some otherwise interested buyers. A certified check of $25,000 had to be deposited with any bid. If the bid is accepted, and it probably will be at the next meeting of the Board of Trustees (Monday, October 19), the closing is set for on or about December 4. According to the specs, the village would begin to pay $5,000 a month in rent for every month they remained in the building after that date. Village sources expect it would take about 12 months for Public Works to complete the whole move. Nab 2 , Seek 1 In Rnance Co. Hold-Up FREEPORT - One of three suspects was still being sou^t Tuesday night by Freeport police following a hold-up the day before of the Freeport Beneficiil Finance Office on West Merrick Road. Two Freeport men have been charged with . Robbery Second in the Monday. October 12 incident. According to police, three men wearing blue sti masks entered the Finance company's store front office at about 1:40 pm. brandishing at the three employ ees what allegedly later turned out to be a toy hand gun. Making ^ with $540 in (Cont. on Page 8)
