The Car Shoppe is still being eyed by Walgreens.
By LINDA LEUZZI
SAYVILLE — The Car Shoppe
property on North Main Street in
Sayville is still in the picture as a possible site for a Walgreens, the drugstore chain.
"We have a deposit from them, that
has been for about a year," said
Sayville Ford president Paul tlobell.
"If they can get a variance, Walgreens
expects a closing in 2006. 1 still don't
have a lot of faith in it"
Llobell said Walgreens procedure
Not there yet
was a bit different. I think its a
group of investors," he said. "They
find a piece of property and scout it
out and get permits to build it. Then
they go to the company and say "give
us a 20-year lease.'"
A Walgreens spokesperson, who
could not find the transaction , stated
that typically the company leases
their property.
"They don't have any application
before the Planning Department,"
said Islip Town spokesperson Trish
Kaloski. "We certainly had prelimi-
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The Connetquot Wrestling Team
defeated Sachem North 38-25 on Friday, January 7. Sachem dominated the
lightweights but Connetquot held the
edge in the middle weights and upper
weights. Sachem jumped out to an early lead, winning three out of the first
four weight classes, including two
tech fails. The only bright spot for the
T-Bird lightweights was Steve Cella
who earned a 134 decision in the 119
pound weight class.
Connetquot came back strong to
win seven out of the next 10 bouts,
including four pins. The pins were
recorded by James Tripodi, James
Brockmiller, Brian Hope and Anthony
Cangiano. Decisions were scored by
John Okerblom, Dan Guevara and
John Stocker. Cortnetquot's dual meet
record now stands at 6-0. The T-Birds
will host Ward Melville on Friday, Jan.
14. The JV wrestles at 4:30 p.m. and
the varsity competes at 6 p.m. ¦
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attempt to save him and was injured
while jumping from a second story
window to escape the flames.
She had crawled up the burning staircase to reach the baby, had laid him on
the bed to open the window and been
unable to get him again before she was
nearly overcome with smoke. Police
Officer Irving Weeks, who saw the fire,
also made a valiant attempt to reach the
20-month-old child.
The Germans had taken a
prisoner of war Lt. Everett Schrader,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Eric Schrader.
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nary discussions with them. Two
major concerns are the traffic and a
severe parking relaxation. Beyond
that , we can't comment." The nearly
two-acre Car Shoppe property is
adjacent to the Foster Avenue and
Montauk Highway intersection ,
which does not line up with the Stop
& Shop entrance and exit directly
across on Montauk Highway. The
area is the scene of numerous accidents.
According to the Walgreen's website, Charles R. Walgreen Sr. purIs someone you know excelling or
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chased his first pharmacy,,one he had
been working in as a trusted employee, in 1901 in Chicago. The website
states that 425 new stores open each
year and 7,000 are planned by 2010.
The original Sayville Ford was
started by Neil Spare Sr. and was
located in the former Island Meat
Packing building next to what is now
The Portly Villager before it moved to
the current Car Shoppe location on
North Main Street in 1952. There are
now 14 different auto-related companies under its umbrella. ¦
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built the original part of the restaurant
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previous week's eight-inch total, bringing the season's fall to 18 1/5 inches.
Temperatures stayed below the freezing mark for almost a week.
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vote for early March and had added a
$4 million proposition for construction
projects, including an elaborate swimming pool.
Richard Zegel in West Sayville and
Clinton Bishop had been named Fireman of the Year by their respective
departments and were given awards at
annual installation dinners. Also named
were Leon Yablonski in the Bayport
department, Robert Walthers in Holbrook and Robert Weigel in Bohemia ¦